Tim's GTI. update thread, FOR SALE. NEW WINTERS PG 51

[Trottagti]

Still got some flaking issues i see, dam halfords paint lol!

Looks pretty tidy under the hood now, might strip the sound dedoning back on mine, More things to polish oh yeah!

Manifold cover looks odd but all in all very tidy mate, u do ur rocker cover did u say?

[Tim_GTi]

No haven't done the rocker cover yet. Will do soon though.

The heat shield could also do with re-doing, but I think I'll keep it as is, as I plan for a raceland at some point.

[kaz]

hey only just come across the new update, looks really mint dude!! Completely changes the look under the bonnet! How long does the job take, like for each bottle you have different layers and stuff before the paint? - then my next question would be when are u free and how much u charge haha just kidding

top job tho!!

[charliec125]

Hey Tim

It looks amazing and its so simple.
Might have to copy you but in green and black
found you on facebook,its good to put a face to a name..
Keep up the good work!

[Tim_GTi]

Cheers Girls!

Kaz: I need it over the space of two weeks. But realistically you could get it all done in two days.

One day to spray the grey primer, and red and black paint. The night to dry, then the clear laquer throughout the next day.

The good thing is the engine bay is the perfect place to let the paint harden, because of the heat

[emma_88]

That's like, wow. I'm amazed at how good it looks!

Top job like.

[Tigz]

I love it mate, looks really moody.
Heat shield looks smart

[Tim_GTi]

Thanks for the comments guys.

THE DETAIL STARTS HERE
As well as the engine bay, last weekend also saw me start on the Polo's first FULL Detail. Also my first proper detail using my machine polisher.

The Plan over the next few weeks will be:
Clean and Clay Car
Machine Polish Correction on Paint, lights and Glass.
Glaze/Seal Paint
Wax Paint, using multiple layers
Deep Clean, Polish and Wax door shuts
Deep Clean Interior
Clean Engine Bay Further
Remove all wheels, clean and re-seal Pepperpots
Deep Clean Archwells
Get the Monos Polished, get 185/45 tyres fitted and sort the stance out.

Alot to do, with no much time and money at the moment unfortunately. But for the now the Car has been garaged and the plan is for it to not come out until everythings sorted on it! The Tax MOT and Insurance are all due soon too, so they'll be put on hold til it's all done. That's the plan anyway haha.

Anyway, the Car looked pretty minging to start. And yes the stance looks gash but that'll be done in due course.
Pics befores (actually had also started on the wheels):



The front didn't look too bad considering the rest of the car

The car was then foamed using the Elite Car Care solution as i still have a tad left knocking about. Wheels sprayed with Billberry wheel cleaner.

Left for 5 mins

Then jetted down


Then taken to my Nan's house where it's gunna live in the garage for now. It was then washed and clayed.
Washed using Megs Shampoo Plus, two buckets and grit guards, and a woolen mitt.
Clayed using megs clay, with a diluated solution of free sampled Quick Detailer I got from a company.
Dried using two large extra long haired microfibre towels.
Here's the Quick Detailer which I diluted 3:1 with water for the clay lub, and the clay after a session on the bonnet

The car overall wasn't the worst I'd seen previously in terms of contaminants.

Clean car:



I should've washed it again here, but it was starting to drizzle so didnt fancy my chances.
Then got the car in the garage and starting inspecting the paint.

As you can see, the paint was heavily swirled on every panel



The bumpers and offside mirror weren't that bad though, as I'd learnt to wash properly before they were sprayed, however still looked disturbingly marred under the light. the front bumper also had a scratch

Swirls on the bonnet

scratch on the bonnet

Chip on the nearside rear door

Closer shot

I knew this chip wouldn't come out with the machine correction. And will hopefully be the only inperfection left when finished!
Car was then taped up ready for the next day

Look at the lack of space I have to work in!


Next day I got started with the polisher .
I'm using a Kestrel DA S-6 polisher, with Serious Performance branded 6" and 4" pads. Poorboy's SSR1, SSR2, and SSR2.5 polish.
Test areas with the polishing pad and SSR1 showed that I'd need a heavier combination to get a decent correction.
I then tested the bumper with this combo as it's not original paint, and came to the same conclusion.
I then moved onto SSR2 with the same pad. It did the trick for the bumper, but not the rest of the car. So I stepped up to the cutting pad with SSR2.
This combo was good, it got rid of alot of the inperfections, leaving only a few small scratches. Notice in the pic below


I continued using this combo for the bonnet and whole passenger side. Looking back now I may go back over it with SSR2.5 and a cutting pad to get down to the remainding small scratches on certain areas. I was too scared to use this level of cut for a first go.
And even though the remainding scratches are very insignificant and can only be seen under intense light, I do like perfection so may well do this . It'll mean running over the panels again with the lightest polish and pad after also, so will see in terms of time what's feasible.

Anyway here are some results. Apologies for the claustaphobic flash pictures. My light konked out the minute I turned it on. Which also made things quite hard when polishing!

Door before

Door after

left is before

right is after

A ghastly scratch on the nearside rear door before

Completely gone after (you can see some light scratches I wish to abolish with the SSR2.5 at a later stage on the flash also)


I didn't get as many photos as I'd hoped. Mainly being down to my light malfunction! A friend also came round for help on a few mods to his 9N3 so i was a bit distracted.
My cutting pad also ripped through

so was forced to stop.

From here there's further correction to be done, and obviously the rest of the car! Plus a skim with the Kestrel and some Poorboy's Black Hole glaze, and 2-3 coats of Collinite 476s to go on, so it's a little earlier to see full shine pictures.

Here's one of the bonnet so far though. You can see the depth of the shine here, the reflection of that house is from the otherside of the street! A good 40 feet away. And the cloth is sat on the bonnet.


Thanks for looking.
The saga continues

[alexperkins]

Im so stealing this polisher off you at some point

Great start tim its looking wicked!

[Polo96CL]

That looks pukka mate, love this car so much. You need to do my polo, its been slightly neglected over the winter months and looks like a bag of nails. Don't think its been washed in 4 weeks, its mashed!

More pics

[Tim_GTi]

Cheers boys, Once I've got fully confortable with the whole thing I'll most definitely be sorting mates out

[Polo96CL]

Think this shot look mint Tim, sort of reminds me of one of them garage finds, like when you hear about people opening garages after years and finding sick as f**k cars inside

[Tim_GTi]

Haha yeh it's a fav of mine too. Just a shame about the headlamp condensation!

[Trottagti]

Just a little tip if your not already using it/them!

If u just spray a little water onto the polishing head and panel your doing it will keep it cool and the paint wont become soft, Harder the paint, easyer the scratches come out with compound dudey! Little spray bottle will do it

And a waffled polish head to keep the heat down does wonders! Just a little tip but looks mint, You using a finshing compound like a glazer??

[Tim_GTi]

Yeh I know about the water treatment, thanks though mate. Both my other pads are waffled, just the harder one wasn't. I'm gunna order a better cutting pad soon.

I'm using Black Hole Glaze followed by Collinite 476s after the SSR treatment.

Cheers for looking