lets get the winter muc of the octy

[Octavia_VRS]

I finally got round to cleaning the car the other day i had been abit slack, here are some before and after pics. It's probably not the greatest but it took me 5 hours start to finish lol Ryan :yes:

before

dirty

after

clean

Edited 7 April, 2011 by Octavia_VRS

[RichieH]

You have done a really good job there. Great looking car too which I love in that colour.

[stuy1]

Your time paid off! That's what I really need to get round to doing but finding the time is just impossible!!

[Octavia_VRS]

Thanks guys. I was knackered afterwards. It's now dirty again but the dirt comes off with wate. So when it rains it was looking reasonably clean lol

[Octavia_VRS]

stages were

1 - pw cash to remove loose dirt

2 - snow foamed car - dwelled for 10mins

3 - pw rinse

4 - wheels cleaned with meguiars wheel brightner with foaming head and using EZ detail brush

5 - hand wash with 2bm

6 - pw rinse

7 - clayed car

8 - washed 2bm again (as i found some more dirt!)

9 - polished with one pass of mez final polish with da polisher on 5" pad

10 - sealed with two coats of CG JetSeal109 (40min cure over two coats with a 30min gap between 1st & 2nd coat)

11 - a coat with dojo juice purple haze pro with a supernatural finger mitt

12 - blacked wheel tyres

13 - interior vacuumed with henry

14 - glass cleaned with megiaurs glass cleaner using a MF cloth

15 - finished off with AG glass polish using swissvax cloths

16 - interior with a light going over of AG trim stuff (forget the name)

17 - alloys given a coat of CG JetSeal109

Think this is everything i used! ryan

[ChrisRs]

Great job Ryan

Well done

[prolfe]

Here's the pics from post #1

and clean:

[Octavia_VRS]

how do you get it to show in the post? i used to be able to do it but no longer can, is it because my freedom membership has expired? or what could i be doing wrong lol ryan

[prolfe]

in Photobucket click the IMG code for the pic.

or if you have just copied the link put IMG in square brackets at the start and /IMG in square brackets at the end.

[Octavia_VRS]

thanks prolfe! ill bear that in mind for next time, but i think i was the insert image button on the post dont that do the same thing?

[Wardy]

Looks good

[FUBAR]

great job mucker looks a lot cleaner than mine and its STILL only got 350 odd miles on it :( alloys look like new A LOT OF HARD work in there too nothing more depressing than doing 1 taking ages looks fantastic then thinking "OH FIDDLE STICKS 3 more to do"

:thumbup: