Car Detailing | Polishing Booth

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The car was snowfoamed and the wheels cleaned with Bilberry.

The tar was removed from all the panels, shuts and wheels.

After vacuuming, the whole of the interior was initially cleaned with Autoglym Interior cleaner with various brushes sponges and cloths. This brought great results apart from the rear seats which still needed some work. A stronger stain remover was used which still didn’t bring the rear seats up to scratch so, as a last resort, Autoglym Intensive Tar Remover was used…quite extreme but it works!

The seats were then soaked in water and vaccumed.

The interior and exterior were then dressed, Super Resin Polish applied and these are the results…not bad for over 100K on the clock and 17 years old!

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The extent of the tar splatter was quite shocking as the owners road had recently been resurfaced. Here is a bit of a run down of the process I used:

• The wheels were treated with a special product I have and cleaned with a wheel brush.
• It was then snow foamed and power washed off.
• The tar was then treated with a product designed for this however great care needs to be taken as it strips all protection from the paintwork.
• The car washed then two bucket method and then towel dried.
• The paintwork was then treated to a wax cleaner rather than claying as the owner had previously clayed it so there weren’t many bonded contaminents.
• It was then polished with SRP, and a few areas were polished with Menzerna to sort out a couple of paint defects, before the whole car being waxed with Colonite 915 hard wax.
• The whole interior was hoovered and then washed down with Meguiars APC and it removed the marks from the seats and brought the dash up a treat.

This was the tar as a result of the road being resurfaced:

After the tar had been completely removed:

Despite the tar, the car was well cared for…not that this meant it received any lesser attention!:

6 hours later and job done!

This is my own pride and joy…

The car was in good condition to start with but I allowed 6 hours for the Protection Detail which does not involve any machine polishing but a full day of hand cleaning and polishing.

It Was Snow Foamed and the product allowed to dwell on the car…

Then powerwashed off…

Then taken inside and towel dried with a Micro Fibre towel polished and waxed. The interior was vaccumed and wiped down with Meguiars APC and all the glass cleaned with Autoglym Glass Cleaner…

Job done!

Concentrated on the paintwork as it had swirls and marring which spoiled the total finish of the car.

As usual the wheels were cleaned, then the car was Snow Foamed and rinsed off with the power washer.  It was then taken inside so I could dry it off and inspect.  It was clay barred but that did not take off too much contaminants so the paint was pretty clean, just not very shiny.

There was also a dull patch on one of the corners of the rear bumper that would not polish out by hand so out came the machine polisher and the problem was solved.

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The following are pictures of a friend’s wife’s Subaru.  There was a lot of tar on the wheels and lower panels which needed quite of bit of work to remove.  From start to finish the job took six hours.

In summary the car was Snow foamed, washed using the two bucket method, towel dried, Tardis applied to lower panels, Clayed, two coats of Autoglym SRP, Colonite wax 915 to finish. The interior was fully vacced, the front mats treated with Meguiars APC, and the dash the same.  The glass was Autoglym glass cleaner.

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