Little update on the car, show season has started and the gf (unknowingly to me) applied for the car to be on autofinese’s stand at japfest and it got accepted and in my opinion the car really wasn’t up to it so the 2 weeks coming up to it me and the gf did the best we could to transform the car, I ordered some carbon fibre end caps for the spoiler so I wasn’t missing one, got a friend to fit a SpeedHunters sunstrip I ordered & lowered the front end a touch to get rid of the positive camber.
The car then needed a proper detail / clean, but I didn’t fancy paying £500 so I borrowed a machine polisher from another friend. I used to be a pitch washer at a dealership and have hand polished cars but never really done proper machine polishing etc, and was a touch worried about burning through the paint but do have friends that are detailers and they pointed me in the right direction of what to use to avoid burning through etc.
Started off washing the car down then a clay bar over the whole car, this is where we really felt the dirt in the paint and the sun damage, I don’t think the previous owner ever did any polishing of any sort so it’s been at least 17 years since this car has had anything like this, so once we’d finished with the clay bar I then did a few coats of Meguiar’s Ultimate Compound with the mop, once we were satisfied, we moved onto Meguiar’s Ultimate Polish for a couple of coats and finally a layer of Meguiar’s Wax by hand.
When I first bought this car, a paint job was quite high on the priority list, however, that has dropped down the list significantly, it really is night & day… it used to sound like sand paper when you rubbed your hand across it, it was that bad… however now it’s a soft smooth finish. It probably isn’t to the standard of a £500 paint correction etc however, for a few weekends of me & my gf with a friend’s polisher, couldn’t be happier. It’s now at a presentable stage, still requires a full hit at some point, but boost is definitely more important at the moment.
I got a photoshoot with a friend, see the pictures attached. Finally, I finished the exterior of the car off with a private plate