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Hey everyone,

Ive just finished a restoration #2 detail on Colins 34 Sedan!

I also detailed his engine bay, plastics, and interior

Here are some of the pics, unfortunately I didnt quite think the picture taking through, and some of the shots arent in the same spot, or some with flash and some without. however i hope you can still see the difference the detail made to his car!

Some of the most intensive work went into detailing his engine bay, as you can see, it was pretty dirty! Its still not 100% perfect, but after a decontamination with GPC, Xenit, and with some PERL on the plastics and gloss boost on the paintwork it came out alright!

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After decontaminating areas like the door jambs and engine bay, i moved to the paintwork. starting with a clay black .. which ended up looking like

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after the clay block, i moved onto machine polishing.

this is the condition of the car before the detail

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and now after the 2 stages of machine polishing and 2 layers of sealant

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after finishing with the paintwork, it was onto the fine trimming

this involved .. badges:

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headlights: Exterior6.jpg

plastic trim:

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i went all out with this, ensuring every single plastic trim was looking its best. window rubbers and the edges of his guards were also done.

exhaust tips:

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and a clean of his interior, followed by protectant and some extra shine!

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there are milllions more pictures, which i burnt onto a CD for him :)

this detail took me the better part of 3-4 days in total.

Hope you enjoyed!

cheers mate appreciate it especially coming from you! :)

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P.S. Jonno......I need an engine bay clean and plastic trim detail......Your place or mine?? When??

Txt me a day and time...and I will try and book off work or something....mon or tues works best hey.....

cheers mate appreciate it especially coming from you! :)

No worries, WOW guess thats a compliment to me also thanks :)

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P.S. Jonno......I need an engine bay clean and plastic trim detail......Your place or mine?? When??

Txt me a day and time...and I will try and book off work or something....mon or tues works best hey.....

Brushes, degreaser, aerospace 303 or Carpro PERL, and some microfibres boom done :)

yeap for colins engine bay I used - FI's GPC and Xenit on the tougher spots, rinsed it off and applied PERL

i generally use simple green for this sort of stuff, but it needed something stronger and GPC was far more effective

  • 5 weeks later...

How did the drivers side electric window panel come up after you cleaned it? All of my front electric window panels and centre console look like the driver side one you show in the thread. Have been considering wrapping them in carbon fibre wrap but if there is a way to properly clean them so they come up looking good I would consider doing that first.

hey mate

i believe thats cos the paint on it has melted. a clean doesnt really help in that area, and neither does any detailing product I have (believe me i tried :( ) - i tried to use both aerospace protectant and carpro PERL on it, but neither worked - the best way to get it looking good again is to remove them, sand them down and spray them - theres a few threads around the cosmetic section for it. you could probably try wrapping them in CF also though

it is a real bummer when I cant just respray and/or replace stuff in a detail - some of those small things just dont make the finished product look as good as it should :(

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