Proccy booked my son and I for a paint correction session on his 'leccy Blue Plus - my son decided a weekend in Wales with his girlfriend was more appealing, so I got to do a 7.5 hour polish & wax all on my own....

After a good wash with snowfoam and a rinse down, I clayed the whole car to remove the worst of the contaminants. Despite having a respray in the last couple of years, there was a lot of muck in the paint - I've destroyed a brand new clay bar

After another wash down, it was time to roll the car inside and see what the paint is like under fluorescent lights.

The entire car was affected by very light swirl marks caused by washing (second piccy below shows them very well), but there were a few deeper scratches:-



just over four hours with the DA polisher and another 1.5 hours with AutoGlym HD Wax and the difference was plain to see



Gratuitous reflection shot....



Should be much easier to clean now - quick wash & dry followed by a detailer spray - job done - Hopefully it'll stay this way until Spa....

Did you not ironX and/or use tardis before claying?

You missed some orange on the footwell

No, but I wished I had, as it might have saved my clay bar

However, I did use AG Intensive Tar Remover on some of the worse bits

Live & learn...

ironX is a must mate.

not used ironX before - is that as the lube for the clay or to apply it before the clay?

Have to say a BIG thank you to Nigel, it's actually much better in the flesh than in the pictures. Although it didn't look at first glance like it needed much doing, it was much worse than it appeared, but now she's all sparkly and sexy again

If anybody has shabby/dull/crap paintwork this is the service to employ - well worth the money and when i have some more the yellow one i own will be having Nigel's tender touch too

Cheers Nigel, very much appreciated

Thankyou It was a pleasure to do this car - it was my first Electric Blue and one that I've always wanted to do - the colour seems to respond extremely well to a good polish - the metallic effect is really noticeable now and the whole car seems to be a shade 'richer'

I'd love to do a Vinci LE - I know from experience that this colour looks truly stunning when shiny.

very nice job Nigel .

Yum, he'll go faster now!

Wish i had the money to get mine done again.Nice job.

spray ironX on car inlcuding wheels wait then wipe/rinse off, same with tardis also THEN clay

also.. Nigel did you just snowfoam or did you wash after aswell?

I'd love to have mine properly shiney one day, you never know Nigel? what sort of monies would we be looking at?

Looks good

Snowfoam, then rinse, then wash, then rinse, then dry, then clay

You have PM

That's nice Steve as a rub down with an oily rag is normally enough to buff you up.

nigel also interested, please pm me

I really wanted to do this car - but I realised that spending 4 days in a blowy tent on the welsh coast was better... obviously

From the pictures, this was as much of a challenge as any of the cars either myself or Dad have ever done...

Here's another example; a picture of an Alfa brera I did for a nice woman from the Alfa forum:



That was after a very similar treatment - winter proof!

Let's keep the promotions on your Dad's behalf to the Motormech section please Matt.

Coupe chat is not the place.

Thats a bit harsh.

Not really !

Very nice job

Neither is the Motormech section - Proccy's paint correction was nothing to do with Motormech, other than the fact that I used one of Paul's three workshops

Please keep Neil Willies Insurance posts to that traders section rather than the insurance section then?

Joe or JBT aren't advertising in general maintaince or tuning.

Ross

Ultimately it is for the moderators and admin to decide which posts should appear where.

The Neil Willies post is of direct relevance to participants in the Spa trip thus it remains where it is.

Coupe chat is NOT the place to advertise any business.

Why is Nigel allowed to promote his business in coupe chat?

Double standards

Too many 'rules' on this forum

Maybe it should be in the 'Styling' section!?

Who cares.

What polisher & polish are you using, Nigel?

It should be in the Traders section.

He's not a paid up Trader. Plus, as Pete nicely pointed out, this is the decision of the Admin and Moderators, who act in the best interests of the club, which members are part of.

So there!

Ross