So whilst I'm deciding what to do about my droning exhaust, I spent the day (actually I started last night on the interior), wiping off the previous owner's slime, general neglect, roadkill and general filth.
It's going in for some rust chasing on the O/S rear taillight before it escalates so I made a start.
Yesterday I cleaned the interior to within an inch of it's life. It already looked clean in most people's eye but I have a problem when it comes to detailing.
I used Meguiars APC at about 10:1 for everything. The leather seats we rancid and the gooey steering wheel now looks pretty matt. There's lots of dodgy interior trim painting going on but with some effort I managed to salvage the steering wheel buttons (they had been painted black!!)
The first pic was about halfway through.
This morning i washed car down. It was pretty dirty but not too terrible. Once that was done I hit with some clay...The amount of crap that came from the bonnet in just a few passes was unbelievable. As I worked my way around the car there was tonnes of green touch up paint coming off . I ended up wiping the car down with Isopropyl Alcohol just to get rid of it...The cloth went totally green..It looked like The Incredible Hulk's cum rag.
I also tried to capture the mass of swirls and scratches all over the bonnet. They were everywhere, included a couple of deep scratches. I think the owner had used something like Colour Magic. The cay revealed every flaw in the paint.
It's going in for some rust chasing on the O/S rear taillight before it escalates so I made a start.
Yesterday I cleaned the interior to within an inch of it's life. It already looked clean in most people's eye but I have a problem when it comes to detailing.
I used Meguiars APC at about 10:1 for everything. The leather seats we rancid and the gooey steering wheel now looks pretty matt. There's lots of dodgy interior trim painting going on but with some effort I managed to salvage the steering wheel buttons (they had been painted black!!)
The first pic was about halfway through.
This morning i washed car down. It was pretty dirty but not too terrible. Once that was done I hit with some clay...The amount of crap that came from the bonnet in just a few passes was unbelievable. As I worked my way around the car there was tonnes of green touch up paint coming off . I ended up wiping the car down with Isopropyl Alcohol just to get rid of it...The cloth went totally green..It looked like The Incredible Hulk's cum rag.
I also tried to capture the mass of swirls and scratches all over the bonnet. They were everywhere, included a couple of deep scratches. I think the owner had used something like Colour Magic. The cay revealed every flaw in the paint.