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This client drove down from Johannesburg (about 400 miles) to me to get his car detailed. He dropped the car off with me just before 8 on a cold, wet and windy Saturday morning and I then took a few before pictures while allowing the wheels etc to cool down sufficiently.
I then got to work cleaning the wheels and the arches.
Before
Tires sprayed with Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner
Tire cleaner starting to lift the dirt from the tire
I then scrubbed it with a Mothers Tire Cleaning Brush and rinsed clean
The wheels were then cleaned using Daytona Wheel Brush and various other smaller brushes
And rinsed clean
I then removed all the tar spots using Autofinesse Oblitarate before removing the iron contamination
The arches were cleaned using Cyclo CM30 APC @3:1 with a Mothers Fender Well Brush and later dressed with Chemical Guys Care Bones. The rims were then clayed using Clay Magic Blue Clay.
On Sunday I used Meguiars Cleaner Wax on a Mothers Polishing Ball to give them a light polish (they could definitely do with a more thorough polish but that was not in the scope of the detail), sealed them with Collinite 845 and dressed the tires using Optibond Tire Gel.
Afters
I then cleaned the boot and door shuts, inside the petrol flap, around the badges, in all the seams etc using Cyclo CM30 APC @ 3:1 with various brushes.
Badge before
Badge after
The car was then pre-foamed using a mix of maxi-suds and Cyclo CM30 APC and then given a full 2BM wash using Cyclo Polymer Car Wash
On Friday before leaving JHB the owner joked with me that he would be bringing some JHB bugs and tar down for me... well the irony is that when I began the decontamination process by removing the tar deposits using Autofiness Oblitarate, there was less tar than I see on most of the cars I do.... BUT there were a lot of iron deposits.
To put this into perspective, the owners's current regime includes quarterly claying of the car due to the volume of contamination the car is exposed to at his workplace, but even so a lot of iron came off the paint, and there was still a lot to clay off thereafter, which I did for the remainder of Saturday using Clay Magic Blue Clay.
I then got to work cleaning the wheels and the arches.
Before
Tires sprayed with Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner
Tire cleaner starting to lift the dirt from the tire
I then scrubbed it with a Mothers Tire Cleaning Brush and rinsed clean
The wheels were then cleaned using Daytona Wheel Brush and various other smaller brushes
And rinsed clean
I then removed all the tar spots using Autofinesse Oblitarate before removing the iron contamination
The arches were cleaned using Cyclo CM30 APC @3:1 with a Mothers Fender Well Brush and later dressed with Chemical Guys Care Bones. The rims were then clayed using Clay Magic Blue Clay.
On Sunday I used Meguiars Cleaner Wax on a Mothers Polishing Ball to give them a light polish (they could definitely do with a more thorough polish but that was not in the scope of the detail), sealed them with Collinite 845 and dressed the tires using Optibond Tire Gel.
Afters
I then cleaned the boot and door shuts, inside the petrol flap, around the badges, in all the seams etc using Cyclo CM30 APC @ 3:1 with various brushes.
Badge before
Badge after
The car was then pre-foamed using a mix of maxi-suds and Cyclo CM30 APC and then given a full 2BM wash using Cyclo Polymer Car Wash
On Friday before leaving JHB the owner joked with me that he would be bringing some JHB bugs and tar down for me... well the irony is that when I began the decontamination process by removing the tar deposits using Autofiness Oblitarate, there was less tar than I see on most of the cars I do.... BUT there were a lot of iron deposits.
To put this into perspective, the owners's current regime includes quarterly claying of the car due to the volume of contamination the car is exposed to at his workplace, but even so a lot of iron came off the paint, and there was still a lot to clay off thereafter, which I did for the remainder of Saturday using Clay Magic Blue Clay.
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