Black Magic Pearl 6R VW Polo - Detailed by Lawrence

[lawrenceSA]

The brief for this detail was specifically to:

Correct and protect the paintwork (taking into account this is a Black DD which is already waxed regularly)
Remove the polo badge from the rear
Remove remaining sticker residue off the rear window
Exclude the interior
Only give the wheels a basic wash

Process / Products

Wheels
Tires and wheels were washed using Meguiars Hot Rims All Wheel and Tire Cleaner. The arches were cleaned using Cyclo CM30 APC. I then gave the lips of the rims a light polish using Mother Aluminium and Mag Polish. Once dried the tires were dressed using Optimum Opti Bond Tire Gel and the arches dressed using Chemical Guys Bare Bones.

Wash
Rinse
Pre-foam using Chemical Guys Maxi Suds II
2 Bucket Wash using Cyclo Polymer Hand Wash

Door shuts
Cyclo CM30 APC
Meguiars Cleaner Wax

Decontamination
Tar removal - AF ObliTARate
Iron Removal - AF Iron Out
Clay - Clay Magic Blue Clay / Carways mist and wipe
Badge/Sticker residue - Goo Gone

Correction
Paintwork
Menzerna PF2500 / Cyan pad
Menzerna SF4000 / LC Tangerine Pad
Chemical Guys Black Light / LC Crimson pad
B-Pillars, Sunroof surround, Tali lights
Menzerna PF2500 / LC White pad
Menzerna SF4000 / LC Black Pad

Protection
Chemical guys Black light by hand
2 Coats Chemical guys Pete's 53

Glass
Autoglym Fast Glass

On arrival the car was covered in dirt

Wheels are arches were also very dirty

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Here you can start to see the actual condition of the paint

Removal of the badge

This is the remaining residue after removing the badges. Goo gone got this off very easily

I never took any pics of the washing or decontamination processes, however this what the paint looked like once above had been done

I then taped up and began correcting the paint

Prior to putting on any LSP I pulled the car out to check my progress in the sun

Then cropped in closer to try and show how nicely metallic flakes were popping

Hard to tell which half is the reflection off the glass sunroof and which is off the paint - i.e. a really nice reflection

The car was then pulled back into the garage to have LSP applied and to finish off the rest of the detail.

 

[lawrenceSA]

Here are some after shots

Total time spent = 25 hours

Thanks for looking and as always and comments or feedback is welcome

 

[sproketser]

Killer job again mate !

 

[vet]

Another great job, as always, Lawrence!

 

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Beautiful work and pictures Lawrence. Looks incredible!

 

[lawrenceSA]

Killer job again mate !

Another great job, as always, Lawrence!

Beautiful work and pictures Lawrence. Looks incredible!

Thank you all so much.

I am really enjoying polishing out black cars, especially ones like these that have metallic flakes in them.... it is quite rewarding to start off with a car where you can hardly tell it is metallic and then to land up with...um......clear....clear coat, so that you can really see the flakes pop:dblthumb2:

 

[Superman0440]

Nice turnaround...

I'm thinking about removing my badges on my car any tips?

 

[lawrenceSA]

Nice turnaround...

I'm thinking about removing my badges on my car any tips?

Thanks

The badge removal was actually very easy.

All I did was wrap some fishing gut around my hands and gentle pull it behind the badges, from the top down, to 'cut' the badge away from the paint.

This left the 'tape/glue' residue on the paint, which was then easily dissolved with some goo gone (I have also used AF Oblitarate in the past with much success)

 

[Superman0440]

Thanks

The badge removal was actually very easy.

All I did was wrap some fishing gut around my hands and gentle pull it behind the badges, from the top down, to 'cut' the badge away from the paint.

This left the 'tape/glue' residue on the paint, which was then easily dissolved with some goo gone (I have also used AF Oblitarate in the past with much success)

Thanks for the tip

 

[LatinFG2]

Awesome work!

 

[noslef]

Nice reflections! I know what you mean about black metallic/pearl paint. My daily is a Corolla XRS with black pearl paint and the flake is amazing once polished out (since buying it last December I have only done a test section; right now all of the paint looks as if the previous owner(s) ran a rotary haphazardly at full speed and then washed it with rocks!).