Deranged_9n3
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- Oct 7, 2013
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After finishing the SL65 AMG I detailed , the owner sent me one of his toys 
His Opel Astra H 2L that made 380whp at our KAR dynoday. This is also the same Astra I restored headlights for in December 2013 for those of you who can remember. I saw the car at the dyno day and knew that this would be a tough task for me. The car was dirty and FULL of scratches. Full of scratches I mean every body panel had scratches , and deep ones too.
Owner asked me to block plates so most of the pics was taken with plates in mind aswell. So excuse me for that
Upon arrival this was the condition
Scratches
Interior
I decided to start off with the interior. Vacuumed it all out. I then proceeded to clean the seats with APC mix , aswell as door jambs and all other areas ( Seat mounting points, doorcards etc ). After it all I vacuumed again and dressed the interior trims.
Excuse the run mark , just some APC left after I wiped the panel.
After that some exhaust tip cleaning
Before
After
I cleaned up the engine bay using APC and various brushes ( only 1 pic with the afters ). I then decontaminated paint and clayed the whole car. Contamination on the car was bad , but the difference was immense. After that I cleaned the wheels using IronX followed by APC. Wheelarches was cleaned aswell. Unfortunately no pics of this except for the dirty claybar after claying the car , windows and wheels
Onto polishing the paint. Test spots confirmed that I would be using FG400 with cutting pads as my combo. Here is some 50:50 shots.
note. Look at the scratches on the bonnet. Unfortunately they were too deep for me to remove them
After passing the whole car with FG400 I moved to PF2500 on polishing pads to further remove the haze on the paint. After this I got out my fav
Menz PL on white finishing pads. Sit back and enjoy the after pics
We then pulled the car out as I begged to go for a spin in it :lol: Here is a few more before we left.
The money shot here :drool:
His Opel Astra H 2L that made 380whp at our KAR dynoday. This is also the same Astra I restored headlights for in December 2013 for those of you who can remember. I saw the car at the dyno day and knew that this would be a tough task for me. The car was dirty and FULL of scratches. Full of scratches I mean every body panel had scratches , and deep ones too.Owner asked me to block plates so most of the pics was taken with plates in mind aswell. So excuse me for that
Upon arrival this was the condition
Scratches
Interior
I decided to start off with the interior. Vacuumed it all out. I then proceeded to clean the seats with APC mix , aswell as door jambs and all other areas ( Seat mounting points, doorcards etc ). After it all I vacuumed again and dressed the interior trims.
Excuse the run mark , just some APC left after I wiped the panel.
After that some exhaust tip cleaning
Before
After
I cleaned up the engine bay using APC and various brushes ( only 1 pic with the afters ). I then decontaminated paint and clayed the whole car. Contamination on the car was bad , but the difference was immense. After that I cleaned the wheels using IronX followed by APC. Wheelarches was cleaned aswell. Unfortunately no pics of this except for the dirty claybar after claying the car , windows and wheels
Onto polishing the paint. Test spots confirmed that I would be using FG400 with cutting pads as my combo. Here is some 50:50 shots.
note. Look at the scratches on the bonnet. Unfortunately they were too deep for me to remove them
After passing the whole car with FG400 I moved to PF2500 on polishing pads to further remove the haze on the paint. After this I got out my fav
Menz PL on white finishing pads. Sit back and enjoy the after pics
We then pulled the car out as I begged to go for a spin in it :lol: Here is a few more before we left.
The money shot here :drool:
