Hello. I decided to update this thread rather than make a new one..
So... last week I detailed an Enzo. Now in reality there shouldn't really be a difference between this and any other job... but lets face it, most people like to see a hyper car rather than a Golf GTI.
So I've made a little video. Please don't take it too seriously. I've just done it as a bit of fun and to showcase what I can do for your car (even if it isn't an Enzo
I've finally finished going through all the photos and video from this detail. Not sure I'll do a write up this in depth every time simply down to the time it takes to put together but here we go....
We arrived at 7:45am (having left home at 6am) to be greeted with a rather wonderful sight. (and yes that is the plate it drives around on )
This particular Enzo is one of the original UK cars and has been owned from new by this customer. Its covered around 18000 miles in 10 years which is fairly high for a car of this type. Its usual aesthetic maintenance consists of being dry dusted even after a short drive and an occasional Autoglym super resin hand polish so it was well due a bit of pampering.
I should also say that this isn't quite a 'Full Correction' detail. We basically had 2 days to complete everything so rather than chase every single mark I opted for one harder cut polish to get the worst out and then refine. So view it as more of an extreme enhancement detail.
As well as document the detail with photographs, I've made a video covering almost everything that was done. There are no captions to distract you and its set to some crap YouTube royalty free music but despite that please take time to have a look
As usual I started off with the wheels. The tyres, wheel face and barrel was soaked with Autoglym Custom Wheel Cleaner. I still find this an excellent product for getting road grim and old dressings off the tyres and its perfectly safe to use regularly without discolouring brake components while still giving enough cleaning power to easily clean mild brake dust build up.
The arches were sprayed with All Purpose Cleaner and rinsed and then the arch and wheel were sprayed with Autoglym tar and glue remover and dissolved tar spots were wiped off with a microfibre towel.
I did try Autofinesse Iron out on the wheels but there was zero contamination so nothing to really photograph.
The car was then covered with foam to start softening any dirt and to start help strip any protection / fillers from the paint.
.. and after a few minutes this was rinsed off. Remember at this point you are washing the dirt off, not just the foam, so work slowly and methodically coving all of the car.
Then it was shampooed with Auto Finesse lather and a two bucket method (one bucket with clean soapy water and one to agitate your mitt in once you have cleaned a section before picking up new clean shampoo... for those that don't know)
At this stage I also covered the lower panels with tar remover and then iron out and neither showed any signs of contamination so It was rinsed again and dried down ready for polishing.
Now.. red isn't the easiest colour to capture defects so out of the hundreds of photos I took, these were the best ones.
Seems you can no longer have messages with more than 10 images..
So... last week I detailed an Enzo. Now in reality there shouldn't really be a difference between this and any other job... but lets face it, most people like to see a hyper car rather than a Golf GTI.
So I've made a little video. Please don't take it too seriously. I've just done it as a bit of fun and to showcase what I can do for your car (even if it isn't an Enzo
I've finally finished going through all the photos and video from this detail. Not sure I'll do a write up this in depth every time simply down to the time it takes to put together but here we go....
We arrived at 7:45am (having left home at 6am) to be greeted with a rather wonderful sight. (and yes that is the plate it drives around on
)
This particular Enzo is one of the original UK cars and has been owned from new by this customer. Its covered around 18000 miles in 10 years which is fairly high for a car of this type. Its usual aesthetic maintenance consists of being dry dusted even after a short drive and an occasional Autoglym super resin hand polish so it was well due a bit of pampering.
I should also say that this isn't quite a 'Full Correction' detail. We basically had 2 days to complete everything so rather than chase every single mark I opted for one harder cut polish to get the worst out and then refine. So view it as more of an extreme enhancement detail.
As well as document the detail with photographs, I've made a video covering almost everything that was done. There are no captions to distract you and its set to some crap YouTube royalty free music but despite that please take time to have a look
As usual I started off with the wheels. The tyres, wheel face and barrel was soaked with Autoglym Custom Wheel Cleaner. I still find this an excellent product for getting road grim and old dressings off the tyres and its perfectly safe to use regularly without discolouring brake components while still giving enough cleaning power to easily clean mild brake dust build up.
The arches were sprayed with All Purpose Cleaner and rinsed and then the arch and wheel were sprayed with Autoglym tar and glue remover and dissolved tar spots were wiped off with a microfibre towel.
I did try Autofinesse Iron out on the wheels but there was zero contamination so nothing to really photograph.
The car was then covered with foam to start softening any dirt and to start help strip any protection / fillers from the paint.
.. and after a few minutes this was rinsed off. Remember at this point you are washing the dirt off, not just the foam, so work slowly and methodically coving all of the car.
Then it was shampooed with Auto Finesse lather and a two bucket method (one bucket with clean soapy water and one to agitate your mitt in once you have cleaned a section before picking up new clean shampoo... for those that don't know)
At this stage I also covered the lower panels with tar remover and then iron out and neither showed any signs of contamination so It was rinsed again and dried down ready for polishing.
Now.. red isn't the easiest colour to capture defects so out of the hundreds of photos I took, these were the best ones.
Seems you can no longer have messages with more than 10 images..
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