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Post 215950 by bailes1992 on 2009-02-27 17:12:11

Now the last time I even touched the Focus with intent to clean it was... http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=56006 Yep... Jan 2008 :( Now I have a day off today and had nothing to do this morning so I looked at it this morning and I could see the car looking misrible so I though... bugger it time to clean its socks off! So this is how it looked after not being cleaned for 11 Months... Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image So I put 0.5cm of APC in my superspray follwed by an inch of shampoo plus... Image Image The wheels were soaked in Autoglyms engine degreaser and the car foamed... Image Image I scrubbed the tyres with some APC... Image

Post 215951 by bailes1992 on 2009-02-27 17:12:51

And washed off the wheels, I didnt have time to agitate anything so they just had to stay the way they were. Image Image Anyway the car looked like this after it's prewash... Image Image Image And the front of the house looked like this... Image I washed the car down using the TBM and Shampoo plus with some apc chucked it, dryed it and worked some plastx into the shiny blak trim on the focus which has oxidised... 50/50... Image Image Done... Image Before... Image PlastX Applied... Image 50/50... Image Then the exhaust was done, megs NXT with some 00# wire wool which wasen't shifting the dirt so used some fine sandpaper!... Before... Image After... Image

Post 215952 by bailes1992 on 2009-02-27 17:13:27

Then the textured parts of the car had to be done... I decided to use a thin coat of autobalm buffed in well... Before... Image 20/80... Image Once I done this I went around the car with some SRP... then Megs #7 Glaze and a coat of megs NXT wax. Now Im a member of a car club called Torque Wales but don't frequent it much any more so I removed the stickers off the car with a stanley knife blade... Image Image Image The windows then cleaned with some stuff I found in the house :lol: While buffing off the Megs NXT I couldnt belive how well the car came up and had to get a quick shot... Image So carried on around the car and I was very impressed... So afters... Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

Post 215953 by bailes1992 on 2009-02-27 17:13:57

Image Image Image Image Image Time Taken: 4 Hours Shoes: DC's which turned out cleaner after the detail then before :lol: What am I doing now? Going to get my hair cut :lol:

Post 215964 by gazbak1 on 2009-02-27 17:57:51

you missed a bit! IT STILL SAYS FORD!:biggrin:

Post 215968 by Okete on 2009-02-27 18:05:28

You need to get yourself a girlfriend mate!

Post 215978 by MIKESC70T5 on 2009-02-27 18:38:04

[quote=Okete;215968]You need to get yourself a girlfriend mate![/quote] :stupid:

Post 216007 by Sveneng on 2009-02-27 21:19:17

Looks great, you should be pleased with that as I'm sure your mum was.

Post 216013 by bailes1992 on 2009-02-27 22:16:43

[quote=Okete;215968]You need to get yourself a girlfriend mate![/quote] I already have one mate and shes a pain in the arse to be honest. I was offered tickets to go se The Killers tommorow and I turned them down cause I wanted to spend the day with Kim and she said she cant come over tommorow :(

Post 216081 by pangster on 2009-02-28 13:27:53

well done bailes! - good effort! :)

Post 216796 by Unknown on 2009-03-06 09:11:34

Man I wish I had that much time on my hands. Oh to be young, single and with no children. Good job though. Theres a dirty T5 in York for you when you want to wash something else. haha. Your Mum's a lot better off than mine was when I was your age. I could "clean" her car in about 5 minutes, using only Fairy Liquid and a scourer pad. haha.