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Old 21 August 2011, 06:15 PM
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Default Had a little detail of the hatch this weekend!

Ok well had 6 hours to spare so got to work on the hatch, she gets foamed pretty much every week so was not too bad but had a few areas that were bugging me.

First of all covered up the expensive bits under the bonnet, cleaned with degreaser, power washed and then a little detail.




Then a good foam and wash with dodo juice born to be mild with a mit, then the Turinis came off for a foam and a powerwash, a clean and a coat or Poorboys, also cleaned the arches and then the calipers had a coat of poorboys.



Then onto the bodywork, clayed, polished and finally a cost of Dodo juice purple haze which I have to say is pretty easy to use. Tyres blacked up and then glass and lights polished.

All in all pretty happy and got some nice reflections from the panels, all polishing by hand so not a bad effort.








And finally the exhausts had a little polish.



And then it rained but had some nice beading!



Some from today but a little dusty by now!




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Old 21 August 2011, 06:37 PM
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tooooo much time on your hands.... bet your neighbours think you're a nutta taking pix of your car after cleaning it








nice motta BTW
Old 21 August 2011, 06:41 PM
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Looks great ! Those exhaust pipes are obscenely clean What did you use ?
Old 22 August 2011, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by salsa-king
tooooo much time on your hands.... bet your neighbours think you're a nutta taking pix of your car after cleaning it






nice motta BTW
Haha, no they are not phased with me taking pics, now when I'm cleaning the car in the winter and the water is freezing to the car thats another matter!

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Looks great ! Those exhaust pipes are obscenely clean What did you use ?
Used some 1500 grade wet and dry and then good old Autosol, seemed to work fine but gbnut has a polisher which I'm going to have a go on soon to see if I can get them any better!!

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Old 26 August 2011, 08:53 AM
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Anyone used Plastidip, thinking of spraying the splitter with it as its not that great a finish?

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Old 26 August 2011, 11:07 AM
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Very nice, these hatches have really grown on me
Old 27 August 2011, 01:04 PM
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I'm loving that buddy
Old 27 August 2011, 01:10 PM
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What was on @ Brands?! Nice job by the way
Old 27 August 2011, 03:31 PM
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Cheers guys.

It was an MSVR day at Brands, really good event, link to a few pics below.

https://www.scoobynet.com/members-ga...day-today.html

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Old 27 August 2011, 11:38 PM
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Sexy hatch, really growing on me. Good job with the detailing, just was never a fan of the back lights.
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Lovely hatch mate, some very good pics also
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Used some 1500 grade wet and dry and then good old Autosol, seemed to work fine but gbnut has a polisher which I'm going to have a go on soon to see if I can get them any better!!

Thanks for the tip, Arron, have done mine today and has come up a treat just like new.

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Old 31 August 2011, 02:32 PM
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Good job fella, got to admit I was quite surprised how much different they look.

With a clean and polish and without!
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