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[pembroke]

I've spent about 10 hours this weekend detailing the Mig. I bought the car in November and I don't believe it's been polished for quite a while.

 I started with a quick wash and dry using Halfords Advanced Car Wash.

Next I used Turtle Wax Ice Liquid Clay on each section of the car. You use the application sponge to rub the liquid into the car, panel by panel.
You then rinse, dry and move on (this got old by the third panel as I got most of the car wet each time I rinsed )

After the claying I re-washed and dried; that was Saturday afternoon and by this time it was dark and footy was beginning

Sunday morning 8am and I'm outside drying the car in preparation for polishing. I used Turtle Wax Ice polish as it doesn't leave any white residual and works on chrome, plastic and rubber (or so it says on the box!)

Again, you use an applicator sponge and rub the slightly oily liquid onto the car. This only takes 5/10 minutes and you use suprisingly little, maybe 5% of the bottle.
 You leave the wax for 5 minutes and then polish to a shine; this requires about as much elbow grease as traditional wax but leaves no residue and comes up quite good.

As the car appeared not to have been polished for a while I planned on a 2nd coat an hour later.

 In the meantime I polished the windows using turtlewax microfibre cloth and cheapy glass cleaner I bought at Sainsburys' garage.

By time I finished the glass, had a coffee and sandwich it was time for the 2nd polish.

Again, I lightly rubbed the liquid polish onto the entire car, waited 10 minutes (another coffe break and then polished.

In completely the wrong order I now cleaned the alloys and dressed the tyres with Auto Glym instant tyre dressing.

The results below don't really do the car justice as it's been gray, cloudy and miserable all day; God, why couldn't I have finished this on Saturday when the skies where blue and the sun was shinning











And typically it now starts to rain Although this was a good opportunity to photograph the beading

[Proz]

Looks good .... i might try this stuff 

[MickAP]

Looks good.
And that colour does show up well when clean
I dress the tyres everytime I wash the car with some cheapo £ shop stuff Make it look great and finishes the job off

Mick

[cam2502]

looks good fella 

[Del Boy]

Looks quality mate good job 

[belldarr]

Great results and I bet you backs paying the price lol

Excellent work 

[deejaywardy]

good job m8 ,, looks like you put alot of hard work in to get it so shiney 

[Dishevelled Den]

Time very well spent P - very impressive  8-) 8-)

[barclay03]

Looks nice and tidy, and well done for a hand job (oo er! lol) 

Did you use any wax or sealant afterwards?

[pembroke]

Looks nice and tidy, and well done for a hand job (oo er! lol) 

Did you use any wax or sealant afterwards?

Yes, the best hand job I've done :-*lol!
No, I've not added a sealant; I will later in the month, but I've spent close to £75 on all the products and cloths!

My wife thinks I've spent about a tenner at Halfords! (There's hell to come later! )

[pedroMV6]

Looks really good - I'm sure it's worth the hell you'll be getting later........

[waspy]

Very Very nice mate 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) That's one shiny Mig
Don't know how to tell you this, but you've missed a bit

[pembroke]

Very Very nice mate 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) That's one shiny Mig
Don't know how to tell you this, but you've missed a bit

Continue, if you please................. Wheel arches??

[waspy]

Very Very nice mate 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) That's one shiny Mig
Don't know how to tell you this, but you've missed a bit

Continue, if you please................. Wheel arches??

Just kidding

[pembroke]

Very Very nice mate 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) That's one shiny Mig
Don't know how to tell you this, but you've missed a bit

Continue, if you please................. Wheel arches??

Just kidding

Bast*&d!LOL