Day 1:
Started with the engine being detailed with G101, various Envy brushes and high pressure water.
Sadly in all the fun on day 2 I forgot to take pics of the engine after, it looked beautiful and matt black for those that are interested.
Once the engine was clean I did the beautiful wheels with AS smart wheels and Envy brushes, and the new Vikan wheel brush which I've just taken stock of!! (like an EZ detail really).
Snow foam then followed.
Allowed to dwell, rinsed off then washed with the two bucket method, grit guards, Z sponge and Sour Power shampoo. Dried off to look like.....
The car was moved indoors then to take some snaps of the defects.
The car was then de-tarred on the lower panels and behind the wheels with TGB, and then clayed with Meguiars smooth surface clay bar.
The interior was then given a full hoover, leather was cleansed with Dr Leathers non-solid leather cleaner (not the wipes) and agitated with a brush. Plastics and dash cleaned and conditioned. Glass cleaned with an alcohol based cleaner. Here endeth day 1!
Day 2:
Saw the arrival of myself and Baz from Auto-Detox at 08.00 and paint thickness measurements were taken. All good healthy levels all round. Typically around.......
Time to protect the plastics and raised areas between panels etc.
Polish choice we both pretty much both chose Scholl Concepts S3+ Gold edition, and I settled on the Scholl yellow spider pad. Baz chose the 3M orange compounding pad. We also used the Meguiars 4" cutting pad.
Here is a pre-refinement 50/50 after 1 pass on the wing
The bonnet was pretty tough and was subject to 3-4 passes with the polish/pad combo just to remove the defects and we knew it was going to be a long day!
Progress was slow but a clear difference could be seen.
Natural 50/50
In between sets we were wiping down with the lovely Eraser product, I'd not used this before but its VERY good
Once the cutting stage was carried out the car was de-dusted, wiped down with Eraser again then the whole car was refined using Menzerna Final Finish, 3M blue waffle finishing pads, and Megs 4" finishing spot pads too. De-dusted again, de-taped, wiped down again and given a coat of a Vintage wax and left to cure.
The stunning Hayward and Scott tail pipes were hit with Autosol, glass had an alcohol based cleaner, tyres had RD50. I'm sure something else happened too!!!!
As you can imagine, the sun was long gone so only indoor "after" pics as we'd been on the car for 11 m/hrs just yesterday alone.
The wax was buffed off and all that remained was to take the after pictures.
All in all the car was subject to 30hrs of hands on work, and we hope you can tell the difference!
Thanks for looking, and many thanks to Barry for making the work load a lot lighter and the day (all be it 11hrs!) go faster!
Tim
Wish my car could look that good. Even my A3 which is only a couple of years old and has had that williams f1 treatment still looks dull 
