phozy888
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well my old mans CLK has been sitting on the driveway for the past 3 years and as you can imagine it could do with some TLC 
The windows had moss and weed growing out of it thats how bad it was. So I decided to fix it up and get the car running again for the summer. Last week I stripped all the brakes and freed up the sticky calipers and rebleed the whole system. Along with a oil and filter change, plugs, fuel , air, pollen all done aswell. I should have taken picts last week but before I did a quick clean on her. Last week I jet washed the car and with 2 bucket method cleaned the car and clayed, this was done twice so I could get ready to do some polishing this weekend.
Today I washed the car again and clayed it yet again twice so as you can imagine the paint surface is now silky smooth.
Here is the car before I washed.
This is the bonnet look at them swirls!!
More swirls
Scratches on the door :
So I start off with 2 bucket method to clean the car and then re-clayed again.
The DC5 parked opposite drive
surface all clean and smooth - should be after 4 clay sessions
The car was rinsed and dried ready for polishing.
Taping up the front of the car
side :
Tools to tackle the swirls :
Sonus SFX 2 on SFX 2 polishing pad
Starting on the bonnet :
All panels polished and about 80% swirls removed - I then hosed down the car to get rid of the dust.
Time to seal the paint.
Sealed the whole car and let to cure for 1 hours - This is when I dressed the tyres and windows .
All buffed off and here are the results :
no more swirls on bonnet :
Going to let the EGP to cure & Breath overnight and tomorrow add a few coatings of collinite 476 that should protect the paint for a good few months.
I'll think ill do the DC5 tmrw or maybe not...my arms are dead.
The windows had moss and weed growing out of it thats how bad it was. So I decided to fix it up and get the car running again for the summer. Last week I stripped all the brakes and freed up the sticky calipers and rebleed the whole system. Along with a oil and filter change, plugs, fuel , air, pollen all done aswell. I should have taken picts last week but before I did a quick clean on her. Last week I jet washed the car and with 2 bucket method cleaned the car and clayed, this was done twice so I could get ready to do some polishing this weekend.Today I washed the car again and clayed it yet again twice so as you can imagine the paint surface is now silky smooth.
Here is the car before I washed.
This is the bonnet look at them swirls!!
More swirls
Scratches on the door :
So I start off with 2 bucket method to clean the car and then re-clayed again.
The DC5 parked opposite drive
surface all clean and smooth - should be after 4 clay sessions
The car was rinsed and dried ready for polishing.
Taping up the front of the car
side :
Tools to tackle the swirls :
Sonus SFX 2 on SFX 2 polishing pad
Starting on the bonnet :
All panels polished and about 80% swirls removed - I then hosed down the car to get rid of the dust.
Time to seal the paint.
Sealed the whole car and let to cure for 1 hours - This is when I dressed the tyres and windows .
All buffed off and here are the results :
no more swirls on bonnet :
Going to let the EGP to cure & Breath overnight and tomorrow add a few coatings of collinite 476 that should protect the paint for a good few months.
I'll think ill do the DC5 tmrw or maybe not...my arms are dead.
