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Friday night we gave our car a wash in preparation for spending Saturday with Richard at ShowCarDetailing and getting a full detail. The Mini is our daily driver, not to mention only car - so we both took the 82 mile trip down there to watch and help.
I can't thank Richard enough for patiently sharing his knowledge and expertise with us. It's really quite amazing to see what goes into a good detailing session.
We used Dawn for the double washdown, Swirl on the rotary, followed by more swirl on a PC and Amigo with PC's followed by Epic and Clarity on the glass. And of course BlackWow on the plastic trim
Here are some photos, these and others are on my Flickr Pages
Richard - if you have any photos you want to add to this thread, please do. BTW I've got a couple of nice portraits of you from my 50mm lens. Shall I post them up here, or email them to you?
Washdown
Clay Bar
Taping Off
Pre Test
Testing
Swirl applied with both Rotary and then a PC
Tag Team Polishing
Richard teaches my other half
Finished just before we lost the day light
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Dnc - A British Expat living in the Netherlands after 2.5 years in Southern California.
'06 MCS - Astro Black on Astro Black: "Black Sunshine"
'02 A6 2.5 TDi Quattro Sport Avant Arctic Silver.
Last edited by Doesnotcompute; 04-06-2008 at 04:33 PM.
Awesome pix and writeup!!! And thank you for the kind words everybody!! Nick and Christel ---you guys were great! Nick worked almost as hard as I did on the MINI!! lol.
Another view of my test spot--hard to see it here--but it's the squared off non hazy portion that I polished--the light reflection borders the polished and unpolished area. There were quite a few swirls in the paint though the above surface bonded contaminants was quite significant as well.
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Depends who's shots you're asking about, lol. But the ones in my post are from the D70s. Most of it was shot under poor lighting so it's a lot grainier than usual.
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Originally Posted by greengobln
it's a pretty impressive transformation. what camera did you use OG? the resolution doesn't look as crisp as usual.
Haha thanks.
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Originally Posted by kenchan
looks great! i want to get those OG glasses.
those crown wheels look good on R53's too.
I got them a few months ago. After one particularly long Saturday clinic, I had an eye infection that lasted about a month--so I ended up getting new glasses--I've been wearing contacts since I was in high school, and the glasses I had have always been spare/back glasses that I never liked much. So I finally got a pair that I like for full time use--just too bad that my eyes are so bad that you can see how much correction there is when you look at me straight on, lol.
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Originally Posted by MLWagner79
Yeah, cool specs, Richard, when did ya get those?? Snazzy!
I really need to de-swirl. I mean REALLY.
Looks great!
__________________ 5548 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 866 707 9292
Looking for Prima?? Buy Prima at ShowCarSupplies.com
11% off everyday discount code: MINI11NAM 2010 Midnight Black MCCSa
Depends who's shots you're asking about, lol. But the ones in my post are from the D70s.
And mine are a Canon 350d or RebelXT as I think you call it over here, but not tweaked at all.
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Dnc - A British Expat living in the Netherlands after 2.5 years in Southern California.
'06 MCS - Astro Black on Astro Black: "Black Sunshine"
'02 A6 2.5 TDi Quattro Sport Avant Arctic Silver.
Oh and as you didn't take the option to protect your modesty - here's the slightly more sensible of the portraits...
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Dnc - A British Expat living in the Netherlands after 2.5 years in Southern California.
'06 MCS - Astro Black on Astro Black: "Black Sunshine"
'02 A6 2.5 TDi Quattro Sport Avant Arctic Silver.
Even though the lack of daylight doesn't show off the paint as well as if it were mid-day, another great job by OG !
And hey, I don't know about the glasses but I need to get one of those head light thingies for working in my garage. Or if I ever decide to go into mining.
Haha, do you wear "fake" glasses with contacts?? lol. Actually, with contacts I can wear polarized sunglasses which allows me to see swirls on even silver cars in direct sunlight, lol. Surgery is in my future--but my doctor has been slow to recommend it to me due to the severity of nearsightedness.
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Originally Posted by kenchan
OG- aha, those are real glasses, huh? i too have very bad eye sight.
i should get non-prescription glasses just for styling.
Hahah OMG. Yeah I forgot to reply---send them to me privately! LOL. Delete Delete! Naw jk. Actually the picture doesn't look that bad. I don't remember what I was looking at though. Great pic (photographer)--thanks!
Richard
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Originally Posted by Doesnotcompute
Oh and as you didn't take the option to protect your modesty - here's the slightly more sensible of the portraits...
__________________ 5548 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 866 707 9292
Looking for Prima?? Buy Prima at ShowCarSupplies.com
11% off everyday discount code: MINI11NAM 2010 Midnight Black MCCSa
__________________ 5548 E. La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 866 707 9292
Looking for Prima?? Buy Prima at ShowCarSupplies.com
11% off everyday discount code: MINI11NAM 2010 Midnight Black MCCSa
Oh yes, I forgot about that, and I don't have an after shot yet, but here's the mirror scuff I picked up at AMVIV, which neither of us could figure out if it was paint transfer, or removal.
After copious amounts of claying and a little heavy breathing from OG, plus a sigh of relief from me, it was indeed some sort of transfer. Looks great again now.
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Dnc - A British Expat living in the Netherlands after 2.5 years in Southern California.
'06 MCS - Astro Black on Astro Black: "Black Sunshine"
'02 A6 2.5 TDi Quattro Sport Avant Arctic Silver.
i want to get those OG glasses. 
'07 MCS DS/W, sport, prem, conv, nav, full JCW exhaust, NM turbo heat shield, NM CAI, WMW BOV, Mach V springs, MOMO wheels.
