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[JD]

Hi.

So had a day off from work yesterday as I have a few to use up before I leave at the end of this month - whoop!

So anyway, I decided almost nine years of crud, tar and salt was enough for my poor arches, so decided to give them a decent going over. Sadly, the day did not quite go to plan, with a mixture of piss poor weather and my jack/axle stands going walk about! Only two wheels and front arches were completed!

The car has also recently had a full new set of shocks, springs, drop links, bushes/wishbones, top mounts and track/tie rod ends.

Befores;

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So oil, grime, tar, salt and god knows what else! Oh, chewing gum!

Sprayed with AS Triple Degreaser 1:40 as it's strong stuff and then agitated with an assortment of brushes brush, then rinsed off;

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This left me with A LOT of tar spots, so out with the trusty Tardis, which made short work of them;

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These spots were then wiped off using an old, but clean, MF towel. The arches were then rinsed down again and then left to air dry for an hour or so.

At this point I moved on to the wheels, which received basically the same treatment, save for dropping AS3 in favour of G101 at 1:4, again due to the fact that the wheels have never been removed and cleaned, as far as I was aware.

This showed...

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G101 sprayed and agitated;

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All tar spots and old wheel weight pads removed with Tardis, doing it's thang;

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Needless to say, there was a lot of brake dust on the rears and they were never going to come up perfectly without a refurb. However, with a potential new car and a move to London, I will not be spending the £300 needed to bring them back to 100%.

IronX, sprayed, agitated and then left to dwell;

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After the amount of gunge that came off, they were blasted down with the PW and Iron X reapplied and reagitated in the worst areas of built on brake dust. You can see the black areas behind the spokes. This is not grease, tar or dirt. It is purely brake dust build up. Sadly, due to ill preparation, I did not have anything more acidic on me to break this down further.

Second application of Iron X;

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To leave me with this (far from perfect, but a hell of a lot better and pretty much squeaky clean, where the paint was still intact!!);

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Wheels were then polished by hand with Menz 203s on a German pad, wiped down with IPA and waxed with FK1000p to last me until the car leaves my hands;

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The arches (metal, springs, shocks, ARBs, droplinks etc) were also waxed using FK1000p, which came up surprisingly well, even on the plastics... I have another day off next Monday and I will most likely take the wheels off, snow foam APC throughout the arches, complete the rears and seal the plastics with GTechniq C4, just for s**ts and giggles!

Results;

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Thanks for reading if you've got this far! Next update will be the final prep on the paint work.

Cheers,

Forearms.

 

[Dave..]

Great work, I need to get me some IronX tbh

 

[Kane.]

Wow, that looks a lot better.

 

[Gally]

Very very clean mate, shame it won't be with you for long! Big fat leaver!

What's up with the brake dust? Are those gaps like a haven for dust?

 

[JD]

Cheers gents.

This should last Kev, I pressure wash them and agigate every wash fella, so should keep them up to scratch. They were well prepped as well, with IPA etc, so should see a good bond.

Big time, they appear to be the worst possible positioning. Worst I've come across on any car/wheel configuration previously (typically!).

 

[Gally]

Really looks like a lovely position for the dust to sit and build up. Mines iirc are quite flat at the back so not quite as abad and they were refurbed at some point last year.

<3

 

[Justin]

Good work!

I see PB have stopped selling Iron X

 

[Gally]

Justin wolf's Brake duster is the "new" iron X.

Can be used on paintwork and wheels.

 

[JD]

Interesting comparisons as well.

 

[jimbo666]

I've read a few threads on the comparisons. Some say its good, but not as good as IronX.

Nice turn around JD.

 

[JD]

Cheers Jimbo.

 

[JamesBryan]

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Good to see the wellies back in action

 

[JD]

Haha, they've not been on for a while!

 

[montana]

looks like new, impressive !

 

[JD]

That's what we're aiming for, hoping I can either get my money back or sell for more, even after a year and 10k miles.

 

[Craigus]

I like your washing machine.

 

[Christopher]

Much better! Great work!

 

[JamesBryan]

Haha, they've not been on for a while!

No forearms in shot though :dapprove:

I am disappoint

 

[montana]

That's what we're aiming for, hoping I can either get my money back or sell for more, even after a year and 10k miles.

what car do you have JD? cant work it out from the pics

 

[JD]

I like your washing machine.

Is that your way of coming on to me old boy?

Much better! Great work!

Cheers Gopher!

No forearms in shot though :dapprove:

I am disappoint

Lol, another one soon.

what car do you have JD? cant work it out from the pics

S3 8L, so the older model fella.

 

[BIFCAIDS]

Awesome buddy

 

[JD]

Cheers Mike!

 

[Jimbo_M]

Great work JD they must be as clean as when it was new. Picked up a few tips from this aswell, thanks

 

[JD]

Probably cleaner, judging by the delivery wax in the R8's arches :dapprove: