Light Correction Detail - Corsa VXR Nurburgring finished in Auto Finesse Desire!!

[RussZS]

This car was literally a couple of thousand miles old yet had already picked up some quite significant swirling and scratches, so was booked in with me to rectify this and to also lay down some firm protection on the wheels and paintwork!!


So, a few befores...

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Pretty mucky behind the number plates!

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Okay, so first off I dealt with the wheels, tyres, arches and brake calipers (huge Brembo's in this special edition!)


A few befores:

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Initially the wheels were pressure rinsed with my Kranzle K7 to remove as much loose dirt as possible before making physical contact with the wheels.


Next Auto Smart G101 mixed 4:1 was used on the the tyre sidewalls in conjunction with a Valet Pro Detail brush, to degrease and release and dirt or existing tyre dressing thus ensuring the new tyre dressing can bond properly to the rubber:

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Next Auto Smart Smart Wheels at 4:1 was liberally sprayed over the face and rear of the wheels, along with the calipers, then agitated with various brushes to safely release and dirt and brake dust build up:

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Finally, the wheels were pressure rinsed:

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Much better, however there was some evidence of light brake dust pitting so IronX was used to each and every wheel to ensure any brake dust or fallout was also removed safely:

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The car appeared to be covered in a PDI wax of some sort, so a degreaser was used to begin to break this down - in the form of Britemax Grime Out. Grime Out is a great degreaser and works very well in a pre-wash role:

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Car covered using HD Foam Lance:

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Whilst the Grime Out was dwelling, I worked around the more intricate parts of the car with a different Valet Pro Detail Brush and G101 mixed up 4:1 to remove any dirt caught up in between badges, in door shuts etc:

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The stubborn dirt behind the number plates was worked specifically too:

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Next the Grime Out was pressure rinsed off and the car was hand washed with Zaino Z7, CarPro Wash Mitt and Zaino's excellent bucket system:

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Following this, the wash suds were pressure rinsed off and the decontamination stages began. Initially IronX was used to safely remove any fallout present in the bright white paint:

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At this stage the heavens opened up so I have no photos of the following:


- IronX pressure rinsed to remove
- Auto Smart Tardis used to safely remove any tar deposits from the paintwork/wheels
- Pressure Rinsed again to remove traces of Tardis
- A final snow foaming used to 'run out' any Tardis or IronX from under badges etc
- Final Pressure rinse down then moved inside for claying


For the claying stage I used Auto Finesse's Soft Clay in conjunction with Valet Pro's Citrus Bling 16:1 as lube:

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Not much left after IronX and Tardis had done their respective jobs so well!


Next the car was dried. I used a CG Wooly Mammoth on the glass and paintwork and my Aeolus 901X was used to blow trapped water out from wheel nuts, under wing mirrors, badges etc:

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Next the paintwork, finally clean, decontaminated and dry, was assessed to see how bad the defects were, to look for any evidence of resprays and also to measure the general paint thickness.


The paint depth readings gave a healthy average of 170 microns.


In terms of defects, the paint was in pretty bad condition given that it only had a few thousand miles on the clock!!


Surprisingly deep marks around the door handle:

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General swirling:

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After trialling a few combos, I settled on the new Megs M101 Compound in conjunction with Festool Rotary and 3M Polishing Pads.


Some of the defects around the handle remained, but much improved:

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Deeper scratch on the bonnet given particular attention:


Before:

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After:

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Quite severe swirling was found on the passenger side:

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and after:

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The lights were also quite heavily swirled:

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After:

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After the corrective work, I finished up with:


Auto Finesse Mercury on the exhaust...

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Before:

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After:

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Crystal and Dodo Juice Mint Merkin on glass:

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Tripple on shuts, sills and number plates:

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Mint Rims on the alloys:

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Z9 on the leather:

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and finally Auto Finesse's Desire on the paintwork!

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and finally, after 8 hours or so, some afters:

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Thanks for reading

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Russ.

 

[lemonnobby]

Brilliant russ

 

[Auto Finesse]

Nice Russ, i like the exhaust on this better than the single center they come with, is it a conversion or is that standard now?

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

Looks mint mate! Quiete surprised how bad the paintwork had got for such a 'new' car

 

[Gally]

Nice Russ, i like the exhaust on this better than the single center they come with, is it a conversion or is that standard now?

Part of the small facelift they had iirc, James.

Great work Russ. Really really want to try Desire now!

 

[Yellow Dave]

If you're ever down south Kev I'm sure you try my pot, may have to strip back that C1 first! Lol

Nice work Russ, desire seems to work quite well with your details of white cars

 

[Šįk]

Awesome work!

 

[Stefan.]

does looks fecking good!! however i do prefer the corsa arctic edition to this edition.