Ultimate Shine Does Irish Al's Fozzy Staye

[Ultimate Shine]

Hello all,

This is a rare write up in the Subaru world as there aint many of these cars on the road in the UK. This has just been freshly imported from Japan and within 1 week was re-mapped, downpipe, exhaust and air filter so was making a lovely 350bhp and 400lbft, great when the dog needs to get to the vet quickly lol.......

The car was a 55 plate and had covered an average of miles so usual marks on the paint and the car had been machined at some point as it was covered in marring marks.

A few photos before,

This section was removed and sent to the paint shop for a paint as i couldn't really do anything with this.

The japanese sun had taken it's worst on the scuttle panel,

Engine bay was ripe for some ultimate shine treatment, love these engines and have one myself so confidence round these engines is very high,

Foamed up the car with some sushi as a pre wash to try and penetrate the surface dirt and contamination,

I knew the rubbers would be needing some scrubbing as the car looked very dirty round the edges and would make the car look so much better at the end with the attention to detail going into these sections,

Now a nice thorough rinse off,

Now a nice new wheel brush and some development wheel cleaner

Door checks done with meg's apc and super degreaser depending on condition,

[Ultimate Shine]

Now all the rest of the exterior done with

Final foam with Meg's APC @ 60oC and rinse

2BM with shampoo plus and a foam of hyper wash @ 60oC

rinsed

lots of tardis used to remove contamination

engine bay done with super degreaser and hot water up @ 80oC and the pressure dropped down.

car taken inside for a clay session with some zaino Z18 and a diluted Gloss Enhancer @ 3:1

taken outside for rinse again and then taken inside for dry with black barron and uber plush drying towels

Now time to inspect the paint for defects

car was very nice to correct and finally worked using ultrafina and a yellow or blue 3m perfect it pad on rotary,

a few before and afters,

scuttle panel was needing brought back to life,

Now time for my fresh tub of Raceglaze 66 aka black label concours,

My findings with this wax were very very positive. The wax is so easy to apply and spreads very well. Once you cover the car you then need to go straight back over it to remove or it will start to bake on so curing time is 10-15mins when you try and remove you will find that it bonds with the surface and you know that the wax is on the surface and staying there. Easier to apply than crystal rock but not as easy to remove.

One thing i was dissapointed in was that there is no smell to the wax apart from an oily wax smell, i suppose this doesn't make any difference to it but the raceglaze 55 smell was out of this world. No matter this one is a keeper in my eye's, well done Mark great wax.

Now the exhaust was getting my attention as i just got hold of a new tool for polishing metal, this baby is awesome. Done with various polishing mops and various Menzerna metal polishing compound's.

• Engine bay and scuttle panel done with 303 Aero and Gloss It Gloss enhancer
  
• Tyres done with Gloss It tyre dressing
  
• Wheels done with Blackfire metal sealant along with exhaust
  
• 2 coats of Raceglaze Black Label
  
• Glass was cleaned with Duragloss Rain Repel(needed more work but ran out of time, customer coming back for this due to water spots)
  
• Interior done with 303 aero and fabric sealed with 303 fabric guard
  
• Inner arches done with Gloss It TRV
  
• Final wipe down done with Gloss Enhancer @ 3:1 for slight cleaning action for removing wax sweat marks and for the ease of use and bling.
  

Total time: 15 hours

enjoy,

Thanks for reading and comments welcome,

[pmacFTO]

Monstrous car (again!) and great job detailing it but nothing less than I'd expect going by your previous work

[arch]

Wow awesome results

[alzayuk300]

Fantastic, great workmate, I'll need to pay you a visit. Love the car Al.

[Richie Cross]

Lovely

[liquidvisionsti]

Thats absolutely stunning! Great results as always man! Will defo have to get the wagon over to you soon

[Gorbash12346]

looks gtood paul/al now just get rid of those federal ditchfinders currently lurking in the wheelarches

[paul555sti]

looks gtood paul/al now just get rid of those federal ditchfinders currently lurking in the wheelarches

Nice results

My brother was telling me his evo is come up to you to work your magic.

[C_WRX]

Said it was nice before Al, now nice to know it's properly beautified for you to cruise about in . Good stuff.

[Big Gordon]

That's stunning. Awesome car

[Ovv]

Lovely.

[thebigfelly]

absolutely looking like the dogs dangglies ,

fantastic work done on the motor

[tomwrx08]

that is stunning,

top job done

[boab type ra]

lookin awsome m8 really nice

[irish al]

If only I could keep it that clean all the time !!

Thanks for giving it the once over, and for all your hints and tips for keeping it clean.

You have to many products to choose from !!