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18th July 2012, 21:28 | #1 |
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Lissy our 190+
Now that I have joined and I can officially post photographs I thought I'd delight you with some photos of our recently-acquired 53-plate ZT190+
We bought it from an auctioneers near Manchester at the beginning of July. It was looking a a bit sorry for itself to be honest. A couple of photos from the seller's website: Doesn't look too bad but when I got it home and examined the bonnet under strong artificial light, to say it was 'a bit swirled' was an understatement: The boot lid was the same, yet the roof was nowhere near as bad. After washing and claying the bonnet, roof and boot lid, I set to work with my rotary polisher and after about three hours in total I got this: The next free day I washed, clayed, polished and waxed all the driver's side. Dirt was so ingrained I killed-off half a new clay bar on just that side alone. The following day I did the same with the other side and killed off the rest of the clay bar. I also fitted a new front badge which transformed the appearance of the front end. I was really pleased with the results after my efforts, which upto this point totalled about 8 hours: Couple of reflections from my driveway: Today I spent about two hours cleaning-up the engine bay, which wasn't ridiculously bad, just dirty. Before: After: Engine bay is not perfect by any means but it's ok if you don't look too closely and you squint a bit I still need to do the wheels, the interior and the glass, plus at some point I need to do something about this impact damage because I find it annoying on a car which otherwise is starting to look pretty tidy: Thanks for reading! John |
18th July 2012, 21:32 | #2 |
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Hi, john its looks really nice mate,
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18th July 2012, 21:42 | #3 |
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Lovely colour!
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18th July 2012, 21:45 | #4 |
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Very very nice the colour is gorgeous, its come up excellent well done.
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Scrubs up really well,lovely
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Lovely looking car
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19th July 2012, 07:15 | #7 |
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Well done John a motor to be proud of
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An excellent transformation, well done Now just enjoy
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Nice job of the engine bay !! how did you manage to get the desired look under the hood ? Cheers Jeff
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Hi Jeff, plenty of Autoglym Engine & Machine Cleaner, various brushes of different sizes and widths including the obligatory old tooth brush, and half a ton of microfibres which are now all just fit for the bin! I then treated the rubbers to Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care (wiped on, not sprayed on) and gave the painted surfaces a spraying of Meguiar's Wash & Wax Anywhere which is a combined cleaner and wax (apparently).
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