Car prep for Audis In The Park

[Adrian E]

Since it's probably about the only show I'll get to this year and the last really major clean I gave the car was for the summer season of 2011 after I bought the car I figured it was time to devote some time and attention to get it looking as good as it can

It gets regularly snow foamed and hand washed and is garaged so it never looks dreadful, but there was a fair bit of crud imbedded in the paint.

This is generally the treatment it gets when I have the time to do a proper wash (this was back in March, hence the lack of foliage on the trees!):



I knew I'd be doing this spread over at least a week - I started on Saturday late afternoon with a snow foam, hand wash and dry off. Sunday morning I dug the car out and followed up with a full clean of the outside of the glass (will be repeated before the weekend), clay bar of the whole car (took 3 decent sized chunks!) and some tar spot remover to get rid of the really stuborn bits.

After clay bar it looked like this:



First coat of Autoglym Super Resin Polish then went on - I've been hoarding this stuff for years and I know there's better available when you do plenty of research but I'm not buying more till I've used this lot up!



Then decided I was bored of doing paintwork and dug the spare wheel out to give it a spruce up If for no other reason than I'll probably end up endlessly swapping it onto the car while I'm cleaning 2 at a time and don't want to get any muckier than necessary!