After the 2nd coat of Super Resin Polish there was a fair bit of residue in the form of 'crumbs' of polish so decided best to give it another wash off
So beginning to see some water beading again as layers of protection build up. At this point I usually run out of drive to do much more, but I wanted to stick at it this time! SRP doesn't really do a lot of polishing and will never remove scratches unless they're very fine indeed, but it does mask marks in the lacquer quite nicely until they fill up with grime again. That's where I'd got to by the end of Sunday.
I had 2 virtually unused bottles of Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection which if you read into the blurb is basically a synthetic sealant, so good to use after a polish to seal the paint again.
Daily life starts to get in the way at this point! Monday was a complete washout courtesy of the great British summer. Tuesday evening I managed to get the first layer of EGP applied:
Left that for half an hour and then buffed off and was running out of light to do any more.
This morning I decided I was running out of time and needed to speed up a bit, so thought I'd see how long my son could stand driving around in his Little Tikes Cosy Coupe round by our garage! I managed to apply the 2nd coat of EGP and left it for half an hour while we messed about with camping gear for the weekend. Managed to bribe him back round to the garage with offer of snacks and apple juice. While I worked extra hard buffing off the 2nd coat (think it needed longer tbh) he shut all the air vents in the car, put his bear in his car seat and did up the belts in the back, listened to his nursery rhymes off the SD card in the RNS-E and generally had me worried about what he was getting up to! Luckily not a lot....
I did think this was rather appropriate today:
After buffing off the 2nd coat of EGP it now looks like this:
By this stage there was again a fair bit of residue to chase round the car so decided I'd rinse it off and hand wash to even up the finish and check how it was looking.
The all-important beading water shots lol
I've still got to apply 1 or more coats of some Harly's Wax I bought back in 2008 and have never even opened. Not sure it'll improve the finish on a car as light as mine, but I bought it to try so I'm going to - even if it is 5 years on and on a different car to the one I bought it for!
That then leaves the wheels on the car to clean properly and an attempt to Muc-off and GT85 the wheel arch liners, clean the tailpipes and at the very least vacuum the inside - ideally a clean and feed of the leather is required but not sure I've got enough cow feed to do the whole car left!
It's taken me ages to write this!
See some of you Sunday
Adrian