****Apologies for crappo phone pics. Wanted to crack-on today. Will get a proper camera out tomorrow
Looking back; 5th Nov the old girl went into hibernation. So 5 months on......late yesterday.....i removed the indoor cover, took off the battery tender; checked all vital fluids etc and had an hour under the hood putting the battery cover's back on and a bit of a 'dust' / tidy-up.
6.30am sharp this morning and i open the garage door and push it out into the emerging daylight:
I then take 1/2 a bar of Detailing clay:
And set to work using a very strong wax and shampoo mix as my lube:
As expected (Last detail was not long before it went away) i basically then spent a solid hour and a half removing absolutely zilch
Windows were done too in this time and to be fair felt like they needed doing way more than the blue bits.
So after i'd achieved nothing but messing up a clean car
; i fired it up.....first prod of the button !....moved it to a bit more space and washed:
And dried; to reveal a surface......
Ready for SRP applied; via a Lake Country Hydro-Tech Crimson hand polishing pad. The finest grade / least cut they do.....
Grim old day, but at least it was dry still at this point and a couple of hours later i was happy i'd got in all the nooks and crannies i wanted to:
Paint prep done and the SRP was removed [In the sunshine at this point !] with a couple of edgeless Korean polishing cloths:
And i was then ready for my base-layer. A long time since i've used this; and although i have bad memories of what a twat it is to apply and remove.....i do also remember how long it lasted and how great it protected (How well it continued to repel water / dirt and bead). Upto Collinite standards ? Possibly not. I do also have that here....but just fancied a change as much as anything. I reckon with the decent prep before and some good maintenance wash practices; i should squeeze the 6 months i'll need out of this no worries........
And then it started to rain of course. So 'we' retired to the albeit small - but dry - confines of the garage to finish applying.......
And after leaving for the best part of an hour, while i grabbed a Lemon curd sandwich and a glass of milk to recover from the efforts so far
I got a couple of large, clean polishing cloths and started to remove the Hybrid wax / Sealant:
And now i'd resigned myself to finishing removing this stubborn as hell stuff in what felt like a telephone box; the sun came out of course !
I'll leave it overnight to fully cure now. Tomorrows forecast is shocking here; with rain from 6am Mon right through solidly until 2am Tues. Looks like the top coat might have to go on in the garage too as the instructions for the Supernatural Hybrid say any additional coat should be applied with 24 hours....
Day 1 complete: 8 hours 15 mins total.
Second / top coat still to apply.
Gloss Black parts to be treated with Poorboys Black Hole.
Then i shall snow-foam to get rid of the wax dust / residue and detail as 'normal' to include trims dressed, wheels cleaned, tyres dressed, glass cleaned and treated etc
Cheers for checking in......
