{"id":970,"date":"2019-02-24T18:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=970"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:21:45","slug":"snowfoam-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Snowfoam Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gave the cars some love today seeing as I had that rarest of things in my life, a Sunday off.<\/p>\n

BMW was probably clean after just the Snowfoam but I gave it a hand wash as well, followed by some tyre shine. It got a proper wheel wash this time as well which it was crying out for. Polar Seal is still beading nicely after a couple of weeks use in the winter grime.<\/p>\n

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Then there was the Celica…<\/p>\n

First up was a full (diluted) G101 bath from a trigger spray bottle. Not sure why I didn’t use one of my new pump spray bottles there tbh.<\/p>\n

Then I broke out my new Farecla clay mitt to have another go at removing the bonded on paint primer and other junk.<\/p>\n

The before, all manner of nastiness. <\/p>\n

During:<\/p>\n

The mitt was an absolute revelation. 15 mins solid on half the rear wing with clay didn’t even get it half way ready for polishing. 5 mins total with the mitt took care of the whole bonnet.<\/p>\n

Then I gave it a go with Meguiars Ultimate Compound and my new DAS-6, my first time properly using the machine polisher beyond half the rear wing.<\/p>\n

Bonnet was a good choice to start with, barely a flat section on it! Made a few rookie errors despite all the YouTube videos I’ve watched over the last week telling me not to; too much product, too much pressure stalling the polisher, lifting it off the panel before it’s done spinning etc.<\/p>\n

Anyways, absolutely made up with the results:<\/p>\n

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The best illustration of how much improvement there is in the finish, is this comparison of the reflection on the untreated roof vs the polished bonnet:<\/p>\n

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Gave the cars some love today seeing as I had that rarest of things in my life, a Sunday off. BMW was probably clean after just the Snowfoam but I gave it a hand wash as well, followed by some tyre shine. It got a proper wheel wash this time as well which it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,37,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}