Hi everyone, this week I had a friends Q7 in to revive the white wrap as it had gone a bit Grey, this was due to just having washes and no protection applied to it for a long period.
The Wrap itself was supposed to be a satin finish but looked more like Matt with all the grime that had embedded itself to it, my plan was to give the car a good wash, then try and clay as much of the grime away as possible then see if it had improved the finish at all.
After these two processes where complete it was obvious that the wrap was going to require a deeper clean, one suggestion from our body shop was to buy a bottle of SIF and scrub it with a scouring pad (Barbarians) thats why he applies body filler and I make cars look beautiful, he was told.
As the wrap was a Satin finish (I dont think I would try this with a Matt finish) there may be a little room for a touch more gloss (in my opinion) if things do not go exactly to plan, so my initial thoughts where to use the Flex VRG orbital on its lowest speed setting with a Megs micro fibre finishing pad and Megs dual action compound.
I started on one side of the bonnet and all seemed to be going as planned
except the pad was getting clogged up with dirt and polish, so I found an old Green 3M foam pad that had gone very soft but was very usable and tried this, it worked like a dream, so I carried on using this combination washing the pad after every panel, it was slow work but the results where very pleasing even removing a few of the swirls that where present without making the wrap to glossy, once I had finished with the compound on each panel I used a black pad with Britmax paint cleaner just to remove any excess compound that may have been left behind then wiped down with Eraser, once the whole Bus was finished 2 coats of jetseal and a coat of Werkstat jet where applied to add protection.
Enjoy the pictures.
Looks white
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