Auto-Genie showroom

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:26 am

Very nice work Stu, love the colour. As I said I'm not a huge fan of the red interior but looks great condition. Mugen top on that would finish it off very nicely

Is it a UK or JDM one ? Do the UK ones need undersealing or is it just worth doing to help keep the tinworm at bay ?

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:47 am

Mega clean Stu, proper impressed.

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:09 pm

RX7 wrote:Very nice work Stu, love the colour. As I said I'm not a huge fan of the red interior but looks great condition. Mugen top on that would finish it off very nicely
Is it a UK or JDM one ? Do the UK ones need undersealing or is it just worth doing to help keep the tinworm at bay ?

I stand by my love of red interiors on sports cars

I love the contrast with the grey paint and black interior trim

In terms of the underseal, I can honestly say that there hasn't been a car I've had/seen on the ramps yet that I thought was adequately protected. I suppose it depends on what you want and what your standards are, but this guy wants to get his car into the best condition he can afford to.

Daniel wrote:Mega clean Stu, proper impressed.

Thanks Dan. The investment of time into product research and testing is paying off

I have a mystery car booked in on Saturday

We all know the owner quite well on here, but he's just told me it's his new car and withheld from telling me anymore! The suspense is killing me

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:51 pm

just had a look and read through stu as always great work very impressive ill have to get you down to give my car a good clean when your free.

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:22 pm

Thanks Mike

You may need to be a bit more specific though buddy as being semi-retired means I am 'free' quite a lot

Are you thinking the Golf, Impreza, Ranger, X5, Rangie or T4?

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:36 pm

Stuart wrote:Thanks Mike
You may need to be a bit more specific though buddy as being semi-retired means I am 'free' quite a lot Are you thinking the Golf, Impreza, Ranger, X5, Rangie or T4?

Sold the x5 mate and replaced it with the range rover sport but you could do the golf as well as its not looking its best after sitting in a lock up for the last three months. Will give you a bell when the weathers a bit better.

Post by **Stuart** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:35 pm

Sounds great

Thanks Mike

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:41 pm

Today's mission saw me take a little field trip but the long drive was well worth it when I was greeted with one of my all time favourite real world cars

An E46 M3

In Silver Grey with very desirable Kiwi leather

It was in very good order. Low mileage helped here and the paint and interior were amongst the best that I've seen for a car of this age.

The owner and I checked the car over, as is usual, before I got stuck in. As the weather forecast said 'chance of snow' I decided to get the interior done first thing to optimise the time/weather/daylight available.

A thorough hoover, carpet and mat shampoo, clean of all vinyls and rubbers and then treating all of them too soon sorted that lot out. I used a detail brush on things like switches and vents to get rid of any dust. I cleaned the leather with a very dilute water based cleaner and then used plenty of Autoglym leather treatment.

Weather was still holding at this point so time to get a wiggle on (excuse the drop of in photos but I was a bit busy at this point!)

Wheels before

Wheels after

Engine bay done

Exhaust before

Exhausts after

Example of contaminants removed by clay barring

Post by **Stuart** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:47 pm

Detailed cleaning of badges, locks, small children

(are you still reading this?

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Tar removal

Then rinsed again, dried, polished twice and sealed!

Finished item

The order in which the job was done was shuffled around quite a bit from my normal routine just to make the best of the light and weather. If some of the photos appear in a slightly ad-hoc order you'll have to bear with me!

The owner was chuffed. I was chuffed

Big thanks to him for letting me have the opportunity to work on it. He's assured me he'll get some better photos to me in due course

Supposed to have another S2k tomorrow but snow is forecast........watch this space.

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 11:48 pm

Good work Stu, nice car. Interior looks amazing after you had finished.

I bet that was a full sized clay bar looking tiny in your man hands