lawrence wrote:

cli 16v wrote:Beautiful! Great to see another classic VW restored to its glory. My paint, trim and interior was in a similar condition on my MKII and after some much needed TLC its in showroom condition again. It's amazing how these cars shine when given a proper detail.

Thanks buddy - yes once properly detailed, even old single stage paint can WOW you!

People still ask me almost everyday where the hell did I find my MKII as it looks like new. I think taking care of your car's paint, trim and interior really makes it stand out rather than what year and model and . . . .

Absolutely astonishing!

Scatman wrote:Absolutely astonishing!

Thanks dude!

What happened to the stone chips and touch up paint in the before pics?

GTiDon wrote:What happened to the stone chips and touch up paint in the before pics?

Nothing bud....

Touching up the stone chips and trying to 'repair' the 'botched' touch up jobs were not within the scope of the detail

Words fail me

Zubair wrote:Words fail me

Thanks very much dude!!!

well done lawrence
top work as usual
nick usually likes things shiny lol

Tre wrote:well done lawrence
top work as usual
nick usually likes things shiny lol

Shot bud

Yeah shiny paint I can do ....shiny dashboard not so much

Wow absolutely brilliant...nicely done Lawrence

My gawd! That must be amongst the best work you have done!!

Fuggin superb work Law!

dees@pgti wrote:Wow absolutely brilliant...nicely done Lawrence

King8v wrote:

My gawd! That must be amongst the best work you have done!!

Fuggin superb work Law!

Thanks guys

Holy moly that is a job well done. !

1.8R_andre wrote:Holy moly that is a job well done. !

Thanks very much

that is an amazing job!!! wish i had all that patience...I'm actually thinking of attempting something like this on my car when i go on leave

Adam_Mech wrote: that is an amazing job!!! wish i had all that patience...I'm actually thinking of attempting something like this on my car when i go on leave

Thanks bud

Yeah you have to have patience doing something like this - but for me it is very therapeutic, albeit hard graft.

slownick wrote:I am absolutely over the moon with the outcome of this detail , I left the car in Lawrence's capable hands knowing he would come through , the condition of the paint is a 100x better then it was two weeks ago . I just want to say Thank you Lawrence for the effort you put into the detail

Nick the car is looking better than ever bru.

Lawrence what an awesome job man

AshG wrote:

slownick wrote:I am absolutely over the moon with the outcome of this detail , I left the car in Lawrence's capable hands knowing he would come through , the condition of the paint is a 100x better then it was two weeks ago . I just want to say Thank you Lawrence for the effort you put into the detail

Nick the car is looking better than ever bru.

Lawrence what an awesome job man

Ag fanks bru

Just to add, if you can't get your hands on Megs #7, you can get the consumer version of this pure polish for single stage paint which is called Meguiars Deep Crystal Car Polish(Maroon bottle from Game, Builders Warehouse,Makro etc), its fairly cheap, around R100-R120. A must for any MK1 owner.

Zubair wrote:Just to add, if you can't get your hands on Megs #7, you can get the consumer version of this pure polish for single stage paint which is called Meguiars Deep Crystal Car Polish(Maroon bottle from Game, Builders Warehouse,Makro etc), its fairly cheap, around R100-R120. A must for any MK1 owner.

Thats what I have been using on my Citi, but now got the #7 so work shall begin using that very soon

honestly fap worthy!!!

Yakuza Racer wrote:honestly fap worthy!!!

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Its still alive and well : )

And with pure coincidence, this thread is revived, and I've been researching this exact procedure to detail old paint.
And when I say old, I mean ANTIQUE.

I'm not doing this exact thing, but going with the "moisturising" the paint prior to polishing