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Interior pic coming when the new seats are in and it's had a hoover

Lovely little 100 you have there. I see you just fitted half leather. Very nice indeed...

Been busy buying cleaning stuff for the last week or so and here's the result

2 bucket wash method with microfibre sponge, dried with Super Soaker (Pound Shop jobbie) cloth. Clayed all over with Sonus green clay \ Glyde lubricant. Polished with AutoGylm Super Resin Polish then covered with a coat of Extra Gloss Protection. Back 2 black wipes for the black bits and Megs Endurance Tyre Shine for lovely shiny tyres...









Interia cleaned with leather cleaner then seats "fed" with AutoGlym Leather Care. Dash plastics cleaned with interior wipes and all hoovered out













Without doubt the best the car's ever looked, really comin together now after looking a bit of a state this time last year

Matching rear seat material on the way soon, then methinks a front splitter, rear tints and dropped down a touch (less fluid lol) should do the trick nicely

New C\L motors, driver side leccy window switch, TrafficMaster clock and leccy mirrors would complete the electrical side of things as well

The paint finish looks excellent. I really like the interior as well, it looks very posh .

Well done on the cleaning. I'll have to stick a detail thread up soon. And I'm going to start detailing properly soon, so if anyone wants a proper detail done then drop us a PM.

When drying the car you should use a Microfibre cloth or Waffle towel. Microfibres are cheap and disposble. But can be washed and used again. If you are going to wash them, use non-bio washing liquid as the salts in normal liquids can cause swirling of the paint.

I've always found that super resin polish absolut crap.

BTW, a bit of 'Dodo Juice' - 'Orange Crush' would do your paint the world of justice.

Over 30 quid for a jar that size that's silly money

The drying cloths I got work perfectly no need changin there, use microfibres for the polishing tho. Not had any probs with SRP meself, all the AutoGlym stuff is quality

Microfibres are just as good for drying you know

I've learnt from the best.

Worry about how shiny and rust-free the car is underneath first before doing the bodywork is the rule i follow. I find all the of expensive polishes etc no different from cheaper ones, for example i was using Autoglym tar remover and looked on the back at the ingredients to find all it is, is basically scented petrol but costs alot more. The only expensive treatment i've found that worked was the clay bar kit but it wasnt that impressive tbh.

Maybe cheaper products might do the same thing. But it's the end results that make all the difference. And the whole point in detailing is the attention to detail. For instance, a cheaper, lesser polish might not have a good filling agent. Which therefore does not help remove little scratches, etc that appear on the paintwork over time.

Does also get to a point where you spend x10 but the difference might be only x2 in terms of shine e.g. that guy with the blue Astra on the detailing site spent aaaages and using all flash stuff to get the shine but to all but the most fussy eyes it looked near enough the same as if it'd been done with AutoGlym or similar.

I spent 30 odd quid on the clay kit, megs tyre shine and leather cream plus what the other AG stuff cost and that's enough for me, would rather spend any further £££ on mods etc than 30 quid for a wax, 30 for clay and so on...

It's possible to get very obsessive when you start changing "cleaning" into "detailing", defo OCD traits coming out at that point

Can't argue with the end result at the moment that's for sure