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Posted on Detailing World by Steve Graves

Subaru Impreza.

This 52 plate came today for a detail.

David had seen the work we’d carried out on one or two other Impreza’s, and wanted the same quality of finish on his pride and joy.

Here’s how it arrived –


Complete with a bug bomb or 2 –




And one or two other issues to be addressed through the day-


There’s only one product I reach for when faced with bug bombs, this one-


A good spray of the Einszett –


Then a coat of foam from the Gilmour –


This is a 50:50 mix of Snow Foam & Chemical Guy’s Maxi Suds II


Gave the foam 5 minutes to do it’s work, then rinsed with the Gilmour. Tommy then set too on the now sufficiently cooled wheels with Chemical Guy’s Maxi Blue Wheel cleaner, while I did the arches with Meguiar’s Super Degreaser at 10:1-


Rinsed the car a second time, then time for the hand wash stage. Using 2 buckets, Meguiar’s Shampoo Plus and Lambswool washmitts from Car Wash’n Wax, Tommy gave the Impreza a good careful handwash.

Rinsed the car a third time, then I treated the lower sections with Panel Wipe solvent, to remove any tar before claying. The Panel Wipe also took care of the adhesive remaining on the bootlid after this Impreza had been debadged.

Rinsed for a fourth time, then out with the clay. Using Sonus Grey clay from “Clean your car”, and using Megs Last Touch as lube, I carefully clayed only a little contaminant from the car. Because the tar had been taken care of by the Panel Wipe, the clay stayed cleanish, apart from pulling out a little touch up-


Rinsed the car a fifth time, then up to the polish shop for prep and polish.

After drying using Megs Last Touch and Water Magnets, the swirls and Random In Depth Scratches (R.I.D.S.) easily visible under the harsh shop lights (but not easily photographed)-




I took a full set of readings using my Elcometer 456 Paint Thickness Gauge, and inspected the depth of the scratches using my Elcometer 121 PIG. This Impreza showing sign’s of being a genuine one, with the trade mark Subaru 50 micron variance across each panel.

Time to crack on with the swirl removal. My current favourite new product is Chemical Guy’s Spider Swirl & Scratch remover –


After priming a LC orange pad with QD, I used 2 x 1” lines of product for a 1’ x 1’ section. Speed 1 to spread, 2 x passes at speed 4 with good pressure, followed by a spritz of QD then a final pass at speed 6. Any deeper but removable R.I.D.S. were gone, or greatly reduced after these 2 sets. The swirls and spider webs gone after the first set. The polish working very well on the Horizontals, but needed a little spritz of QD to remove the residue on occasion-


The Subaru bonnet after 2 sets of passes with the Chemical Guy’s Spider Swirl & Scratch remover –


The horizontals were a lot clearer of swirls and scratches, so we used Chemical Guy’s Medium Compound on a Sonus White SFX polishing pad. This leaves a last step ready finish, nice.

Any scratches were dealt with using Chemical Guy’s Heavy Duty Compound, and the expected haze from such a coarse compound was removed using Chemical Guy’s Professional Polish on a white SFX pad.

The bumpers, spoilers etc were dealt with using the CG’s Heavy Duty compound on a 4” Yellow spot cutting pad from LC, and the marring removed using CG’s Professional Polish on a 4” LC orange pad. We used the slow cut method to remove the defects, and the Pro polish to restore a brilliant gloss.

After wipe down using some ‘bargain’ work cloths from Car Wash ‘n Wax, it was time for the Glaze. David had seen the Blackfire on Scoobynet, and wanted this applying to his car.

David applied the Blackfire Gloss Enhancing polish by PC on a blue SFX pad.


After wiping down, we then applied a coat of Blackfire Wet Diamond by hand.

The alloys given a protective coat of Chemical Guy’s Rim Wax.

The trim treated to a coat of Chemical Guy’s New Look Trim Gel.

The tyres and inner arches to Meguiar’s Hyper Dressing cut 2:1

The glass to Meguiar’s Glass Cleaner Concentrate.

The rubber seals around the windows to Einszett Plastic Cleaner.

It was then time to buff off the Wet Diamond. The amount of static created by buffing off this stuff was a little worrying. After 5 minutes of making one anothers hair stand on end with the static charge filling the shop, we solved the issue with a quick wipe of Chemical Guy’s Anti Static Poly Wipe QD.

The afters –



































StiPPP had popped in to the shop mid afternoon in a rather dusty Impreza, so as not to let the side down, we gave it a quicky detail-

Wash with Gilmour foam, Snow foam:Maxi Suds II 50:50 mix.
Wash by hand with Chemical Guys Extreme Bodywash.
Spritz with Chemical Guy’s Pro Detailer to aid drying.
Quick wipe down with Chemical Guy’s Insta Wax.
Dress trim with CG’s New Look Trim Gel.
Clean glass with Meg’s Glass Cleaner Concentrate.

Not bad for a quicky?










Some of the products mentioned in this write up-











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mmmmmmm very nice Dave. Made contact with this guy a few weeks ago and thought I'd let him loose on a bit more of a challenge........my black ones starting to show signs of poor wash technique etc.

Going to get the odd stone chip sorted before I go up later this month or early next but the results speak for themselves by the looks of things.

 

that looks spot on

 

Indeed! V nice!

 

Attention to detail that verges upon being ****...

...but fahook me, the results speak for themselves.

...and how timeley of Ali to drop by just as you were having yours done

Do those guys work out of a beer warehouse?


Never heard of Einszett until today, but there was a stand with loads of their stuff on at Thoresby. Looked good. If I'd seen this first I may have bought some stuff.

 

Looks very nice Dave..

 

Actually, the stuff in the background are bomb casings and bullet boxes

 

Top job

 

Odd, just reading the post i did some rim waxing tonight... top results too.. indeed i may rim wax again very soon. off to sleep now as its taken it ou of me a bit, just had the pleasure for a while...

 

Any chance we could see pics of your hard work

 

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You wouldn't want to see them Dave, it was a bit of self-application.

 

Oh, you were there

 

Indeed

It was like a pervert's edition of Golden Shot.

Guess who was Bernie the bolt?

 

Just noticed the WYIOC replacing SUBARU

I bet that confuses the unintiated

Lovely pic's of a class job

 

Very nice, just mailed steve for a quote to do my P1.

 

Steve is a TOP bloke, I can't recommend him highly enough

These are shots I took from a couple of visits with him...

1st Visit

2nd Visit

Oh btw...Ali turned up BOTH times

 

Had a group of lads (********* actually ) behind me at some lights today and chuckled as they mouthed "WYIOC" and pointed it out to each other shrugging their shoulders. Probably coming off soon in favour of "I M P R E Z A"

 

How much was your spoiler Dan?

 

It was on the car when I bought it m8y...