Hi-res pics, detarred and waxed 5

Spent a few hours Saturday getting rid of all the tar and then on Sunday I spent a few hours waxing her body .... put some on the car while I was as it

 

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Stunning!  Looks even better than your original pics!

 looks brilliant! love the piping leather

Looking very good love the wheels!! and the skirting!!

Chrom interior would finish the interior beautifully,,,,,,,I think!

What ya use to de-tar?

Thanks guys for the nice comments, to answer some questions, I used Holts De-Tar spray, really good and not as expensive as the other more 'max-power-labelled' versions and wax was just a reqular non coloured metallic wax. So who is going to swap me a brushed aluminium interior then for my wood  !!

My wife just came back in the car from a few days in Dublin and it now looks like I never waxed it, let alone washed it !!  However I'm NOT one of these 'dont let the wife drive it' types, she's a better driver than I am !! Mind you this is one of the few cars I've had that she likes, had a coupe of Cossies that she drove only once and never drove them again!

 

I can only guess that you dont have 3 kids scrambling around the back of that car. Did you ever have to treat the leather, I notice that you back seats have seems up the middle of the seat and you front ones do not. Mine unfortunately have the seems and at the edges the grey colour has worn off the seats. Can't think what I should do to fix same, any ideas?

tierneyj wrote: I can only guess that you dont have 3 kids scrambling around the back of that car.

Actually I do have 3 kids and they do scramble around the back, and the front when they can

 

kbannon wrote: I gave min the Meguiars treatment on wednesday and by now it is manky!

You must have been driving it through fields....I gave mine the first Meguiars treatment on Sunday (in fact it was the first time I have ever waxed the car since I bought it a year and a half ago) and it still looks good.  The weather has been good to us this week.  I was skeptical of this stuff with ye boys raving on about it, but now I'm convinced.

 

I have to say Ben, the car looks great though.  I wouldn't have put the spoiler on you have but that's just my personal choice.  Angels & rear celis and clear side repeators will finish it off.  The leather is in top condition, but I think leather stands up well to kids.  My wifes Alfa has dark grey Momo leather and is 5yrs old and with a little Autoglym leather cleaner and cream every now and again it comes up like new. The kids jump up & down on them all the time and every now and again when I pull out the baby seats, there is a biology experiment in behind them   Where as my cloth seats are wrecked.

 

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