My Tech 1 - Took her for a machine polish on saturday

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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:39 pm

My mate owns a bodyshop and offered to machine polish the Tech 1 at the weekend.

Compound, polish and wax to spruce her up for me. :D

9am start on a Saturday morning

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First we mask her all up to save cleaning all the plastics afterwards, a little time spent here saves a lot of time cleaning them up later.

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Half way through painwork starting to polish p nicely now

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Over 2.5 hours of work with the machines later the initail results are looking good.

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We roll her outside to get a view in natural daylight.

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It is strange what else you find on a industrial estate on a saturday morning

My mate RS

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1972 280 Auto, being restored by the boys next door

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A final couple of shots on the way home, have to say I am pleased with the results.....

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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:12 pm

Looks great! Any tips for cleaning the plastics round the windows? Mine have nasty dirt i cant seem to shift.
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:26 pm

looks gorgeous mate, well done. wanna do mine? winkeye
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:31 pm

chewy320 wrote:Looks great! Any tips for cleaning the plastics round the windows? Mine have nasty dirt i cant seem to shift.
try a clay bar , an ag vinyl rubber treatment for the rubber


sport looks superb fella, stunning !!! what compounds did he use ? have you waxed it etc after ?

almost as nice as a lachs silver one winkeye :D

adi - by the products and bring it over, id do yours by hand for some parts like an obc etc , give it the same sort of treatment as i did with my is earlier in the year, when i took it up the hill and looked amazing, took me a good couple of days winkeye
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:51 pm

chewy320 wrote:Looks great! Any tips for cleaning the plastics round the windows? Mine have nasty dirt i cant seem to shift.
In the past on other cars I have used black shoe polish just as a quick way of making the rubber look a little better until a more permanent solution was found


Cheers adit, thanks for the offer as well but think i will have to decline this time, gets a bit tedious even on your own car!!


Cheers polsta sometimes wish it was lachs as it is a pain in the backside to keep clean, always wanted a diamondschwartz Tech 1, personal prefererence I suppose. Nice Tech 1 you have there polsta have read your post about it, looks a very good example :cool:
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:20 pm

Well done and in the words of the Hoff..... great job! :D
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:39 pm

looking great :cool:
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:54 pm

looks kool
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:45 pm

Sweet! :cool:
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:52 pm

Very nice :cool:
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Post Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:42 pm

Wingnutleft wrote:
Cheers adit, thanks for the offer as well but think i will have to decline this time, gets a bit tedious even on your own car!!
Oh well :(

Wingnutleft wrote: Cheers polsta sometimes wish it was Dolphin Grey, it's the BEST


fixed :chuckle:

p.s. cheers Carl, i do still need to come over to sort things...i.e. ££££/parts :wink:
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:32 am

Cheers guys for all the comments :D

Ha ha good work adit....you took the words right out of my mouth there! :chuckle:
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:33 pm

looks fresh this is what mine needs!
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Post Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:10 pm

very nice indeed! :cool:
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