 The car as it arrived on Friday, July 31 This was such a unique project for me. A few weeks ago, a young man contacted me about detailing his 2008 VW Golf R32. This is a significant and rare piece of high performance VW machinery and he stated that he was a fan of my videos and wanted me to spend some quality time pampering it. So, we agreed. He drove it in from BC, where he has been living since August of last year. He arrived here around 1:00 on Friday afternoon and left it with me for the long weekend. He flew out of YYC to YYZ later that afternoon. Monday morning, it was picked up a car carrier and transported back to Toronto, where he is originally from.  Making progress on Day 1 The owner had ceramic coated the vehicle last summer with a combination of GTechniq CSL and EXO. It hadn't seen a lot of use due to the C19 situation, so I decided to try something a bit new with this one. Instead of polishing the coating completely off and starting from scratch, I used a very light hand to clay and polish the very top layer of the existing coating and reapply a layer of EXO. It's impossible to really know (for me at least) just how much of the base layer of CSL was still remaining, but from speaking to the owner, we thought that it should still be in pretty good shape. I used Adam's Visco Elastic Clay and CarPro Essence with a yellow Rupes pad on my LHR75e DA polisher.  A thunderstorm meant I had to temporarily suspend operations so I could safely store my car in the garage. What a cute couple! □ If you watch the video, you will undoubtedly notice that some areas of the exterior have succumbed to corrosion. I am told this is an unfortunate hallmark of this car. There is a chance the owner could receive some support from VW since this car has a 12-year corrosion warranty or something. I hope that is the case, because it is a sweet car and it would be a shame to see rust win out.  All done and packed up for its trip back to T-Dot Because the owner was so gracious and allowed me to keep the car for the entire weekend, I was able to commit myself to recording almost every step in my process to dial this classic car in. While the video is comprehensive, a few steps didn't find their way into the video as much as I would have liked. I did a lot of tidying up under the hood and in the door jambs. You will only see a few of those shots in the video and there was a LOT of work that went into restoring the carpets. Because the owner had packed the car quite full of his personal belongings for the move back to Ontario, I was unable to access the back seat or hatch area. In fact, we had to unload a good deal of items from the front passenger seat and relocate them to my garden shed to allow me access to the passenger side of the car. What a great project. I am hopeful the owner will send me a video clip of him receiving the car on Thursday afternoon.  I hope the owner is satisfied with the result The videoComments are closed.
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