Sold Dollywobbler's Skoda Pogweasel Debadged One Heck of an Estate

[beko1987]

Infact Mr & Mrs 12 cylinder, how long did your ZX take to fade after it's polisher session in the FOD?

[Yoss]

Never mind Ian, give it six weeks and it'll be back to how it was when you bought it.

[Six-cylinder]

Infact Mr & Mrs 12 cylinder, how long did your ZX take to fade after it's polisher session in the FOD?

 

Yes disappointed you did not return every month to maintain it!

[beko1987]

Yes disappointed you did not return every month to maintain it!

We shall change that this year! If your coming to shitefest I'll book a few days off/plan a weekend close to it and we'll (I'll) minter up our chosen cars (your chosen car) and travel in style!

[Six-cylinder]

We shall change that this year! If your coming to shitefest I'll book a few days off/plan a weekend close to it and we'll (I'll) minter up our chosen cars (your chosen car) and travel in style!

 

Yes I am.

[beko1987]

Put that Mr Dollywobbler to shame!

[dollywobbler]

Have to say this is the reason I don't offer much advice from my rusty knowledge bank on jobs like this because it really is either don't do it at all, or you have to do it properly!

 

4 grades of pad, 4 grades of polish and a paint depth gauge and a weekend and you would have it looking mint.

 

But you would have to re-polish it (although only lightly) every month or so to keep it from not fading

 

Add in your iffy paint job...

 

It's why I've never actually fully machine polished a car, I just cant be bothered. I'm sure it would look lovely, but I'll never do it! I've got damage out before, and saved my stepdad from a bollocking from his fleet manager, and I did the bonnet of the puma which did look sick, but took all day...

 

Did I hear right that your using a rotary? Get some Autoglym super resin polish or ultra deep shine, and a spray bottle of water. Rotary the SRP in, it's very filler heavy and doesnt have much cut, so you can work it more. You'll need the water because it will dry to a horrible chalky mess, so when it starts to dry out a squirt of water on the panel, then run the pad over it will keep it going.

 

Then buff the SRP off, then find a glaze, my usual Poorboys Black Hole is my recommendation. Then a wax.

 

Then stand 7 paces back to admire it! Should only take a day. But in this weather? Pffft. Shame, because the 406 is looking utterly hanging!

 

As your finding out, it's either do it VERY properly, or just wash it!

 

It's a dual action 'wobble all over the place' job, which has mostly left me realising I have absolutely no clue about how much compound to use, what to do to the mop heads, how much pressure, how much speed etc. However, the results with the mop are certainly no worse than me just doing it by hand, and it was a lot quicker. Every pass has just revealed more and more paint damage though. Maybe I should try and wrap it myself. That couldn't possibly go wrong.

[Fumbler]

 

Did I hear right that your using a rotary? Get some Autoglym super resin polish or ultra deep shine, and a spray bottle of water. Rotary the SRP in, it's very filler heavy and doesnt have much cut, so you can work it more. You'll need the water because it will dry to a horrible chalky mess, so when it starts to dry out a squirt of water on the panel, then run the pad over it will keep it going.

 

I wait until it goes chalky and buff it off. Works wonders on the Jazz which has some lovely flat pinkness.

[beko1987]

Depends how thick the clag is. I've done that wrong before!

[dollywobbler]

I think DW should livestream himself trying to get a mirror finish on TWC. 

 

As if trying to get the Skoda to shine wasn't bad enough! At least it actually has paint covering most of it that isn't flying off in chunks.

[Fumbler]

Depends how thick the clag is. I've done that wrong before!

Ah ha. I see now!

 

I think the Jazz might need some Paint Rennovater at some point. It is turning pink, on all the original panels. Using that stuff on the Favorit miiight just tip the scales into ultra pogweaselness.

 

Buffing TWC to a shine would definitely be a fun thing to see!

[dollywobbler]

TWC buffing will never happen.

[Eddie Honda]

then go back to my old methods of car cleaning - basically don't bother.

^^^^ THIS.

 

I mibbie wash a car/bike once when I get it and once when I sell it....as I don't sell cars, that's the work halved.

 

NKP820W 001 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

This had the flattest paintwork going when I got it back in the day.

 

I let a two-bucket wrong'un at work play with the polisher and he did half first and half later. Came up okay, but it never had a half-arsed blow-over.

 

I'll do nearly everything myself, but some things are best left to others.

[LightBulbFun]

TWC buffing will never happen.

 

I imagine if you did try and buff TWC she would end up looking like this 

 

 

They said your supposed to be able to see the sky in your cars reflection, not your car is supposed to look like the sky complete with "clouds"!  

[Yoss]

Mine's the same really. Needs to be done properly at least once a year. Only difference is, being blue it just fades to a lighter blue and no pink is involved.

 

[plasticvandan]

#waitingforroffle

[Maurice Marina]

If you just polished the top or bottom half of the car wouldn’t it give a glorious two tone effect popular during the 80s. Well popular around my way anyhoo.

 

 

Half the effort. Just saying.

[dollywobbler]

Warning. Contains grumpy, clueless twat.

 

Not a happy boy.

[Ben_O]

Machine polishing is just about the most boring time consuming job there is.

 

I must admit i do find it satisfying once complete but my back doesn't like it much nowadays.

 

The trick is to just take your time. Each pass with the polisher should be slow and even with only light pressure (but I use a rotary polisher so different technique)

Keep topped up with compound but only small amounts at a time and keep working it.

 

I use a medium pad and a medium grade compound for most stuff but do often finish with a fine pad and a fine compound.

 

Mind you, the polishing I do is on cars that I have just painted so the amount of effort is much less than trying to revive faded red paint.

 

I wonder if tinted T cut might be a temporary solution? I seem to remember my stepdad using it on a faded red mk2 Fiesta when I was a teenager and it came up ok except he got it all over the black plastic trims and the rubbers which just looked terrible.

 

Good luck whatever you decided to do with it.

 

Ben

[dollywobbler]

 

Good luck whatever you decided to do with it.

 

Ben

 

Thank you. Absolutely sod all is my plan! If it goes pink again, so be it.

[RayMK]

We had a red (pink) blotchy Nissan Bluebird turbo a few years ago.  The only product which gave presentable results was bought from Halfords.  It was one of those coloured (red) polishes and worked best without using cutting compound first.  It stayed red for about two months.  We did the same again before selling it.  Old red cars are almost as soul destroying as lacquer peeling cars. 

[Fumbler]

Turtlewax does that kind of thing. We have some red tinted wax fro the Jazz. Results=questionable for us.

[yes oui si]

So much want for this...

[egg]

Though it hides it better I have some similar problems on my base Mondeo - some areas of crazing front and rear, some bits that are just getting a bit thin etc. Ok, I don't have the supplementary problem of the 'blow-over', but I guess these paint jobs were not designed to last 20+ years.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, I think I was being harsh on myself, because all that work didn't result in a car that looked brand new. It's not bad.

 

What a pair of stunners. I'm a lucky man.

[Shirley Knott]

That video captured the 'Wish I'd never started this' element of looking after old cars quite successfully, I literally laughed out loud at a couple of points.

 

RE polishing/'detailing', all of mine get a half hour going over by hand with Autoglym SRP followed directly by a coat of Poorboys paste wax each spring, that's it. Anything more is too much like hard work and a monthly wash with wax friendly Autoglym shampoo is all I can muster for the rest of the year.

 

The Skoda genuinely does look better for your efforts so well worth doing, I'm gathering from the rust proofing and general sprucing up that this car's now won your heart and has been earmarked as a keeper?

[Yoss]

Yeah, I think I was being harsh on myself, because all that work didn't result in a car that looked brand new. It's not bad.

 

What a pair of stunners. I'm a lucky man.

 

 

That's some good primary colours you've got going on there. You need something yellow next to those two.

[Fumbler]

Yellow Yugo 511.

 

 

 

There was one for sale several years ago. It might have dissolved by now though.

[dollywobbler]

That video captured the 'Wish I'd never started this' element of looking after old cars quite successfully, I literally laughed out loud at a couple of points.

 

RE polishing/'detailing', all of mine get a half hour going over by hand with Autoglym SRP followed directly by a coat of Poorboys paste wax each spring, that's it. Anything more is too much like hard work and a monthly wash with wax friendly Autoglym shampoo is all I can muster for the rest of the year.

 

The Skoda genuinely does look better for your efforts so well worth doing, I'm gathering from the rust proofing and general sprucing up that this car's now won your heart and has been earmarked as a keeper?

It can't be a keeper sadly. Sometimes, I just do my bit to try and keep them from the scrapheap. There are too many cars that I want to own, and six at one time is the maximum.

[Broadsword]

Highly entertaining video. I think given you were working in pretty cold conditions the end result isn’t that bad. You only seem to need to take a few steps back now and it looks vaguely consistently red. That has got to be a win!