Squonk
New member
If you've seen my intro post you will know that I bought my first Porsche a couple of weeks ago. If you were at the Health Check evening at Porsche Glasgow you will have seen the car, where it was happily given a clean bill of health - a testament to the excellent service history and good owners. In my head I had budgeted some money to rectify the inevitable faults that you would expect on a 14 year old car, but as there weren't any I decided to spend the money on the paintwork instead.
I should point out that washing & polishing cars is not my thing, while I respect and appreciate the results people get I have neither the skills nor the patience, and I'd rather be driving it. After a bit of research I settled on CF Ceramics (aka Scotwheels) in Dunshalt, Fife. Even as I was dropping the car off the voices in my head were saying "The car is fine, you're wasting your money, £600 buys a lot of unleaded". The voices were wrong.
Step one was decontamination, where they spray some chemical on it which takes all the crap. According to Eric:
"The iron fallout it's mainly brake dust and other environmental pollutants. The iron particles land on the paint, instantly rust, swell and bond into the pores of the paint. These need to be removed prior to machine polishing. The fallout remover goes on clear and bleeds red when it hits these contaminants." That's a lot of red!
I should point out that washing & polishing cars is not my thing, while I respect and appreciate the results people get I have neither the skills nor the patience, and I'd rather be driving it. After a bit of research I settled on CF Ceramics (aka Scotwheels) in Dunshalt, Fife. Even as I was dropping the car off the voices in my head were saying "The car is fine, you're wasting your money, £600 buys a lot of unleaded". The voices were wrong.
Step one was decontamination, where they spray some chemical on it which takes all the crap. According to Eric:
"The iron fallout it's mainly brake dust and other environmental pollutants. The iron particles land on the paint, instantly rust, swell and bond into the pores of the paint. These need to be removed prior to machine polishing. The fallout remover goes on clear and bleeds red when it hits these contaminants." That's a lot of red!