The Naked Rallye with Blue Steels

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Small update. Going to Wales tomorrow with yippiekiyay (from 306gti6.com) tomorrow on a jaunt (He's got a white rallye, I've a black and a friend of his a red so should make for some good photo ops). The car had been cleaned prior to be buying it but wasn't up to my standards. So had a 4+ hour session on the old girl, don't think she'd been cleaned this rigorously in years! Forgot to take some before pics but I'm sure you can imagine it.

Started off with a standard triple wax, (twice), followed by a full T-Cut which removed 80% of the marks and surface scratches that littered the bodywork. Had some black T-Cut left over from my old Black GTi (Which I sold 3 years ago!). Then cleaned it down again with triple wax. Then came the polish. Then went around with some touch up paint (again left over from my black GTi), then full shampoo'd the interior. To be honest I can't believe it's come out as well as it did.

Few pics:









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Can just see the Diablo peaking out of the garage in a couple of the pics.

The eagle eyed among you will have noticed the car is "naked" of it's Rallye decals. I've had my fresh set delivered today, was going to apply them this evening but ran out of daylight, but I'd taken the old moldy ones off before washing it. But they're going on tomorrow morning.

Also did a little dewipering earlier. Three reasons 1). Saving weight! 2). I made £10 selling the part on eBay and 3). I absolutely HATE rear wipers.


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