So what have you done with your Aston today?

[paddy328]

Even better.

[kbooker]

Removed both off-side wheels, gave everything a good clean then a touch of silver paint on the rotors to freshen them up... near-side to follow soon plus an under body clean up

[Jibberingloon]

Put some nice V12 Side Sills / Skirts on her

Without...


WITH

[Y100]

Oh yes.

[Jibberingloon]

Oh and then got a little bored and put a proper V12 bonnet on it

Muahhahahahaha


I have to say I am in love with the look of her now.







You might also see I have got a new Carbon Splitter Design made that doesn't stick out like the Oya Carbon one



I will get some better pictures once the weather clears up and see what people think and if anyone would like one done?

As per my previous topic
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Jon39]

A very smart job Sir.

There is one giveaway detail that requires your thought.
That radio aerial on the roof. It needs to go.

[Ken Figenus]

Very nice look indeed. Now, as we are nitpicking your drivers door top trim is too high on the left (like mine). The clips corrode it seems? £250 for mine soon

[justin220]

Really like that!

[bentley01]

I do not normally like cars looking non standard but that looks really good. Great colour as well

[cockneyplayboy]

DETAILING!!!!!!!!

Currently the car is in for a service now I have finished 23 hours on the paintwork.......







This is the passenger door when finished!!!! Happy with that blemish free reflection!

[ds2000]

Very nice; I'd love to have the knowledge to do that myself but me and a polisher and an Aston can't end well......

[Quarterly]

ds2000 said:

Very nice; I'd love to have the knowledge to do that myself but me and a polisher and an Aston can't end well......

Its the same for me, although I might have a practice on the wife's car. So what polish did you use? and can I just say for 23 hours cleaning

[ds2000]

Quarterly said:

Its the same for me, although I might have a practice on the wife's car. So what polish did you use? and can I just say for 23 hours cleaning

I was thinking the same with my parents old Megan

[cockneyplayboy]

Valetpro Foam
50/50 mix of Mr Pink and Chem Guys Maxi Suds wash
Meguires Clay Kit with Last Touch as the lube
Menzerna compounds,
Poorboys Black Hole Glaze
Collinite 476
Dodo Juice Blue Velvet
Used a Kestral DA polisher with a mix of Menzerna and Sonus pads
(used a drill on low speed and an adapter with small pad/disc for the bits the polisher was too big to reach!)

yes I three stage machined it and then a coat of glaze, then sealed it in with Collinite before a top coat of Blue Velvet. The Wheel Spats also had a coat of blue Colour Magic, lightly buffed off before a heavy seal in with the Colly.

That was 23 hours over the length of just one week, weekend and evenings.

Next will be wheels off, and away to the painters to have them done in Hyper Shadow Silver then they will be sealed back and front then put back on to live another day!

NOW the car befits the tiny 18,000 miles it has done since new

Edited by cockneyplayboy on Thursday 19th November 14:51

Edited by cockneyplayboy on Thursday 19th November 14:53

[Quarterly]

cockneyplayboy said:

I three stage machined it and then a coat of glaze, then sealed it in with Collinite before a top coat of Blue Velvet.

Bloody hell, that sounds like the full works. Thanks for the information on products used. I'm going to have a go at this (on Mrs Quarterly's mini first) It needs doing, especially in bright sunlight.

[Jon39]

Jibberingloon said:

Put some nice V12 Side Sills / Skirts on her.

Looking at your first photographs, I guess the colour is Titanium Silver.

Strangely, the camera portrays a completely different colour in your subsequent photographs, but my, what beautiful colour it is.

Aston Martin do offer a colour match option on new order cars. Hopefully someone will choose your accidentally invented colour. It could be called Jibberingloon Silver.

[simonr100]

cockneyplayboy said:

DETAILING!!!!!!!!

Currently the car is in for a service now I have finished 23 hours on the paintwork.......







This is the passenger door when finished!!!! Happy with that blemish free reflection!

WOW, I have never seen a car detailed as good as that! Well done! You should do a video of the process

[George29]

ds2000 said:

Very nice; I'd love to have the knowledge to do that myself but me and a polisher and an Aston can't end well......

I'm exactly the same. I'd start off with the best of intentions, then fk it up and it would cost a fortune to put right

Great result though, looks super shiny! Nice Triumph too

[RichB]

simonr100 said:

WOW, I have never seen a car detailed as good as that! Well done! You should do a video of the process

As well as wash it, polish it and take pictures of it you want him to video it with his left had at the same time

[Jibberingloon]

Jon39 said:

Looking at your first photographs, I guess the colour is Titanium Silver.

Strangely, the camera portrays a completely different colour in your subsequent photographs, but my, what beautiful colour it is.

Aston Martin do offer a colour match option on new order cars. Hopefully someone will choose your accidentally invented colour. It could be called Jibberingloon Silver.

Hahahahaha

Might be the filter on camera.

It's actually Tungsten