Jem
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I was recently asked to detail this 1992 Vauxhaul Astra. The car has had only one owner from new and has only covered 34,000 miles. the paintwork was covered in 20 years of swirls and scratches, but amazingly nothing that was too deep to be fully removed. So other than a few stone chips on the bonnet, by the time I left the paintwork was in better condition than it would have been when it first went on the road!
Once the car had been washed and clayed I was left with this, looks pretty good from this distance:
Not so good when you look closer, the whole car was like this:
So I fixed it![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Once the car had been washed and clayed I was left with this, looks pretty good from this distance:
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Not so good when you look closer, the whole car was like this:
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So I fixed it
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