"My much-anticipated frozen white Focus ST finally arrived about a month ago, and I vowed to myself that I would do things properly in terms of cleaning and caring for it. Not really knowing much about the art of detailing and what would be required to achieve excellent standards of finish and care, I went online to do some research. It was this research that brought me to visit the PB website for the very first time! It's such a wonderful site, with the best quality products and guidance to be found anywhere on the web. Any questions I had (which in most cases were ones the PB guys had probably heard a thousand times before!) were answered the same day and everyone I spoke to was extremely helpful. So, a massive thank you to the team at PB for replying to my e-mails no matter what I asked!

A few weeks (and purchases!) later, and armed with a new understanding of what I needed to do, I set aside a Sunday morning to get stuck in. Firstly, I blasted off all loose dirt and grime with my pressure washer. Next, I moved onto the wheels. They were sprayed with Meguiar's Wheel Brightener and agitated using various brushes. Next, the arches were soaked with Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner and again agitated before being rinsed out. With the two grubbiest tasks done, I then foamed the entire exterior, and left the foam to dwell for 5 minutes. While this was happening, I used a small brush to clean all of the badges, grills and other hard to reach areas. After I rinsed off the foam, I washed the bodywork using the two bucket method, Meguiar's Gold Class Shampoo and a Meguiar's Lambswool Wash Mitt. This combination worked well, and after another rinse the car was then ready for claying.

A Meguiar's Smooth Surface Clay Kit was used to decontaminate the paint. Contamination was relatively mild, with only the odd brown speckle here and there. The clay took care of this very easily, and after a final rinse it was onto drying using my PB Luxury Drying Towel, which soaked up endless amounts of water with very little effort! Having now done most of the hard work it was time to add bodywork protection, in the form of the Werkstat Acrylic system, freshly purchased from PB. I followed the how to use instructions on the PB website, and I was soon over the moon with the results. It totally brought the paint to life, even though I had always thought a white car would be limiting in terms of the amount of shine you could achieve! I managed to get four coats of Acrylic Jett Trigger applied over a 2 hour period, and then finished up by doing a quick wipe down with Acrylic Glos.

In between applying the coats of Werkstat, I sealed the wheels with Poorboy's Wheel Sealant, polished the tailpipes using Meguiar's NXT All Metal Polysh, dressed the plastics with 303 Aerospace Protectant and cleaned the windows using Autoglym Fast Glass. Finally, the interior was vacuumed and all interior plastics were dressed with Werkstat Satin Prot. The end results were beyond my expectations... leaving me feeling very happy! All in all I was pleased with my first real detail. A big thank you once again must go to the PB team. Good, honest advice has helped me every step of the way and has contributed to me becoming hooked on detailing and everything about it!