Like the Audi I did a little while ago, this Subaru suffered from a multitude of small nicks and scratches all over it. Also there was a large amount of oxidisation build up.
Due to the colour of the car and me still struggling with a crappy camera that won't manually focus. Most of the the pics of the scratches along the sides simply didn't come out.
Two did come out, so I want you to imagine both sides of the car littered with this sort of damage:
There were also a few nasty scratches on the bonnet:
and on the rear tailgate (as you'd expect for a station wagon):
Quite badly faded plastics:
I was also presented with an issue regarding the rear windscreen lip, but more on that later
After the usual foam wash, mixed a 50/50 blend of heavy duty truckwash and APC (All Purpose Cleaner) for this one because of the oxidisation
It got a full Iron-X decontamination (which took quite a bit of the oxidisation off):
Then it got a hand wash with liberal amounts of APC under the guards, which loosened what seemed like a good couple of kilos of mud (it just kept coming out lol)
And then it got pulled into the garage for a claybar. As you can see there was still a LOT of oxidisation to be lifted:
After effectively the whole morning spent on washing and decontaminating, I was able to get a good look at the paint surface and take some paint depth
measurements
A better look of that tailgate damage:
I was also able to take a good look at the rear windscreen lip, on which the clear coat had completely failed: