Algae, Lichen, Moss and badly faded paint. Bringing a nakered car back from the brink 

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I think you massively under sold yourself on this, the improvement you made was night and day. On cars like this there is literally no point in doing muliple stage correction to the paint. The owner of this car and even a prospective buyer (if it was up for sale) would only look at how shiny the paint is rather than looking for defects. Excellent results and a thoroughly enternaining upload as always 👍

Dude, that car is a million times better than when you started, great work.

Mate, you did so much for this car. all you didnt do is silly to worry about. You underrastimate yourself mate. This transformation was truly just remarkable

My hat goes off to you dear Sir. You did an absolute amazing job on a horror car that was maybe never even washed by it's owner. There is no way to take that neglect to something near perfect. I was amazed you got the result you did in the timespan you did it in. This video is a statement what someone with good knowledge in detailing and materials can achieve, even if it's not perfection.

This has to be one of the best detailing videos I’ve seen on RU-vid. Thank you for doing it. Very satisfying and a great job ♥️

Really like that kind of restoration. Much more satisfying then most videos on youtube where they clean already clean cars.

Amazing work, sir. There is a saying that you can't polish a turd but apparently you can. Your attention to detail is commendable. Its a shame that people let their cars and equipment go that bad. I always say that maintaining the exterior of a car is as important as the interior and mechanical aspects of it.

Too humble, huge transformation and a fantastic gesture to your neighbor!

Last time I seen a transformation like this Bruce Jenner

We have one early model suzuki alto that has being well polished and maintained , it stands out and glitters in the sun at the local supermarket carpark here in Feilding New Zealand, always makes me smile. Thanks for the video, it makes us realize miracles can still happen.

I can't believe it's the same car .you done so bloody well great work

You sir did a very good job! The difference is night and day... Also this channel is vey UNDERRATED!!!!!

Don’t doubt yourself man! You did an excellent job and you’re really under selling the work that you’ve done! I speak for everyone when I say you did an amazing job! Keep it up!

Much more satisfying to renovate a neglected car than clean a new one. Well done.

You've done your neighbour a massive favour! So satisfying to watch this. The really 'bad' ones are the best to watch getting restored

The neighbour puts it on eBay the following day 🏃‍♂️... Great video 👍

Damn, why can’t I ever find a next door neighbor like you to live next to? Lol. Great job, huge difference. I’m frankly amazed you brought that back from a total write off to a decent little car (for what it is). Well done!

Appreciate your work on this car! The beauty NOW of the car speaks volumes of your expertise and diligent work ethic. 👍👍 Thank you so very much for sharing! Watching from Florida in the U.S.

Mad respect for you for doing this as a favor for a neighbor. Your passion for your trade shines more than the excellent work you did on the car.

One dirty neighbour!!!! Great job, I hope he appreciates all the hard work.

I just love how you struggle to reach for all the products you have in the background, cracks me up each time! Great job with this project, big improvement!

Your a legend John, the transformation speaks for is self the mona Liza wasn’t perfect so hats off , you’re neighbour must be a special person, good on you ! 👏👏

You are WAY too hard on yourself, that looks absolutely incredible!! When I first saw it I was going to say it needs to be scrapped

When I saw this in my recommended videos I thought Oh no, not another bloody car cleaning channel. I did watch it though and what a superb video! You're a great presenter too, honest and down to earth - and pretty good at cleaning cars ;) You've got yourself another subscriber 😊👍

It would be nice to have seen the owners reaction. He must have been shocked!

Bro....you did a HELLUVA job on that beater. You keep downplaying your work, but the end result is nothing short of miraculous. Hats off to you sir!

I watched this to get tips on cleaning up our neglected family car. As a perfectionist I can understand the drive to get it just right but I also think you did an absolutely stunning job! It's a really kind thing you did for your neighbour and bonus is that people like me get some great info on restoring our own cars :)

Wonderful how you explain every detail, a huge thank you!! The car looked beautiful!! Applause to you!

You have 100% not give yourself enough credit here! I love vids like this! Transformation videos is what got me into this whole detailing stuff! More like this big man!

More than an EXCELLENT job transforming your neighbors ugly filthy unloved car into a super nice and shiny car!! Like one person commented, most people looking at the transformed car wouldn't be inspecting for tiny paint defects if they knew the car was used. It looks FANTASTIC after you gave it some much much much needed love! 👍👍

This is was cool, thanks! Single stage paint with heavy oxidation is so satisfying to correct. Such a dramatic turnaround and single stage can finish down and jewel so well. I rarely get to work on it, especially with an open budget, but I really enjoy it. Plus no cleanup, just throw most of the pads and towels in the garbage.. 😁 👍👌✌

You did more than an excellent job, but I would appreciate less facetime and more detailing footage.

Fantastic work and I love seeing this kind of work on "normal" everyday cars!

You are a wonderful neighbor. I hope the owner appreciated it. My son and I decided to clean up and polish my 1989 Chrysler New Yorker several years ago. The car had been in desert conditions ever since new, and the paint was a single stage white that was very oxidized. We spent about a total of 30 hours on it. First we sanded it with 800 wet or dry sandpaper, then went to 1000 grit, then 1200 grit. We used a buffer next with rubbing compound, then switched to polishing compound, and finally a swirl remover. When we waxed it, the car was amazing. It didn't have any of the factory orange peel look to it. The former owner saw it and was amazed also.

In 92 I had a red 88 205CTi which developed badly faded paint, particularly bad for a 4/5 year old car. I took it in for an interior valet which I did for all my cars ( it didn’t need it, I just took great care of my cars ). I went to pick it up and the guy mentioned the paint, I told him I’d tried to T-Cut out unsuccessfully and had given up. He got a bottle of AutoGlym polish, poured a bit on the bonnet. He machine polished the product on the bonnet and suddenly it appeared brand new. He told me it would cost £50 to do the full exterior. Bargain, go ahead. Picked it up 24 hours later and it was mint, inside the red/charcoal interior was unmarked, outside looked like I’d just collected it brand new. All it cost was £100. This reminded me of that old car, you did a very generous thing for your neighbours 👏👏👏, they must have been thrilled…….

Hey Jon! Your knowledge and skill definitely “shined” through on this one. A great way to really perfect your polishing skills. Believe it not, I enjoyed this. 😀👍

Good job, you're a good neighbor! I didn't realize how easy it was for mildew to start to form on a car until I moved to British Columbia and you can tell the people that don't care to clean their stuff cause their cars, their house siding, their roofs, etc, all start turning green. Liked and subscribed

Good job my man, wasn't even aware you could restore colour that way, looks 100 percent better than it did!

The Legend continues! Great work brother, definitely a lot of fun just watching the transformation 👍

Respect to you man, you just undersold your effort!

Deeply satisfying to watch. Almost therapeutic! You must get great job satisfaction. 👍

Incredibly well done! Please don't under sell yourself. Transformation is absolutely brilliant.

This was the best restoration video I’ve ever seen. No lie.

I had bought a 1981 Dodge Mirada a few years back (before I started leaning about machine polishing and proper detailing). The car was a medium red with a white "faux convertible" vinyl top; paint was a single stage acrylic enamel. I bought the car because it was in excellent mechanical shape, and the interior was close to perfect. The hood (bonnet) and trunk (boot) were covered in small black specs. I assumed these to be surface rust, and had already figured that the car would need a repaint.. I took some pictures of the surfaces, and posted them to a couple of sites dedicated to this type of car. A few agreed on it being rust, some said it may have been tree sap with dirt embedded in it, others said it may have been insect droppings, or iron contamination. One day, while talking to the next door neighbour, i just casually rubbed a moistened finger over some of the black spots, and they began to dissolve, and when they dissolved, they turned brown. I got a water soaked rag, rubbed it on the block spots, and they dissolved and came off. I then came up with the following plan of action: a) wash all of the painted exterior surfaces with a strong dish soap and water solution; b) using Meguiar's Mirror Glaze #03 medium cut polish (really, a compound, went over all the painted surfaces by hand; c) repeated the same with Meguiar,s Mirror zGlaze #09 finishing polish. The paint from an almost orange color to a nice medium red, close ti what was shown in the sales brochures. I unded up using a bag if the Costco microfiber cloths, and pretty much threw them away after, as they were permanently stained from the oxidized paint that was removed. I did later go the whole was,h clay bar, chemical decontamination, machine compound & polish route. I think Inwould have pretty much done the same thing today, with the possible exception of using a machine polisher with the Meguiar's #03/#09, and used cheapest pads, as they would have to have been thrown away afterwards.

Very nice work ! I did the same car from my girlfriend but it was a yellow suzuki alto. The paint was as faded as your neighbours car. A really good honor from the work :)

I do enjoy detailing my own car or friends. I used to work at it years ago. This channel is very interesting and could watch all day and I will as a past time. Great stuff. Great channel and your a great worker.

That was a serious and honest video. Very good job that was!

This is literally amazing! I thought you'd never save that finish. I am shocked! You really know what you're doing! 😊

Great job and a very informative video. You really transformed that car

You, sir, are a detailing genius. Seriously. I love your passion and your knowledge is off the charts.

Who would dislike such amazing job! You have done a miracle on the car! Massive job well done there mate!

You’ve a job for life there mate, love the in depth wording of your work.

At some point you must have considered a match and some petrol

Wow what a transformation. Professional is an understatement when describing your work. The amount of time spent versus the outcome is just brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant. Nothing to add which hasn’t been said already, amazing job. John you are my detailing hero....

Looks better than new. Awesome job, you need to give yourself more credit!

Considering the timescale you had, that's nothing short of amazing John! 👍

I just subscribed and glad I did I've learned Moore from you than any detailing site I've been on you work is outstanding and people who love they cars will know what I mean keep up the excellent work u do look forward to Moore video's thanks again

Great job and encouraging to me as a car enthusiastic. Best work I've seen on the internet yet.

This is a miracle, holy shit. I'm obsessed with this channel

GM/Opel/Vauxhall reds always used to fade, and I never understood why. Good to see that there's a way to bring the original colour come back to life...

Love the description for every product and stages. Not common on most videos on youtube. Really appreciate!.

If I was the owner of this car I would be over the moon with the results. You made an excellent job of this car and should be really proud of the job you done.

Most everyday cars that get used aren't concourse de elegance stuff cut yourself some slack man its perfect bet your neighbor loves the transformation. These guys that put their Lambo's Maserati's and the like in for detailing and pay thousands might give a shit but who goes about shining special lamps on the paint work and saying '''oh look you missed a bit'' then the missus gets in a gets crumbs all place and you get divorced. Ain't worth it. Perfect job 10 out of 10 well done.

Nice video, great storyline, your neighbor must love you !

I love doing cars like that. Absolutely brilliant transformation. This is heaven for me. Brilliant logic in your approach too. Well done.

Great video and very satisfying to see the change. Many a time I'll see cars like this and just wish for 1 hour on a panel to show the difference that can be made.

You've done a wonderful thing for someone in your local community, and you should be very very pleased with yourself. I hope that, if you can, you continue to help them out and tidy up those corroded areas and keep us updated. Good luck and thank you for leading by example!

What a great job. I hope he bought you a beer or something to say thanks.

With that car parked in your neighbors driveway, you just brought the value of your Home up by thousands. God bless you for doing this. You are a very special person. What a fantastic neighbor you are.

Wow!!! I can’t believe how you cleaned up this car!!! Amazing job!!!!

1st visit to your channel, very nice approach to explaining and demonstrating, I look forward to catching up with all your vids, well done great channel

Lovely job. Enjoyed the video.

This is a true example of “polishing a turd” and you did a fantastic job of it! For a days work, that car looks hundreds or times better than it did.. thanks for sharing, awesome results!

Wow! I'm not a professional, but I think you did an amazing job.. all in one day? Very nice.

For one day those results are awesome. Good work 👍🏻

You did more than this car deserved, but always nice to see such a huge transformation!

Lots of passion can be seen in this vid. Excellent attempt John👍 Your officially the Car Doctor.

Amazing transformation. I never would have believed that was possible. Looked beyond saving. Great video

as an american, when you said "hoover the boot" it took me a second haha. but great job on this car!

This is a man dedicated to his work

I love detailing cars like this! Well done Sir!

Such an astonishing transformation. At 26:18 I was shocked, it's more better than brand new showroom condition. Nice work. Highly appreciated.

It looked ready for the scrapyard. Now it's looking great - really presentable. Given the owner let it get like that in the first place, I'm not sure they deserved getting it back again! Anyhow, nice job.

"like the kind of blankets you get in prison" LMAO!!

I bet thats the first time that car has been washed since it left the factory. Brilliant job Jon

The cars sport thanks you. I just did the same myself.. Used color back n heavy cut then paste came out..well luke yours but hey looks 1000 x. Better..c Kudos to you n all who bring them back from the brink..

I’m a new subscriber... please do more rescue like this one

With so many trash RU-vid videos this video was really well done. You did a great job narrating the video and explaining the restoration process. You polished a turd and made it look not so turd-ish. Lol

Excellent job!! Very impressive results.

What complete Nerd and I loved it. Your enthusiasm and obvious detailed knowledge of subject matter made me watch right to the end even though I just clicked on the video as I passed by not really interested or know anything about detailing a motor

Drastic times call for drastic measures even if that means using a sponge

I wish I had a neighbor like you, all I get from mine is grief!

One of those cars that can fail an MOT from 500 yards. You did far more than this car deserved and did a great job all things considered!

Quality video Jon, amazing results!

I wish you were my neighbor :-)

A truly tortured starting point. Nice vid. 3:19 WHOOOOOOVERING 5:45 Shampooing 7:20 Non-safe agressive wash 9:00 Surface decontamination 10:15 Spot removal 10:40 Trim 12:15 Machine polish 22:20 Conclusions

Thank you for showing us your work, that's talent! Nice job

Beautiful job! It's nice to see people like you in the world helping others. As you said this car was passed it's last day when you rescued it, now It can go on for quite a bit more time now. I hope your neighbour was grateful and will take better care of it now. Amazing results :)