About time I posted some pics.....
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Decided to give the car a proper clean and polish today and seeing as I have posted pics of the car here I thought I would 
Well actually I took it for a trip around Cheshire first thing just to make sure it was dirty.
I followed one the of the posters on s2ki(Rahula) instructions from his website.
First stage was wash with the crappy flash gun thing and lambswool mitt. The only thing the Flash hose thing is good for is the auto-dry setting and rinsing the car. Dried it manually as well so it was bone dry. Then took the clay bar to it, used the Zaino one with Z6 to lubricate. Then washed the car again with Meguiars Gold Class shampoo. Dried it off then followed the Meguiars 3 step process. Firstly with the Meguiars paint cleaner, followed by Polish then Gold Class Wax. Finished off with their Speed detailer. Cleaned the wheels and waxed them too including using Zaino tyre gloss. Used the Meguiars Glass Cleaner on all windows.
In all it took around 5 hours of bloody hard work. Not bad seeing as I don't really do manual labour
The results:
OK so I didn't hoover it
It looks pretty damn amazing if I do say so myself. The number of blemishes in the paintwork that have now gone has surprised me. So was it worth it. Yes I think so, my neighbours thinker I am certifiable (well more so then they did anyway) However the number of comments from people was impressive.
Now if you can do this well by hand how good would it look if I had one of this porter cable thingies.
Eeerily satisfying work too.
Well actually I took it for a trip around Cheshire first thing just to make sure it was dirty.
I followed one the of the posters on s2ki(Rahula) instructions from his website.
First stage was wash with the crappy flash gun thing and lambswool mitt. The only thing the Flash hose thing is good for is the auto-dry setting and rinsing the car. Dried it manually as well so it was bone dry. Then took the clay bar to it, used the Zaino one with Z6 to lubricate. Then washed the car again with Meguiars Gold Class shampoo. Dried it off then followed the Meguiars 3 step process. Firstly with the Meguiars paint cleaner, followed by Polish then Gold Class Wax. Finished off with their Speed detailer. Cleaned the wheels and waxed them too including using Zaino tyre gloss. Used the Meguiars Glass Cleaner on all windows.
In all it took around 5 hours of bloody hard work. Not bad seeing as I don't really do manual labour
The results:
OK so I didn't hoover it
It looks pretty damn amazing if I do say so myself. The number of blemishes in the paintwork that have now gone has surprised me. So was it worth it. Yes I think so, my neighbours thinker I am certifiable (well more so then they did anyway) However the number of comments from people was impressive.
Now if you can do this well by hand how good would it look if I had one of this porter cable thingies.
Eeerily satisfying work too.
That is very impressive, I like mine (BMW coupe, stop taking the pi$$) very clean and I think my neighbours think Im very odd. Its well misunderstood. What products do you use OK JUST READ THE POST INSTEAD OF DRIBBLING ON THE PICS SO I KNOW WHAT YOU USED!
Edited by aggi on Sunday 5th November 21:08
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