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Lunablack

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3,494 posts

191 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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Well it's just over a year since I got my Vantage.... So this afternoon has been spent giving it a prope spruce up from top to bottom, inside and out....

All leather treated, carpets vacuumed, gass cleaned, exhaust tips polished, wheels cleaned and paintwork cleaned and polished... cool

I'm bloody knackared.....

I started off on the inside, and although I've owned the car for a year.... I found this lot under the passenger seathehe

A magnetic GB badge very useful on a vantage hehe, 2 packets of mints, a parking permit, a pair of glasses, a fuel receipt, but best of all..... Take note Jockman. A 2p piecehehe


I then vacuumed and cleaned all the leather and glass inside




Then the wheels


And the exhausts and side strakes




Then the whole car







Even if I say so myself, I'm rather pleased with my efforts.... And for a 6 year old car... It looks mighty finesmilesmile

t1blk

778 posts

209 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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Excellent effort mate, it looks great thumbup

Lunablack

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3,494 posts

191 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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Cheers matesmile.....

Aching now, but just been out to put my specs back in the car, and the whiff of clean leather, when I opened the door is lovelyyes

tonyhall38

4,194 posts

245 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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looks really good,,,,just ste knobs.......lol

Lunablack

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191 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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tonyhall38 said:
looks really good,,,,just ste knobs.......lol
I like my knobs just the way they aresmile

mikey k

13,074 posts

245 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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Good work bow
Should have waited for Jockman to come back
He could have demonstrated his new skills on yours for you wink

Lunablack

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Monday 4th June 2012
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mikey k said:
Good work bow
Should have waited for Jockman to come back
He could have demonstrated his new skills on yours for you wink
Trouble is..... If he'd found the 2p under the seat, that's the last I'd have seen of himhehe

Plus he'd have eaten all the mintssmile

Murph7355

41,961 posts

285 months

Monday 4th June 2012
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Are they your glasses?

Lunablack

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3,494 posts

191 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Murph7355 said:
Are they your glasses?
Nothing of what I found is mine.......but I am claiming the 2 pence piecesmile

George H

14,714 posts

193 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Lunablack said:
And for a 6 year old car... It looks mighty finesmilesmile
Apart from those chavvy wheels tongue out

What did you use to clean the exhaust btw? I tried Tony's method of using coffee stirrers to get in the tiny gap but it didn't work (or I ran out of patience) smile

petecowie

190 posts

256 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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What's the morrison's receipt for? I have a couple of things need returning there so I'm hoping that thanks to a bizarre coincidence you will be able to help me out and while you're at it those mints look delicious.....

Jockman

18,410 posts

189 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Looking great Luna, even on an iPhone.

Mikey's right though I could have shown you an expert way of doing it and we could have shared the 2p and the mints smile

mikey k

13,074 posts

245 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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What about the mints?
Can't see you wearing the glasses though wink

Lunablack

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191 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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George H said:
Apart from those chavvy wheels tongue out
as usual you're in a minority of onerolleyes everyone else who's seen them says they look great and are a big improvement on the BORING sliver onestongue outtongue out
George H said:
What did you use to clean the exhaust btw? I tried Tony's method of using coffee stirrers to get in the tiny gap but it didn't work (or I ran out of patience) smile
Just autosol and a rag..... It's really quite a simple task.... That most normal folk can manage without to much difficultysmile


petecowie said:
What's the morrison's receipt for? I have a couple of things need returning there so I'm hoping that thanks to a bizarre coincidence you will be able to help me out and while you're at it those mints look delicious.....
The receipt was for petrol, and it was £0.83p per litrehehe
You're welcome to the mintsbiggrin. You can share them with Mikeysmile

Jockman said:
Looking great Luna, even on an iPhone.

Mikey's right though I could have shown you an expert way of doing it and we could have shared the 2p and the mints smile
I've explained to you before Jockman, 2 scots fighting over a 2p piece is how copper wire was invented..... I don't need any copper wire...... So I've knocked the 2p off the purchase price of the car..... Which means it only cost me £xxxxx.98 instead of £xxxxx.00. Win winsmile


Jockman

18,410 posts

189 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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I've been in your garage matey and not once did I utter the words "those wheels are brilliant"

I probably did say something like "get the kettle on you tight arse" smile

Lunablack

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191 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Jockman said:
I've been in your garage matey and not once did I utter the words "those wheels are brilliant"

I probably did say something like "get the kettle on you tight arse" smile
That's right... If I remember correctly, you said they look awesome, and much better than those crappy wheels on that boring fart George's car..

Somthing like that anyway...smile

George H

14,714 posts

193 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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Lunablack said:
Just autosol and a rag..... It's really quite a simple task.... That most normal folk can manage without to much difficultysmile
But they have a really really small gap around them that I can't fit my finger in!



I can just clean the tip with a cloth but that would leave a line of clean/dirty that I could see, and I don't want that smile

Lunablack said:
Jockman said:
I've been in your garage matey and not once did I utter the words "those wheels are brilliant"

I probably did say something like "get the kettle on you tight arse" smile
That's right... If I remember correctly, you said they look awesome, and much better than those crappy wheels on that boring fart George's car..

Somthing like that anyway...smile
Sounds about right biggrin

Lunablack

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191 months

Tuesday 5th June 2012
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George H said:
Sounds about right biggrin
I took the full system off, and polished it on the benchsmile