Today I did some detailing...

Noccy_Mondy

Deleted User wrote:

Desperately needs some wheel centre caps, too.

Sorry, completely skipped my mind. Turns out I have, well had one centre cap that broke when I tried to prise it off. Thought I had the full set. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance

The way you have your car makes me so jealous. I hand polish mine, grand out of direct sunlight, but really needs a machine polish. I swear, the previous owner must have cleaned it with wire wool! The swirls would send you into a daze.

myshirt

myshirt wrote: »

V34?

You can get V32 also...

No... Maybe I didn't get off Curran but I am confident I did..


It was pretty much this bottle (on the left), with a green unscrewable cap.





Has the 50cal stuff ever come in that kinda packaging?

Noccy_Mondy

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Sorry, completely skipped my mind. Turns out I have, well had one centre cap that broke when I tried to prise it off. Thought I had the full set. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance

Ah you're grand, don't be silly.

I went to meet a chap in Navan who was selling some on Adverts, but they were too big for my wheels (I knew I wasn't measuring it right ).

But I mean, the worst case scenario is a set will cost me €20 on ebay. Hardly the end of the world. That said, the car needs an ariel, too. And a wheel brace. So although these are all fairly trivial items, I'll give a scrapyard a ring and see if anyone can help me out on the cheap.

The way you have your car makes me so jealous. I hand polish mine, grand out of direct sunlight, but really needs a machine polish. I swear, the previous owner must have cleaned it with wire wool! The swirls would send you into a daze.

Yeah, the Rav4 was like that. Was a pain in the ass

Do you have/use a machine polisher at all? I find Im never quite as impressed with the results as I feel I should be. I was never happy with the DAS6's efforts on the Rav4 when I was doing it.

However, a day or two later, looking at before/after photos, I really appreciated the difference it made. Bit odd.

Hal1 wrote: »

Whenever I polish I use this sealant:

Yeah I've still got about 30 of those perfect bodywork giftsets in my room. Needless to say, EGP is my go-to choice for waxing for the next 30 years.

Mc Love

Here's what i did today, the merc and bmw got the irish mammy special

myshirt

@KKV

It couldn't have been 3m fast cut? You can only apply that by rotary, generate the heat to break it down. Don't know if Detailing Shed ever sold it...

Curran

Wasnt it Wolf's that you bought?

Thanks for the inadverted heads up; they need to be assigned to better categories!

Yeah I'm actually just out in my 'detailing shed' now.

Its "The Equalizer" by Wolf's. I wanted the strongest I could get and this was recommended. And although it's good, it's still tedious using a DA to machine polish.

Should have bought an orbital. But life goes on. :-)

TheBigGreen

Curran wrote: »

No need to dry as CarPro HydrO2 is applied to wet panels. It is diluted down to 1 part product and 3 parts water (ideally deionised, but I used cooled boiled water), and did both my Dad's car and my own with 500ml of the mix!

Do you sell CarPro HydrO2?

Before:






After:






Admittedly, the 'after' was taken with a better camera in general, but the first camera wasn't lying too much (no real reflection, badly faded trim and tyres, etc.).

I've a few more I'll post later on. Just about to run out the door at the moment. There's nothing beside the car in the after photo (hence no real reflection) but two lads just walked by it when I looked out the window there now, and I almost got giddy looking at the shine and reflection of the two fellas walking by )

Black_Knight

Deleted User wrote: »

Before:


http://photos4.pix.ie/FC/BF/FCBF59E3BC90474AAE2FF6B4AFF3C888-0000333410-0003729632-01024L-AD6FE9FC43E8458E8767DA80D3090BA8.jpg



After:


http://photos2.pix.ie/4E/76/4E769CED350448E38EED38B9AD8251F6-0000333410-0003729633-01024L-924C14724D6C47BE8F248D54643CEDDF.jpg

A real turn around!










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Curran

TheBigGreen wrote: »

Do you sell CarPro HydrO2?

Might do! :P

Black_Knight

Black_Knight wrote: »

A real turn around!


[size=-2]Ill get my coat

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Yeah, the car only has two (both in the drivers side). I'll have to pick up a fresh set on eBay or something (I presume they'd be too trivial an item for breakers yards to have?).

TheBigGreen

Curran wrote: »

Might do! :P

Might have to get a bottle off ya before I leave the big smoke!

myshirt

myshirt wrote: »

Today I Gave My Son a Few Karate Lessons.

At the end of the day he was wrecked, so he has now decided to give up the karate. What can you do. Disappointing. But at least I got the car waxed and the fence painted.

Ok, ok, enough wax on wax off jokes. I'll get my coat.

I'm still laughing at that post all day today. Stuck in my head and I keep laughing to myself at the worst times.


Today I did no detailing... .


























Oddly enough, in some photos it looks a bit dirty (looks like there are circular dirty patches running along the bottom one or two of the pictures? Or is it just me?

Silver is a tricky colour to photograph, and, unfortunately, the place I chose to photograph it is surrounded by more silver, so the reflections aren't very vivid in there, unfortunately (looked good with non-silver cars).

Still have to give the wheels a good going over, and I will when I get sorted with a proper wheel brace, but for the time being, that's all she wrote.

There's a lovely smell in the car now, though. A mix of Clearvue glass cleaner and Chemical Guys fabric clean. T'is rather nice just sitting into it initially. Very fresh feel from it. When you're sitting inside, you really wouldn't think it was nearly 15 years old. Fair play to the previous owners for not abusing it*.

Of course, I have it less than a week and there's a new head unit shoe horned into it without any of the right gear, just because yer man was available in the same half hour that I rang him

I might fix that at a later date and get a proper surround, but for the moment I don't pass any remarks to it. I'll see if it starts to grate with me over the coming weeks.



*I say that now, wait til it fails the NCT on something and I go mad about it! :P




Those car mats were €22 in Tesco and are surprisingly good quality. Add a nice finishing touch to the inside, in my opinion.

Looking at some of the photos you can see some of the wear and tear on the car. Back right bumper, etc. but all in all, for a car I paid €1,000 for, I think I did quite well, and I can see myself driving it for longer than I anticipated (originally planned to keep it for 3-4 months over summer for camping, etc. but i've taken a real shine to it (hurr hurr) so I can see myself holding on to it til it starts to give trouble.

IK09

There is no greater joy to me than spotless door jams.

Noccy_Mondy

Bought that wet vac in lidl yesterday. Eger to try it out, obviously on a small area, or else anyone who gets into the car will have a wet bum until next May!

Hal1

A few dehumidifier bags and plenty ventilation will help with drying.

Noccy_Mondy

Reporting back on the vet vac, it's really good, done one of the seats, the mats and the floor. Kind of annoying that you have to put on the spray or whatever and scrub it in, before you vacuum it out. Just one question, what sort of spray would ye use in this situation?

Curran

Whatever you go for, make sure that it is low foaming.

Chemical Guys Fabric Clean is a good one.

Hal1

Depends really, like if there is heavy soiling it will require more detergent. I use CG fabric clean and dilute it accordingly. Say 1 part of cleaning solution to 5 parts water (in a spray bottle with warm water), then rinse repeat if needed.

Noccy_Mondy

They're not bad really, patches more than anything. What I've found though is that you spray on the substance, then vacuum it off, then when it dries, only patches seem to have been cleaned, almost making it look worse than before. What degree of 'wetness' are we looking for in general?

Curran

Do the whole section of the seat that you are trying to clean - so if the stain is on the driver seat base, then do the whole base - otherwise you will be left with a bigger patch, and then a bigger patch if you go at that, etc, etc, each time its drying with a new tide line / cleaner area....so the whole thing and be done with it!

Hal1

Yes do the whole section as Curran describes. Seats get really dirty even if they look reasonably clean. The dirt gets embedded and only after using a good cleaning solution will it travel to the surface. That's when the real cleaning starts.

Curran

Curran wrote: »

Whatever you go for, make sure that it is low foaming.

Any particular reason why?

Curran

High foaming is harder to vacuum out fully, and if you dont it will end up attracting dirt, possibly smell bad and if it gets wet, it will foam up again.

Noccy_Mondy

And I can now qualify as obsessed.

Curran

Bin that Holts Tar Remover...it is leathal.

RandomAccess

Curran wrote: »

Bin that Holts Tar Remover...it is leathal.

As in toxic?
We used a can before and it seemed OK at tar removing

Curran

Ohhh its great for removing tar!!!

....and whitening dark trim and softening the paint. Its far too aggressive; safer products that are as effective!
As its an aerosol, it goes everywhere.

Noccy_Mondy

Curran wrote: »

Bin that Holts Tar Remover...it is leathal.

Oh don't talk to me about that crap, don't know how it's still there. Sprayed it on a panel, dried instantly into a white haze. Would it hell come off, rubbing for ages to get it off. Disaster.

Hal1

There's a fair drop gone out of that demon shine too. I like it though as a quick detailer, still half a bottle here.

georgefalls

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

And I can now qualify as obsessed.

Not nearly enough microfibre clothes. I've got in excess of 60, at the last count

myshirt

Wait until you start priming your toothbrush with toothpaste! And polishing the hob using the zenith method!

Noccy_Mondy

georgefalls wrote:

Not nearly enough microfibre clothes. I've got in excess of 60, at the last count 

I started out with loads, but as always I lose most of them. Need to restock! Forgot to add the toothbrush to that pic actually!

Mc Love

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

I started out with loads, but as always I lose most of them. Need to restock! Forgot to add the toothbrush to that pic actually!

Have loads too but I recently found out that they might be damaging to the paint and I seem to think that for a while too.

Supergurrier

Noccy_Mondy

Yup, I has the same problem :cool: :pac:

I feel like the world's biggest scalper but a few 'out of the blue' bills have me selling stuff I reckon I won't need for a while.

So I decided to try and shift off some of the Autoglym sets I picked up last year (I'm sure some of ye guys may remember).


http://www.adverts.ie/other/autoglym-perfect-bodywork-gift-set/7489451?notification=c57fc582999d427e347739a48987e38d-1424921761


Even though I know I'd probably never get around to using them all, I still feel sad to have to sell them.

Heathen

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I feel like the world's biggest scalper but a few 'out of the blue' bills have me selling stuff I reckon I won't need for a while.

So I decided to try and shift off some of the Autoglym sets I picked up last year (I'm sure some of ye guys may remember).


http://www.adverts.ie/other/autoglym-perfect-bodywork-gift-set/7489451?notification=c57fc582999d427e347739a48987e38d-1424921761


Even though I know I'd probably never get around to using them all, I still feel sad to have to sell them.

I will take a pack as long as shipping doesn't push the price above the local halfords price... Cos I won't be up your way anytime soon....

H

I'll send you a PM there, Heathen.

Ded_Zebra

Not today but recently I cleaned this filthy leather 166 interior. This will shortly be fitted into my newest 166 but there was no sense in putting them in in such a state! To clean them I used a 1:10 APC:water mix and a soft bristle brush. I needed to go over many sections of the seats multiple times to get the results I want. There is some wear on the seats in spots and no amount of cleaning fixed that but what can you do

Nasty, dirty shiny leather



Bottom section cleaned top still dirty



Clean!



50:50 of the back seat



Closeup of the cleaned surface. No longer shiny and wrinkles are much less noticeable as there is no more dirt accumulated in them



Crap photo but before and after of the front seats



and another one



Again sorry about the crap photo but the bottom section is cleaned and the top as it was still



Can't fix the wear here but can make it clean

Curran

Had to add a link that into another recent thread about leather - proof that cleaning alone will do a great turnaround - good work!

myshirt

What product did you use?

Ded_Zebra

myshirt wrote: »

What product did you use?

I used Lidl multi purpose cleaner diluted 1:10 with water. 79c a litre! I think it's great

vectra

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I used Lidl multi purpose cleaner diluted 1:10 with water. 79c a litre! I think it's great

Love their apc.

Ded_Zebra

vectra wrote: »

Love their apc.

I have turquoise flavour at the moment but I'm getting sick of it. what other colours/smells do they do?:P


It is good though and the thing about it being so cheap is you don't mind being heavy handed with it if you need to be

Cass

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

And I can now qualify as obsessed.

Started raining this morning so plans to clean the car went out the window. Started to sort out my stuff in the garage and ended up with this:






Worse part, i still don't have enough and need some other stuff i've ran of off.

I even built a car wash area onto the back of the driveway when building the house.

Sitec

Did my first bit of proper car cleaning today. Really enjoyed it!

Picked up this lot from detailingshed.



Very impressed with the Collinite 845 and the 50.Cal really freshened up the interior!









Just wish it was sunny outside!

Cass

Heh, heh. Seen the third picture of the car and wondered why you took a picture of the sky. Shiney.

Nice job.

ShaunieVW

Impressive stuff there! Nice reflection.