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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Agent_47




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭*Kol*


    Agent_47 wrote: »

    For €55 you cant go wrong. Good products and you wont buy them separately for that price. If I wasn't already up to my neck in cleaning products I would buy it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Agent_47


    Thought that and you get a bag! Have enough exterior products but no interior so will collect and report back


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Ya I got that last year. Like it was said if you were to buy everything individually it would cost far more than 55. I found it good, still have 1 or 2 bits left, and of course the bag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,871 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Apart from not looking great, is there any great harm in leaving a car dirty?

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Other than bird droppings, not really. It's better to leave it like that and wash it properly than to give in and have it washed poorly by bringing it to a brush wash or similar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Apart from not looking great, is there any great harm in leaving a car dirty?

    The main issue I have with leaving it dirty is Idle minded people with nothing better to do the swipe their hands across the bonnet or anywhere else sayng,
    "You are slipping up, You would want to give it a wash"

    Leaving nice grit scratched in the paint.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,871 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Yea it could do with a wash - 19th September and counting....:o

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    I could top that!! Oh the shame! :(:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Or the ammm, shall we say, "immature drawings" that often feature on the boot......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,871 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Ah janey it's not that bad. In mitigation there is only 1300 Km on it.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Apart from not looking great, is there any great harm in leaving a car dirty?

    The main thing to do when it's washed next is to use pressure wash as much of the heavy stuff off as possible before there's a mitt put near the paint :)

    If there's any bird bombs, you should wipe these off as soon as you can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    The main thing to do when it's washed next is to use pressure wash as much of the heavy stuff off as possible before there's a mitt put near the paint :)

    If there's any bird bombs, you should wipe these off as soon as you can.

    I find that bird crap doesn't really do any harm this time of year in this sort of weather, unless it's a particularly bad bombing. It's when you leave it on a car sitting in summer sun and it bakes onto the paint that it causes grief!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    I find that bird crap doesn't really do any harm this time of year in this sort of weather, unless it's a particularly bad bombing. It's when you leave it on a car sitting in summer sun and it bakes onto the paint that it causes grief!

    My current car had signs of a bomb left for a while by the previous owner :P

    Thankfully I was able to polish it off :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Curran wrote: »
    I could top that!! Oh the shame! :(:p

    You know what to do #hydro2foam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    With all this talk of Hydro2foam (God that sounds like a badly named cartoon supervillain!) I will have to try it (once my 50Cal Ambush foam bottle runs out, probably in 2017 sometime)

    Then again, I was thinking of getting a DAS6 after Christmas as a "little treat" so I will be bugging people for advice on pads, polish, finishing, buffing, etc. I've always been a hand polished and buffed man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Mc Love wrote: »
    You know what to do #hydro2foam

    Judging by the forecast, Friday looks decent but cold. So may get a chance to wash the car - might even get a video of it in action! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Ron Burgundy II


    Curran wrote: »
    Judging by the forecast, Friday looks decent but cold. So may get a chance to wash the car - might even get a video of it in action! :)

    Please do... I've been looking at this stuff since you and Vectra have been waxing lyrically about it :). And with my new car only weeks away would like to know more about applications etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Please do... I've been looking at this stuff since you and Vectra have been waxing lyrically about it :). And with my new car only weeks away would like to know more about applications etc.

    I havent used it (Yet)
    Not sure if I will or need to, I would suggest CQUK on the new car.
    Mine was quite mucky with the past few days as I had to drive down and back a road where tractors were in and out of fields leaving Muck on the road which was disgraceful.
    Had not got a chance to wash it myself due to the weather but gave up looking at the state of it, so took it to the local jetwash and threw in €2
    Pressed the button for rinse and gave the lance 10 seconds with the trigger pressed to clear any product that may be in it since the last user.
    The only dirt on it now are little Soot spots from Chimneys.
    Absolutely thrilled with this stuff.
    Also the Dlux is really working great on the wheels. Blast of the washer and as good as spotless.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭TheBigGreen


    Please do... I've been looking at this stuff since you and Vectra have been waxing lyrically about it :). And with my new car only weeks away would like to know more about applications etc.

    I'm gonna buy this stuff soon too, a present for the vRS! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Yeah, the HydrO2Foam wont offer protection anywhere near the ability of CQUK, but for how easy it is to work with, its a fantastic product!

    Another positive it has for using it is; how many people go to the trouble of protecting and surface that isnt directly washed by the mitt, the shuts of the doors, bonnet and boot, for example, not many...but with this product, it will make contact with all those surfaces and add some protection - granted it wouldnt be an amazing amount, but as the saying goes, its better than nothing! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Curran wrote: »
    Yeah, the HydrO2Foam wont offer protection anywhere near the ability of CQUK, but for how easy it is to work with, its a fantastic product!

    Another positive it has for using it is; how many people go to the trouble of protecting and surface that isnt directly washed by the mitt, the shuts of the doors, bonnet and boot, for example, not many...but with this product, it will make contact with all those surfaces and add some protection - granted it wouldnt be an amazing amount, but as the saying goes, its better than nothing! ;)

    Guilty as sin.
    I did all of mine in cquk as well
    Also did all the plastics under the bonnet with Dlux..
    Mad..I know :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Well you are a strange fish Vectra! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭edburg


    Do the shuts myself, especially the rear hatch hinge area. Get a lot of gangrene there very quickly and tough area to do with very little room to work with.

    Even started cleaning under bonnet more these days, never really kept on top before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    edburg wrote: »
    Do the shuts myself, especially the rear hatch hinge area. Get a lot of gangrene GONE GREEN here very quickly and tough area to do with very little room to work with.

    Even started cleaning under bonnet more these days, never really kept on top before.

    Fixed your post :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Not really detailing chat as such but is it worth getting mudflaps to protect the lower extremities of the body work and help keep it cleaner?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭edburg


    vectra wrote: »
    Fixed your post :pac:

    Feels like gangrene cleaning with small brush and fingertips, pain in butt getting it all out :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Not really detailing chat as such but is it worth getting mudflaps to protect the lower extremities of the body work and help keep it cleaner?


    From a prevention point of view, they'd be an advantage but I've a personal hate for them!! They just don't look right!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Curran wrote: »
    From a prevention point of view, they'd be an advantage but I've a personal hate for them!! They just don't look right!!

    Yeah I know what you mean. If you could get them to match the body paint it'd be an improvement


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Mc Love wrote: »
    Not really detailing chat as such but is it worth getting mudflaps to protect the lower extremities of the body work and help keep it cleaner?

    Yes,
    I have them fitted and find they do hold off a lot of muck. More so they help in avoiding stone chips.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Mc Love wrote:
    Yeah I know what you mean. If you could get them to match the body paint it'd be an improvement


    The proper moulded ford ones aren't too bad compared to the generic ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    The proper moulded ford ones aren't too bad compared to the generic ones.

    they are the only type I would dream of fitting. Should have stressed that I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    vectra wrote: »
    they are the only type I would dream of fitting. Should have stressed that I suppose.

    Oh yeah i had the cheap ones on a car before, they were rubbish


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    If you are fitting mudflaps (I always do) I only get the proper manufacturer moulded ones. The rest look rubbish.

    That being said, if its a competition car, screw the looks and fit the ones that work the best!

    Edit - th last ones I got were €150 for the Leon from Seat. I paid for them and didn't even think for half a second of fitting the universal ones


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,590 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    ianobrien wrote: »
    If you are fitting mudflaps (I always do) I only get the proper manufacturer moulded ones. The rest look rubbish.

    That being said, if its a competition car, screw the looks and fit the ones that work the best!

    Edit - th last ones I got were €150 for the Leon from Seat. I paid for them and didn't even think for half a second of fitting the universal ones


    Yup,
    Same price for my Passat.
    only I said "Not a chance"
    Headed to Ebay.co.uk
    Found a VW dealer selling the genuine ones for £50 + Delivery (Parcelmotel)
    just about €75 to my door :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    vectra wrote: »
    Yup,
    Same price for my Passat.
    only I said "Not a chance"
    Headed to Ebay.co.uk
    Found a VW dealer selling the genuine ones for £50 + Delivery (Parcelmotel)
    just about €75 to my door :P

    When I was looking, there was no problem getting the standard Leon ones reduced off ebay. The problem was that I needed FR ones. The local dealer on this occasion was cheaper than getting them online from the UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    https://www.facebook.com/Reflect-Auto-Care-464536360275052/timeline

    Have a look at yesterdays post. Seems like a bargain for 5 litres


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    75 or 150?? Thats very expensive, is that when you are ordering the car?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Mc Love wrote: »
    75 or 150?? Thats very expensive, is that when you are ordering the car?

    No, I ordered them afterwords.

    All Seat accessories are prices very, very high. The mudflaps for the new Seat Toledo are in the same price range but when they are in a Skoda box for the Skoda Rapid they are less than half that price.

    Ya I can't figure that one out either!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,450 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    IMO, mudflaps look terrible on most cars and I'm pretty skeptical about how effective they are at their supposed job too.

    But if you really must have them, get the OEM moulded ones specific to your car.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    ianobrien wrote: »
    No, I ordered them afterwords.

    All Seat accessories are prices very, very high. The mudflaps for the new Seat Toledo are in the same price range but when they are in a Skoda box for the Skoda Rapid they are less than half that price.

    Ya I can't figure that one out either!

    +1

    When I bought the FR it took a lot of wrangling to get them and I paid part of it. Given how tiny they actually are as well it's madness. Similar story with Mazda i had they worked out at nearly €100 a set. The VRS ones are like shovels then hanging on each arch and they were free.

    Definitely go OEM, I've find the cars definitely a little cleaner on the lower doors with them and they keep the crap off the lower rear overhang too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Ron Burgundy II


    Anyone ever use this brand Kleen Freaks?

    http://kleenfreaks.bigcartel.com/products


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭mhackett102


    Anyone ever use this brand Kleen Freaks?

    http://kleenfreaks.bigcartel.com/products

    I've heard a lot about them and seem to be very popular with those who have "show cars" particularly in Northern Ireland and UK. Never used it myself but they seem to be getting positive feedback online from others!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Anyone ever use this brand Kleen Freaks?

    http://kleenfreaks.bigcartel.com/products

    D&D Detailing are going to be stocking them very soon, going to pick up a complete kit myself I'd say.


  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Ron Burgundy II


    D&D Detailing are going to be stocking them very soon, going to pick up a complete kit myself I'd say.

    Yeah I saw that on their Facebook page.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    The mega flight case is deadly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Mc Love wrote: »
    The mega flight case is deadly

    Yeah that's the one I was looking at, must get that and AMMO NYC's wheel and body kit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Hydr02 worth getting? With the weather the way it is this stuff looks like a handy way of protecting the car for winter.

    Worth getting? Is it any good? Does it last well?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Also, a good shampoo to go with it for future washing...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Also, a good shampoo to go with it for future washing...

    You could get Hydro2foam and use it as a shampoo.


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