Post a picture of your vehicle here Part 5 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

hooch-85

Maybe I'm an average Joe but it looked great when he was finished to me, it did get a stage 1 machine polish and wasn't really bad to begin with so I was very happy with the results! I might go for a ceramic coating if I was getting it done again alright. Thinking of other priorities next though, remap, VWR springs and maybe new wheels

Testament1

How long did it take? Thinking about getting the Lexus done but don't know if there's anyone around Clare that does it.

hooch-85

Full day, I dropped the car Friday night, he started it at 7.30 Saturday morning and it was ready to collect at 3.30. Worth travelling up depending where you are in Clare, he works from his house and it's a very tidy set up he has there.

Testament1

The results look top class anyway, definitely worth looking into further!

Leonard Hofstadter

My E46, with a few others, at Cars and Coffee Limerick today:

colm_mcm

New location again, Eastway?

Avatar MIA

colm_mcm wrote: »

New location again, Eastway?

There's a doubt?

Leonard Hofstadter

Colm is spot on, that's where it is now.

Big Nasty

Unbelievable selection of cars on show at every Limerick C&C - far better than Dublin.

Mostly down to JP McManus though?

Avatar MIA

Big Nasty wrote: »

Mostly down to JP McManus though?

His offspring, no?

hooch-85

Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »

My own, with a few others, at Cars and Coffee Limerick today:

Which one is yours? The Rangie?

hooch-85

Avatar MIA wrote: »

His offspring, no?

His brother, Gerry.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Is c+c limerick first Sunday of every month?

Leonard Hofstadter

hooch-85 wrote: »

Which one is yours? The Rangie?

The E46, it's a manual 325 (although currently it's slightly broken:o).

TrailerBob

Do you also have your horsepower figure stuck on the back with cheapie letters from Halfords?

punisher5112

TrailerBob wrote: »

Do you also have your horsepower figure stuck on the back with cheapie letters from Halfords?

Air conditioning, tdi and turbo all in red.....

Leonard Hofstadter

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Is c+c limerick first Sunday of every month?

Yes

Eric Cartman

I had my Range Rover in for a few days to get detailed and an interior and engine bay cleanup. Did excellent work and looks like new.

R.O.R

^^^

All the way to Australia for the work? Must have cost a bit :-)

Eric Cartman

R.O.R wrote: »

^^^

All the way to Australia for the work? Must have cost a bit :-)

threw them through the aul europe filter there.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Eric Cartman wrote: »

I had my Range Rover in for a few days to get detailed and an interior and engine bay cleanup. Did excellent work and looks like new.

Did you get this done in Skerries? Just saw pictures of this go up on this companys Facebook page if i'm not mistaken? My Civic is going into him tomorrow to get an interior valet and a detar, wash and wax of the exterior

ILikeBoats

BDJW wrote: »

Did you get this done in Skerries? Just saw pictures of this go up on this companys Facebook page if i'm not mistaken? My Civic is going into him tomorrow to get an interior valet and a detar, wash and wax of the exterior

Where is that if you don't mind me asking?

h3000

Big Nasty wrote: »

Unbelievable selection of cars on show at every Limerick C&C - far better than Dublin.

Mostly down to JP McManus though?

It’s his brother that’s the car collector.

There are often some very special cars there alright. I missed last Sunday and my dream car was there. A guy called Stavros does a video on most C&Cs Limerick. He had a few pics on his Instagram below
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp1IbHrgg3M
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpytxHTgoJM
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp3-hRbAuMt

Truckermal

Done a exterior detail this week including a coat of wax which gave a fantastic shine plus no swirls or scratches!

Avatar MIA

^^^ just thinking, how is he able to keep it on UK plates?

Dia1988

Avatar MIA wrote: »

^^^ just thinking, how is he able to keep it on UK plates?

He probably has an address in UK. That Porsche is a 608bhp 4.6 litre hybrid/electric with only 76g/co2 making it exempt from UK tax and 120 euro here.

It only has 370 miles as of last April so presumably it's trailered everywhere. Still taxed though but showing as not insured on the UK insurance database. Perhaps it's under a group insurance scheme.

Pops_20

Bring back pop ups!

CianRyan

That gives me so much joy.

punisher5112

Always as a kid admired those pop ups.....

James Bond Junior

Pop up lights and the hubcaps that looked like they were going backwards when driving.

punisher5112

James Bond Junior wrote: »

Pop up lights and the hubcaps that looked like they were going backwards when driving.

Don't forget..... Rust rust everywhere....

Kevin Finnerty

It's like the wipers are as happy as us to see a pop up light!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Probably the most pointless clean I’ll ever give it, surely be dirty again by the time I drive it home. Stupid weather.

330

btkm8unsl0w5r4

One year in my possession, got her tax for her birthday and an NCT cert. Any one thinking of a ceramic coating...this car has not been washed in 4 weeks, it simply does not get dirty despite being driven on mucky roads, ceramic coating are the business.

https://i.imgur.com/xxW1Czo.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Y1njZlR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1s19l42.jpg

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

^what a car!

Roughly how much does ceramic coating cost? I’m sick of giving deep cleans twice a week. It would be great to give just a blast of the powerhose.

MidMan25

Hunky Monster wrote: »

^what a car!

Roughly how much does ceramic coating cost? I’m sick of giving deep cleans twice a week. It would be great to give just a blast of the powerhose.

700-1000 typically for the basics, a lot depends on the amount of correction the paint needs prior to coating.

James Bond Junior

Hunky Monster wrote: »

^what a car!

Roughly how much does ceramic coating cost? I’m sick of giving deep cleans twice a week. It would be great to give just a blast of the powerhose.

PM Foxhole Norman, he does that for a living.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Hunky Monster wrote: »

^what a car!

Roughly how much does ceramic coating cost? I’m sick of giving deep cleans twice a week. It would be great to give just a blast of the power-hose.

When I had mine done the car was gone 3 days getting a full correction, thats the work of the job, applying the coating to contaminated or scratched paint does nothing.

As for cost about a grand, but I had the works done, mine was done by a place no longer doing detailing so cannot recommend somebody else.

Certainly cleaning is fairly easy, and almost a no touch proceedure, the wheel need a bit more attention but I am trying my best to touch the paint as little as possible.

The finish is quite matt, so you gloss hounds are better with a wax, but as a daily I would certainly have it done again. Seriously the car has been fairly clean all the time, its sort of self cleaning.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Hudson Creamy Vista wrote: »

When I had mine done the car was gone 3 days getting a full correction, thats the work of the job, applying the coating to contaminated or scratched paint does nothing.

As for cost about a grand, but I had the works done, mine was done by a place no longer doing detailing so cannot recommend somebody else.

Certainly cleaning is fairly easy, and almost a no touch proceedure, the wheel need a bit more attention but I am trying my best to touch the paint as little as possible.

The finish is quite matt, so you gloss hounds are better with a wax, but as a daily I would certainly have it done again. Seriously the car has been fairly clean all the time, its sort of self cleaning.

I didn’t realize it was such a big job! In my own head I was thinking it would have been around 3/400 until you said it was a three day job. Won’t be getting it done this side of Christmas anyway! I can’t get to wax my one recently with the weather and my lack of access to a shed. Even when it’s clean it’s not “clean”. Shame.

Leonard Hofstadter

I got a ceramic coating put on my car about 17 months ago. The car still looks the part and the paintwork still beads when it rains. All it needs is a wash and the shine comes back. The only downside is the bonnet has a few chips on it, I wasn't expecting that but otherwise it still looks an awful lot fresher than any 15 year old car should look. Eventually it's gonna need to be topped up or re-coated or something but for now it's still doing the job just fine to my eyes at least.

I got mine done in the UK and it cost £500 (sterling), took them about three days to do it.

Foxhole Norman

Yeah Ceramics are great, I'll certainly be applying one to mine when I get mine painted!

Pricewise, with us for that size car you'd be looking at starting around ~€650 for the 5 Year 9H Crystal Serum Light coating with two coats of a super hydrophobic hybrid coating EXOv4 without polishing and ~€1100 for the 9 Year Guaranteed 10H Crystal Serum Ultra Coating and two coats of EXOv4 and 4 hours polishing included.

Polishing isn't completely necessary for the CSL or EXO coatings but is recommended as it'll mean the car will look massively better along with giving the coating a perfectly clean surface to bond to.

CSU includes polishing as the Guarantee is only in effect on a polished car. CSL gets a 5 year guarantee if the car is polished. To what extent cars are polished is up to the owners.

Time wise, you're looking at about a half day if not more decontaminating the car and a full day to apply either CSU + EXO or CSL + EXO. Polishing, anywhere from around 6-8 hours for a light polish to the sky's the limit for correction!

punisher5112

punisher5112 wrote: »

Always as a kid admired those pop ups.....

The actual light was the same part on some Hiace and Liteace as well as the Celica

Pops_20

Augeo wrote: »

The actual light was the same part on some Hiace and Liteace as well as the Celica

The square headlamp unit itself, really? Manufactured by a third party or something?

colm_mcm

Pops_20 wrote: »

The square headlamp unit itself, really? Manufactured by a third party or something?

Seems to be a universal/ubiquitous design, like sealed beams used to be?

TOYOTA
Sprinter trueno (AE86 AE92)
MR2 (SW20, AW11)
Celica XX (GA61)
Supra (JZA70)
Starlet (KP61)
Hilux surf (N60 series, 1st semester 130 series)
Hilux pickup (N50 series-N110, N140, RZN147)
Hayes ban (100-year)
Lighters (KR27V, KR41V, KR42V)
Liteace Noah (SR40G)
Liteace truck (KM35)
Toyota: townace (YR25V, CR36V, CR41V)
Land Cruiser Prado (70 series)
Tacoma (early type square hole)
Delboy

NISSAN
（ RS13, RPS13) 180SX
AD van (VFY10, VSY10, VHB11)
DATSUN TRUCK (D21)
SUNNY TRUCK (GB122 late)
SUNNY (B310)
SAFARI (160-series)
VANETTE (C22 van during period, SS van, SE track)

MITSUBISHI
Strada （ 91 / 6 ? 97 / 6 ）
MiniCub 42 T (U41)
Tosuch (P06V)

MAZDA
RX-7 (FC3S)
Bongo (SS28V)
Pickup truck (B2200)

HONDA
Prelude (BA4, BA5, BA7)

SUZUKI
Mighty boy (SS40T) Serbo-Croatian (SS40)

DAIHATSU
Mira (L55) hijet (S80, S82, S100) charade (G10 series late, G11 series) Rocky (F300S)

ISUZU
Mutex (UCS17, UCS55, UCS69)

CHEVROLET
Blazer s-10 (-15) Corvette (C4) Astro (original, 2 front stage) GMC SAFARI (StarCraft square type) AMC JEEP Cherokee (XJ, pickup)

JohnBoy26

colm_mcm wrote: »

Seems to be a universal/ubiquitous design, like sealed beams used to be?

Japanese Nissans usually had healights manufactured by ichikoh and toyota usually had theirs made by koito.

Toyotafanboi

That's the cleanest it'll ever be I'd say! It's early days but I've no immediate regrets.

Supergurrier

Fun day out at Mondello

ELM327

To the layman unfamiliar with that particular sport model, it must have looked like an eco challenge seeing a megane on a track.

Supergurrier

OSI wrote: »

Is the novice sticker your own SG or are they handing them out at track days now?

Yea handed out after safety briefing. No harm to have as was 90 people doing the day so abit crowded at times.

Killinator

Supergurrier wrote: »

Fun day out at Mondello

That first pic is really really cool, one for framing I'd reckon