having abit of a break to play on the net seeing as ive spent the last 3 hours working on the car!

started with a wash down with hose and megs nxt gen shampoo. dried her off and got to work with the clay! not clayed a car before and used megs quik clay with the provided quick detailer as lube. no pics of that but clay was filthy afterwards!
another wash and dry... and then on went the auto glym extra gloss protection. i love this stuff and cant rate it enough, easy on and off and results are always good.
on


after
a cup of tea and about 30 mins for it to fog up.. time to take it off!



did windows, and polished the wheels while the EGP was fogging so didnt just sit on me bum and wait!!

i got some auto glym HD wax the other day, and the weather has never been good enough to get the stuff on.. but i must say... what great stuff!!! sooo easy to get on, and provided you dont apply it with a trowl its so easy to take off too.

the results!!

shiney shiney bonnet!


camera on phone isnt best thing for reflection shots but couldnt be arsed to get DSLR out LOL









and as soon as i can be bothered to get off me bum again.. time to do inside and engine bay!

that makes me want to go and clean my car.... looks lurvy and shiney!

off topic but what alloys do you have?

cheers

gonna be done allllll again on thursday too haha. well, bit of megs speed detailer and another load of wax, and engine will need doing again... and wheels.. and inside.. ffs

j1ppers said:

off topic but what alloys do you have?

cheers

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they are 15" RH AD Cuprads or 'cups'

Wow! That looks beautiful! Great job there
Did you clay the whole car or just bits'n'pieces?

and...sorry for stoopid question, but kind of motor is that?

its a fiat bravo

and yeah clayed the whole car... right pain in the bum

Cheers! Looks sweet! I used clay for first time today - just a couple of sap deposits. Must be a real chore doing whole car, but obviously worth the effort!

Looks really shiney, but just wondering did you put HD on after EGP, cause i thought EGP was to be used last as it is a sealant.

before wax, way ive always done it

You should polish it using Super Resin polish and then use EGP or HD wax as they are both sealents, you shouldn't use both.

lovely job can you do mine


I put mine thought 2 quid auto clean
all my mirrors knocked
and still got what i think is a beer stain on my bonnet

shall take car for a jetting tomorrow

if that fails i might resort to elbow grease(neet to work out whare the 3rd tap for the hose pipe is.

Rockbottom said:

You should polish it using Super Resin polish and then use EGP or HD wax as they are both sealents, you shouldn't use both.

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what harm is it going to do? its the same effect as putting on a few layers of wax. if its effectivly the same thing... they its not doing anything bad to the paint

kayl0rz said:

what harm is it going to do? its the same effect as putting on a few layers of wax. if its effectivly the same thing... they its not doing anything bad to the paint

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Sorry I didn't mean that it would do the paint any harm, but for the best results you should polish it first before applying any wax IMO. Then I would only apply 1 sealent, I wouldn't waste time putting 2 different sealents on.

Oh right didn't realise HD was a sealant aswell sorry, but as rockbottom said no point in puttin 2 sealants on, use SRP then EGP, always gives me the best results.

T-Jet 120 said:

Oh right didn't realise HD was a sealant aswell sorry, but as rockbottom said no point in puttin 2 sealants on, use SRP then EGP, always gives me the best results.

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Same here, that's exactly what I use.