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3.5-months old 6500 miles on the clock, hadn't cleaned it in about 3-weeks, gave it a clean and put my just delivered FIATForum sticker on the back
First I snow foamed it with a CYC snow foam lance that I've just bought, this worked very well with the car being completely white with thick foam. I have a ALDI Power Craft PW which cost about £100, 3-year warranty and made by Karcher and equiv spec to a ~£250 karcher. I had to file the lugs down using a generic Focus dremel equivalent on the CYC karcher fitting to fit into the slots in the Power Craft lance (fitting is otherwise identical - file down from 18mm to 12.2mm width lugs). I did this 3-times as I was practising with the lance. I used Valet Pro PH neutral snow foam.
I then used Auto Glym bodywork shampoo and conditioner using the 2-bucket method and a turtle wax microfibre mitt. I used 2 buckets of shampoo water and about 5 of clean water (for rinsing the mitt between dips in the shampoo water).
Dried with megs water magnet.
Used a little bit of Autoglym insect remover to get the last few remains off the wing mirros and front bumper, wiped off, rinsed with hose on very low pressure (so as not to wet the rest of the car). Dried off these areas again with Kent microfibre towerls (years old and from ASDA I think).
Polished with Autoglym super resin polish and a Halfrauds supersize microfibre polishing cloth. Buffed off with megs extra large microfibre towel.
Sealed with Autoglym extra gloss protection using megs extra large microfibre towel, left for only 20mins as it looked like rain was coming which didn't arrive! Buffed off with megs extra large microfibre towel (got a few of these!).
Left for an hour for the sealent to dry a bit more then used megs quik detailer with megs extra large microfibre towel.
Sealed the wheels with Autoglym alloy wheel seal spray can, buffed this off with some generic yellow dusters.
Used Halfrauds advanced trim and tyre black trigger spray onto a cloth and then wiped the wheels to black/clean them. I then used the reminents of a years old can of carplan tyre slik to add a bit more gloss to the tyres.
Cleaned the inside of the back window with Autoglym fast glass and left to dry prior to climbing into the boot and shutting! to put the FIATForum sticker on as straight as I could.
First I snow foamed it with a CYC snow foam lance that I've just bought, this worked very well with the car being completely white with thick foam. I have a ALDI Power Craft PW which cost about £100, 3-year warranty and made by Karcher and equiv spec to a ~£250 karcher. I had to file the lugs down using a generic Focus dremel equivalent on the CYC karcher fitting to fit into the slots in the Power Craft lance (fitting is otherwise identical - file down from 18mm to 12.2mm width lugs). I did this 3-times as I was practising with the lance. I used Valet Pro PH neutral snow foam.
I then used Auto Glym bodywork shampoo and conditioner using the 2-bucket method and a turtle wax microfibre mitt. I used 2 buckets of shampoo water and about 5 of clean water (for rinsing the mitt between dips in the shampoo water).
Dried with megs water magnet.
Used a little bit of Autoglym insect remover to get the last few remains off the wing mirros and front bumper, wiped off, rinsed with hose on very low pressure (so as not to wet the rest of the car). Dried off these areas again with Kent microfibre towerls (years old and from ASDA I think).
Polished with Autoglym super resin polish and a Halfrauds supersize microfibre polishing cloth. Buffed off with megs extra large microfibre towel.
Sealed with Autoglym extra gloss protection using megs extra large microfibre towel, left for only 20mins as it looked like rain was coming which didn't arrive! Buffed off with megs extra large microfibre towel (got a few of these!).
Left for an hour for the sealent to dry a bit more then used megs quik detailer with megs extra large microfibre towel.
Sealed the wheels with Autoglym alloy wheel seal spray can, buffed this off with some generic yellow dusters.
Used Halfrauds advanced trim and tyre black trigger spray onto a cloth and then wiped the wheels to black/clean them. I then used the reminents of a years old can of carplan tyre slik to add a bit more gloss to the tyres.
Cleaned the inside of the back window with Autoglym fast glass and left to dry prior to climbing into the boot and shutting! to put the FIATForum sticker on as straight as I could.
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