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    #692
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    Curran wrote: »
    When did Halford's become Irish owned!! :P
    That's the one bbari; couldn't remember the name of it! ;)

    I hope you won't forget your own name one day :)


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    #693
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Curran wrote:
    When did Halford's become Irish owned!! That's the one bbari; couldn't remember the name of it!


    I've been putting off getting a few bits off you for ages, I promise I'll get to you before the end of summer!


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    #694
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Looking at this forum is getting depressing as I haven't managed to give any of the cars a decent clean, I working up the country and all the cleaning stuff is back in Cork. Even if I brought all the stuff up I'm in an apartment and there is no outside tap!


    I could go to the local car wash but having witnessed their action with a brush on a long handle I'd rather have a dirty car.


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    #695
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    Lads, what'd be the best thing for getting stained on coolant off bits of the engine bay? A fair bit of it staining the engine since the rad blew months ago and never thought to clean it.


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    #696
    markc1184
    Registered Users Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭markc1184


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    Lads, what'd be the best thing for getting stained on coolant off bits of the engine bay? A fair bit of it staining the engine since the rad blew months ago and never thought to clean it.

    I had a similar problem before and used some engine degreaser and worked it in with a brush then used a steam cleaner to take everything off. Was only on mine for a couple of days though rather than months.


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    #697
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    ianobrien wrote: »
    I'm in an apartment and there is no outside tap!
    I could go to the local car wash but having witnessed their action with a brush on a long handle I'd rather have a dirty car.

    I don't have the driveway facility so I go to the local petrol station with 2 buckets etc and wash it myself.


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    #698
    vectra
    Registered Users Posts: 15,511 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    bbari wrote: »
    I don't have the driveway facility so I go to the local petrol station with 2 buckets etc and wash it myself.

    Nor do I.
    All of my detailing is done on the street. :)


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    #699
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    bbari wrote: »
    I don't have the driveway facility so I go to the local petrol station with 2 buckets etc and wash it myself.

    Thanks for that. I'll ask in the local car washes if I can use (and pay obviously) for water and not their chemicals or labour.


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    #700
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    vectra wrote:
    Nor do I. All of my detailing is done on the street.


    How many times you are told that up the road you can get it washed for €5?? :)


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    #701
    Curran
    Registered Users Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    bbari wrote: »
    How many times you are told that up the road you can get it washed for €5?? :)

    He's that fella that's up the road! :P


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    #702
    vectra
    Registered Users Posts: 15,511 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    bbari wrote: »
    How many times you are told that up the road you can get it washed for €5?? :)


    Never,
    They all know the wash up the road would not meet my requirements :pac:


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    #703
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    Curran wrote:
    He's that fella that's up the road!

    I say this fella can easily charge euro 5 per panel :)


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    #704
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    ianobrien wrote:
    Thanks for that. I'll ask in the local car washes if I can use (and pay obviously) for water and not their chemicals or labour.

    Instead of going to the car wash guys go to the petrol station with coin operated machine where you can buy 4 minutes for 2 euro. This is what i do anyway. Much happier since i started doing this. As Curran says, atleast you can treat the paint like a tomato skin :)


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    #705
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    bbari wrote: »
    Instead of going to the car wash guys go to the petrol station with coin operated machine where you can buy 4 minutes for 2 euro. This is what i do anyway. Much happier since i started doing this. As Curran says, atleast you can treat the paint like a tomato skin :)



    How much of a que do you let build up:-D


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    #706
    bbari
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭bbari


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    How much of a que do you let build up:-D

    I move the car from the washing bay when I'm going to shampoo (only if there's anyone waiting) but definitely move the car when I am drying. :)

    There's a drive thru wash too, most of the people use that so I rarely come across anyone who want to wash him/herself.


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    #707
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Spotted these in homebase for €24:99... I have a karcher k2 and was wondering are these any use for snowfoam and the likes??

    http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/cleaning-body-repair/pressure-washers-hoses/karcher-fj10c-ultra-foam-jet

    H


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    #708
    Curran
    Registered Users Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Heathen wrote: »
    Spotted these in homebase for €24:99... I have a karcher k2 and was wondering are these any use for snowfoam and the likes??

    http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/cleaning-body-repair/pressure-washers-hoses/karcher-fj10c-ultra-foam-jet

    H

    Short answer; no!

    They won't produce a thick foam that you would see on snowfoam lance videos. They don't have any metal gauze in them, and it's the water and solution being forced through it, that creates the thick foam.
    The device above will produce a foam but it will be very watery and run straight off the car.


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    #709
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Yea the snow foam lance has been on my shopping list for a while, but the €63 pricetag is a hard pill to swallow, so other more pressing items (nappies etc..) usually take priority haha

    Cheers for the reply, at least i now have €24.99 towards the proper lance :)

    H


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    #710
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Where can one acquire nozzles for a nilfisk lance. Both of mine are acting up.


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    #711
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Where can one acquire nozzles for a nilfisk lance. Both of mine are acting up.


    http://www.detailingshed.com/shampoo-snowfoam/186-snow-foam-lance.html#/fitment-nilfisk_kew_alto


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    #712
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Heathen wrote: »
    Yea the snow foam lance has been on my shopping list for a while, but the €63 pricetag is a hard pill to swallow, so other more pressing items (nappies etc..) usually take priority haha

    Cheers for the reply, at least i now have €24.99 towards the proper lance :)

    H



    Go onto aliexpress its around €21 to €25 delivered to your door.


    That's where I got mine it is deadly and forgot to take pics.

    I think I used too much foam though as it uses it so quick nearly half a bottle of it.


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    #713
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    It's not like that thing in the link, it's just a black head, that clicks onto the end of the lance.


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    #714
    Heathen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Heathen


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    It's not like that thing in the link, it's just a black head, that clicks onto the end of the lance.

    The one pictured is the karcher one, its just the pic on the page, you select whatever one you need in the drop down menu


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    #715
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Heathen wrote: »
    so other more pressing items (nappies etc..)
    H

    Just wait until you're out of the nappies......imagine the amount of snowfoaming you can do then!!! :pac:


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    #716
    Newtown90
    Registered Users Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Newtown90


    Heathen wrote: »
    Spotted these in homebase for €24:99... I have a karcher k2 and was wondering are these any use for snowfoam and the likes??

    http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/cleaning-body-repair/pressure-washers-hoses/karcher-fj10c-ultra-foam-jet

    H

    Had this and it's a waste of money really ended up buying a proper one for 40 quid a few weeks back and there is no comparison.


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    #717
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    All the meguiars stuff is gone in halfords, they seem to be stocking mers, G3 and autoglym with turtle wax stuff being promoted more.
    Pity, as some of their stuff is decent.


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    #718
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    All the meguiars stuff is gone in halfords, they seem to be stocking mers, G3 and autoglym with turtle wax stuff being promoted more.
    Pity, as some of their stuff is decent.
    I'm guessing you looked for it with the rest of the car wash stuff and didn't find it in Limerick.
    It's around the corner, all together on its own shelf at the end of an aisle in Limerick.


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    #719
    waraf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭waraf


    Quick question for ya lads....

    I used clay for the first time over the weekend (Bilt Hamber auto clay) and I found it crumbly and difficult to mould into a solid disk shape. I left it sitting in warm water for a few minutes before I started claying in the car. The directions said to use water as a lubricant but I was using warm water with ph neutral shampoo in it. Was it the shampoo that was causing the problem with the crumbliness or is clay always like that?

    Thanks


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    #720
    Curran
    Registered Users Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    Strange; as you are the 2nd person to experience similar in the last 2 weeks. Wonder if its the shampoo causing a bit of breakdown.
    Shouldn't happen!
    I've experienced clay breakdown and become sticky but not BH Auto Clay, and it was using diluted Demon Shine as a lube.


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    #721
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,387 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    I'm guessing you looked for it with the rest of the car wash stuff and didn't find it in Limerick.
    It's around the corner, all together on its own shelf at the end of an aisle in Limerick.

    As you go down the shop, the karcher and auto glam is on the left. Then the other stuff is on the right, did I really miss it? Odd place to put it...


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