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Slattsy wrote: »

Need a leather cleaner and or conditioner. Or anything that can stop colour transfer?

Usually wear trousers but I can see the dye from my navy jeans transferring onto the new leather already!! I reckon I've worn jeans about 5 times ffs.

Whats the best out there?

This >> LTT

Used BH Snow Foam for the first time yesterday with the Karcher pressure washer and foam lance attachment from Karcher themselves. Car was completly white for about 1-2 minutes but after that I felt it ran off quickly enough. After about 5 minutes it had all pretty much ran off (you could tell there was something on the car but it wasn't laying on the car like it did the first couple of minutes). Is this normal? I left it 20 minutes anyway and power washed off and did notice the dirt did come off very easily so am still impressed none the less! Didn't bother for a 2BM Wash afterwards as I just wanted to test it out and it started to rain then too!

Is the water that is offered for free at service stations for topping up your washer fluid with always soft water or will it be hard water if it's in a hard water area?

Howdy,

I am looking for the best way to polish my windshield. Its got a lot of scuff marks from the wipers over the years and they are quite noticeable at night time.

Anyone got any tips? I have already washed and clayed it numerous times.

Thanks

billybonkers wrote: »

Howdy,

I am looking for the best way to polish my windshield. Its got a lot of scuff marks from the wipers over the years and they are quite noticeable at night time.

Anyone got any tips? I have already washed and clayed it numerous times.

Thanks

Ideally a rayon pad on a machine polisher with a glass polish such as CarPro's Ceriglass. This needs to be followed by a glass sealant however!

I went all the way out to DS to pick up some BH Shampoo and they were all out! The bastards

Got some ODK Jet instead.

Having some seagull issues, seems to be a few hundred million of them on the green in front of the house lately, so grabbed a bottle of Poorboys Bird **** remover!

punisher5112 wrote: »

Shotgun would of been a much better purchase I'm afraid.

It took me 2.5 seconds to cop that

bbari wrote: »

Likewise. I thot it was to shoot DS guys for being out of stock.

Well all depends how much ammo one would have.;-)

^^ That will make it all the more satisfying to do.

Give it a wash, you might be surprised that its still there!!

Its 2.5 months since my last wash; used HydrO2, so its a good test to see how its holding up!!

Ummmmm. ..nope...building work going on in my estate, the roads in and out are bogging.

Hang on...this is a Detailing thread.....Pics or it Never Happened are only if I said I spent the day or the week detailing the car!! :P

Anyways; here you go!!
The lights have been given a wipe a few times, and the reg plate, at least once! And the car is actually Black! :P

Me again!

I forgot to get tyre dressing in DS the other day. I was hungover t'fook so that's my excuse.

I've only ever used Meguiars Endurance gel. It is shiny but I always used it very sparingly so it was never excessively glossy / wet looking, just darkened the tyre nicely and never had an issue with sling etc

Longevity wasn't great, but maybe that was as good as it got.. but I thought the product itself was fine.

What else is out there that I should be looking at, that will give me better longevity.

Tyre dressing is a bit of a poxy one - a dressing that works perfectly on one manufacturer of tyre, wont on another! Michelin's are notoriously difficult to get a tyre shine to stick to!

So I could recommend 50Cal Cammo, and you could be back next week telling me its poop!! Where as another customer could be raving about how amazing it is!
Another factor is many people dont actually clean the tyre surface before dressing, so durability is also compromised!

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong Curran but aren't both Detailing Shed and Elite Auto Clean in your vicinity? :P

You can bring a horse to water.....

Curran wrote: »

You can bring a horse to water.....

But you can't make someone else make him drink?