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vectra wrote: »

This >> LTT

That is exactly what I've been looking for! Cheers.

MuddyDog

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!

Bilt Hamber Auto Foam doesn't dwell as long as most snowfoams. Dwell time or thickness of foam is not a measure of how good it is

MuddyDog

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?

MuddyDog wrote: »

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?

It be whatever in the area all right unless filtered but my guess would be not.
Worked in one and sure the water for car wash was reused if possible.

billybonkers

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

edburg

Machine polish with dedicated glass polish be best job, but no guarantee it will do the job as marks maybe to deep etc

Foxhole Norman

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!

It can be done but a difficult process, especially if they are heavy marks. Sometimes *cough* a new screen is the easier option.

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!

Slattsy wrote: »

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!

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

punisher5112 wrote: »

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

It took me 2.5 seconds to cop that

bbari

Slattsy wrote:

It took me 2.5 seconds to cop that

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

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.;-)

Arbo94

Forgive me detailers for I have sinned, it has been 3 weeks and over 1000km since my last 2 bucket wash.

vectra

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

Arbo94

Unfortunately I think the fusso that was on it is well and truly gone so I might do another Decon and protection

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!!

Arbo94

Bet yours is cleaner than mine though!!

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

Curran wrote: »

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

Not true unless you post a pic.

I love washing a car that's come from bog.

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

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

50 Cal Cammo is a good, lasting tyre dressing. I use that, Megs Endurance, Turtle Wax Back to Black and Gtechniq T1 depending on my mood!

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.....

I'm waiting for the nano version of tyre shine to come out. Basically EXO or CQuartz for tyres whereby it's applied once and will last a year.

Curran wrote: »

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

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