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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 05:08 PM
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The road car is going in for a full valet, inside, outside, and engine bay, this week, need to get on top of it, been down to see what type of job they do, let him do all the talking, said they will take off all the road grime and old polish before they start on it, then put two coats on followed by one to give that deep wet look reflection, ref, the engine bay (with out any promt from me) he said they will blank of the I/C, alarm, so hopefully they can get rid of that wax inhibitor thats been there from new, so it should look a lot better for the R/R day..

So if it works out ok you should all see it on saturday and let me know if i had done the wright thing..

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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 05:16 PM
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It will be good to see that John....
Sorry I never got around to phoning you last weekend as I never got to giving mine a good going over... have a bad cold this weekend as well here so I'm hoping for sunshine next Friday so I can have a go on mine in the afternoon ready for the RR as well.

I will be interested to see the under bonnet results as that sticky stuff that they spray on makes it like fly paper and all the dust and grime stick on it.

Machine polish on the outside John ?
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 05:34 PM
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It will be good to see that John....
Sorry I never got around to phoning you last weekend as I never got to giving mine a good going over... have a bad cold this weekend as well here so I'm hoping for sunshine next Friday so I can have a go on mine in the afternoon ready for the RR as well.

I will be interested to see the under bonnet results as that sticky stuff that they spray on makes it like fly paper and all the dust and grime stick on it.

Machine polish on the outside John ?
I might pop over friday afternoon then Si for a jet wash!!!! Are the tokens still available from the kitchen??????
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 06:36 PM
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I might pop over friday afternoon then Si for a jet wash!!!! Are the tokens still available from the kitchen??????
I'll be here from 1.30 on your more than welcome and if I can get mine washed and waxed fast enough we will go over yours straight after.. how's that

And yes kitchen tokens are available thoughout the day
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 06:44 PM
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I'll be here from 1.30 on your more than welcome and if I can get mine washed and waxed fast enough we will go over yours straight after.. how's that

And yes kitchen tokens are available thoughout the day
cheers Si, I'll let you know.
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 06:57 PM
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Cool Dan.... I'll be here all afternoon no worries either way
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 07:56 PM
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It will be good to see that John....
Sorry I never got around to phoning you last weekend as I never got to giving mine a good going over... have a bad cold this weekend as well here so I'm hoping for sunshine next Friday so I can have a go on mine in the afternoon ready for the RR as well.

I will be interested to see the under bonnet results as that sticky stuff that they spray on makes it like fly paper and all the dust and grime stick on it.

Machine polish on the outside John ?
No probs mate , the offer is to good to turn down having taken a look, he is even going to do the suzuki as well..

And no the polishing is done by hand, rather him than me, will take before and after photo`s..

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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 08:02 PM
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All machine eh brave man

It will be very interesting to see the results on this... I've never seen a machine polish and certainly on something I can relate to colour wise this will be very interesting indeed
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Old Mar 19, 2006 | 08:16 PM
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Simon , i can see a little opening here for you
That swisol stuff is the dogs, i'm deffo going to get some, as danielle once said wax on , wax off most impressed after todays little demo.
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Hi John,

Where are you getting it done and what sort of cost are you looking at? (PM me if you like)

Thanks.
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Simon , i can see a little opening here for you
That swisol stuff is the dogs, i'm deffo going to get some, as danielle once said wax on , wax off most impressed after todays little demo.
Did you take a trip round to Si Polishing shop???
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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 08:10 AM
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Hi John,

Where are you getting it done and what sort of cost are you looking at? (PM me if you like)

Thanks.
Rich.

In Newport, the price at this time i can not say due to the fact it may only be a one of, the owner is not sure if he can take on extra work, due to the fact they do the prep on new/used vehicels for main dealers in south east wales..

Will see if he will give me prices if he decides to take on the extra work,

If it goes all well you should see the results on saturday at the R/R day at Powersation..

John
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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by DannyBoy007
Did you take a trip round to Si Polishing shop???
oh yes, but with extras converted swissol user now, well until i seen the price, any deals on a kit anywhere?

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Originally Posted by DannyBoy007
I might pop over friday afternoon then Si for a jet wash!!!! Are the tokens still available from the kitchen??????
Pop over!!, not exactly popping over is it mate
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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 07:51 PM
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Car goes in tomorrow for the full monty, have taken a load of before photo`s will take some after one`s as well, (if it turns out ok)..

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Originally Posted by simb 2
Pop over!!, not exactly popping over is it mate
I need some milk and bread, so I may as well kill two birds with one stone
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Old Mar 22, 2006 | 07:31 PM
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Just to let you all know the valeting has been done, have loads of pictures, but cant getting my head round this photo bucket **** , could e-mail if some one could post them for me..

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Old Mar 22, 2006 | 08:17 PM
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Here are some pitures of Bigbrakes car Pre Valet








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Old Mar 22, 2006 | 08:22 PM
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Those i should add are the pre valet pic`s, hopefully you should have a 2nd e-mail with the post valet pic`s..

How the hell did you do that..

John

Ps thanks again..
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Here are some Post Valet hope this helps John and by the way looks damn good






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Old Mar 22, 2006 | 08:34 PM
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Thanks for that mate, gives me a base to work with now, any body spot the de-catted exuast..

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Old Mar 22, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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nice work - so what did the guy say about talking on more work?
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looks really good, How much was all of the work????
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Brilliant !! Great engine bay and the bodyworks come to life

I can see I'm going to have to get my big pot of elbow grease out on Friday here
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Ref the engine bay, have to take it back again, he wants to have another go at it (free of charge) he said he just ran out of time..but its still a big improvement on what it was like at the start..

Ref cost £50 for a full valet including engine bay..

Engine bay only, to be agreed on seeing the car..

The Suzuki goes in for a make over next week..

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Nice one John, she has come up a real treat, wheels look mint
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Excellent job!
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