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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 06:49 PM
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Away for the night now in the garage under a dust sheet


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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 06:52 PM
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now thats bloody clean..!!!!!

you could do your hair in that exhaust..!!!

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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 06:53 PM
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nice

how did you get your wheels so clean ?

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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 06:58 PM
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lol

Call me sad but I take the wheels off to clean them


Not everytime, just to get the cack off from inside every month of so, for that just off the production line type clean

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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 07:01 PM
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Stunning but de tango it

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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 07:53 PM
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Bet your hands stank! Lol! Good job mate.
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 08:06 PM
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Call me sad but I take the wheels off to clean them
snap, did mine today aswell sad isn't it

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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 08:55 PM
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gorgeous motor. not much more you can say, would love to see it with some gold 18's though.
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 09:02 PM
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 09:09 PM
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Who's is the white van???
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 10:17 PM
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That is the definition of 'mint condition'!!

You don't even have mudflaps fitted? Are there no crap UK Std potholed, substandard repair, gravel/wet tar coated roads in your area? If the answer is yes, please give me your postcode as I want to move there!!

Excellent motor mate, I bet you don't take it to Tesco's, downtown, NCP carparks etc. Neither do I and it's a sad Scooby life!
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 11:15 PM
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proper car.
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 11:23 PM
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What did you use on the exhaust to get it so clean?
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Old Mar 23, 2003 | 11:34 PM
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pic four

what is that woman doing to yer spoiler, she needs sorting
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Old Mar 24, 2003 | 02:22 AM
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How could you put in all that work and leave the tyres looking like that!

Finish her off!

http://www.meguiars.com.au/Products_Retail_TW.htm

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Old Mar 24, 2003 | 05:06 AM
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wtf? whats wrong with the tyres? They look pretty shiny to me.

I take the wheels off too every now and again and jet wash the insides to get em clean again. That is until I fecked one of the locking wheel nuts last time

Gonna try some of this Zymol tomorrow as Ive been using Autoglym Super Resin Polish and I sick of the white powdery residue it leaves everywhere.

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Old Mar 24, 2003 | 06:46 AM
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Andy, she only does about 80 miles a week, it's only done 6.5k miles so I had a clean base car to start polishing when I bought it
lol Ajax, hadn't noticed that

Clean the zorst with good old Autosol

Ordered the Wax Wizzard engine cleaning kit so I'll have some under bonnent shots hopefully this week
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Old Mar 24, 2003 | 07:20 PM
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I'm glad you didn't put that huuuuuuge WRX sticker on the bootlid (I was the person who posted the before, during and after photos)

Car looks stunning, 2 to many doors though

Getting the foglight moved into the rear light cluster cleans up the rear no-end, I can take some rear photos if you like (complete with freshly imported STi 555 Limited Plaque)

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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 06:44 AM
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Garage and a dust sheet - poof!
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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 07:49 AM
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That is one mint looking car, however 4 hrs to wax the car, you must be the karate kid by now What is autosol? is it a special wheel cleaner, asking as I'm looking for a good and safe wheel cleaner for my anthracite PD7's and I don't want to **** them up, any ideas?

P1Fanatic, I swear by autoglym super, if you're getting white residue then you're using too much m8, and try putting it on with a soft make-up sponge as it spreads it more easily, and NEVER wash the sponge. Wax our scoob every month and still have 1/2 litre from 1 litre bottle bought 18 months ago

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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 08:13 AM
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looking very sweet
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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 01:02 PM
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Gorgeous car fella!!
I agree though, you need to de-tango it
Oh, how come it didn't come with side skirts and rear bumper moldings?

Good job though... I favor the "Rally" look for my car

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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 03:11 PM
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Thanks for the +ve replies

Autosol is a metal/chrome cleaner that comes in a toothpaste like tube.

Saying no to "de-tangoing", each to there own but I think that kinda tarting is best left to Nova's and Saxo brigade

No skirts as it's an RA model, (Race Altered) all unessential bits left off to save weight
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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 03:21 PM
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apart from the spoiler...

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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 04:14 PM
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CRAFT - I've got anthracite PD7's on my 02 WRX and so far no problems with the Autoglym wheel cleaner.

It's probably not the strongest solution out there but having read a couple of reviews in a auto express (I think) I thought it would be ok. I'm a fan of the autoglym stuff generally so not too difficult for me to select.
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Old Mar 25, 2003 | 07:18 PM
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That spoiler is essential

Stops the car from taking off!
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Old Mar 26, 2003 | 07:50 AM
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Nice result there. Well done!
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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 03:24 AM
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Nice one Mega!

You may remember I have one exactly the same
I can get mine looking almost as good, and is in similar pristine nick, but if you fancy popping over to the IOM and doing mine.....?!

Just an aside, on yours, does the underneath of where the 'skirts' should be and the bottom of the front doors get chipped to ****?
Mine is getting pretty bad and thinking of some front 'flaps' but it'd spoil the looks I think...
Also, whats the new zorst, and what tyres etc...

Cheers and keep up the good work on our loverly RAs!

Mark...

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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 07:25 AM
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Mark, you'll hate me, but you'll be looking all day on mine to find one stone chip

I went for Toyo Proxies in the end, was a toss up over them and the F1's. The exhaust is a HKS Hiper, I really wanted to keep the mid resonated section on but it's hard to find a quality made backbox really have to go Jap for the finish.
Sounds nice aswell, keeping the downpipe standard, not too noisey but very deep burble sound

Thanks to Mark.U and his magical cleaning solutions the engine has also now come up a treat
From this

To this

In under 1/2 an hour


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Old Mar 30, 2003 | 11:54 PM
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Eehhh.....I 'ate you Butler!

Hehe!
Engine bay looking top too. The top picture is similar to what mine looks like at the mo, but never really fancied getting the hose out on the engine TBH!!
Think it may be my tyres causing the chips (Pirelli P-Zeros), they do seem to pick up every little stone going, and you can sometimes here the bottom of the doors getting pebble-dashed while driving
......which is nice

Cheers
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