gave my car a good old scrub today . loads of pics before and after :)
 

seeing that the weather is so good at the mo i thought id give my car a good old wash , polish , hoover and detail . it was a right state before but now its gleaming once again :)

before wheel
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/009.jpg

car before
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/014.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/013.jpg

thought id steam clean the engine bay and bonnet aswell while i was at it :) had to cover a few things first though !

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/010.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/011.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/012.jpg

then i found some of this:)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/015.jpg
underbonnet gunked and clean
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/017.jpg
bonnet after gunk and steam
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/016.jpg
mid clean and the heavens opened (sods law)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/018.jpg
clean wheelshttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/019.jpg

mid polish photohttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/025.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/022.jpg
polished pipe http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/023.jpg

cleaning the sills http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/028.jpg

after 5 hours its done :)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/035.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/032.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/029.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/036.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/033.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/043.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/045.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/046.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...202008/029.jpg

now i need a beer :D

Well done mags but 5 hours!!!!!

You should try my way of cleaning! 15 Min's tops:norty:

Looks good.

If you think 5 hours is bad, trying cleaning for over a week! ;) :D

Pah! Five hours is just a warm up!
You didn't even take the wheels off :rolleyes:

The question is, will it still be clean on sunday?

nice one mags
my wheels are still in the garage all clean and ready for sunday;)
just got the car to do

budgie

Good effort mags :thumb:

Nice job. Fancy doing mine? Not cleaned in or out for around 6 months I reckon ;)

Great effort Mags dear boy.

Looking good. How comes you removed the rear plate to clean it though?

Steve

lol its on velcro ... for those sticky situations ;)

monkey - it is clean as i will not be driving it till sun lol even though it did rain after i cleaned it but will just need a rub with cloth me thinks

budgie - its a lovly day so get cleaning lol . (both of them ):D

400- 15 mins . are u bionic:D

Nice and shiny, looks great :thumb:

Looks good , what size rims are they ? It's got the look and stance I'm after for mine.

they are 18s mate :)

Top job mate :thumb:

cheers guys:thumb:

very nice. you should of come to watford. it was blistering hot all day !!!

top job matey