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19 April 2008, 05:14 PM
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Unless you've got no time or some probs with the paintwork...swirlmarks galore, etc etc, Id also do it yourself, I get a lot of satisfaction doing it and then looking at it sparkling, and im one lazy b'stard when it comes to doing stuff like this....but the self fulfilment is worth it bud.
19 April 2008, 05:17 PM
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Unless you've got no time or some probs with the paintwork...swirlmarks galore, etc etc, Id also do it yourself, I get a lot of satisfaction doing it and then looking at it sparkling, and im one lazy b'stard when it comes to doing stuff like this....but the self fulfilment is worth it bud.
haha your like me then,dont get me wrong im all for keeping my car clean but i cant bring myself to go over it with about 5 different products. a wash ,dry,and a polish is about my limit
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19 April 2008, 05:21 PM
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Hose it down
2 bucket cleaning method
rinse with hose
Dry
apply liquid wax
Buff it tooooo foooook
Jobs a good un.
Tbh, if someone cannot make their car sparkle as good as any within that time then **** knows what their doing to it.
Not having a dig, but id like to know what some manage to spend 7 hours doing? Does this include inside and out, and underneath or what?
19 April 2008, 05:29 PM
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Tbh mate, I don't spend more than 2 hours on it, and it comes up nice, but being in black, and our weather...takes some cleaning, sometimes 2 x per week at least.
Hose it down
2 bucket cleaning method
rinse with hose
Dry
apply liquid wax
Buff it tooooo foooook
Jobs a good un.
Tbh, if someone cannot make their car sparkle as good as any within that time then **** knows what their doing to it.
Not having a dig, but id like to know what some manage to spend 7 hours doing? Does this include inside and out, and underneath or what?
Hose it down
2 bucket cleaning method
rinse with hose
Dry
apply liquid wax
Buff it tooooo foooook
Jobs a good un.
Tbh, if someone cannot make their car sparkle as good as any within that time then **** knows what their doing to it.
Not having a dig, but id like to know what some manage to spend 7 hours doing? Does this include inside and out, and underneath or what?
yep i agree,2-3 hrs is good enough i think.athough if i start under the bonnet and stuff then it goes on and on. you clean one bit then you think ill just clean there,then there then there etc
19 April 2008, 05:40 PM
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Mi engine bay aint too bad, but im a bit apprehensive about degreasing it, I can just imagine a nice big repair bill as im hosing it down and then realising Ive not covered the electrics.....
19 April 2008, 06:04 PM
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wash
clay
dry
wheels/archs cleaned and sealed
shuts cleaned and dressed
engine bay cleaned and dressed
polish with megs DA
sealent
wax
glass
tyres dressed
interior- hoover/plastics washed/plastics dressed
the thing is detailing is about just that the attention to detail. Thats what makes it diffrent to a valet or a simple wash and its all the little things that take time that make the diffrence to the final finish.
the likes of polished bliss will take like 15 hours on just machine polishing but the end result will be 99.9% correction and better than it came off the production line
clay
dry
wheels/archs cleaned and sealed
shuts cleaned and dressed
engine bay cleaned and dressed
polish with megs DA
sealent
wax
glass
tyres dressed
interior- hoover/plastics washed/plastics dressed
the thing is detailing is about just that the attention to detail. Thats what makes it diffrent to a valet or a simple wash and its all the little things that take time that make the diffrence to the final finish.
the likes of polished bliss will take like 15 hours on just machine polishing but the end result will be 99.9% correction and better than it came off the production line
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