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Summer has sprung. Breakfast meet and Cotswold drive out. Private grass parking booked for the club. Lovely backdrop of the Cotswold hills, perfect for car photos. This was one of the 2023 highlights for the club, not to be missed. Coffee, breakfast, friends and cars ✅ Location: Cotswold Barn Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0QZ Google pin drop as their post isn't very accurate 51.965402,-1.754495 Time: 9:30am Date: Sunday 14th July Pre meet: Notcutts Stratford Road Shirley Solihull B90 4EN Time: 8:15am All cars welcome 🤗

Shocker, seller bigs up his own product 😉 PPF will protect the paint, but never looks as good as naked paint. Coatings will look the best, but can still chip. Personally I’d go coating every time, avoid the ultra cheap but anything after a certain price is much of a muchness. It’s all about the prep (so machine polishing before is a must, even on a brand new car) and how it’s applied, it’s really not that difficult to do no matter what professionals say. I’ve done a Gallardo Spider and a Skoda Supervb, both very different vehicles with very different paints but the application was the same, and the results equally as worth the effort.

Details going up shortly 😁

Oh and research which ceramic coating you're getting. Gtechniq is widely offered at car showrooms but not as great as others from my research. I'll be getting Kamikaze Enrei applied on mine. From the person I'll be getting it done from... "This is an accredited pro only two part coating, consisting of a primer and top coat. Its a tough, durable coating and offers the best looks I have ever seen. Extremely hydrophobic too. This is an expensive product and takes a lot of time to apply correctly."

PPF if you're likely to get stonechips. You won't have the same look but the protection is unrivalled against other ceramic coating or waxing. My dad has it on his F8 and it still looks great. I've always been a wax by hand person until last month where I used a snow foam applied si02 coating from auto finesse called lavish. It's not as long lasting as a ceramic coating and only last up to 6 months they say. Tried it as a quick cheap test (£16 per bottle and last 2 washes). But OMG it's amazing and if a ceramic coating is much better and longer lasting then I'm definitely doing that once I've got my stone chips repaired.

Ceramic coating is honestly the answer. It will lock that colour in and it will look like the paint is wet and glossy for 5-7 years. Won’t scratch and your cleaning process will be done in twenty mins. No need to polish the car. No brainier..Here’s mine. Original 1989 paint ceramic coated. Stays like this. Wash, beads like hell and dries off in a few mins to look like this from dirty . All I’ve done is wash it. No polishing . Think what your stunning car will look like it . Standard photo , no photoshopping or clever stuff. look up ceramic coating on YouTube.

I would go for PPF

1 day left folks 😁 all cars welcome, let's see that support

Yeah i've been considering ceramic coating but i dont know enough about it... i pinged my local detailer a message to see if he does it, and he says he doesn't, but also tried to talk me out of it saying there are better things on the market nowadays, such as graphene, or alternative hard coats that are much cheaper and don't require the ongoing maintenance? I need to do some research, but if anyone has any advice please share!!

Most in the UK are copies made by RT Performance at Wembley. Took a copy of Wassos original over ten years ago. Mine came from RTP when I owned the car.

Do quite like the look of the chargespeed rear bumper apart from the ugly JDM number plate recess. Nismo V1 style spats, Tarmacsportz diffuser and custom spoiler lip.

If I could find one for sale yes, would do the same as you and have the "bumper tuck" - not too sure how I feel about vents though

Couldn't agree more - currently would love to have something with a JDM square plate, a lot of options but cant decide

Matching with my ones on my supercharged 350z

Chargespeed ?.

Thanks Andy.

What point are you trying to make ? It’s not genuine and he’s a scammer !

Nice build so far, looks good Rear bumper needs something to balance the front/sides and the spoiler. Too many zeds leave the rear bumper standard and for me it always looks incomplete and top heavy with a bigger spoiler Even rear spats make a huge difference

Looks great!

There are a few things in the plans going forward but that brings us to everything done up until the day this thread was first made Here's a teaser for the future...

An ISR burnt tip exhaust was a much needed change over my quiet milltek (much to the dismay of my neighbours) This one is a bit of a love hate relationship as it sounds amazing when WOT but I do find it to make more noise than I'd want while cruising at 70 - hoping I get used to this one

Managed to get my hands on some DEPO smoked headlights to make the car look more modern - aside from the fogging issues, I've got to say I'm in love

The rear end has looked really empty considering all of the other mods - so I treated myself to a V2 Nismo Style rear wing with a Carbon blade. I won't be naming where I got this from as the fitment of the part and the service I received from the company that sold it to me were far below expectation (plus it arrived 10 months after ordering despite being quoted an 8 week lead time) With some heat (and stronger screws) my spoiler found its way onto the car

Bring back underglow!