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    z needs good clean...recommendations?

    in Car Detailing

    Posted

    If your not too much of a brand whore you can get most of your stuff from halfords. You can't really go wrong with meguiars stuff its pretty well liked with amatures and professionals alike.

     

    Here is my recommended must gets:

     

    Kit:

     

    2x Buckets (1 for washing 1 for rinsing your washmit), cheapo's from halfords or tescos will be fine.

     

    1x Washmit (preferably sheepskin or the like something with a deep pile), available from Halfords for around £10

     

    1x Sponge or another washmit (this is for doing the surface of your alloys) again Halfords £couple of quid.

     

    1x long reach alloy brush (try and get one without the wire core as I find they keep bending and breaking), Halfords again.

     

    2x Applicator sponges (for applying wax/polish/rimwax/alloy sealent etc), the meguiar ones from HF are good and one about a fiver.

     

    1-2x Large weaved drying towel (essential for drying without dragging grit all over your nice swirl free paint), you may have to look online for one but you can get a very good quality one for around £10.

     

    1x Pack of microfibre cloths (for polishing/buffing and cleaning) Halfords £5ish

     

    1x Pack fine wire wool (for your tailpipes)

     

    Lots of rags for engine bay. exhaust and general dirty bits.

     

     

    Product Suggestions:

     

    Clean - Meguiars Gold Class or NXT Gen Shampoo (Halfords)

     

    Alloys - Bilberry (Buy online) PM Bulletmagnet for dilution ratio's (sorry mate) :blush:

     

    Clay Kit - Meguiars Clay Kit and Quick detailer pack (Halfords) £25 ish

     

    Exterior Plastics - Poorboys trim restorer (Halfords)

     

    Interior Plastics - Meguiars Interior Detailer (Halford)

     

    Engine Bay - AG Engine Deagreaser (Halfords)

     

    Polish - Wouldn't worry about this too much as GM is quite forgiving with swirls and hand polishing is quite hard work for little gains.

     

    Wax - I would recommend Colinite 472, a very hard and duarable wax, also works great on alloys (interweb)

     

    Autosol - Tailpipes (Halfords)

     

    Leather - Any leather cleaner and conditioner will work ok.

     

    Wheels/Tyre Shine - Meguiars Hot Rims (Halfords)

     

    So as you can see for your basic needs Halfords is fine, as you get more into detailing you will move on to different products.

    I would also suggest you save up for a decent powerwasher/foamlance and snowfoam, it helps no end on the initial cleaning stages.

     

     

    Good luck and happy cleaning

     

     

    R B)

    What are you doing at work.

    in Off Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Just finished doing root canal treatments, extractions and all sorts.... :yawn:

     

    At least the money from the last service of the Z is back into my bank account....and it was a few Gs....god i love my job!!! :yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

     

     

    No wonder it cost me £1500 to have my wisdom teeth extracted, it's to pay for new sports clutches for dentists zeds!!!! :rant:

     

    R

    Footwell Lighting - Rice or Nice?

    in Interior

    Posted

    Hey, just found this thread and though it would be a good little project for when i get home.

    Just wandering, i noticed that you say there are 3 wires to tap into "black, red and pink" however most of the LED bars a have found are only + and -, am I missing a trick here?

     

    Cheers

     

    R

    350Z sunglasses: OAKLY or RAY BANS??

    in Off Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Von Zippers all the way!

     

    Raybans sat in the sunglasses holder and the more pimpin' Von Zipper 'Stache' in white found in the centre console B)

     

    Those are the VZ's I have, they are really smart, got them over in the states so saved a bit of cash on them B)

     

    R

     

    Ditto...... they were $110 over there so very cheap compared to here. They don't fit in the sunglasses holder though

     

    Hmmm mine do, they require a bit more persuation than the CD's though.

     

    R

    Bet you've heard it all before...

    in Introductions & Welcome Messages

    Posted

    Hey, welcome, here is my 2 cents:

     

    350z - Pros: Looks fantastic, Sounds great, Drives great, Decent power output and torque and you don't see too many kicking around (unless your scottish :lol:)

    Cons: ECU cancelling means a pain in the ass to get any more power from the engine unless you go the FI route.

     

    S2000 - Pros: Looks nice enough, Reliable, Reasonably quick

    Cons: Small engine and VTec means you need to rev the nuts off to move anywhere, therefore no low end torque.

     

    Audi TT - Pros: Turbo is easily tuned.

    Cons: They are very common, quite a boring drive and no one will let you out of a junction again as you drive an audi (except fellow hairdressers).

     

    MX5 - Pros: Cheap and easy to throw around

    Cons: Looks like you have borrowed it off your mum

     

    Z4 - Pros: Looks great, engine is rock solid and finish is excellent

    Cons: You will always wish it was an MSport and you will loose the ability to be able to indicate effectivly prior to performing any manouver.

     

    Go on you know you want one!

     

     

    R

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