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The point of today's update? Just to show the state of Gyeon Prime after 5 months, or rather 22 weeks to the day, since application (way back on page 7 in case you were interested). Since it's application, the car's only seen maintenance washes with no product top-ups since the sacrificial layer of Cure upon application - although I did use Bathe+ for one of the washes in December (on page 10) and Nanolex Reactivating Shampoo two weeks ago. I appreciate the car's still wet but this is the best picture I got of the shiny, glossy, shiny shine of the finish. The beading and sheeting is still bloody impressive too. Roof. Vertical beading on the rear door. Bonnet Surprisingly difficult to get good beading shots on a white car today but they'll do.

I found this suitably abandoned on my drive this (foggy) morning. I can't be having filthy cars sat outside my house, I have a reputation to uphold! Luckily the fog lifted and took the dirt with it. Much better.

"Best" in terms of what? If you want the best cleaner, either Car Chem (currently the cheapest & on offer until the end of Feb) or Bilt Hamber or Auto Finesse. None of which are particularly thick foam (Avalanche being the thinnest) but all offer far superior cleaning. If you want something that just looks good but does little else then use Magifoam. I can't (in good conscience) suggest where to buy that though. If you want both... then good luck with that.

It's Keyser's cunning plan to hide the fact that he's painted it neon pink...

A valid point. Perhaps "a customer's car" would be better phrasing.

To be fair, if they'd had brains they wouldn't be doing stupid speeds on public roads, let alone in someone else's car, much less whilst they were "at work". Just saying.

It's a third the price of every other remotely similar car, of course it's a scam!

I prefer the old one. Not really. The new plate is much better! Finishes it all off nicely.

That!

But it's "solid carbon fibre". And it's got a whole 70 mile range. Seventy miles! Well worth every penny...

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.

Good point, I'd forgotten they do free adverts any more.

They know of this type of scam - there's warnings all over Pistonheads about this scam but specifically claiming that Pistonheads are the holding company for the car - but can't do anything to stop the adverts appearing. Once they're reported, they usually get taken down quite quickly.

Who are you and what have you done with Graham?

The lack of mattresses on any of the beds also doesn't exactly tie in with the surviving hung jacket or the "left in a hurry" story either. Still some interesting stuff in those photos regardless.

At the other end of the car. DJ Acrylic Spritz, Gyeon Cure and Nanolex Reactivating Shampoo look like this on the boot; The visible difference between the three products is less noticeable today, although that could be because the water from the roof & rear window above the Nanolex strip insisted on running off right down the Nanolex strip every time, so that could be hiding the difference a little bit. All three are sheeting very well still though (barring that one small patch on the front of the Cure side). Cure looks like this; DJ Acrylic Spritz looks like this; Nanolex Nanowax on the rear bumper is holding up well, sheeting is still very good and beading looks like this (compared to Cure on the quarter panel); The beading of Cure, CC PTFE Glaze, Hydro Coat & G1 on the glass for comparison; Beading comparison of DJ Acrylic Spritz to Hydro Coat, PTFE Glaze and G1; Nanolex Trim Rejuvinator on the grille; Hubikote HubiTrim side of the grille; Incidentally, I managed to lose one of the Waxybox foam finger applicators behind the grille when applying the HubiTrim. It sprung out the back of the grille somewhere near the middle, presumably onto the undertray beneath... Despite my best efforts, I've still not found it. Even Maxolen Multimax on the badge has outlasted Ultra Violet. Gyeon Tire is holding up well on the tyres as is FK/Dr Beasley's on the exhaust and the Wolf's stuff on the wheels too - all meant that the relevant parts were clean after the snow foam. In case anyone was wondering, I went for Hydro Coat on the skirts but didn't use the PTFE Glaze under it like I did on the roof (I did use the Cleaner again though). That's all. I think.

All clean again so time for a 3-days-out-of-the-garage-110 mile-jaunt-one-wash-later update. First up MadCow Ultra Violet on the front wings. Now you know how they say first impressions are everything? "They" lie! First impressions of this were good. Very good in fact. Second impressions... not so much. It appears to have vanished with the traffic film after just the one wash. This currently places UV firmly in the QD category for me - it leaves a great finish when it's first applied, but it simply doesn't last. To put it in contrast, here it is compared to Dodo Juice Supernatural Acrylic Spritz on the door. Also compared to Gyeon Cure on the other door. Yes I noticed that patch on Cure too. The rest of it seems good though. As was Acrylic Spritz on the other side. Car Chem Hycro Coat & PTFE Glaze doing well too. The waxes on the bonnet don't have much left in them though. All are suffering in terms of beading but seem to be holding in there. Sheeting is a different matter though, however due to the battery in the camera deciding it had, had enough there are no pictures of that. Dead battery swapped out for a fresh one and we have; Edition 18 - sheeting has slowed and is inconsistent over the section but is still present in part. Vitreo - sheeting is moderate and relatively consistent with just the front edge suffering at the moment. Graphite/unlabelled stuff - very similar to Vitreo but more consistent over the full section still. Edition 19 - sheeting has basically given up across the whole section now. Edition 20 (lighter one? I can't remember any more!) - sheeting is on par with 18 with similar inconsistency across the section. Edition 20 (whatever the last one was, this is the other one ) - sheeting is fairly consistently poor over the section now, marginally better than 19 but not convincing. So 8 weeks in for these waxes, 19 & lower 20 are pretty much dead, upper 20 and 18 are fairly compromised, Graphite/unlabelled pot & Vitreo are starting to fade. Edition 21 on the bumper is looking like a wax that's 7 weeks younger.

Bluetooth cradle. You'll need the module that clips into it which come up for sale on occasion on here, no doubt on popular auction sites as well. It doesn't work with every phone any more though (most still do), so it may be a waste of money to buy a module.

Buyer's Guide.

I misremembered big numbers. It's only 110 miles, which makes all the difference obviously. That's after just the second time it's left the drive since it was clean, and most of it was from this one journey. No cow **** though... plenty of road salt, mud, horse **** & general grubbiness of the yokels, but no cow ****.

Cheers Graham. Erm... there "might" be about 20 different products on it currently. It was clean(ish) when I set off, I swear! Being only the second time that it's left the drive since it looked like this... ... I can only blame the state of the roads today.

Cheers Andy. I was hoping the fog would hide the filth.

So which is it then, silver or blue?

Cheers Will, it's (some of) the Humber Bridge.

I remember when my Z looked like this A mere 140 miles later though Sigh. Anyway, before most of that filth happened, this happened on the boot; Micro-beading! You (well, I) can still see the Nanolex stripe. The difference between DJ Acrylic Sptriz (right) is more pronounced than with Gyeon Cure (left) but there is still a noticeable difference in the beading. Below is Cure on the left, Nanolex on the right (with DJ AS sneaking into view on the far right); Nanolex on the right (Cure on the far right), DJ AS on the left; The beading from both AS & Cure is fairly similar with the Nanolex offering longer, flatter beads, however the Cure side seems to blend into the Nanolex more than the definitive line at the edge of the DJ AS. Cure left, Nanolex right; Nanolex left, DJ AS right; Elsewhere; Car Chem Hydro Coat & PFTE Glaze getting in on the action. PTFE Glaze (below the black trim); Hydro Coat (above the black trim); There's not a huge difference, but the PTFE beading seems a little tighter and taller to me. That's all for today.