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I was left at a loose end after my partner in crime was called into her work for some emergency paperwork (or something like that. Probably. I might not have been listening) today, so with a camera and nothing better to do with my day I did this. The car was clean(ish) when I set off. As you can see, it wasn't for long. There's a bridge in that somewhere... honest.

I'm just going to leave this here in case anyone missed it first time....

Don't you just hate it when your "leather interior passenger side bumper" gets "smashed" by snow though? That damned snow!

That. Well, you're not wrong at least.

Assuming what you put in at Shell was of similar density to the fuel already in the tank, then yes it would mix (probably before you've even moved actually) meaning that you've mixed whatever the two liquids are 2:1. As Ekona alluded to, if whatever you've put in at Shell is anything remotely resembling petrol, even lower octane stuff, it's unlikely to have such a dramatic effect so instantly - it'd probably be enough to cause det and the associated damage of running low octane fuel in the long term of course, but not to cause these symptoms. For that almost instant result, you'd have to have added something completely different to petrol at Shell. If the new liquid was of a different density it could separate in the tank meaning that whatever was added at Shell is all that is being fed through to the engine... which wouldn't be resolved by adding more petrol to the tank at Tesco as the liquids would still separate. So that brings us back to Ekona's & Lexx's questions.

So, you added ~12 litres of Shell fuel to ~20litres of whatever was in the tank already and you think that this was enough to make it run rough after just "a few miles"? To be honest, that brings us back to;

I read it as he put a small amount in at Shell, noticed it running @*!#, then filled at Tesco. But regardless... That.

I don't think he belongs to anybody...

No problem.

One of my plans involved re-shelling it (that bodywork needs some serious attention really) which would negate the ****head neighbour issue because the issue is with that specific car... until he complained about the "new" car at least. Another one was to turn it into a track pig but funds haven't allowed thus far. With my current job-search, relocation is almost certain which would resolve the ****-next-door issue permanently which would just leave the finances to resolve, and man-maths will justify that. I've resisted selling it for 5 years with the thinly veiled intention to do something with it, I can resist a few more. It might still make it back on the road one day... possibly.

I presume you mean the Megs G220v2? The Das6 is a perfectly good machine. The Das6 Pro/Plus is basically the same thing with a slightly more powerful motor meaning it's less prone to bogging down which the Das6 can do with soft, small spot pads in particular. The G220 is essentially the same as the Das6 Pro/Plus but with a lower slowest speed... which you're unlikely to ever use anyway. I currently use the Das6 and I'd have no issue with recommending that but if I were buying again I would be tempted by the Pro/Plus version. My decision would be based entirely on budget in that circumstance - I'm not completely convinced the Pro/Plus is "worth" £40-odd over the standard after all. Pads - the easiest option is this (almost) complete kit with or without the machine - all I'd suggest on top of that is pad with no cut (like this or this for example) for glaze/wax/sealant if you plan on using your DA for those. If you want to get pads separately, I'd still recommend the Lake Country Hydro-Tech pads as per that kit. I know you haven't asked about them, but if you're after any compounds as well, I'd recommend Scholl S30+ and S20 over the Menz in that kit; although the Menz are very good polishes themselves and quite forgiving for a newbie to machine polishing, I find the Scholl just that little bit better for me & my technique.

Okay it's largely because it's broken... ish - after throwing literally thousands of pounds at it, the fly wheel which was only skimmed when the engine was rebuilt started to make broken noises, but it still runs so it went into the garage before it broke properly and until I could stomach throwing more money at it. Before that happened, I devised a cunning plan which meant more money. Whilst waiting for that money to magically appear, I devised another plan and so on and so forth. Now it's 5 years later and I've done nothing with it at all. At roughly the same time as it broke (again), my next door neighbour had been complaining to the council about anything he possibly could, the short version is that council decided the cause of his complaint was the Impreza so it's now technically illegal for me to start and/or run the Impreza on week days within an undisclosed distance from my house in case the noise "disturbs" the precious little ****wit. So I've been even more reluctant to throw money at it.

Partially because it's broken... ish, partly because my next door neighbour is a massive end of a bell. So now that, that's cleared up...

Incidentally, I should probably add that the reason I'm entertaining the idea of the **** poor paint on the Impreza influencing the outcome is largely because of this, shamelessly borrowed from a guy I follow on Instagram which shows very little difference between the two in his test;

Very much that.

I used up the dregs of HydrO2 on the rear end - with the small amount that I had left I could have covered about double the area but I wanted a three way comparison on the boot so I only did the rear facing vertical section of the boot & bumper with HydrO2 allowing both WetCoat and Hydrocoat on the rest for that comparison. Anyway, HydrO2 when rinsed off left it looking like this; Hydrocoat was applied on the driver's side of an imaginary line down the middle of the car and then rinsed - I was as careful as possible to spray & rinse away from that line to avoid cross contamination as much as possible. This was followed by doing the same with WetCoat on the passenger's side. They left the car looking like this immediately after rinsing; WetCoat side; Hydrocoat side; And more of the Hydrocoat side; WetCoat side; And some more of both again; WetCoat on the roof; Hydrocoat on the roof; Useage then ammounted to this much; Plus all of the HydrO2 of course. Although it should be noted that I was intentionally using more than I needed on some panels; in truth I'd probably use about a quarter less than that (total) amount on the whole car. Also, because the Impreza is the very definition of a garage queen (it's not seen a road or been further the drive in 5 years!) there will be no durability test on this occasion. Conclusions; ... well, semi-conclusions as there's a caveat (at the end). WetCoat and HydrO2 comaprisons are fairly well documented on this thread so I'll concentrate on how Hydrocoat compares to WetCoat. Hydrocoat works quite well and clearly adds effortless protection to the paint. However it's not performed quite as well as I'd hoped to be honest. Whilst WetCoat offers very consistent beading/sheeting throughout, Hydrocoat was less consistent on both counts - WetCoat offers tall, tight beading and very quick sheeting whereas Hydrocoat offers some very good, tall, tight beads surrounded by some very poor, flat patches and some areas of very quick sheeting and others of slower but more thorough sheeting. Which brings me to that caveat - the paint on the Impreza is ******* dreadfull, at best, with a very compromised top coat which may be affecting things. I intend to further test Hydrocoat - on better paint and playing with the dilutions perhaps - but at the moment, in terms of a spray on/rinse off sealant I'd have to recommend WetCoat as the best option with Hydrocoat being an acceptable, cheaper alternative (however it's worth remembering that Hydrocoat can also be used neat as a WOWO sealant too, which it is [so far] very good at).

Before I start; SuperStu, you might want to skip this one seeing as I've only recently convinced you to part with some money in exchange for WetCoat... Right then, ...so that happened today. I found a little bit of HydrO2 left in the bottle I used last time, so I figured I'd throw that at the car whilst I was at it. And by little bit, I mean exactly this much; So this is what I started with; WetCoat is used neat. HydrO2 was already diluted 3:1. Hydrocoat needed to be diluted 39:1, so this happened; The Car Chem instructions state to add 25ml of Hydrocoat to 975ml of water. So I measured out exactly 1litre of water, marked the level on the bottle on the left, removed exactly 25ml with a syringe, topped up the water to the markings with Hydrocoat. I then decanted 500ml (ish) into the smaller bottle on the right for easier use and usage comparison at the end. That done, I went outside and made it snow. When that was rinsed off the car I was left with; I'm fairly sure there's 4 waxes on the spoiler, but other than that I have absolutely no recollection of what product(s) was/were on there but there was something; So I figured I'd crack out the clay cloth in the hopes of removing whatever it was. Having gone over the car twice with the clay cloth and still seeing some protection on small parts, I resorted to cracking out the Tardis to kill off what was left. Which left me with this; There's probably the remnants of something still on there but for the most part it's near enough unprotected at this point. More to follow...

Go on then, I'll ask. Wrong Jetpilot..£32,000 per year minimum, So how is he wrong exactly? £32,000 minimum x 12 years = more than the minimum £320,000 suggested by Jetpilot. So... not wrong then. Also, Wouldn't cost a single penny. It does seem idiotic to lock him up rather than deport him, but ironically deporting him most likely would contravene his "Human Rights". It shouldn't, but it probably would.

Not such a daft suggestion after all then.

Change from a tenner? And I'd still feel robbed!

By the looks of it all you need to make that kit is a pop rivet gun, some 2mm sheet metal and a bit of string for the front splitter. Although it does look pretty interesting/cool "ish" "different". Fixed that for you both.

Most likely. By the sounds of it, merely having a phone in/near a passing car would trigger it.

Well that's a lot of use then...

Are you implying that Whacky's Fanny has been "well travelled"?

I have neither the excuse of binning the standard plinth weight nor supercharging. Yet.