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Because someone might have changed their mind. Despite the polls showing that absolutrly no one has changed their mind. Polls that might or might not be accurate... At least that's what I've got from this thread.

I meant specifically with the Torqen undertray alone (unless that undertray comes with those other aero mods you mention). I just wondered if it’s a claim that Torqen could substantiate or if it’s an assumption based on something else. Also, from looking at the pictures posted here, I’m not sure the Torqen version has “more” venting. It’s certainly different, and will therefore affect the airflow differently, but there doesn’t appear (visually) to be “more” to me. Im not saying it doesn’t, by the way, I’ve not conducted any testing of it to suggest that, I was merely enquiring as to the basis of the claim.

Out of interest, what’s this claim based on? Have you actually tested both to compare or is it just an assumption because it’s the one you’re selling?

Polished Bliss are now offering Bilt Hamber freebies with orders over £40 until 14:00 on 11th December instead of the Gyeon deal.

(Also, 12).

Even with Kinetix sports cats there’s always the chance they won’t pass an emissions test. Like any other sports cats, they need to be warmed up properly and “prepared” for an MOT. Your safest bet is OEM (or equivalent) cats. It’s not on you to worry about the cost, as admirable as that is. If the dealer won’t pay for new OEM cats return the car - it’ll cost them a lot more to do that anyway!

I hate to say I told you so.... so I won't. Sorry, on a more useful note; why are you looking at 2nd hand cats, but brand new sports cats? Get Nissan to provide a quote for a new set of standard cats or another garage to provide a quote for an new set of OEM equivalents. If the dealer doesn't want to pay for that then fine; you reject the car, get a full refund and walk away.

Equally pointless when using FK1000P, TBH; the solvents in FK will just remove a glaze anyway. Agreed if using a carnauba wax that plays nicely with the glaze, but not with 1000P. Although, if you're going to the effort using a machine polisher you might as well do some actual correction with it (even if it's just light correction), so I'd suggest at the very least an AIO with a fine cut. But again, not with FK. With FK I'd just go for a pure fine cut compound.

No. If you're going to use it at all for wax, use it for applying not buffing. And only ever use a finishing pad! To be honest, using a DA to apply wax (especially FK1000P which is incredibly easy to use) is overkill and actually more effort than not, but if you really want to use it then use it to put the wax on & buff by hand.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Even if they accept the whole exhaust needs to be replaced (and I'm not convinced of that at all) it'll cost them considerably more than £1,500 to collect, fix, re-stock and re-sell the car. Even if they are the dodgiest dealer outside of Keighley and decide not to fix it, it's still likely to cost more than that to collect, re-stock & re-sell.

At least they don't charge you anything for not putting it on in the first place this time!

It's that time of year again when the post Black Friday/Cyber Monday week, pre-Christmas offers are starting to pop up, so I thought it was time to start a thread an save (or cost!) people some money. So post up any offers you want to share. I'll start with our own resident Wax & Shine - https://waxandshine.co.uk/news-and-special-offers - who are currently offering 10% off voucher with all purchases until Christmas. Car Chem - are doing their 12 days of Christmas offer again, starting at 10am on 1st Dec; http://car-chem.com/store/product/special With the added bonus that if you spend over £150 (in total at the end of the 12 days) during the sale period you get a 30ml Ceramic coat & Gloss coat 50ml for free. And Polished Bliss are currently offering free Gyeon goodies on all orders over £50 - https://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/specials/special-offers - but this will end at 14:00 on Tuesday the 4th of December 2018 or when they run out of free Gyeon bestsellers, whichever comes sooner (availability of the free Gyeon bestsellers is limited). I'll add any others as I find them.

They can run the battery farms in their front rooms. Leave the free range stuff to those with gardens or ground floor flats. There you go, I have solved everything.

It looks just like the... previous 63 versions.

At least I haven't let slip that Gyeon have been sponsoring me years...

Whilst certain brands may not appreciate my test, Car Chem certainly did.... so much so, that as a thank you they have sent me their new Car Cosmetics Trio Kit (currently on a Black Friday sale, by the way; http://car-chem.com/store/car-cosmetics/black-friday-sale-detailing) on them. Cheers guys, especially Luke. My understanding is that is Super Suds Shampoo is based on their 1900:1 shampoo (which I'm a fan of), Hydro Seal sounds like it is/based on Hydro Coat (which I'm a fan of) and Iron Detox I expect is/based on Revolt (I'm sure you know how I feel about that by now!), so I'm looking forward to trying these out. Expect reviews! (Just don't expect them soon...)

Yep, there must be other factors involved besides the concentration of the active ingredient, otherwise all offerings would be the exact same formula (such as IPA) so Pete’s comment about my test not doing certain products justice because on paper they should work better is a bit of questionable logic, IMO.

You can make it up to me by paying me for my detailing. I’d be a pro then.

It was a well reasoned, if somewhat political, response. I have to admit that I completely disagree with his penultimate paragraph about the capacities of the products - perhaps it's just my layman (mis)understanding, but if capacity were the all important factor on performance, surely the only ingredient in every fallout remover would be thioglycolate...?

Per the condensed thread; In the spirit of fairness on the fallout remover test, Bilt Hamber have posted the following in response to this particular test; http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=410032

In the spirit of fairness on this, Bilt Hamber have posted the following in response to this particular test; http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=410032

To be honest, I wouldn't give it a second thought unless it happened consistently with one product/manufacturer. It would be a different matter if the product ate through the bottle or something like that, but one isolated minor issue wouldn't even register. I would, if the product leaked from new, contact the supplier for a replacement and then immediately forget about the failure, tbh.

I strongly and wholeheartedly disagree.

Foaminess means absolutely nothing to the performance of a shampoo. It's purely, 100% aesthetics and has no impact on "best" shampoo by any (rational) measure. He might as well have judged them on the number of packing peanuts used for delivery!