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Stutopia

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  1. As Col says, the PB site is superb, it also includes info about how they use the products, as well as reviews. There's no need to spend a fortune, you'll be surprised at how few products you need for decent maintenance wash, and the specialist items like clay or trim restorer or tar/bug remover or wheel sealants, you don't need to buy that often. They'll build up over time. Also consider buying the routine stuff in bulk, like 5 litres of snow foam, it's always better value. You can use a mitt on your wheels, just not the same one as goes on your paint (get a different colour/style so you don't accidentally confuse them). My wheel "stuff" (including my bucket) never touches/shares water with anything that touches paint. Wheel woolies are brilliant for getting in the barrel and around the caliper, I'd suggest a big one and a small one, but a mitt is fine if you're keeping costs down. In terms of your outlined "routine", I tend to wash my wheels whilst the snow foam is working, as watching the foam drop off is tedious. I don't use fallout on the paint every time, as I just don't think it's needed. Clay when you need to, I personally don't agree with doing it at a regimented regular interval. Use your hands, fingertips or the back of your hand, slide along on wet, washed paint, you'll feel if clay is needed as it won't be glass like. I don't polish every time, just after when I've clayed. I'm a big believer in touching it as little as possible. If you get a decent sealant on the paint, then that's half the battle, maintenance washes become a doddle and it's only the big quarterly or so days that I tend to break everything out. As Col says, read ilogikal1's testing thread, you'll see how good protection saves loads of effort on wash time
  2. Nice one. Pinned and moved to 370z guides.
  3. We should have devalued the pound sooner to boost exports.
  4. Don't recall ever reading about a snapped crank on here, but I think even the strongest supporters of LW flywheels freely admits to some chatter at low revs.
  5. I'd be surprised. I know several packs are still running in the Lakes now, that we're running when I was a kid in the late 80s and early 90s, doing the scent/trail stuff. There's still hunt protesters too, chasing them round and apparently they're getting modern and droning up!
  6. Growing up in the country I know a few people who aren't going to be pleased with that. I can't believe they fell for the idea something so politically toxic might have made a comeback Has anyone seen Emma Double-Barrelled from the DUP anti modern world negotiation team? I'd pretend to not believe in dinosaurs if she asked nicely.
  7. Humidity sucks. I spent a couple of weeks in the Amazon, it was so humid you couldn't get dressed fast enough after a shower to know what dry clothes felt like. Then when I ran out of clean clothes, I'd wash them in the shower, this amount of exertion caused me to start sweating, which was crazy because the showers only supplied cold water!!!
  8. Sorry that was my edit of the title on the "throughing lights", will correct.
  9. Missing a brake light? Brake fluid absolutely spot on MAX?
  10. I think Zmanalex has these, defo worth a PM.
  11. Tick followed tock followed tick followed tock... Don't forget to delete those sensitive PMs.
  12. When I wuz touring the US of A, just outside Mobile Alabama, I done seen a man smoking a seegarette whilst filling up his hog in the gas station. He didn't blow up none, but I sure as heck got the **** out of there perty darn quick!!!
  13. Definitely! Although like buses I see another set have now come up for sale on here.............typical eh! I wish they came in 5x100 PCD
  14. I've been purging paypal and bank details like there's no tomorrow. All I'm keeping is the pictures of Dan with a hangbag, and that's only for private use.
  15. Black 350z Hornby Road, Blackpool just now (6:30 on 17/6/17), needs a wash?
  16. I like the 4/5 door, struck me as a fun practical car!
  17. You bought at the right time G, with the pound now at rock bottom. Saw a couple for sale in Japan when googling this morning, talk about tempting, this is a cast iron rare classic of the future. There were probably more 2000GTs made than 380RSs and look what they're worth now!
  18. Thanks for that Matt, you've inspired me. Ordered a Pi3 today, my 1st gen pi is too slow for any fun, it's just been chugging along running XBMC. However, I flattended it and have put it to use today by getting familiar with command line. Also as you mentioned it, attempting to SSH in from my MacBook. This worked brilliantly as I can get shot of the clunky old keyboard and mouse getting in the way. Played with tightvncserver too, so I can go headless on the Pi. The only downside is I can't press # on my mac keyboard, despite a dozen attempts at configuring Raspbian Gonna have a play with RetroPie tomorrow and see what that throws up
  19. So basically I'm on the first step to becoming Lewis Hamilton!
  20. The biggest problem is that we don't even know what we want, beyond the obviously laughable: - free access to the market - part of the customs union - end of free movement - end of ECJ jurisdiction - stop paying in - moon on a stick Tenner says we end up with what Norway has, which is all the rules, but no say in making them and still paying in, all to ensure clearing doesn't leave the precious ones in the City who still owe us a trillion pounds (which will be about 70 euros before long). Then we'll call it strong and stable FREEDOM!
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