davey_83

A short lived pleasure, but treat nonetheless on a grey and gloomy winter's morning. Her fresh winter coat doing its thing, which il most like top up between washes.

Ello n welkom

Yes the GT4 is a pre facelift car with the RevUp engine

Looks a grand job and no need to spend big for great results

Thought to have a pre Winter clean out of most of my cleaning products and good job one of my tar and glue remover had a fallen over, with a nice loose cap. Needless to say my travel storage bag is nice and clean now at least. Combined a couple of partially used spray detailers and tyre dressings, binned off any old sample items and nearly finished bottles. Will need to sort out my DA's kits, pads, towels, applicators and general micro fibres as I need better storage for these. Yes i have an addition, but she's worth it

One of the very first things I did was wheel alignment, never had a car with 18's as standard so didn't want to possibly scrub them out. All the best for the shoot tomorrow.

Oh yeahhhh

I've pretty much swapped brand of oil every oil change since ownership, had Motul, Castrol, Shell, Fuchs 5w30 or 5w40 to which the car felt best on Castrol 5w30 C3 stop start.

Saw a nice photo opportunity at work from the 2nd floor, can't beat an end space next to a passenger door.

I use BH Autofoam from a spray bottle as a pre wash and feel it works very well at 10:1, plus you can add warm water for even more horse power. Snowfoam wise I use this and have good results. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pro-Kleen-232813-Neutral-Super-Non-Caustic/dp/B00ULG757Y https://streamable.com/q8cc7

Looks grand, welcome aboard

Well done fella

Nice one chap, fairly dear for 501's but worth it for piece of mind.

I had apologised via pm

I had the same dilemma whereby like the look of LED sidelights but knew they can be temperamental and when access is poor, needed something longlife. Bought the below and they've been fitted over 3yrs with no issue. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-127996000KX2-X-tremeVision-6000K-CeraLight/dp/B00OYT1322/ref=sr_1_5?crid=35S39U21ANE6O&keywords=philips+501+led+bulbs&qid=1573896381&sprefix=501+led+bulb+phili%2Caps%2C368&sr=8-5

Since moving in and the road had nice down LED's, with replacing the defective one the new installment looks a different style to the old one. In an hour or so time il see what's what. This is the 'highlight' of my day lol Edit - it's grand, council tax doing its job. Lights the road, foot path and part of the drive.

Yeah exactly, folks at work say why bother if you know it's going to get mucky the day after? I say do you not clean your house before a party, even though you know it'll need doing soon after - works every time. As the nights draw in, any evening wash I do will be in the dark and just today Amey have been out to install a bright LED unit to replace the defective one outside the property - result.

Cheers, you clearly know more than most about detailing however I would say since my first car meet various members have commented on how great my cars paintwork looks. I've been passionate about car care like most for many years and looking online, I've not seen any evidence to suggest my practices are lacking. Bought these a week too late, as could have done with them for my annual wheel and spacer swap. Need an excuse to whip a wheel off now as it's service isn't till march either. In typical fashion, hours spent cleaning and it rains that very night huff

Cheers for the reply, no evidence provided to confirm FL leaves anything that a stream of cold water couldn't remove. Very well might be an idea to start an new thread if you can't provide the back up.

I'm totally at a lost what element of fairy liquid will be able to sit comfortably on top of a wax and remains after washing. Polish and waxes contains oils, weather I have food on my hands are grease, oil or been gardening or any kind of general grime I reach for the FL and not IPA. "wash of wax with plain water?" not sure what to do with that tbh. Ultimately if you are speaking from experience that's all well and fair for actually using FL or can present evidence, I'm speaking from experience and I've not known a different when washing up and finally rinsing with cold or hot water. Using a warm bucket of suds with a good ratio of FL goes a long way to removing any old polish and wax, the paintwork doesn't bead at all however does sheet water slowly. I could be completely wrong and now I have a layer of polish, wax, fairy liquid, polish and now wax again. I know one thing, I'm set for the winter in that case.

It's also breaks down grease and grime from old food and drink, it won't be leaving much on our washed and rinsed plates if anything as plates are designed to be eaten off. How do surfactants clean... by breaking down what they come into contact with allowing media to the rinsed away. Thanks for playing? Please troll another build thread if immaturity is your sketch.

Some seriously tasty stuff there for sure, hopefully you got to hear plenty too.

and yet...

Literally done this for years and never ran into any issues, plus my hands felt so soft.