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right to clear up a few myths 1. poorboys black hole is not a polish; its a glaze; it will need a polish before you use it and a wax after to seal it. 2. dodo products are not high end products but midrange; their most expensive wax is about 70 quid. if you want expensive try something like some of the swisswax pots which start at about 100-150 a pot. 3. according to the boys at meguairs (i was at their detailing seminar) you cant layer wax. at most a second coat will get the bits you missed. 4. a wax will only shine as good as the prep work you put into it. there are lots of threads on detailing, there was a detailing competition that had lots of people put pic heavy posts up of how they detailed their car. plus lots of other posts on how to detail. if it helps this is my routine -snow foam car -rinse -wash car (megs gold class shampoo) -rinse -dry car with waffle weave cloth -clay bar car with dodo born slippy and megs detailing clay (i only do this every 6 months) -clean paint with dodo lime and prime lite or megs paint cleaner -polish car with megs polish (part of the 3 stage clean kit) -glaze car with poorboys black hole glaze (i do this probably 1 to 2 times every 6 months)(it fills in and hides swirls) -wax car with dodo purple haze pro wax (it has red mist in it) -seal car with dodo red mist -dress tyres with megs tyre gel -clean windows with PIAA glass cleaner, then add PIAA glass protect (also have PIAA wipers and wash fluid) go in and have beer some of these steps i miss out depending on weather/time/what was last done etc if i'm in a hurry i just wash and wax. but only because alot of the prep work has already been done so its just like topping it up and renewing the wax layer. this is not the bible version for doing it, everyone has their own favourite products and methods for doing it, and even order of doing things. start of with a few products and build up your process. i didn't start with this i've built up to that over 5 years and just started by washing the car once a month to doing all that.

it will be rwd it said so in the article and with the turbo'd 1.8 and low weight it will not only be quicker than the zed but cheaper to run. can;t complain at that. i hope this is the start of light weight economical cars which are still perofrmance biased and fun to drive. this kind of engineering will be the future especially until electric/hydrogen cars can really take over at an affordable cost.

dodo is good, if you want it to shine its all about the polish wax is just a protective layer, give it a good polish first then a protective layer of wax to maintain the shine from the polish. lots of other stages you can add to this but thats enough to get you started. wax goes along way; also dodo do tester panel pots for about 10 quid so you can try before buying a massive pot and finding you don't like it. i can get about 7 cars out of a panel pot. dodo i found is really easy to work with goes on and comes off pretty easy.

did you see the pic of the steering wheel; who ever signed that off as a good idea needs shooting. looks aweful in the pic

sad to see another good soldier lost. my respects to his family and friends

glad to see all is well amy, look forward to seeing the Del

radicals? the westfield is great and even at twice your weight its still a great car, been out in a couple with driver and passengar and it copes fine with the weight. i'm not light at 18 stone for a cheap track toy anything light weight and probably kit car form is going to be good.

i had the roof down yesterday and it actually felt warm, i always have the roof down, but this time i didnt need my coat on

Toyota: Rebuild of the MR2 or a proper old celica with 4WD rally spec Honda: bring back the S2000 or a new NSX :cloud 9: Pug: 205GTi and the old 306GTi6 awesome little hot hatches, such a shame pug stopped building class hot hatches Rover: rover tomcat or SD1 Alfa: bring back the GTV

i don't like the nose, i hated the whale mouth on the pugs and i don't like that.

i love black hole glaze, i have it and use it on my car, but really need to sort out a DA polisher first to get the best job done, i have some swirls that even BHG wont hide.

why not run it as a club competition, peopel don't need to be perfect artists as some one graphics based could turn the winning design into the real thing. i'd happily help do that. maybe have a prize for the winner or something?

my wife just got herself an imac today, so shall she how she gets on with it. i'm sticking with upgrading my desktop for now. got win 7 coming soon, might get some more ram and a bigger graphics card and see then

I heard he once turned water into wine. but he's not the messiah...........

dont go in fields with bulls in them?

sorry to see you had a bad day

haven't spomked enough weed to mkae the most of that

+1

ghey!

t cut = bad, might as well try a brillo pad if your using t cut

i'd look at event as well, admittedly i get a 20% discount i think if i use them

when cars first came out you had to have a person walk in front of the car waving a flag so people new there was a car coming. having to put a light on really isnt that big a fuss is it?

whats your new weapon of choice?

if i got the alfa i'd go see these guys http://www.alfacare.co.uk/Servicing/Home.htm removes alot of the reliability issues from the alfa, as the DPF is one of the things that seems to cause issues, with it gone your looking at 260bhp and better MPG