Advice on how to polish my turds required, please

[anonymous user]

Having spent a lot of my childhood hand washing mini-buses and coaches my advice is get someone else to do it, if you have children they can be instructed/shouted at and only paid on acceptable results.

[beko1987]

VXRMarc. Seen worse/better tbh!

 

£5k polish sir? http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=291329

 

Imagine this cost fucking loads too http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=259920

 

You should have shown your brother this volksy before he sent his for the chop http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=331695

 

and a veryron, natch http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=211841

 

It's the sort of thing I'd love to get properly into, but it costs so much money for the kit. Paint reader meter thing is £500+, decent machine polishers can run into £4-500 etc. If I didnt have the missus and child I'd do it more, but whenever I ask if I can have some garage/driveway time at the weekend the missus has come in from a night shift and I have child whilst she sleeps...

 

It's why I'm pushing for a driveway at our new gaff,

[Richard]

I think that's the one. It's too tl;dr for me to find the total cost but I'm sure it was well into five figures.

[trigger]

I thought i was a bit odd scanning all these Autocar magazines, then i read these detailing posts over on DW and it makes me feel quite normal again!

[beko1987]

Could be worse, you could use your £160 machine polisher and ruined £25 worth of spot pads to polish hoovers, cos it's too cold to polish cars and I can never be bothered to anyway...

 

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23721

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

 

My journey started when the vxr brand manager asked me to Vauxhall HQ to view the new Limited Editon model and to view my thoughts...

Arriving at Vauxhall Headquarters i was quite excited as i had not seen one in the flesh...



Reception is astounding with waterfalls wither side of the front reception...

 

 

 

Vauxhall managers have Thought Viewing powers?  Who knew?

 

Also, the poor rube is impressed by some shitbox Corporate HQ with plastic fricken waterfalls.  Give me strength!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Note also that the twat's old car had four bald tyres after 15 months, which shows (a) that he drives like a mong, and (b] that he is a dangerous nutter as he spends his money on wax instead of new tyres.   Name the four most important things on any car, etc.   

[beko1987]

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=320939

 

More autoshite?

[FredTransit]

WTF 10k??! Over how long??

[Richard]

IIRC that was basically preparing the car for first use.

 

 

 

What is recommended for a tight and lazy git like me, who wants something that will have the car looking reasonably shiny and presentable and keep it that way for a while?

[beko1987]

Autoglym Super Resin Polish

Autoglym HD Wax

A Microfibre applicator pad to polish with

A few microfibre cloths to buff everything off with

Tyre dressing

Peanut butter/trim gel

 

All should be gettable from halfords for about £30, SRP and Wax will last a good few years.

[Junkman]

Well, I bought this now

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221367045342

 

this

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191057132223

 

and I already have that machine, which is one like this

 

 

and I got me a pack of pads for it.

 

Is there anything else I need right now?

[alf892]

One of my neighbours pays some bloke to come and polish his car 4 times a year at about 200 quid a go. Same bloke has a water filtering plant in his garage just for washing the car.......apparently car does not need leathering off afterwards. When it was new it went off to have the paint corrected.

 

It must give an inner satisfaction as when it is clean it looks much like another reasonably well cleaned motor

[Richard]

The first time I used T-Cut I couldn't help noticing how similar it was to Brasso, so I just bought an unbranded metal polish. If anything it was better at the job.

[trigger]

T-Cut is rubbish, That's G3 is much better at the job and much easier to use.

 

I've used one of those cheap polishers once in the past and found it rubbish, in fact i got a better result by doing it by hand.

[Mr Livered]

I thought that a thread about cleaning and polishing cars was a bit boring really. No big deal, each to his own etc; just an observation.

 

But that link appears to be an entire forum of people whose hobby is washing their cars and then describing the process at length.

 

Can that really be true? Or is it some kind of elaborate hoax/pisstake?

[wackywacerwill]

I've been using dead mans T cut for years though have thankfully now run out of it. I bought a machine from Lidl which looks a lot like junkmans one above and found it vibey and not that great. By hand is good exercise is nothing else.

[chaseracer]

I've been using dead mans T cut for years though have thankfully now run out of it. I bought a machine from Lidl which looks a lot like junkmans one above and found it vibey and not that great. By hand is good exercise is nothing else.

Fnarr.

[Junkman]

I've used one of those cheap polishers once in the past and found it rubbish, in fact i got a better result by doing it by hand.

 

Mine wasn't cheap. I just prefer the two-handle config over the angle grinder types.

[beko1987]

I thought that a thread about cleaning and polishing cars was a bit boring really. No big deal, each to his own etc; just an observation.

But that link appears to be an entire forum of people whose hobby is washing their cars and then describing the process at length.

Can that really be true? Or is it some kind of elaborate hoax/pisstake?

Nope, not a pisstake, we are out there... I helped next door sell his dads derv Mazda 6 by giving it a good clean and polish last year!

 

We should get some autoshite plates made up...

[trigger]

Mine wasn't cheap. I just prefer the two-handle config over the angle grinder types.

Let us know how you get on with it but I've found them not to be powerful enough and all they do is move the polish about and not actually polish it into the paintwork hence why I use a proper grinder type polisher instead (plus that what I used when I was in the trade).

[beko1987]

You need the speed to break down diminishing polishes. The buffers with 2 handles can't do that.

 

Will make it look better though

[Junkman]

If I use the Farecla G-Mop head and angle grinder type machine, how long does such a mop head usually last?

[trigger]

I can make a mop head last 3 complete car polishes provided you don't keep catching it on the trim and cutting chucks out of the foam.

 

You don't need to G3 a car every time anyway, once you've done it once and bought the paint back a normal polish is enough to keep on top of it I find.

[FredTransit]

A fucking long time I imagine! Although do it right once, and its easier in the future...

 

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=130464&highlight=transit

just realised there were six people on that Mk6. SIX! And it took em a day at least. OK so it had moss on it and they cleaned it to OCD standard but come on, no way is that realistic. Ahm oot.....

[beko1987]

Ha if you ever wanted one of your old trannies cleaned I'd love to help Fred!

[trigger]

I fancy a go at snow foaming my cars but the attachments seem a lot of money for the bottle/lance thingy.

[Mr Lobster]

Wtf is 'snow foaming'?

 

Quite enjoyed reading a bit of the detailing forum as I do enjoy a but of car cleaning although not to quite such an OCD level as some! I could get into that although it looks seriously expensive!

[Mr Lobster]

Ha if you ever wanted one of your old trannies cleaned I'd love to help Fred!

Are we still talking vehicles or is this something for a more 'specialist' forum

[beko1987]

I got my foam lance and some snow foam for £41 on a group buy. Is ace, although us going a bit limescaly. If you have previously waxed up, foam does lift a surprisingly large amount of rubbish off.

 

In the depths of omgsnokaos I normally foam and rinse the cars off every weekend, is all they need, and is easy to do at 0 degrees.