I know it's a new car. but
Is this taking cleaning one step to far

i dont understand these people who spend all there time cleaning the car rather than driving it

They must be wrong in the head

A car is for driving (and picking up women) and that is it

is that the site where they pay £ 500 for a tiny pot of carnuba wax or somat?

and use spectrometers to measure the paint thickness?

"learn how to use the 2 bucket method"

Er.... yellow wee in one and brown poo in another surely?

Or am I missing something

I love the way they call washing and polishing the car "detailing".

Sorry guys, gotta go and "detail" the dishes...

It's not working for me, just going back to their forum homepage.

If it's the same one I've seen before, wasn't it a white astra vxr nurbigring edition?

got to admit that when I first heard about all of this cleaning, i thought what a load of nonsense and that companies were just making money from cleaning products.

however, my friend has some of these "detailing" products (no, not the £500 carnuba wax) and he came over to mine and went through the cleaning, polishing and waxing process on my tintop... the difference is very noticeable!!

though i dont think I'll spend as much time on cleaning as some of the guys on that forum do!

i do detailing at my garage lol. the stuff cost me a load but you really can tell the difference if you polish and wax by machine. plus you can get light swirl marks out and light scratches and make the car paint look like brand new. after you have done your first good detail you get addicted.
adam

this was a car i had in that looked like it was in a barn for 5 years lol
pic before


after


heres a pic of another one after it was done.




[Edited on 16/9/09 by oadamo]

[Edited on 16/9/09 by oadamo]

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Originally posted by Steve Hignett
It's not working for me, just going back to their forum homepage.

If it's the same one I've seen before, wasn't it a white astra vxr nurbigring edition?

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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
i dont understand these people who spend all there time cleaning the car rather than driving it

They must be wrong in the head

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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
i dont understand these people who spend all there time cleaning the car rather than driving it

They must be wrong in the head

A car is for driving (and picking up women) and that is it

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I have never understood the obsession to wash cars - generally I wash mine about once a year,or after being on a particularly muddy road, - I find that no matter how bad the car looks after a few years - when it's time to sell it a good wash and polish gets it looking like new again - in fact it generally looks better than many better cared for cars.

Always felt that 10 km after you wash a car it looks like it was never washed.

I can't understand it. Cars are for driving. I only ever wash my kit car if I'm going to a show and that's only cos it looks a bit embarassingly sheddy otherwise!!

How many of them spend time building their cars instead of driving them?

To truly appreciate a well detailed car, you need to see them in the flesh. On a car that is completely painted, i.e without ali panels, it can llook mint.

Admitadly, im not as bad as i used to be.

I used to have an old fiesta (mk4) which i used to clean 4 or 5 times a week and polish 2 or 3 times a month.

Now i wash my car once per week (more in the winter) and polish it every 1 or 2 months.