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Feel the Vauxhall love 
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How long have you had the monaro?
Wow! Time flies!!!
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You wash your car every week?
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Whats SRP?
When you wash, do you wax too?
The Farecla G3 wax I bought was really good, now I think i didn't need the extra coat of Aqua wax. The beading photo was after just that, i had to wet the car to prep for the Aqua wax.
When you wash, do you wax too?
The Farecla G3 wax I bought was really good, now I think i didn't need the extra coat of Aqua wax. The beading photo was after just that, i had to wet the car to prep for the Aqua wax.
Aqua wax? No need for that sort of stuff IMO.
A good polish wax combination is all that's needed. Every other wash between that can be a shampoo wash (and snowfoam if desired) then wipe dry with quick detailing spray to wipe away smears and dried water marks without marring the paintwork especially when drying in the heat of direct sunlight although I use the spray regardless as it just adds a small layer on top of the wax to cover the week ahead.
I wax once every 6 months just out of principle. The 476s wax I use lasts a solid 12 months (it does exactly what it says on the tin, for a change!).
SRP is Super Resin Polish.
A tin of 476s should last you a good few years.
A good polish wax combination is all that's needed. Every other wash between that can be a shampoo wash (and snowfoam if desired) then wipe dry with quick detailing spray to wipe away smears and dried water marks without marring the paintwork especially when drying in the heat of direct sunlight although I use the spray regardless as it just adds a small layer on top of the wax to cover the week ahead.
I wax once every 6 months just out of principle. The 476s wax I use lasts a solid 12 months (it does exactly what it says on the tin, for a change!).
SRP is Super Resin Polish.
A tin of 476s should last you a good few years.
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Well, the 75 decided it didn't want to live any more on Sunday night.
No power to the fuel pumps, played around with the ECU and couldn't get a 12v line to energise the relay. Shorted the relay to get the pumps on, and still wouldn't start... something very amiss.
In the end I pulled the ECU from it's housing, turns out it's been sat in water thanks to a previous owner not checking the plenum drains causing it to flood. A new ECU is damn expensive, and a repair is £300 and may not work if the damage is severe.
At 6.30am on Monday morning I was on a train to Birmingham to pick up something I found the night before...
It's a 1997 420SD, with all of 84bhp. More importantly, it uses the old mechanical Bosch fuel injection system as used on older Peugeots and other bulletproof machinery.
Picked entirely for reliability, it's a dirt cheap runabout that does a surprising 55mpg even when plodding along at NSL-plus speeds.
12 months MOT, 4 months tax. Had a new clutch and exhaust recently... paid £400 for her.
Going to give it a full service, do the cambelts myself and chuck some Rover alloys on it (hate steelies!) and leave it at that. Although it can be screwmodded...
Slate away, it's a total shed but I don't care.
No power to the fuel pumps, played around with the ECU and couldn't get a 12v line to energise the relay. Shorted the relay to get the pumps on, and still wouldn't start... something very amiss.
In the end I pulled the ECU from it's housing, turns out it's been sat in water thanks to a previous owner not checking the plenum drains causing it to flood. A new ECU is damn expensive, and a repair is £300 and may not work if the damage is severe.
At 6.30am on Monday morning I was on a train to Birmingham to pick up something I found the night before...
It's a 1997 420SD, with all of 84bhp. More importantly, it uses the old mechanical Bosch fuel injection system as used on older Peugeots and other bulletproof machinery.
Picked entirely for reliability, it's a dirt cheap runabout that does a surprising 55mpg even when plodding along at NSL-plus speeds.
12 months MOT, 4 months tax. Had a new clutch and exhaust recently... paid £400 for her.
Going to give it a full service, do the cambelts myself and chuck some Rover alloys on it (hate steelies!) and leave it at that. Although it can be screwmodded...
Slate away, it's a total shed but I don't care.
[TW]Fox;22214458 said:I can see how thats tempted you away from that C63 you were so sure about
Astra VXR.
The turbo on those things is silly, after hitting the apex and you try to feed the power in it's ON or OFF.
POWER!!!!!!!!!!................... UNDERSTEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great fun car on a track fr a £90 1/2 day, but pretty average otherwise
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Did you get a photo of the front of the car?
