Something went wrong, ordered a Mustang, yet ended up in a British hotrod, I blame OcUK!

kindai said:
It's alright, I suppose.


That before shot though :eek::eek:
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Yes I thought the car just had light swirling, we both did, but he kept encountering areas of milkyness in the paint that products could not remove, which in the end turned out to be waxes which were not correctly removed and had baked into the surface, which is what the before and after is trying to show more is the milkyness and of course the swirls, the difference is staggering.

He said though you think your paint is trashed on your GTR it will be recoverable to a high standard. :)
 
Glanza said:
Impressive work there, can't have been cheap if they used Autofinesse gear on it in the prep stages.
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He allowed me to use all their products as he is an authorised dealer and I have to say they are indeed very impressive. So shall be adding some of those to my inventory. :)
 
wedrum said:
i would be worried about parking that car in places, you know how some jealous folk are and like to scratch cars.
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People know its my car and they know if they scratch it I will have there legs blown of with a shotgun, I will happily do time to put such scum down. :)

But hey its generally parked in a gated drive way or at work which is under CCTV and I guess I am nice guy as I've never had a single one of my cars scratched by anyone, hoping I am not tempting fate by saying that, but guess I've being lucky.
 
Looks amazing, looked pretty damn good before mind :D

Out of interest, and I know it varies place to place, but as a rough ball park figure, how much do you pay for a full correction on a car like that?
 
Steedie said:
Looks amazing, looked pretty damn good before mind :D

Out of interest, and I know it varies place to place, but as a rough ball park figure, how much do you pay for a full correction on a car like that?
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The car should be irrelevant whether its a 1k or 100k car. Most detailers quote on size and condition of paint, not value of car. His pricing for how OCD he is and the time put in, typically 24hr of hard labour for £250 is nothing short of a bargain.

His pricing is along lines of:

- Wash, cleanse and seal, like a new car protection: £100-150
- As above but paint enancement, some correction: £150-200
- What I had done, full correction, enhancement and then 3 stage: £250

At other places you could easily double those prices for sure.
 
Gibbo said:
The car should be irrelevant whether its a 1k or 100k car. Most detailers quote on size and condition of paint, not value of car. His pricing for how OCD he is and the time put in, typically 24hr of hard labour for £250 is nothing short of a bargain.

His pricing is along lines of:

- Wash, cleanse and seal, like a new car protection: £100-150
- As above but paint enancement, some correction: £150-200
- What I had done, full correction, enhancement and then 3 stage: £250

At other places you could easily double those prices for sure.
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That is definitely a bargain! I'm looking at getting mine done and down here for a 3 stage correction, I've not seen a price cheaper than £400, so quite a difference. I'd jump all over a reputable guy like that and £250 :D

So many companies as well that I have no idea who's any good. Really need to check detailingworld and find out.
 
hurfdurf said:
Why would you pick the solid roof version over the vert?!
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I generally dislike convertibles full stop, they look pretty naff with the roof up. However a few exceptions are F-Type, S2000 and R8 Spyder. But even then I'd still prefer a coupe F-type or R8 as I simply prefer the looks of them.

Then as Simon says better handling and less weight.
 
Hi there


When I collected the car it had the typical pre-inspection, I asked about alignment and the response was alignment is not checked on new or used cars unless there is uneven tyre wear which the car does not have, which was fair enough response.
However people here will know I look after my cars and as such I had the alignment checked today at a local Jaguar Specialist, the before and after is attached:


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@Jonnycoupe

As you know these cars far better than anyone else here and as the specialist checking the alignment was just checking and from my limited knowledge I requested for camber front and rear they kept the car close to the Jaguar nominal figure.

For the toe I went with what I thought would be good for grip in wet along with progressive handling as similar settings work superb on my M3 but I understand this is an AWD car so not the same principles will necessary work. On the short drive back I boot it through a corner and the rear stepped out and power slid nicely and it felt controlled with TC not wanting to intervene and car was in normal DSC. So it feels pretty good, before the alignment the rear could sometimes snap a little quick and felt different from side to side, which is maybe explained by the un-even values prior to alignment.

Anyway Jonny would you say the above is OK for road use, or would you recommend dialling in some additional toe or maybe less?
 
I’ll have at look at the chassis data sheet to check what the actual spec is as I’m suspicious of those 2013-2017 spec window on the title. Clearly SVR runs more camber anyway.

Can’t really offer much more than that, it’s rear bias anyway plus front is double wishbone so that or the knuckle have been change... I’m no dynamics expert nor even driven an SVR :(
 
rjk said:
What alignment equipment do they use there Gibbo?
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Not to sure, its not Hunter, so not as easy to use but it gives live read out and the car had never being done so was important to get it back within factory tolerance and equal on both sides which it is now.
 
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