*** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

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it's a little bit hard to quantify how much difference it's made in photos, especially on a silver car but here's some more to try it :p

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And for all those saying cleaning a silver car does nothing, here's a before photo:

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Main difference is it's a totally different shade of silver lol :p and the wheels, but the actual visual impact of the SRP is quite large, glad i tried it :)
 
but tbh it still hardly makes a difference :p you just posted a pic of the car unwashed :D

SRP is a great polish however, been using it for donkeys years. brings darker cars up a treat :)
 
fonzee said:
but tbh it still hardly makes a difference :p you just posted a pic of the car unwashed :D

SRP is a great polish however, been using it for donkeys years. brings darker cars up a treat :)
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it does in real life, and i could imagine on a car with bad paintwork itd make hell of a difference, i imagine mine was polished not too long ago anyway before i picked it up from the dealer :)
 
aye definitely. a couple of years ago i sorted a neighbours 740 for him. the paintwork was just awful. a little bit of TC started bringing the colour back and then some SRP really brought the best out of it:

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Have not got amazing super modern metalic paint so finish does not compare to some on here, but I'm happy never the less.

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What I did (unsure if its correct)

Wash with auto glym shampoo with cotton wash mitt
dry with microfibre
T-cut
auto glym super resin polish (apply with mit, allow to dry and finish with microfibre)
apply extra gloss protection stuff (pointlessly?) with microfibre) leave for hour and finish with microfibre
back to black the trim with tesco value multi purpose cloth
 
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snowball1 said:
Nice bit of illegal parking!
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:p Didn't notice that bit!

To be fair, I live on a fairly quiet residential road, then one day. For no apparent reason they double yellow lined the roundabout, but not just against the kerb. Around the actually roundabout as well!

But they didn't touch the roundabout that is about 100meters down the road! :cool:

Therefore I ignore their stupid laws :p

Scottland said:
The rear panel, 3rd pic - it looks smeared with something?
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Yeah pictures where taken before I had finished wiped in the extra gloss protection (ie it was still on there from where I'd roughly covered the paintwork in it). (But I'm still gonna go check make sure it's not like that anymore!)
 
After a days worth of rain and then the motorway commuting the EGP is still sealing well though I don't expect it to last another 2 weeks if the random weather keeps up!

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Wow its been a whole day since you polished the car and its still holding out? Fantastic, I can't believe it. Fancy that!

I'm nowhere near as good a photographer as you but I can assure you that a whole month and a half after doing mine it looks the same as yours:

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I think you mis interpreted somewhat.

Washed Sunday, Rained that night, had a wet night Monday and commuted to/from work this week and the pics above from today. BTW your car WOULD look as clean after a month as you have a drive to park on. I park on the main road!
 
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mrk said:
I think you mis interpreted somewhat.

Washed Sunday, Rained that night, had a wet night Monday and commuted to/from work this week and the pics above from today.
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Yea so what :confused: The idea of a sealent is it protects the paintwork and preserves the finish. Thats the point. It's not exactly amazing if its still doing its job a day later.

BTW your car WOULD look as clean after a month as you have a drive to park on.
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Of course, the reason its lasted so long is because I have a drive, lets ignore the fact it's done about 600 miles since I did it :p
 
You get more crap on when parked on a road and it rains with other vehicles driving past which splashes all the crap from the road over one side of your car, multiply that by however many cars, buses or whatever are driving by and you get the picture.

You can see this on a particularly bad day after it stops raining and has all dried you'll see/feel road grim stuck to the top coat along the side of the car facing the road. I don't know how many coats you use but I only use 1 coat hence why I asked about collinite in the other thread the other day as it seems you only need to seal with it once which lasts months at least. EGP does not last even a few weeks in normal weather.

As for you, if you're driving for that distance then crap is less likely to stick because the airflow pushes dirty water away instantly is that not right?

My car never gets very dirty either when driving in crap weather (discounting the windscreen), the body is always dirty in the morning after a few nights crap weather though.
 
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You get more crap on when parked on a road and it rains with other vehicles driving past which splashes all the crap from the road over one side of your car, multiply that by however many cars, buses or whatever are driving by and you get the picture.
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But then you just wash it and it'll look super shiney again for weeks or months aftwards.
 
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