*** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

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I have a pearlescent black car.

Want to clean it myself but don't have time to spend hours every weekend. Would a good shampoo and wax do enough to keep it looking good and protect it from the elements? Just looking to take a couple of buckets on the drive, shampoo and wax, job done.

Can anyone recommend some products for the job? Heading down to Halfords next weekend. Thank you.
 
Gave my sisters mini a good clean for the first time its been in our house. It was pretty filthy, silver hides its dirty side well! Had loads of little tar spots on the roof which I got rid of, realized it was all over the car but wasn't up for doing the whole thing. Paint was in good condition apart from the stonechips and oxydation on a rear wing. Washed, quick detailed, AG bumper cared the plastic bits and bilberryed the awful wolfrace wheels. The plastic trim was much improved, it was grey all the way around before.

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Guy at work has just forwarded me a link to this product: http://nanodiamondshield.com/

Anyone else heard of it? Seems to offer 12 month protection like a hard wax, and is just sprayed on. Looks mighty interesting for what it offers. I'm just having a gander at their site now - the guy who mailed me the link also gave me the Amazon link but its not a .co.uk link.

It looks like it might be a car product based on the same principle of those hydrophobic products that cropped up last year (ie, Neverwet).
 
Conscript said:
Guy at work has just forwarded me a link to this product: http://nanodiamondshield.com/

Anyone else heard of it? Seems to offer 12 month protection like a hard wax, and is just sprayed on. Looks mighty interesting for what it offers. I'm just having a gander at their site now - the guy who mailed me the link also gave me the Amazon link but its not a .co.uk link.

It looks like it might be a car product based on the same principle of those hydrophobic products that cropped up last year (ie, Neverwet).
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sounds similar to that Ceramishield stuff House had put on his 911

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18387215

Similar to Nanolex, Gtechniq C1 etc.. theres loads of products on the market like this.
 
You lot with Veola? Last time I got my hosepipe out when we had that horrible dusty rain, I had a neighbour hanging out of his window recording me with his BB :rolleyes:
 
phil675 said:
Pressure wash his faaaace
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He denied it at first and then he said to my Dad 'what comes around goes around' because apparently we reported him to the council planning dept 15 years ago over something trivial. I live next to some right idiots, feel like hosing his windows down tonight.
 
Janesy B said:
He denied it at first and then he said to my Dad 'what comes around goes around' because apparently we reported him to the council planning dept 15 years ago over something trivial. I live next to some right idiots, feel like hosing his windows down tonight.
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There is a guy around my way that complains to the communal car park maintenance people about anything. Everyone gets a letter because he complains about a skip which isn't blocking anything being there for a couple of days (not ours but a neighbor doing their garden). Nothing ever happens about it, if he came over and asked about it etc. then it could be worked out but he'd rather trouble the maintenance company.

One time he told them that we have 5 cars parked in the car park at all times when we have 2 cars and occasional visitors, 3 cars overnight at the most and none of them would park in his space.

I don't know how people find the time to monitor the car park in between work and raising a family but they still manage it.
 
The solution is simple, plant a trail of empty beer cans leading down the street then TP his car/house/tree and sit back and titter!

Obviously wear gloves and shoes that you can burn later and don't drink from those cans either.


I'm not 100% serious of course.



Maybe.
 
Or just plant a few conifers on the border :p Neighbor wars always make me laugh, I can see why people get mad about stuff but some people get really pathetic and make it personal.
 
PiKe said:
Do you have to clean the sidewall of the tyre before applying it?
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I don't really bother as I'm not sure what to clean it with, it gets a good blast of the pressure washer while I do the wheels, can't say I've had any problems. For best results you probably should clean the old stuff off though.

If you haven't done it before, avoid getting the stuff on the parts of the wheel that touch the road as they will make you slip in wet weather!
 
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