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Wheel woolies seem to be highly regarded but seem expensive to me!
I've found the cheapo wheel brush with bristles from halfords is the perfect size for those exact alloys.

Nice car, same as mine but I must say I find the colours confusing... is that Azurite, Carbon black or something else? Mines Azurite and I swear I see loads every day unless the carbon is just extremely similar..

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mr tommo said:
Wheel woolies seem to be highly regarded but seem expensive to me!
I've found the cheapo wheel brush with bristles from halfords is the perfect size for those exact alloys.

Nice car, same as mine but I must say I find the colours confusing... is that Azurite, Carbon black or something else? Mines Azurite and I swear I see loads every day unless the carbon is just extremely similar..

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Carbon black but it's very blue for some reason....
 
Can anyone recommend a good car cleaning kit (the only one I know of is the Auto Glym collection but that seems pricey!). Or am I better getting individual items and building my own kit?
 
iMacMart said:
Carbon black but it's very blue for some reason....
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Carbon Black is Blue. It's not black at all, it's just so dark it looks black in most lights. :p

My F10 is Carbon Black, it looks an excellent deep blue in the sun, and mostly black the rest of the time.

Azurite is slightly more blue, but the same idea.
 
Dis86 said:
Collinite 476s isn't a bad shout then.

I've just got some poorboys black hole glaze for mine, they do white diamond for light cars.
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Thank you, I'll look into it! Haven't had much need to look with the weather like it is, my poor car is filthy :(
 
amazon order? I picked the same up and the magifoam wasn't much good! Don't think I got the ratios right, so will retest during the week :)
 
Just before i bought my car it had a full professional paint correction detail so it was absaloutly mint from when i bought it up until today.

3 weeks ago i decided to polish and wax it to carry on making it look perfect. Come today, i have just snow foamed it, washed and dried it and it now looks utter gash, swirl marks everywhere lol....

I used Halfords polishing pad and buffers to do it all. Guess i have done something wrong when polishing/waxing? It looked spot on up until now .Only other thing i can think of is that i have changed my snow foam to Bilt Hamber. Anyone had a bad experiance with this?
 
Rybo89 said:
Just before i bought my car it had a full professional paint correction detail so it was absaloutly mint from when i bought it up until today.

3 weeks ago i decided to polish and wax it to carry on making it look perfect. Come today, i have just snow foamed it, washed and dried it and it now looks utter gash, swirl marks everywhere lol....

I used Halfords polishing pad and buffers to do it all. Guess i have done something wrong when polishing/waxing? It looked spot on up until now .Only other thing i can think of is that i have changed my snow foam to Bilt Hamber. Anyone had a bad experiance with this?
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snow foam won't give you swirl marks.

you sure they were simply not masked by something? a glaze? and you simply removed the coating that was on it by polishing the whole car..
 
Was wondering if snowfoam has stripped it all away?

What can i put on it to put this glaze back on? I thought that was what polishing n waxing was for lol... Can only see these swirls when the sun is reflecting off of it but its still doing my head in.
 
hilly said:
amazon order? I picked the same up and the magifoam wasn't much good! Don't think I got the ratios right, so will retest during the week :)
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See above, more is better, I would go more than they suggest which makes a thick and strong foam that hangs around for minutes.
 
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