I wish.........

[Nik da Greek]

johnm, yeah, it\'s good stuff. It sorta goes dry-ish, leaves a film a bit like WD40 only not so oily. Eventually washes off and needs re-application, but certainly cheaper than other brands I\'ve used, like a Hein Gericke aerosol that isn\'t even enough to do the bike, let alone a car :yes

REW D, cheers, dude, I\'ll send you a mail. I think fun won\'t be involved cleaning it; its bleeding freezing out there!

gandyRX, it\'s tempting, mate, but I just blew my Christmas bonus vouchers on half the Meguiars product range :Giggle

Jon, shame on you, a biker using jetwashes! Do you not like having any grease in your suspension linkages, then?! :spank

FDAsh, just a bucket and sponge and pump-up plant sprayer works for me, might take longer, but at least I\'m not inheriting twenty ham-fisted idiots quotas of grit and abuse of the equipment. I agree the salt they use nowadays is horribly corrosive, and offers less grip than just leaving the roads to freeze anyway! :Hammer

Rob, you\'re right, 5th gear is proper pony. Is it just me, or does VBH look like she\'s suffering from a stroke everytime she talks? Horrible ugly thing that she is!

Right, think that\'s everything....and breathe...

[FDAsh]

I went out the other day, nice and dry, but whited out road and the rears lit up as though I was driving on ice when I brushed the throttle. Crazy.

And on the subject of VBH, does anyone else feel the need to pull her jaw off and bludgeon her with it whenever she does that squeaky laugh? :reallymad

[Nik da Greek]

....yes! :yes:Giggle

[FDAsh]

I\'m going to have sweet dreams of doing GBH to VBH tonight

[L18M]

i thought it was quite \'nice\' when VBH squeels when she laughs.. or is it just me..?!?!
reminds me of something ;p

[AtomicRex]

VBH is loverly!  Leave her alone!!
 
Nik....where did my post say that I use a jet wash???
 
Bucket and sponge for me....although I was never anal enough to get the toothbrush out like a lot of my mates did!  Bikes are for riding....not sitting at home in front of the fire cleaning!

[Nik da Greek]

Jon, you\'re just weird, mate. VBH is a horse-faced squealing hooray freakoid :3Confused!  But you\'re right, bikes are for riding, which is why mines in currently only slightly better state than the car :Giggle!

[AtomicRex]

Well thats ok....cos I know you wouldnt be in the queue when she becomes single again!  Although I think my wife would have something to say!
 
Only thing I used to clean regularly was the chain....they are too expensive to mess with, and the more you look after them...the longer they last.

[trotter]

I\'m geting stuck in about Rexy this weekend - got most of Auto Glyms\' product range in my garage. After an xmas blast back to Edinburgh to see the parents se looks like she\'s been dragged through a quarry (and considering the state of the A66 that might well be the case!)

Few beers and a few hours of elbow grease on saturday methinks should sort it!

[Aceman]

hey mate, this might be a shamless plug lol but i could do a full exterior detail including paint correction removing any swirls and faded paint for £120 if your interested?

What exactly do you do? (shameless plug being responded too!)

My car has some minor blemishes in the paint (not scratched to metal or the like but more bad polishing marks..) and would be very interested in having it brought up to spotless in time for the show season this year (I\'ve now got the show car leather interior, but exterior it\'s not quite there, but is pretty close!). I think most of the blemishes are following an incident with me having parked under a tree which birds nested in, and I may have been a bit hasty in rubbing off the mess leaving faint swirl marks.

Would also be great to know more about what I should do as part of cleaning - presently it simply gets washed with halfords own car wash stuff and polished with a microfibre cloth and halfords standard car polish (which, in all, is probably making it worse!)

[D2BBA]

EEP! jet wash the RX:spank I lost paint off a car bumper once using a jet wash.  

Bucket, sponge and alot of TLC for me

Going to give the 2 bucket method a go when the show season starts again...

Chris

[Nik da Greek]

Some complete and utter ****\'s put a dent in my roof and passenger door! :2Mad Halfway through cleaning it (but have to keep pausing for mundane boring things like going to work, eating, getting feeling back in my numb extremities lol) and found two big dents, one in the door and two close together in the roof. Well, the door, maybe it\'s a car-park clumsiness dent, but the roof?! Looks like someone\'s just thumped it twice, the utter ****s! :reallymad Obviously some maggot-c0cked lackwit who thinks its funny to bash up people\'s cars in the car park or something. GRRRR! Suppose I should count meself lucky they didn\'t key it as well!

[FEED Addict]

Some complete and utter ****\'s put a dent in my roof and passenger door! :2Mad Halfway through cleaning it (but have to keep pausing for mundane boring things like going to work, eating, getting feeling back in my numb extremities lol) and found two big dents, one in the door and two close together in the roof. Well, the door, maybe it\'s a car-park clumsiness dent, but the roof?! Looks like someone\'s just thumped it twice, the utter ****s! :reallymad Obviously some maggot-c0cked lackwit who thinks its funny to bash up people\'s cars in the car park or something. GRRRR! Suppose I should count meself lucky they didn\'t key it as well!

Gutted mate, will they push out?

[Nik da Greek]

Gutted mate, will they push out?

Dunno. Had a gentle prod at the ones in the roof, but they didn\'t seem to co-operate much. Maybe a specialist could do it, but I think my hamfisted attempts might just make it worse.

the door one\'s not too bad, only shows up at certain angles, and like I said, it could\'ve just been someone being clumsy, but the ones in the roof have really p!ssed me off, because they can only have been done deliberately, and that\'s just out of order. There\'s a massive scratch right accross the roof, too, that\'s through to the metal, so God knows who did what and why, but If \'d caught them.......

That\'s the trouble with leaving it in a car park at work all times of the day or night, i suppose

[L18M]

i got 2 dents in my roof also.. dunt kno how they got there?!?!
no scratched just 2 indents.. quite deep also for their size.