Hi-res pics, detarred and waxed 5

Fey! wrote: All you need is the 8mm in the toolkit!

.... and to drive to Galway to take them off your hands ! (or rather your car!)

Fey! wrote: These are my angels.  Would look great on yours.

Yes they would .... now wheres me spanner

These are my angels.  Would look great on yours.

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Not at the moment as the next Group Buy won't be till July, but keep you eyes on the forum you never know

Topazman 

Toxic wrote: kbannon wrote: I gave min the Meguiars treatment on wednesday and by now it is manky! You must have been driving it through fields....I gave mine the first Meguiars treatment on Sunday (in fact it was the first time I have ever waxed the car since I bought it a year and a half ago) and it still looks good.  The weather has been good to us this week.  I was skeptical of this stuff with ye boys raving on about it, but now I'm convinced.

I did write it last March though and the weather wasn't as good then!

kbannon wrote: I gave min the Meguiars treatment on wednesday and by now it is manky!

You must have been driving it through fields....I gave mine the first Meguiars treatment on Sunday (in fact it was the first time I have ever waxed the car since I bought it a year and a half ago) and it still looks good.  The weather has been good to us this week.  I was skeptical of this stuff with ye boys raving on about it, but now I'm convinced.

 

I have to say Ben, the car looks great though.  I wouldn't have put the spoiler on you have but that's just my personal choice.  Angels & rear celis and clear side repeators will finish it off.  The leather is in top condition, but I think leather stands up well to kids.  My wifes Alfa has dark grey Momo leather and is 5yrs old and with a little Autoglym leather cleaner and cream every now and again it comes up like new. The kids jump up & down on them all the time and every now and again when I pull out the baby seats, there is a biology experiment in behind them   Where as my cloth seats are wrecked.

 

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tierneyj wrote: I can only guess that you dont have 3 kids scrambling around the back of that car.

Actually I do have 3 kids and they do scramble around the back, and the front when they can

 

I can only guess that you dont have 3 kids scrambling around the back of that car. Did you ever have to treat the leather, I notice that you back seats have seems up the middle of the seat and you front ones do not. Mine unfortunately have the seems and at the edges the grey colour has worn off the seats. Can't think what I should do to fix same, any ideas?

My wife just came back in the car from a few days in Dublin and it now looks like I never waxed it, let alone washed it !!  However I'm NOT one of these 'dont let the wife drive it' types, she's a better driver than I am !! Mind you this is one of the few cars I've had that she likes, had a coupe of Cossies that she drove only once and never drove them again!

 

Thanks guys for the nice comments, to answer some questions, I used Holts De-Tar spray, really good and not as expensive as the other more 'max-power-labelled' versions and wax was just a reqular non coloured metallic wax. So who is going to swap me a brushed aluminium interior then for my wood  !!