my car is now properly clean!! [pics]
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well i'm bored this morning waiting for a customer to arrive so thought id post up some pics of yeaterdays work....took a whole day.....both my cars washed, waxed and generally cleaned top to bottom! saab got a run over with the buff too as the paint was starting to go a tad pink at the edges!
any more nice clean vette pics out there for us to drool over?
Thanks Ryan!!
any more nice clean vette pics out there for us to drool over?
Thanks Ryan!!
Edited by irish boy on Friday 22 May 11:56
Cleaned mine today (but there again, I clean it most days...)
Anyone else sad enough to have the INSIDE of their alloys as shiny as the exterior?
View below of the new Borla Stinger 11's fitted by Ian Goss Services along with the X-Pipe & Callaway Honker forced air induction kit. The ZR1 style full width spoiler replaces the standard black plastic job & the polished Corvette badge fitted nicely into the recess. What you can't see is the full set of Carbon brake pads fitted front and rear. No more dusty alloys now either!
Anyone else sad enough to have the INSIDE of their alloys as shiny as the exterior?
View below of the new Borla Stinger 11's fitted by Ian Goss Services along with the X-Pipe & Callaway Honker forced air induction kit. The ZR1 style full width spoiler replaces the standard black plastic job & the polished Corvette badge fitted nicely into the recess. What you can't see is the full set of Carbon brake pads fitted front and rear. No more dusty alloys now either!
Edited by G4HKS on Monday 25th May 09:30
I cleaned mine yesterday too.....then went to the local Western region Corvette lunch so it is covered in dead things and s
t as the roads around here always seem to be covered in the stuff......to many damned farmers and farm vehicles spreading it about.
No grills yet Martin? Hoping mine with arrive this week. how easy is it to remove the rear spoiler be fore fitting the new one? I assume the new one just sticks on with double sided tape? I hope it is a better fit than the Ron Fellows ones I saw which were rubbish.
t as the roads around here always seem to be covered in the stuff......to many damned farmers and farm vehicles spreading it about.No grills yet Martin? Hoping mine with arrive this week. how easy is it to remove the rear spoiler be fore fitting the new one? I assume the new one just sticks on with double sided tape? I hope it is a better fit than the Ron Fellows ones I saw which were rubbish.
Morining Nige!
No sign of the grills but Michael did give me (and you no doubt) a tracking reference number but it just returns no information. I should think we will see them this week. I think you'll beat me to the install, as I am away from Wednesday night so won't have time to get them fitted this week.
The spoiler is a genuine GM part and is identical to the ZR1. It has 8 fixing bolts. EEEEK!!! So once it's on there's no turning back.
Still loving the car to bits and don't actually want to get out of the thing after driving. 1600 miles now, which considering it's one of 7 vehicles to choose from in the morning is pretty good in just over 2 months! Roll on Lemans....
No sign of the grills but Michael did give me (and you no doubt) a tracking reference number but it just returns no information. I should think we will see them this week. I think you'll beat me to the install, as I am away from Wednesday night so won't have time to get them fitted this week.
The spoiler is a genuine GM part and is identical to the ZR1. It has 8 fixing bolts. EEEEK!!! So once it's on there's no turning back.
Still loving the car to bits and don't actually want to get out of the thing after driving. 1600 miles now, which considering it's one of 7 vehicles to choose from in the morning is pretty good in just over 2 months! Roll on Lemans....
Edited by G4HKS on Monday 25th May 09:33
Hi Keith.
Thank you for the kind words!
You did ask - so here goes....
The best way of starting "again" as it were, is to take the wheels off, clean them like mad and actually polish them with wheel polish, for which I use Maguire’s.
Once they get dirty again I use a brand called "Muck-Off" which I used to use when I had my motorcycle store and is fantastic for getting grease and grime off the wheels without taking all the shine away - and it doesn't streak. It's pinkish in colour and Halfords now do it, usually found next to the Bicycle section. Be careful though as Halfords do their own brand of window washer - which is also pink! I get it in 2 gallon containers because I get through tons of it.
I spray each wheel liberally with the stuff, wait 1 or 2 minutes and if necessary, agitate with a sponge then blast off with a high pressure hot water jet wash machine, making sure the wand is pushed up into the wheels to blast all the crap away. Don't forget to move the car forward slightly after to clean out the stuff left on the upper side of the wheels and lurking behind the spokes.
After that, sponge in some soapy water (with car Turtle wax usually) then wash with clean cold water and dry off using a chamois, finally micro-fibre towel dry.
I bought a tyre shine applicator (in fact half a dozen) from the US, that saves you sploshing tyre shine all over the alloys themselves. It also stops all the excess shine spraying over the paint work when you drive away, saving you about 70% of the stuff in wastage. Very good and cheap too!
The rule is not to let them get too filthy in the first place of course. Whilst the Z06 was only bought in March this year, my previous C6 wheels were just as clean (albeit slightly blistered paint work on the inside) after 4 years. They were like that however when I bought the vehicle as an ex-demo from Stratstone.
It also helps fitting Carbon disc pads front and rear (Hawk) instead of the standard fits. This virtually eliminates brake dust, which at the best of times can be pretty staining to your wheels.
It's a labour of love but what's the point of having a great design of wheel only to have them looking dirty? Beats me.
Dare I admit it, bought this little Noddy car as a run around last Monday and the first thing that went in the bin were the horrible original wheels. Fitted a set of Momo Corse alloys (doubling the cars value) and guess who has given himself another set of wheels to clean?!
Told you I was sad.....
Btw Nigel, notice how that "jet stream blue" keeps creeping into my car colour line up... (still, at least this thing is turbo charged!)
Thank you for the kind words!
You did ask - so here goes....
The best way of starting "again" as it were, is to take the wheels off, clean them like mad and actually polish them with wheel polish, for which I use Maguire’s.
Once they get dirty again I use a brand called "Muck-Off" which I used to use when I had my motorcycle store and is fantastic for getting grease and grime off the wheels without taking all the shine away - and it doesn't streak. It's pinkish in colour and Halfords now do it, usually found next to the Bicycle section. Be careful though as Halfords do their own brand of window washer - which is also pink! I get it in 2 gallon containers because I get through tons of it.
I spray each wheel liberally with the stuff, wait 1 or 2 minutes and if necessary, agitate with a sponge then blast off with a high pressure hot water jet wash machine, making sure the wand is pushed up into the wheels to blast all the crap away. Don't forget to move the car forward slightly after to clean out the stuff left on the upper side of the wheels and lurking behind the spokes.
After that, sponge in some soapy water (with car Turtle wax usually) then wash with clean cold water and dry off using a chamois, finally micro-fibre towel dry.
I bought a tyre shine applicator (in fact half a dozen) from the US, that saves you sploshing tyre shine all over the alloys themselves. It also stops all the excess shine spraying over the paint work when you drive away, saving you about 70% of the stuff in wastage. Very good and cheap too!
The rule is not to let them get too filthy in the first place of course. Whilst the Z06 was only bought in March this year, my previous C6 wheels were just as clean (albeit slightly blistered paint work on the inside) after 4 years. They were like that however when I bought the vehicle as an ex-demo from Stratstone.
It also helps fitting Carbon disc pads front and rear (Hawk) instead of the standard fits. This virtually eliminates brake dust, which at the best of times can be pretty staining to your wheels.
It's a labour of love but what's the point of having a great design of wheel only to have them looking dirty? Beats me.
Dare I admit it, bought this little Noddy car as a run around last Monday and the first thing that went in the bin were the horrible original wheels. Fitted a set of Momo Corse alloys (doubling the cars value) and guess who has given himself another set of wheels to clean?!
Told you I was sad.....
Btw Nigel, notice how that "jet stream blue" keeps creeping into my car colour line up... (still, at least this thing is turbo charged!)
You're right there...!!!
When I ordered the thing about 3 years ago the distributor asked me if it was for a bunch of Eastern Europeans to use and was it for a new site. You should have heard the lads at work when the thing turned up on a palet! Works a treat though and in about another 50 years it should have paid for itself.
And just look at how shiny the INSIDE of that back wheel is. Hmmmm.
As it happens there is another model I was reading about which I might just "upgrade" to. So who wants to bid me a reasonable price for this one? £500 & Collect only!
When I ordered the thing about 3 years ago the distributor asked me if it was for a bunch of Eastern Europeans to use and was it for a new site. You should have heard the lads at work when the thing turned up on a palet! Works a treat though and in about another 50 years it should have paid for itself.
And just look at how shiny the INSIDE of that back wheel is. Hmmmm.
As it happens there is another model I was reading about which I might just "upgrade" to. So who wants to bid me a reasonable price for this one? £500 & Collect only!
Edited by G4HKS on Thursday 28th May 00:21
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