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For a good while I was happily using Car Chem Alloy Wheel Armour to apply a little top-up protection to wheels at every wash. https://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=389378 This seems to have vanished from production (I have tweeted them to ask) but I can't see an obvious replacement. I'm not looking for a full on coating, which requires them to be spotlessly clean or taking wheels off, just a spritz on, leave, wipe off affair. Any suggestions? I've seen this and am tempted, as I've heard some decent feedback on turtle wax stuff recently - https://www.halfords.com/motoring/car-cleaning/ceramic-coating/turtle-wax-hybrid-solutions-ceramic-spray-coating-500ml-351526.html

A return to form. This is suspiciously close to the useful product tests you used to do. Like it.

This feels wrong. Maybe its time for a change when you start doing this sort of thing to your car.

Wow, that is clean.

Welcome along, post up in this forum and pop up some photos of your Z.

Takes about 100 years off the car! I've not yet found a sealant/wax/coating that provides unlimited UV protection.

You only get hairdresser jokes for one mini. If you have more than one, you move on to Estate Agent jokes. 😉

Amazing news. For a man who's in Hartlepool or Aberdeen, you had to go a long way to find an MOT centre that was prepared to sign it off How's she drive?

Having followed this around all of Scotland this summer, I can confirm it's a gorgeous bit of kit. Properly quick and very well looked after by Col, some really nice quality of life mods in there too. GLWTS mate.

I thought the second ones were way better than the white ones - just goes to show it's very subjective!

If you like something, you like something. Do what makes you smile.

I don't think friends let friends do this

Great job on the steering wheel, I did not know you could bring that material back from that state.

I've always had to detail outside and for the longest time I had the mindset of you need to do everything all in one day, but it's so much easier to breakdown the car into small sections. You can nearly always get a full car wash in first, then if you have time, clay and polish a panel and then protect it. If you have more time, do two. It's not like the first panel you do will end up being dramatically more swirled than the last one, once you've done a few washes.

Gorgeous colour BTW. Next time I would suggest not to worry about the whole car, just find a test section with some of the bad swirls and work away at just that section with different, pad, polish, arm pressure and arm speed combinations. See what it takes to make just a small section 90% defect free, under a little light. This might take quite some time but if you find the right combination, then you can do the rest of the car one panel at a time, without time pressure or feeling you have to finish it up all in one session. If you wanted to go more aggressive, you could always step up to a microfibre pad and see what that does.

Sold - thread locked

pics please!

🤣 Makes the FK8 look like an e type.

Love this, great work saving it mate.

Wow, starting to get a real feel for the shape now.

Sold to a very friendly non-tyre kicker from Auto trader ad - thread locked

I’m not Blackpool based anymore but when I was I always used Grinspeed in Leyland. Did my clutch and flywheel. https://grinspeed.co.uk

Bump due to time wasters - not on here I might add

This guy knows ^^^

Looking at what Shell are currently saying, V Power remains unaffected. https://www.shell.co.uk/motorist/e10-petrol.html In September 2021, the standard petrol/unleaded/Shell FuelSave grade ( or main grade) in the UK will become E10, in line with government mandate. E10 petrol contains up to 10% renewable ethanol, compared to 5% currently, which is added to help reduce CO2 emissions1 , according to the Department for Transport. E10 petrol is compatible with almost all (95%)1 petrol-powered vehicles on the road today, including all cars built since 2011. If your vehicle or equipment is not compatible with E10 fuel, you will still be able to use E5 by purchasing Shell V-Power grade petrol from most Shell service stations. At Shell forecourts, we will clearly label petrol as either E10 or E5. The change in fuel only applies to petrol; diesel fuel will not be changing.