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Tbh it's the same reason the Zed appealed to me so much, as despite all the nods towards being a GT underneath there's a wonderfully mechanical drive busting to get out.

Which is exactly why I ended up with a 911.

All I really wanted to do was to get rid of the swirls in the paint, so the fact that I ended up significantly reducing the visibility of the many stone chips on the car was a huge and unexpected bonus.

Should be fine, certainly I'd have no issues using it on any kind of blue car. They also do a White Diamond glaze which is for light coloured cars, but I think that would only be if you had a white or yellow Zed.

Forward them the link of somewhere selling it and let them make up their own mind as to what it is, and then get that in writing

+1

I'm aching like absolute buggery today, I'm just hoping my trip to the gym this evening will loosen me up! Good idea, and soon once I've cleaned it

At £50K the GT-R was a bargain, now it's up to £70K much less so too. Cracking write-up in Car magazine this month between the GT-R, M3, Evora A and the Cayman R. I won't spoil it by saying who won, but suffice to say I think the tide has turned on the GT-R somewhat.

Surprisingly more than you would think. I would imagine the more expensive ones might be a touch quieter, but tbh it's not that bad. It's the kind of thing you'd wait until at least 9am on a Sunday to use though! You're supposed to just let the weight of the machine do the work which is easy when working downwards, but not so when working on the side! You soon get used to it, although I did have to keep stopping myself when I realised I was applying too much pressure at various points. That's the beauty of the DA though, as you can get away with making small errors like that.

Then I'd have a GT3 in a heartbeat

Then a 996 GT3 is a great shout if you can live with the rough nature of it. Personally I'd rather have a 997.1 C2S for that money, it'll be nearly as quick but far more refined. Bloody good fun either way though! E90 M3 is a great car with a stonking engine, or if you want to turn heads what about a Z06 Corvette? Or a 360 if you can live with the badge.

Get some pics up then chop chop!

Nicely done matey

Paint cleaner comes before polish, but because I was using a cutting compound (albeit a relatively mild one) there was no need to use a paint cleaner I've tried putting a proper sealant on after wax before (FK1000P) but I don't really like the finish it gives, hence why I just use a layer of DJ Red Mist nowadays. That said, that was back on the Zed so maybe the 911 might like it a bit more? I may give it a go on a small panel to see.

What's the budget?

Good fair write-up

I haven't gotten round to doing the exhaust yet, that's next week too I taped up the nose badge but tbh it was a huge faff and my tape isn't brilliant, which coupled with my lack of patience meant that I couldn't be arsed to tape anything else up! I was just careful with the DA and did the odds and sods by hand. I did get a fair bit of product on some of the black trim which will need some black gel to sort out, but for me that's quicker than using tape. The DA is fine to use on plastic bumpers, and also (and I was a bit wary over this) on the paintshield by the rear wheel arches too apparently!

Tell them to contact the DVLA for proof of ownership details. Don't say anything else, just that.

Yup, used the DA for the Black Hole too, gave a much deeper shine than the bits I had to do by hand. Waxing was all done by hand though using the Swissvax applicator pad and an AG polishing microfibre.

Apparently the site (either my hosting or here) throws a hissy fit with this many pics, a refresh usually sorts it @D4XNY: Not all waxes seem to need such a long cure time, certainly the DJ Purple Haze I've got goes off a lot quicker than the Swissvax does.

I treated myself to a DA this week (a DAS-6 from cleanyourcar.co.uk) and have spent the day playing with it. I thought it might be fun to post up my incredibly amateur efforts here for us all to have a giggle at! Right, here we go... Started at 9am this morning with a keen heart and plenty of energy! Before any washing, the car looked like this: One clean later with two buckets, one lambs wool washmitt and some DJ Born To Be Mild shampoo and I ended up with this: It certainly looks clean from a distance, and even standing next to it it's okay, but it wasn't long ago that I clayed and waxed it so I didn't expect it to look too bad. Time to tape up the bonnet: After a quick clay, this is how much crap I removed from one quarter of the bonnet: Yeah, naff all, so the wax has clearly done it's job well in the past. In these next few pics, the lower LHS is the one I've worked on, and the lower RHS is the comparison side I don't touch. After claying: If you look towards the lower half of the section you can see the stone chips, loads of little white flecks. Ah, the brilliance that is a low front on a black car! Time to get serious... The polishing pad, the DAS-6, and the bottle of Ultimate Compound. After one pass, I ended up with this: Not bad, but still a few chips left, so I went for another pass and was a bit more aggressive with the machine: Pretty happy with the result there, and I wasn't really going to get much more out with the compound and machine I've got. Next up is the Black Hole glaze, which is designed for dark cars and hides all the small scratches that need serious correction work. Wow! Awesome stuff, it really made a huge difference, check out the next few pics, which also give a good idea of just how bad the stone chips are: Quite a difference, I think you'll agree. On to the really posh (and expensive!) wax: Not a huge difference in the pictures, and I'll show you why a bit later. Pics with the tape removed: With the tape removed I repeated the process on the rest of the bonnet: Some shots of the car after going over it with the Ultimate Compound: Now after using the Black Hole glaze: And after the wax: These next set of pics were taken whilst I was doing a couple of other bits like the glass, tyres and the interior, and you can see the car take on a noticeable better shine as the wax takes to the paintwork more. This is why in the earlier photo the wax doesn't appear to make too much difference, as it really needs a couple of hours before you can see just how good it is: And that's it! Total work time was 8 hours and I'm knackered, I still need to give it a coat of DJ Red Mist Tropical to really seal the wax in but the wax needs 24 hours to cure first, so I'll do that next week. Sadly the sun was against me today so you can't really see in the pics just how much difference the work has made to the paint, but it's almost swirl-free now and looks beautiful. A black car may take a lot of work to keep clean, but I honestly think it's worth it when it comes out like this. Oh, and as a treat for hanging around and reading the whole thread, I also did this today: 9.2kg saved, GT3 style

Because if the car park is that empty, then why on earth would you need to take up two spaces? Just take one and park well away from everyone else, and if someone does park next to you then suck it up, they probably didn't park right next to you just to dent your car. Anything else is selfish. Do you sit in the middle lane on the motorway too? After all, there's loads of space in the other two lanes and nobody's getting hurt... My Dad manages to park his Hummer H2 within one car parking bay, and that's somewhat wider than the Zed.

Anyone who takes up two spaces in a car park deserves to get their car knocked. It's rude and selfish and completely pointless, the Zed isn't that bloody wide for god's sake! Parking at the other end of the car park is common sense though, I tend to do that even when in the work's truck.

Next time wave back you miserable sod, instead of chasing down the silver Boxster in front of you

Most of the ones round here either flash at you long before you actually enter the 30 zone, or flash at you even if you're doing bang-on or just-below the speed limit. Now that breeds contempt.