Here we go again then...

Well another day draws to a close, catch you 'orrible lot tomorrow somewhen. Sleep well, sweet dreams and take care in whatever you do tomorrow

owen, i use zaino to polish the car with, its great if a little time taking, but as you can see it is worth it, considering that is 14/15 year old paint that has seen 112000 miles worth of abuse and pollution/salt then i don't think that it has come up that bad.

the pic was taken on holiday a year or two ago. and that is not my yatch in the marina...unfortuatly other wise i too would have an e30 m3....or several

billgates e30 wrote: owen, i use zaino to polish the car with, its great if a little time taking, but as you can see it is worth it, considering that is 14/15 year old paint that has seen 112000 miles worth of abuse and pollution/salt then i don't think that it has come up that bad. the pic was taken on holiday a year or two ago. and that is not my yatch in the marina...unfortuatly other wise i too would have an e30 m3....or several

It looks like you could have driven it out of the showroom the day you took those pics!

I've just bought a heap of Meguairs stuff, but the weather can't decide between scorching sun, lashing rain or hailstones(!) so i've yet to try it out.

An M5 or M6 coupe would probably be my choice if the yacht was parked in St.Tropez.  Powerful yet comfy for the long hard drive. Nice to have a different colour M3 for each day of the week too

I'm afraid my cars hardly ever got a proper polishing, all they got was a weekly visit to the car wash and that was about it. If I ever did get the polish out it was usually Colour Magic cos I usually had several tiny scratches and dings from shoppingtrolleyitis to cover up.

I have a fine collection of AutoGlym products sitting on the shelf too.

The Meguairs stuff is impossible to find over here too, so I'm grateful for the Forum Group Buys. It smells nice too - just like cherrys!

The colour of your car is probably the biggest decider on how deep the shine will be. Darker colours will buff up really well - downside is they show up the smallest amount of grime.

Oh go on Dave - 1 more pic won't break the server!

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All this talk of polishing things makes me feel very tired.....

Much rather drive it than polish it..

Sadly I'm perched behind my computer trying to write a 50,000 word document....

Ian, I use the three stage stuff, it starts with the paint cleaner, then polish, then carnauba wax. However, I started mine off with ScratchX stuff as there were lots of little key and fingernail scratches around the locks and door handles, plus swirl marks on all the panels. ScratchX takes all these off with virtually no rubbing, certainly much much less than with t-cut. I followed this with the three stage stuff, the hardest bit of which is removing the paint cleaner because it literally leaves it squeaky clean and clogs up a cloth fairly quickly with dirt and traffic film. Still, the overall effort is much less than many other single polishes I have tried. The whole lot comes in around 30 quid, not the 200 odd that zymol does.

Owen - ah well I suppose you're right. Go on then, just a couple more!



Here is the finish you can expect with an afternoon's work. I'm happy.

i had the same scratches until i used the meguires nxt generation polish......superb!!!!!!!!!!!

I got that too, very strange. Confused as Firefox usually blocks all popup things, but if it comes from within the tab it won't stop it. I thought perhaps someone had linked a photo from a restricted site and it was trying to register each time it downloaded it.

Just installed Firefox and got that deadlizards popup login window too.
Not been getting any such popups with IE6 on Window XP SP2.