Well, considering LYK's rather shiny results and given the recent abuse my furby has had and given Ross' post, I thought it was about time I tried out the Swissol starter kit I bought over a year ago and to this date have never used :eek:

Popped into halfords and picked up a meguirs clay bar jobby. Never used one of them before. Interesting to say the least

So, then came a Jetwash

then a shampoo bucket

followed by a nice rinse

then put car in the shade - i couldn't believe how hot the black magic paint makes the body. I decided to let it cool down a bit in the shade. With the spray that comes with the meguirs clay bar, it just evaporated as soon as it hit the paint

Once cooled down, I continued with clay bar cleansing

followed by Swissol cleaner

and finally Onyx wax

Have to say, applying the cleaner was a bit of a strain, all over the car, but when I finally started putting the wax on, the whole experience became therapeutic :P

Drove the car into the sun for 30 mins and then started buffing. Just about makes the 4 hours worthwhile

Only downside is realising now how many little chips and small scratches there are on the car. I guess the wax will protect it all. Have to say, it's so slippery smooth now. Never had it that dimpleless before

edit: pic added

Looks very nice Xavier . How did you rate the clay bar, was it a pain in the ar5e or worth the effort?

See you've still left those halmark calipers red then

The clay bar was very easy to use. When you got to a bit of panel that wasn't wet, it tends to stick, but as long as you wet as you go along, it's fine. Very easy. Does leave the paint very very clean.

car looks uber shiney

out of interest do you know what wheels they are or am i better off asking a certain other person?

Looking good, mate

Chris

car looks uber shiney

out of interest do you know what wheels they are or am i better off asking a certain other person?

Audi TT competition alloys resprayed iirc

Car looks great

New tyres I see

lush lush lush! wheres your tyre dressing...tut tut

The car looks very nice mate

Cheers

About bloody time too! That car so deserves to be Swissoled!!!!

Good to see the new tyres too.

do you think the clay bar is just a big dollop of poster fixing?looks and smells like blue tac(but the white bostick stuff).

it is pretty good though,pulled of quite a lot of cr4p when ii used mine,though i think its now in the bottom of my cleaning box covered in polishing cloth fluff :(

Yeah it looks OK i suppose.

I give these nice people who come round to the work car park

As your on holiday this week you want to pop round the corner and do mine?

That looks great Xavier, much cleaner than it did at Brunters

is that a dent i see in the drivers door????

on the line about middle of the door

Yep, looks like a car park wound to me :(

Yep, looks like a car park wound to me :(

:iagree:

Either that or someone's taken a chunk out the roof of the house in the reflection. Still, I didn't see it until it was pointed out to me.

It is a car park wound, nearly killed the guy that did it.

Was impressed today

It is a car park wound' date=' nearly killed the guy that did it.

Was impressed today [/quote']

Hehe. And I return the compliment for your reassuring words on temporarily becoming an sdi, amongst other things

TBH, I only noticed that little dent a few weeks ago. It's always been so dirty and never shiney enough for me to notice

I ought to do the plastic bumpers at some point. Still covered in a few high-speed insect impacts :( Jon, do you swissol the plastics? Looked like they smear and leave white residue very easily unlike the paint.

BTW, another big to Swissol - I thought I let the wax bake on a litte too much yesterday (about 40 mins in the sun). Releaved to see how easily it wipes off leaving shine and no white powder

edit: after a trip up to MK today, I can confirm that the Toyo T1-Rs in 215 size fit nicely and are soooo much quieter / smoother than the previous ones. Not too sure if it's the compound or profile change, but deffo better. Not too sure on the handling though - didn't seem quite as precise. Need to give maybe a few more miles to fully scrub in

Yeah it looks OK i suppose.

I give these nice people who come round to the work car park

Out of interest, Xav, what was it that caused the boost to cut out? MAF?

Out of interest, Xav, what was it that caused the boost to cut out? MAF?

I checked the faults when it was in, had one fault logged with overboost. Key off and on again and it was fine. Had two other Skoda's do this today, seems to happen with ambient temps being so high (32 degrees in MK today). It used to happen about once in every six months when I owned it and was so infrequent I could never pin it down to anything. just lived with it.

TBH, the only other variable I can think of is the changeover to a green filter the day before yesterday. So today when it cut out was the first long journey. Just seemed strange that it did it when it did - doing constant indicated 75ish with airflow and no demand for boost. I only noticed it had gone probably 20 seconds later when I put my foot down to get past an HGV and noticed nothing happened

overboost... fair enough. Bet I might get a little bit of that when the new hybrid is remapped? Don't suppose there is a "sensor mod" is there?

By the way Xavier, I forgot to say! Damn shiny car that is!

TBH, the only other variable I can think of is the changeover to a green filter the day before yesterday. So today when it cut out was the first long journey. Just seemed strange that it did it when it did - doing constant indicated 75ish with airflow and no demand for boost. I only noticed it had gone probably 20 seconds later when I put my foot down to get past an HGV and noticed nothing happened

It used to do it to me when cruising and sort of feathering the throttle, you would be gliding along at 70 then all of a sudden feel the car slow a bit, then if you hit an incline you realised there was no boost. Flick the key off whilst rolling and back on again and off you go again.