Afternoons Work...

[fatboyslim]

Hi all new to the board and only owned the car around 3 weeks now. Gave the car a darn good scrubbing today as had the afternoon off. Mainly paid attention to the engine bay as it was real grubby!

Anyway heres a couple of pics, using mainly Meguiars products and some poorboys waxes.

Quite proud of this one as most people know, its hard work getting good reflections from a silver car.

[lee_iceman]

Welcome to LOC, looking very nice mate. As you say it is really hard to get good reflections in light colours.

You done a really good job under the hood too, You got a list of the products you used?

[fatboyslim]

Turtle wax extreme car shampoo with megs wash mit

AG Super Resin

AG Extra Gloss

Poorboys Nattys Blue, wasnt overly satisfied so...

AG Extra Gloss to finish, which worked wonders. Find the sealant seems to really help it rather than the wax.

AG Bumper Care on all plastics and arch liners

Megs glass cleaner

Megs metal polish

Megs Tyre Gel

Gunk Degreaser

AG Tar Remover

Megs Tech wax in engine bay & wheels

Probably more ive forgotten about but think that covers most!

[Tango]

Nice work. Did you buy it privately as I notice what looks like the dreaded corrosion on the wheel in the pic.If they're out of the three year warranty you can get them refurbished fairly cheaply....my sport is about ready for it's third set, the first set changed on warranty but I made the mistake of spraying an extra two coats of clearcoat on the newly refurbed replacements which made them last longer than warranty period

[fatboyslim]

Yeah privately and out of warrenty too unfortunatly. Probably going to change the wheels in the not too distant future anyway. But after lowering might like them a whole lot more and get them refurbished!

Oh and on the topic of lowering... Not much out there that offers a decent drop apart from the tte coilovers which are a bit too much over my budget really.

[Kazi]

Looks great mate. Nice to see the fruits of youre hard work once its finished in it. :D

[Tango]

Yeah privately and out of warrenty too unfortunatly. Probably going to change the wheels in the not too distant future anyway. But after lowering might like them a whole lot more and get them refurbished!

Oh and on the topic of lowering... Not much out there that offers a decent drop apart from the tte coilovers which are a bit too much over my budget really.

Well your Sport is already 15mm or 20mm lower than the standard versions, and Eibachs or similar lowering springs for the Sport will take it down even more. The Eibachs are less than 180 quid.

[fatboyslim]

Well your Sport is already 15mm or 20mm lower than the standard versions

Yikes hard to tell really, seems to sit very high I reckon.

Ill give a couple of my local car parts stores a call and see what sort of prices they can do me,

thanks.

[Adie]

Very clean mate. Well done B)

[spikes]

hi fatboyslim,welcome to loc. :D

made great job of cleaning under the hood :D

[webbbr]

Yeah, Good job

I like the sparkling engine bay.

[lexus_IS_200]

how did u get the engine so clean

[fatboyslim]

A lot of hard work with gunk, then detaring the whole thing, then polishing all metal work, doing all plastics etc... worth it though, I like to drive along knowing my car is totally mint, not just the paintwork ;)

Next up, wheelarches and undercarriage....

[Rob's Lexx]

A lot of hard work with gunk, then detaring the whole thing, then polishing all metal work, doing all plastics etc... worth it though, I like to drive along knowing my car is totally mint, not just the paintwork ;)

Next up, wheelarches and undercarriage....

are these products readily available from a motorfactors?

i presume u washed everything down with water? did you have to worry about covering/protecting and engine components?

[maneesh]

luvvin the engine bay...cud eat ur brekkie off that now!!!

[fatboyslim]

Yes mate the likes of Halfords will stock all the gear you need. And nope, as long as your careful with the hose you shouldnt need to cover up anything... well i didnt anyway, though i only used a regular garden hose as apposed to a power washer.

[puresilk]

Hi

That engine bay is very clean looks awesome!

U fancy cleaning mine??

LOL