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Heads up - this isn’t on the website but down to £130 in some stores. With trade card it came down to £104. By comparison, the non low profile mode is £200 and £160 on the card. It’s a big heavy bugger but 3 year warranty and overkill for what I use it for.

Faux suede stuff glued to the old headliner. Links below. https://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/products/heavy-faux-suede-curtain-fabric-grey https://www.justkampers.com/trim-fix-adhesive-500ml-high-temperature-resistant.html You need a high temp adhesive otherwise it’ll sag etc in warmer weather.

Almost 6 months since I last updated. Still have the Clio. Still alive. House and work taking up car time but managed to get out to a few meets. Headliner finished and LED interior bulb fitted. I’ve also modified my driver’s side mat to clip to carpet and stop it moving about. Almost set on...

Spent the week surrounded by these. The F Car collection was the centrepiece of our pavilion this year.

Light surround and sun visors painted/dyed. Used some of the graphite I did my bullets with for the surround after priming and then a couple of coats of satin lacquer. Visors were dyed using Halfords vinyl paint which is somewhere between a paint and a dye I think. Letting it cure then...

Any pointers for a decent dimmable replacement bulb for the interior and map reading lights? Can’t be doing with flickering LED’s and the existing one is a nasty off yellow.

My Mrs reckons the contrast works. I’m not so sure. I can paint the light surround easily enough but not sure about the visors. Either a vinyl or vinyl paint maybe.

I doubt it. Colour’s a lot closer in the flesh and it’s probably beyond my skill set!

Next job was to retrim the headliner. Wanted to do this for ages but too many horror stories put me off. Needn’t have worried. Aside from a couple of snapped clips, it was a doddle and the old one pulled straight out. Wife and daughter assisted as both are more patient than me and daughter is...

Also brilliant for cleaning tyre walls.

They’ve tweaked a few of the formulas and spray heads are improved (never had an issue to be fair). There’s some new new stuff in the pipeline apparently but I guess it’s a case of “if it ain’t broke” etc.

I used one of the Aquagleam ones years ago as our water was harder than Lenny McLean. Got about 15 full car rinses out of it. New house has a new softener but not for the outside tap. Debating adding a proper filter as my driveway is in direct sun all day although around this time of year I...

Rebranded GT gear turned up today.

Couple from a recent trip to London. The wife snapped the Mac at the Kensington showroom and couldn’t understand why the Merc was my pick of the weekend. Refreshing not to see a vulgarly pimped out version

That’ll be me. I don’t have a compressor hence using lots of pads 👍

Mercedes B3004 anthracite.

Used them once. Slow delivery and products were at best poor.

Few bits from cleanyourcar. Drying towel new to me as is the Gyeon PPF maintain - the latter for the film I’ve had applied to the piano black on my daily

Gtechniq I2 is my go to. Use it in the cars, house, everywhere.

Up to 20, yep. I used 3-4 MF cutting pads, 3 polishing and 2 finishing in 5”, similar number in 75mm when I did the Clio recently. I don’t have a compressor so rely on a brush to clean them as I work and safer to swap to a new, clean pad than continually cycle through potentially dirty ones...

Nope, just the one. I once spent 3 days sorting out a £80k BMW brand new which a dealer had washed for one of my old detailing customers after he’d asked them not to. Paint was f**ked. They save maybe £2 by not washing it and stick a full tank of fuel in rather than the usual £20. My daft OCD...

Regular washing liquid. To be fair, my pads are rarely clogged with polish as I’ll easily get through up to 20 on a session and switch out before they get too bad.

40 degrees, quick wash setting, spin dry then air dry. No issues with deformation or backing pad coming away.

I told them not to. Seen too many brand new cars with knackered paint from sloppy prep.

Picked this up for Mrs C last Friday. Not a bad little thing at all. RS Line with the 1.3 engine. Dealer didn’t touch the car so spent a few hours washing, single stage polish and Gtechniq CSL/Exo to the paint and 2 coats of Carbon Collective to the wheels inside & out. Just glass and interior...

Creaking seats fixed with more than a little assistance from @iyrix Sliders removed on both so seats now fixed and massively more solid than before. Happy.

And done. Wet sanded, polished, refined and coated with Gtechniq. This is about as good as I can make her look. Next up is to sort the creaking seats.

I was too tight to buy a proper one and went for a pet dryer from Amazon - turned out to be pretty decent. Especially good on the bike - particularly after a deep clean of the chain and gears.

I’ll probably stick with my trusty BH - I tried Power Maxxed foam years ago and it cleaned my driveway better than anything I ever used. Turned out it was foaming TFR and a strong one!