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One of my regular customers asked me today one of the most common questions:
"How do you actually prevent swirling when cleaning your car?"
So thought i would post up here and see what everyones opinion on this was,
My Opinion is:
Swirls arent fully preventable, they can be...
A small meet in livingston tonight, i was the only one taking pics tonight so sorry they are a bit crap lol
The flamer chuckle brothers Dave and John :
Stuarts 182:
Gallys:
My 106:
Looking to get myself a new lense, fancy getting into some macros maybe ? something that fits nicely in between my sigma 10-20 and my nifty fifty. Not really wanting to spend anymore that £400 sadly, anybody any ideas? Looking to get back into the whole photography thing.
Thanks again
Callum
spotted you in the 106 gave you a flash but no idea if you seen me or what, or just thought i was some chav driving a 106 gti haha, the recycling centre roundabout thats just after the lizzie bryces roundabout through in livingston
Basically before May im going to have my car up for sale so im looking for some advice on what sorta price i am looking to achieve for it. Its an x reg (2001) clio grande 1.2. Its the winter diet engine aswell so its only a 1.1 techinically. Group 2 insurance so a good first car (it was my first...
Well got my hands on daves scoob to give it a full inside and outside valet and also shampood the seats, basically the full works cant be bothered describing it all but here is some photos of how it looks now. Looked really good afterwards. This will be up for sale soon if anybody is interested...
Basically have been looking into getting myself a new computer for the house and basically i am bit of a computer "noob" i know a bit about processors and hard-drives etc but not much. Have been looking at the apple range (i am also a student) just wondering what fellow students are using for...
Well basically my ps3 has got the yellow light of "death" so its useless now to me (i have bought myself a new 120gb slimline to replace it). Basically have had a look on ebay and have identified that people buy the ps3's that are on the yellow light (there is a company on there that fixes them...
Well have found that not i play 5s (football lol) every week i now have alot of grass getting deeply ingrained into the pile of my carpet. As many of you know i do car valeting myself and seem to come across this problem regularly. I was told to buy myself an interior brush so i brush it then...
Liked the way the car was sitting on the road the other day there so i took a quick photo of how it is sitting the now, not the best picture in the end but you get the idea...
Well got my hands on gaz's cup eventually yesterday :)
First stage was to pressure wash the car using megs hyper gloss wash and wax
then sprayed the wheels with bilberry wheel cleaner(great stuff) and used a vikan soft wheel brush to clean them properly
rinsed the car off then hand washed...
as the title says my glasgow pics hope you likey, wide angles of course lol
Bit of abstract lol
This one goes out to MR. Dolan ;)
sorry about the shitty photobucket hosting
Today my pal asked me to come round and have a look at his (pearl i think) black fiesta and he admitted to me that he had been to the car wash (which i was devistated about lol) so what can only be described as MAJOR holograming on his car, not sure if anyone on here is familiar with this but i...
think you seen me mate not sure if it was the same one as the last time but car was looking nice. Was heading down towards where hi Q is and also along towards west calder high school.
Callum
Had these take a few weeks ago by my mate who is a trained photographer. At first i wasnt too sure about putting a blue flash underneath the car but in the end i think it worked out not too bad actually. The blue is NOT NEON I HAVE UNDER MY CAR just to clarify. Comments welcomed.
callum
Just have got a quote the other day there for £120 and was just wondering If that was a reasonable price or not ? Really need it done and I've put it off too long now so needs to be done now lol anybody had it done before?
Thanks again
Callum
Got my hands on the yellow submarine for a a detailing and i managed to pc the rear end of the car aswell.
Rinse down with megs hyper gloss with the power washer and cleaned all door shuts and boot shuts etc.
next was to hand wash using grit guard bucket, megs and i4detailing wash mitt
Rinse...
Well today i finally got my hands on daves flamer for some tlc. Really did turn out well and took me a fair amount of time but was defiantely worth it.
Stages:
First stage was to pressure wash the car using megs hyper gloss wash and wax
then sprayed the wheels with diluted bilberry wheel...
Basically what the problem is, when I press in the clutch to change gear it makes a loud grinding noise, then once in gear it goes away (untill you have covered about 20 miles) then it's intermittent. Basically when coming to a stop aswell when coasting to a junction it males a very loud...
Well today had a very nice intergra type r to hand detail. Really needed a bit of time and proper products.
Started off by:
Rinse down with megs hyper gloss with the power washer and cleaned all door shuts and boot shuts etc.
next was to hand wash using grit guard bucket, megs and i4detailing...
was good to meet everyone tonight and was a good turn out glad it was a success. Here are my pics (yes some of them do have GAZ jumping in them lol
rest are in there, take a look http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee148/watson122/?action=view¤t=DSC_1042.jpg
Well today finally i was able to remove swirls, went to the scrappy today and bought myself a practice clio pearl black wing exactly the same one that is on my car actually. Was a realy state and i made it even worse by using a brush on it etc (meant it by the way :)). I finally mastered how to...