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Lovely, thank you mick.

This isn't a normal car though. All we have is a speedo sensor and 3 inches of wire as the whole car has a one off loom.

Oooh, good idea. Thanks.

Can anyone tell me what wires do what? As in colour correspondence? Live Neutral Signal About to have them wired up to a stack dash and the auto electrician doesn't want to do guess work and blow the dash up as it costs over a grand! Lol

f**k knows. I've never done an E36 though, only 46 and newer.

Blimey. That's some good correction for a DA! BMW paint is rock hard! Lol

What are you using DA or rotary??

That's lovely. The wheels are a pain in the ass to keep clean, but it does look bloody lovely.

Surely your valeters will have all the kit already? Maybe you'd have to spend 25p on some 1200 paper but they'll have G3, rotarty and swirl remover won't they?

How are you finding that G3 scratch remover? What pad did you use with it?

No mate. My process is; 1200 wet and dry, lots of water, G3 compound on a yellow hexlogic pad via a rotary, scholl S40 on a black pad via rotary.

Wtf??

I did. But to mask the bottom ones off would take longer than taking the bumper off as they're a pain to mask up. And the bumper off is a job I cannot be fucked with. HTH.

Bumpers got to come off for that and I so dearly cannot be fucked...

Flol! Bellend.

Wipe over with IPA but that's it. Whole process took less than 20 minutes including drying. (Heat gun)

Got bored at work so did this... Which resulted in this;

That's lovely! How much do these fetch in Aus then?

They crumbled like a digestive biscuit! No idea why.

Our car was shared between two people so was out twice as long as other cars and they were fine.

We put a set of £22 halfords pads in at a track day after our DS2500's crumbled after 1 lap! They lasted all day, no fade etc! For the money they were sublime!

Exactly. I'm not doing it to sell it to someone after a bargain. I'm doing it to sell to someone who wants the best car that needs nothing. Budgies ph1, DTM cars' Trophy and Steve rsport are proof that people are willing to pay top dollar for immaculate cars.

Yeah but only for cleaning stuff. Their finishing products aren't up to much really. Lemon dash protector (in a liquid form) is good stuff. The aerosol stuff however is the work of the devil. Attracts dust like there's no tomorrow!

Are your headlight washers leaking? Mine were leaking a tiny bit and water was collecting then coming out. Looked a lot worse than it was.

You can just wash it then hydro2 it, but I find SRP first leaves an even slicker finish and it lasts ages. Much more than the 3 months they claim!

It's very good if used properly. But 99 times out of 100 the paint doesn't need such a heavy compound and you create more damage than you fix. People in body shops use it because it's such a heavy cut.

Personally I wash, decontaminate (tar and iron) then polish with SRP. Then cover it in Hydro2. Makes the car very easy to clean and is not too over the top. Of course if the car is swirled and hologram'd thanks to bad machine polishing, you'll effectively be sealing in the damage.

What concerns me more is 'the dealership machine polished it' If they're anything like the dealers round here, that means they paid someone £30 to mop it with some G3.

Who knows. I'm going through cars like water at the minute.

Looks like vinyl. If it is, just some all purpose cleaner, a scrubbing brush and a pressure washer will have it looking like new. If it's mohair, you're in for a world of pain!!