Detailing Chat & Questions Thread

[KitsonRis]

Had the day off to clean the Skoda I picked up recently. Put in a large order at AMDetails the other day to sort it as I ran out of pretty much most things all at the same time. Do like to give any new car I get a proper deep clean .

So I rinsed it, iron fall out, snow foam, rinse, wash, rinse, clay bar, medium cut polish, fine cut polish, ceramic wax then sealant. Also topped up the glass with water repellant too. Started at 8am and finished about 4pm and I did attend a video call for work mid lunch time. Car came out pretty good I thought, not bad for a £1500 car with 170k miles on it. Has a much deeper shine to it and body work is very smooth now!

Can't wait to give the Clio the same level of attention but it is a bit of a waste of time with the quality of the paint work on it currently.

 

[imprezaworks]

Looking good.

 

[imprezaworks]

Tried the wax on my bonnet. My car is fussy and being black an arse with hazing etc.

Easy to apply, left for five mins and easy to remove. Beads well too.

Impressed

 

[treemanx]

Infinity wax offered to replace the air freshener or send £10 gift card. Considering the comments about it smelling like cat piss, I think I'll take the gift card!

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[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Infinity wax offered to replace the air freshener or send £10 gift card. Considering the comments about it smelling like cat piss, I think I'll take the gift card!

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Id defo take the gift card. Ive got the interior cleaner thing, is that different?

 

[imprezaworks]

Infinity wax offered to replace the air freshener or send £10 gift card. Considering the comments about it smelling like cat piss, I think I'll take the gift card!

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Did you just email them? Just dropped them an email.

 

[treemanx]

Did you just email them? Just dropped them an email.

Yeah, dropped an email and sent a picture as requested. Pretty fast at replying, good customer service.

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[imprezaworks]

They didn't reply to me lol. Just gonna leave it tbh. The other stuff is decent. 👍

 

[MLB]

Couple more beading shots, driving through the rain and the bonnet kept practically dry.

Infinitywax Project x wax

And their QDX Graphene

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

Tempted to fully wax mine then top with the graphene spray. Could make for some slick slick water action

 

[Gally]

That would be f**king slick!

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

@imprezaworks Carchem 5L 1900:1 arriving tomorrow!

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah.

@JamesBryan will sort something over the weekend if you still want to try some 👍

 

[JamesBryan]

Yeah.

@JamesBryan will sort something over the weekend if you still want to try some 👍

Yeah cool, let me know

 

[leedsboy]

Infinity wax offered to replace the air freshener or send £10 gift card. Considering the comments about it smelling like cat piss, I think I'll take the gift card!

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Hmmm, I still can't make my mind up on it. I'm not keen when first sprayed but after a day or so it simmers down and its a bit better.

What is pissing me off is the trigger is leaking everytime I spray it which means, wherever I put it, there's a little puddle under the bottle. Wondering whether to go full Karen and email about it and see what they say. Don't want it staining the plastic cup holder I've got the bottle in.

 

[Pegasaurus Rex]

I had to cut the bloody hoses down on all of my bottles. I was sat grinning like a spacer pushing the frigging triggers waiting for shot to come out. Took me a while to realise that the hoses were miles too long and kinked. The triggers supplied had the same problem 🤣

 

[imprezaworks]

I just shoved them in lol. Kind of makes sense to cut them down. Impatient dot com.

 

[MLB]

I had to cut the bloody hoses down on all of my bottles. I was sat grinning like a spacer pushing the frigging triggers waiting for shot to come out. Took me a while to realise that the hoses were miles too long and kinked. The triggers supplied had the same problem 🤣

I had the same problem especially with the graphene being a dark liquid.. I was already cursing about companies using inferior spray bottles..

 

[riz]

@imprezaworks Carchem 5L 1900:1 arriving tomorrow!

Anyone used the Carchem screen wash. Supposed to be good. I normally use Angelwax Clarity.

 

[imprezaworks]

Saw you mention that on the group buy. I'm hpong they do a 1 litre version on a buy.

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

never used any screen wash that isnt just standard stuff. Got some Autosmart stuff in atm that we buy through work. 1 5L bottle dilutes to some mega stupid amount so always used that. Whats the difference between that and the CarChem one? is it like Rainx?

 

[riz]

Angelwax Clarity adds a little hydrophobic layer so doesn't destroy my glass sealant.

Problem is you need 500ml for a car and with Xenon's etc ,my wife goes through hers pretty quick!!!

 

[SC03OTT]

New toy for my birthday. Actually wanted the mode below this but was given this one instead. Fine for me and a car wash every two weeks.

 

[imprezaworks]

Shampoo arrived so will give the car a wash tomo. That infinity wax beads really well.

👍👍

 

[imprezaworks]

 

[treemanx]

I'm hoping the rain holds out tomorrow, so I can try a few things out. Probably won't be the wax as the car's got two layers of EZ ceramic wax, which after a month (which you'd expect) is beading and sheeting really well.

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[imprezaworks]

Anyone have bilt hamber cleanser polish or R222 cleanser for sale

 

[imprezaworks]

Well doesn't look like I need any shampoo for agggggeeesss. Small amount and foams up really well and seems to do what a good shampoo does. 1900 BTW

The infinity wax in that mystery box is a winner too.

 

[imprezaworks]

 

[imprezaworks]

Rapid detailer on the roof. Decent product. Very similar in flash time as the gt sigma and @Hxrry detail spray. Smells nice too 👍👍

 

[treemanx]

The rain was trolling me.. Started when I was drying the car and stopped once I'd put everything away. So I got a few things out again, managed to try the tyre candy which was thicker than the autoglym stuff i normally use. So will see if any more durable? The 1900:1 shampoo ticks all the boxes and very good value for money. I used about 12ml, which was plenty. As I started to use the QDX ceramic detailer it started to rain again, so called it a day!

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[imprezaworks]

Same.

Rapid

Wax

 

[imprezaworks]

Think I over applied the wax, quite a bit of hazing on the bonnet in direct sunlight.

Went over with a qd and looks ok

 

[imprezaworks]

@MLB

Did you order the box

 

[MLB]

The infinitywax mystery box? I didn't buy it myself.. but my wife got it me last week for our wedding anniversary!

 

[imprezaworks]

Cool. I remember you mentioned wanting to try the wax. Was going to offer to post it to you to try out. But sounds like your sorted 👍👍👌

 

[MLB]

That's very kind, thank you! But yes all sorted now. Still to try the tyre candy, be interesting to see how that compares to the rubber wax.

 

[imprezaworks]

Was going to try the tyre candy, ended up quickly applying highstyle. Will re apply this week

 

[Sir Nancy Flowers]

gonna be controversial here but I found 1900:1 good but not amazing. I had really high hopes so there is that. Dont get me wrong, its decent and ill definitely use it. Its not as good as Carpro Reset or Dodo BTBM IMO. Maybe I need to mess with dilutions a bit more. Hard water sucks

 

[imprezaworks]

I've had loads of shampoos and this is as good as any and will last ages and ages. Tbh I don't notice a massive difference between them. Same with waxes, must be getting old or placebo. Co. Uk.

But we all have a hobby lol.