Some of my photos from Waxstock 2012 ('Swirl Police' inside!)

[Chapppers11]

Me and my dad travelled up the night before and stayed over, so that I could be up detailing the car at 6:30am before the show, ready for the Detailing World Showdown..

I thought it was one of the best car shows I've been to tbh, met some really decent people as well.

A few photos of the Clio inside throughout the day:


During a final coat of Carbon

One with the 'Swirl Police'..

I came across two very nice guys from Ultimate Shine in Scotland and they offered to give the bootlid a coat of their exclusive glitter-charged wax. The photo doesn't show it up, but the wax has flecks of (non-abrasive) glitter in!

A few more photos from the show:

KDS Detailing's Aventador

The retailers section

Paintshield's 458

Wolfgang's Noble?

Under the bonnet of a special little Beetle in the competition

Two guys cooking up some wax, the one on the right was the speaker, very odd.

And on the way home a few of the Clio and my dads 335.

I managed to win the Angelwax raffle at the end, winning these 4 waxes that were the first off the production line!

It was a great day out and I will definitely be going back next year, hope you enjoyed the photos!

 

[5678]

Jesus, Adam Rayner! I wonder where John found him!

 

[kpowell911]

Adam Rayner? Doesnt he do all the Audio s**t?

 

[Scrooge]

I would have liked to have gone to this.

 

[Cookie]

I wish I'd have taken the swirlwagon to this, see how many detailing tards I could make have a heart attack.

 

[Gally]

Looks like a c**t-fest. No offence intended.

The Celica was easily the cleanest I seen in the pics.

 

[Chapppers11]

Nah.

There was some really decent people there, traders included. There was a few ar*eholes there as well though.

Was a more mature audience than the Max Powaaa attendees of Trax etc.

 

[Rob]

This looks like really good fun, would have quite liked to have gone too.

How did you fair in the competition then?

 

[Chapppers11]

I managed 6th out of the 16.

Shame I didn't get down on the Saturday to prep in the day really, was rushed in the morning.

As has been said, there were a few garage queens that arrived on trailers, so beating them was almost impossible!

The Mini that won was immaculate in every way possible, even the undercarriage was waxed and it still had the stickers on the tyres.

 

[Rob]

I managed 6th out of the 16.

Shame I didn't get down on the Saturday to prep in the day really, was rushed in the morning.

As has been said, there were a few garage queens that arrived on trailers, so beating them was almost impossible!

The Mini that won was immaculate in every way possible, even the undercarriage was waxed and it still had the stickers on the tyres.

FLOL, you have to ask yourself, even as a detailer, WTF is the point?

I'm sure I'm right in saying you enjoy your clio as well as polish the f**k out of it?

Next time I buy a brand new car I may stick it up on block, do some "miles" then get it trailered to a show, just so I can win. YAY

Well done on 6th mate, nice one.

 

[Gally]

Sadly the arseholes outweigh the genuine folk in the industry.

 

[Lal B3N]

FLOL, you have to ask yourself, even as a detailer, WTF is the point?

I agree. Utterly pointless imo.

Clio looks great by the way, nice one on 6th.

 

[Chapppers11]

FLOL, you have to ask yourself, even as a detailer, WTF is the point?

I'm sure I'm right in saying you enjoy your clio as well as polish the f**k out of it?

Next time I buy a brand new car I may stick it up on block, do some "miles" then get it trailered to a show, just so I can win. YAY

Well done on 6th mate, nice one.

You aren't wrong mate, I just want to have my car looking it's best, for the longest, so that it can be driven without getting filthy straight away!

There is more effort involved in getting a daily driver to that standard as well imo.

Thanks.

 

[Craig.]

Great work on 6th mate, car looks really good

 

[JD]

I thought the Lupo won?

And echo Kev's comments sadly. Talk about James from AutoFinesse being a bit of a let down as well?? Shame.

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks Craig!

I honestly can't remember, it was the Mini and the Lupo 1st/2nd though.

James came round with a bag for all the finalists with an air freshener, Crystal and Finale 500ml bottles, which was good of them.

They market themselves VERY well online tbh, they weren't as professional-looking in person as many of the other traders though and weren't willing to stop for a chat.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Got any pics of the 3 door sierra in the background?

Always impresses me more when old cars are in good nick than new ones TBH

 

[Chapppers11]

Yep, the bottom photo, not my photos though.

I can see what you mean, but then it's getting on to restoration rather than detailing imo.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Oh its a 500, even better

Sexy car!

(the bottom one obviously, not that hideous XR4 thing above it, lol)

 

[Chapppers11]

Yea it was, the blokes were really sound as well.

Original paint and it was in top nick, no rust anywhere.

 

[Chip-mk1]

Should think thats a 40K+ car now potentially to the right person if its genuine, although god knows why its on those hateful wheels, lol.

 

[Craigus]

Got any pics of the 3 door sierra in the background?

Always impresses me more when old cars are in good nick than new ones TBH

This.

No offense but keeping a what 2 year old Clio up to that standard is nowhere near as hard as a car that is 20+ years old.

 

[Chip-mk1]

This.

No offense but keeping a what 2 year old Clio up to that standard is nowhere near as hard as a car that is 20+ years old.

Although, they are so poor from the factory in terms of paint finish etc, it is a fair bit of work just to get them right in the first place, so it is still some work.

 

[Gally]

This.

No offense but keeping a what 2 year old Clio up to that standard is nowhere near as hard as a car that is 20+ years old.

Not really fair considering the Mini has probably been off the road 10 years getting restored. :S

 

[Chip-mk1]

Not really fair considering the Mini has probably been off the road 10 years getting restored. :S

What mini are you on about?

I was talking about the sierra cosworth, the 20+ year old one with the original paint.

 

[Wick]

Car looks great, would image it's a fairly decent show as well but my wallet would take a hammering!

 

[Chapppers11]

Should think thats a 40K+ car now potentially to the right person if its genuine, although god knows why its on those hateful wheels, lol.

It had some performance work done to the engine as well, very quick apparently.

No offense but keeping a what 2 year old Clio up to that standard is nowhere near as hard as a car that is 20+ years old.

Again, a valid point, but not as hard as you would think mate, especially if it has been maintained.

You only need to do the hard work once a year, decontaminating and correction, which can take just as long on a poorly washed new car as one like the above which could have been pampered all it's life.

Some of the cars there on Sunday hadn't been 'driven' in years!

The Sierra owner said there is only something like 100 of them left out of the 500.

 

[Chapppers11]

What mini are you on about?

I was talking about the sierra cosworth, the 20+ year old one with the original paint.

 

[Chip-mk1]

It had some performance work done to the engine as well, very quick apparently.



Again, a valid point, but not as hard as you would think mate, especially if it has been maintained.

You only need to do the hard work once a year, decontaminating and correction, which can take just as long on a poorly washed new car as one like the above which could have been pampered all it's life.

Some of the cars there on Sunday hadn't been 'driven' in years!

The Sierra owner said there is only something like 100 of them left out of the 500.

If he said that, he was wrong, lol

But they are a rare car, especially in white, as only 52 white ones made IIRC

 

[Chip-mk1]

I can never see the point in people doing concours with the new minis TBH (although I guess im showing my age thinking of a K reg car as new), and even less so modified ones, but I do like a nice original 60s mk1/2

 

[Chapppers11]

She did well for it though!

The guy did say there's only something like 10 white ones left.

 

[Cup_Phil]

Looks a good show - and some of the rare cars like the cossie I can understand, especially if it's still got original paint, but having an aventador or ferrari and just polishing it is criminal. They're not exactly good looking cars and they definitely weren't built to be cleaned

 

[DB.]

FLOL, you have to ask yourself, even as a detailer, WTF is the point?

Couldn't agree more!

 

[subarufreak]

cracking job on the 200 dude, very nice work!!!

 

[Chapppers11]

Thanks

 

[Chapppers11]

Found another cheeky photo of it

 

[Joe#]

Looked like a great day. Congrats on coming 6th too mate,

Was this at the NEC?

 

[Chapppers11]

Taaa!

Peterborough Arena, was a really well planned day, I don't think anything went wrong!