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Weather? Warm enough?



MRBILLYUK

ClioSport Club Member
  FF Jeden Osiem Dwa
Your best bet is to get up tomorrow , brew up , open your curtains and have a look what the weathers like ;)
 
If you can bear the temps you will be fine.

Excellent, thank you!

You never know, if Tim is as quick as he usually is, my car lack window stuff may well arrive tomorrow morning as well and then I can fill my boots!!

If I manage to get rid of the swirls this weekend (doubt I'll have time to get to the sealant and wax stages) I'll do some before and afters as it'll be my first machining :)
 
  Clio 182 & Saxo VTR
If its too cold then wont some products not be as effective or take longer to work though? Thats what i was told, hence i had to "borrow" our garage. :D

Ive finished my last layer of wax, gonna get some snaps in the daylight tomorrow.
 
  106 GTi
To hot or two cold can lead to issues, the later formula Menzerana's with a DA machine will have a long work time in this weather.
 

Ali

  V6, Trackhawk, GTS
To hot or two cold can lead to issues, the later formula Menzerana's with a DA machine will have a long work time in this weather.

Indeed! meg's polish's work better in the cold imo! I heat the garage and polish before i even attempt to PC.
 
  Monaco 172
mea i just washed my car today,..washed dried etc....water froze running off the driveway. still looked great after a coat of nattys. got cold!
 
To hot or two cold can lead to issues, the later formula Menzerana's with a DA machine will have a long work time in this weather.

Bugger. I have the newer versions of IP and FF :(

Looks like I'll be waiting a little longer to use the machine polisher for the first time then.
 
You never know, if Tim is as quick as he usually is, my car lack window stuff may well arrive tomorrow morning as well and then I can fill my boots!!

Well, you'll never guess what. Ordered at 12 pm yesterday, arrived here first thing this morning. So even if I can't polish the car, I can do the windows ;)

If only all businesses were this efficient!
 
Did you get it done at the weekend, How did it go ?

Hi, thanks for asking.

Washed and clayed the car (minimal need to clay it, cannot believe just how long the EGP and #16 has lasted since I did it in late summer!!) and then applied the Car Lack window care kit to the windows.

Have to say, the Car Lack care kit is well worth the money and only took a half hour to do it all properly. I drove all the way to work this morning in heavy rain and didn't need the wipers, genuinely, the windscreen was clear it beads that well. Be interesting to see the durability.

As for the polishing, I spent all afternoon watching the rain clouds and cold and umming and ahhing. In the end the desire to play with my G220 (!) got the better of me. I practised for the first time with a sonus correction spot pad on the boot on the basis that if it was too cold or rained, that's not the end of the world and only a small area.

After 20 minutes of using Menzerna IP, beginning on speed 3 and working in with speed 5, my god what a difference. I felt like a proper muppet having done in 20 minutes what I couldn't do in a day by hand to remove the scratches. Even before Menz FF, SRP, EGP and #16 (or P21s) it has made the world of difference. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to do paint correction on a reasonable level. Even though it was cold and I was using the 'new' formula of Menz IP, it broke down and was removed easily enough.

I can't wait to do the rest of the car now, wish my garage wasn't full of sh* now!
 

Tay

  Titanium Clio 182
Good stuff ! Sounds like your impressed so far then mr merc.

Have to get some pics up once you have a chance for a full detail using it.
 
Soon as I get:

a. The stuff out of the garage to do it indoors
or
b. A decent weekend

I'll do it all and take some before and afters...
 


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