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What's most important in detailing is technique and process - not the products used. A well prepared car with Turtle Wax will look better than a poorly prepared car with Zymol.
A worthy sentiment. I also use a clay bar and the result never ceases to astound me; it removes so much gunk from the paint. Once clayed, the panels respond so much better to polish.
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A worthy sentiment. I also use a clay bar and the result never ceases to astound me; it removes so much gunk from the paint. Once clayed, the panels respond so much better to polish.
Absolutely. Panel preparation is the single most important aspect in detailing. A clay bar is essential if one is striving to achieve 'the ultimate shine'. Wax only adds about the last 10-15% of a car's look - it's the prep and the paint correction (polishing) that adds the most. Ben
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Ben How about a simple guide to getting our motors looking like Aeroman's (assuming you have a decent car and paint to start with. Andy 
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Ben How about a simple guide to getting our motors looking like Aeroman's (assuming you have a decent car and paint to start with. Andy He's been promising to write us a guide for years! 
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Here Andy, absolute every thing you ever wanted to know... Detailing World
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Or if you really want to become a polish sniffing nerd, try www.autopia.org  Back in Ben's detailing days, he used to post on there - here is his post ref my now-gone Turbo (he lists the products used) 
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Thanks guys Theres enough stuff in here to keep me happy until retirement  Sounds like its all in the preparation Has anyone got/used one of these car polishers  http://www.autopia-carcare.com/pcdepot.html Andy 
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Well, looks like I may get a free zymol polishing. Will be taking the Aero up to the NEC for the PH show in January in return for the free detailing.
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<<However, in late 2002 we gave the color codes to the Factory when they were re-making our car. Immediately after, they appeared on a number of MMC display cars>>
Ahem. Hi Lorne for the sake of accuracy you may recall that when I ordered my +8. I intended to have two-tone from the outset.
However having ordered a car colour from a paint chip before and ending up with a nail-polish purple TVR Cerbera. I was determined not to make that mistake again and requested pictures of two-tone Morgans. I ended up with over 80 pictures of two-tone combinations (a valuable archive that I irresponsibly lost when I had a computer crash) I asked you if you would mind if I painted my car in your colours and you very kindly gave me the colour codes and my car was built using them in May 2002. The (your) colours created a great deal of interest, I was told by Steve Simmonds that a Dutch chap saw the car in his workshop and changed his order. So your unique combination of Vespa and Ferrari colours hit Europe earlier than you first thought <Smile>
Brian - Jersey
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