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Offline Booth11

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #860 on: 23 January 2017, 19:58 »
Just celebrated a milestone birthday and feeling sorry for myself, haha.   

You're never 50  :shocked:

Yep, the half century is upon me.  :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Happy Birthday Booth!! Hope you had some fun :laugh: I too have that milestone to enjoy in a few weeks....

Thanks Watts, it was actually on 6th Jan but I'm still celebrating commiserating, lol.  Actually was a great one, celebrated it in the Maldives, and have just returned from a girls spa girls weekend, a birthday treat from some girlfriends.  Back down to earth now and the drudge of car cleaning, lol.

Pre-Happy 50th to you too.  :smiley:
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Offline seabrook132

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #861 on: 23 January 2017, 20:27 »
Sounds like you commiserated in style Bec!!

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #862 on: 23 January 2017, 20:34 »
Yeah, that sounds like you did it properly! I'm going to bury myself in a gallery or two in Paris.
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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #863 on: 23 January 2017, 20:39 »
Sounds like you commiserated in style Bec!!

Thanks Dan, I tried, lol.

How's your lovely mk6?
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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #864 on: 23 January 2017, 20:40 »
Yeah, that sounds like you did it properly! I'm going to bury myself in a gallery or two in Paris.

Sounds like a great plan.  Can't fight it, might as well embrace and celebrate!  :smiley:
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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #865 on: 24 January 2017, 08:15 »
50 is the new 30 these days. With that in mind, I'm a mere 27.
Red Mk6 gone replaced with a white Mk7 which has gone too. Green Mk2 here to stay.

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #866 on: 24 January 2017, 18:37 »
Just celebrated a milestone birthday and feeling sorry for myself, haha.   

You're never 50  :shocked:

Happy Birthday Booth!! Hope you had some fun :laugh: I too have that milestone to enjoy in a few weeks....
Stop moaning you 2 young whippersnappers, you've not peaked yet  :wink: :grin:
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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #867 on: 24 January 2017, 19:45 »
Sounds like you commiserated in style Bec!!

Thanks Dan, I tried, lol.

How's your lovely mk6?

Thanks for asking, it's sailed happily past 90,000 miles now. I'm very much in the school of thought that regular use is good for a car and high miles are not a turn off. 100k is a bit of a personal milestone  :smiley: :cool:

Afraid in the spirit of detailing not a lot has occurred over here recently! The car is looking quite sorry for itself inside and out an I can only hope for a mild Sunday that may give me chance to rectify the matter!

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #868 on: 03 February 2017, 16:36 »
Used my new Autobrite snow foam lance / Nilfisk pressure washer combination for the first time today. Autobrite Direct currently have their heavy duty snow foam lance, plus a 1/2 litre of Magifoam snow foam for £34 (their normal price would be £50; £40 for the lance and £10 for the snow foam).

The lance looks to be really well constructed and I was surprised at how little of the snow foam I needed to use; about 1 cm in the bottle attached to the lance, topped up to about 400 ml with warm water. Made lots of thick, clinging foam and I didn't use all of the 400 ml. The foam was still thick and clinging 20 minutes after I applied it to the car - picture below. Sorry, no 'befores' or 'afters', but it was pretty dirty and is now nice and clean!

Very pleased with my purchase and foaming adds a new fun element to car cleaning!  :smiley:

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Re: What detailing have you done today?
« Reply #869 on: 03 February 2017, 17:48 »
Why have you lifted the wipers?
Red Mk6 gone replaced with a white Mk7 which has gone too. Green Mk2 here to stay.