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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: Creepy Coupe on 24 May 2007, 08:24
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Bearing in mnd the cars only three months old, but the paintwork has never felt that smooth, now I know why. :shocked:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/creepycoupe/DSCN0721.jpg)
Then finished off with some Gold Class :cool:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/creepycoupe/DSCN0718.jpg)
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Creep, always fancied claying mine but am a bit scared too!! Was it easy to do and is there any danger of damaging the paintwork :undecided:
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No mate, it's easy, just make sure your cars JUST washed and dry, if you buy a kit like the Meguires, it will contain the clay bar and a lubricant, spary the lube over a managable area first, say a third of your bonnet, then warm the clay in your hands, so it softens up, then gently press onto the paint serface and slowly rub up and down the lubricated area, pretty soon the clay will flatten to the bonnet serface and stat to pick up crud, have the spray bottle of lube in your other hand, so if you feel the bar dragging, you can spray some more.
This will leave a milky film all over the paint work, so you will need to wash the car again, then leather off and rewax straight away :cool:
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I did mine with that clay stuff to get the tree sap off, worked a treat, but hard work. then I found this turtle wax, wax & polish stuff which was much easier and just as good.
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I did mine with that clay stuff to get the tree sap off, worked a treat, but hard work. then I found this turtle wax, wax & polish stuff which was much easier and just as good.
The trouble with any polish is that by it's very nature it's abrasive, where a clay bar isn't and uses a lifting action.
Each to their own, but using a clay bar is no harder that waxing IMO
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I did mine with that clay stuff to get the tree sap off, worked a treat, but hard work. then I found this turtle wax, wax & polish stuff which was much easier and just as good.
Interesting. I too have found tree sap very hard to lodge this year. Never noticed it before...
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I'm sure the clay bar in better, but for little individual bits, the turtle wax does the trick.
we have these horrible lime trees in west london and they make little purlple patches on the pearlesent black. when I first had this problem, someone on here recommended the clay bar and Im glad they did!
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I'm sure the clay bar in better, but for little individual bits, the turtle wax does the trick.
we have these horrible lime trees in west london and they make little purlple patches on the pearlesent black. when I first had this problem, someone on here recommended the clay bar and Im glad they did!
Indeed tree and sh!te Hawks are the worst offenders IMHO.
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seagulls down here carry shedloads of bombing material down here, but have a crafty nack of doing it only after the cars just been washed and polished :sick:
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Am starting to think they particularly target blue as they believe its its either the sky to sea. I have never had a car which attracts the bird poo as much as this one!
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Geoff,
Should have bought a black one :grin:
Cass
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no geoff dont listen to Cass, you made the right choice, u can see what leghts people do to get their hands on your wagen, hense when she was stolen!
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Interesting. I too have found tree sap very hard to lodge this year. Never noticed it before...
AutoGlym Fast Glass for tree sap, and it doesn't affect any wax finish.
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If you want to get stuff off your car get the power hose out, thats what I use and nothing is left on my car after :D
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If you want to get stuff off your car get the power hose out, thats what I use and nothing is left on my car after :D
Got one and use it, but don't blast the paint up close. Have seen the effects on this and it's not pretty!
Thanks TT.
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I was under the impression that a fair standard domestic power hose could not damage the paint work on a car, am I mistaken?
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I was under the impression that a fair standard domestic power hose could not damage the paint work on a car, am I mistaken?
yeah as if you target an area for too long you will start to lift the lacquer. should use a pressure washer at a 45 degree angle and from a reasonable distance away
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You have scared me now.
I set the alarm off once with the power hose :grin:
Scared the living day ligts out of me at the time !
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Am starting to think they particularly target blue as they believe its its either the sky to sea. I have never had a car which attracts the bird poo as much as this one!
Amazing isn't it. and if you look at an adjacent same sized bit of road not one bit of bird sh1t :laugh:
If you want to get stuff off your car get the power hose out, thats what I use and nothing is left on my car after :D
Tried this once and never again :cry: made a mess of my tail gate trim!
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Am starting to think they particularly target blue as they believe its its either the sky to sea. I have never had a car which attracts the bird poo as much as this one!
Amazing isn't it. and if you look at an adjacent same sized bit of road not one bit of bird sh1t :laugh:
If you want to get stuff off your car get the power hose out, thats what I use and nothing is left on my car after :D
Tried this once and never again :cry: made a mess of my tail gate trim!
I once heard that birds try to poo over water - so that they cannot be tracked in the wild by other animals. Hence, from way up a high, a nice shiney car (even more so a blue car), looks like water and is used as a target.
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I once heard that birds try to poo over water - so that they cannot be tracked in the wild by other animals. Hence, from way up a high, a nice shiney car (even more so a blue car), looks like water and is used as a target.
Lol :laugh:
sounds suspiciously like a beer assisted theory. :smiley:
I bet there is a paper on this somewhere...............
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I once heard that birds try to poo over water - so that they cannot be tracked in the wild by other animals. Hence, from way up a high, a nice shiney car (even more so a blue car), looks like water and is used as a target.
Lol :laugh:
sounds suspiciously like a beer assisted theory. :smiley:
I bet there is a paper on this somewhere...............
Yeah not sure if it would stand up in court but makes sense!!
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I once heard that birds try to poo over water
Blokes do that trick too !!! :grin: