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Front ones are within a year IIRC.

I'm just about to replace my suspension as mines worn, probably with the usual H&R + Koni set up. Also replacing my worn bushes with Powerflex all round at the same time. Is there anything else thats worth doing whilst the suspensions in bits etc? Cheers!

My body shop owns one of these, had to wait 3 months to get a new wing from Audi!

If you have or can get a wet & dry vac that should do it.

New special offer for the new year! I've edited the Page 1 ad too. Full Machine Polish Special Offer - £140 ----------- Offer Ends 31st January 2007 ----------- (Normal Price £150-£225 depending on condition) http://executivedetailing.co.uk/content ... 8&Itemid=2 Also, for each person coming from here to get it done, £10 is donated to the forum. (only fair!) It doesn't have to be a VW either. For now, you would have to come to me unless you can provide power, generic hose tap and somewhere undercover to do it. Thanks!

Me and Harry (he was briefly on here - dirty Hari on DW). We work at the same place. It's being 'us' for a few months now.

He's coming back to us in about 4-5 months when he's in this country again to get the interior done. Nice car. Wouldn't have one though! :) I don't suppose as a mod theres anyway you can put this on another page without deleting the other posts. It's just this page has 3 details on it and is probably huge!

A special detail for everyone here today! Alex dropped off his Alfa Romeo Spider after travelling all the way from Luxembourg! He was visiting family over here and wanted us to make his drop top, drop dead gorgeous! Our international reputation proceeds us. :) The cars around 7-8 years old with 130,000km (ish) on the clock so you can imagine it's got a bit of wear over time, as well as the drive back from Luxembourg too! This is how we took the car on a very cold boxing day. As you can imagine you don't travel thousands of miles for a quick wash, this was for a full de-swirl and a fabric hood clean and protect. The first job was to wash the car down with the Karcher Jet Wash, blowing off all the loose European dirt that had stuck to it over the past few days. Following that up with Meguiars Hyper Wash, 2 buckets, a couple of Lambs Wool Wash Mitts and cold hands. That got the bodywork up to a much better level. We also started on the alloy wheels and arches, using Meguiars Super Degreaser on both. This was also a good time to try out our new C&S Bullet Shaped Alloy Wheel Brush. It seemed to do the trick around the wheel nuts and smaller hard to reach places but we carried on with our larger brush for the main part of the alloys. The arches were scrubbed with a long handled brush as well and the came up a treat! Whilst cleaning the bodywork and wheels we also started work on cleaning the Fabric Roof. This looked ok but was absolutely filthy judging by the water afterwards! This is the bucket after cleaning the fabric roof with Renovo's Fabric Cleaner. The final part of the washing phase was to clay the car. Using Sonus Detailng Clay for this (Blue) we covered the entire bodywork. Most of the car was pretty clean but some were horrific, take a look at just 1 of the segments we used! Another once over with Meg's Hyper Wash, Wash Mitts and the Karcher and she was ready to be dried off so we could move her indoors and get a little warmer! Standard drying procedure, a couple of Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels with a spritz of Meguiars Last Touch. The car was nice and clean now but unfortunately it was hiding the state of the bodywork! Eeek! Knowing what we were up against and the fact that Alfa paint is usually reasonably soft, we opted to go for Meguiars #83 in combo with the yellow Sonus Pad on the Porter Cable. We tested an area on the bonnet and it worked well, so decided to carry on around the car using this combination. Here's me in action..... ......... and here's the pre-wax but post-machine polishing result! During all this polishing, we also treated the roof with some Renovo Colour Restorer and once that had dried, Renovo Proofing, to make it, well waterproof! After speaking with Alex earlier, he wanted to go with longer lasting protection, rather than full on shine. For this we chose to use good old Collonite 476, or rather 2 coats of it! The first coat was put on top of a layer of Clearkote Moose Glaze Sealant, the second coat was applied the next day, giving the first time to dry properly. Should see him through the snowy European winter thats approaching! Amongst all of this (in no particular order), we also treated and protected the tyres using Meguiars Hot Wheels, give the alloys a coat of rim wax, treated the rubber and all plastic trim (inc under the bonnet) with Meguiars #38, blinged up the exhaust with Megs NXT Metal Polish and cleaned the glass using Autoglym Fast Glass! Phew! Here are the final results and thanks for reading! :)

I think this thread is better for this; http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47208 :)

The ferry port is about 1hr 30mins from me to IOM. It would obviously mean a weekend stay, hotels etc. Probably cheaper for you lot to come to me! :)

I can?

Now I'm getting a house with a garage, what do I have to do to appease the missus for 6 years while I work on it? What bribery did you use!

Why does your Aston need a clean?

Luckily cambridge is far enough away! :)

Current Forum Offer http://www.executivedetailing.co.uk/ Full Machine Polish for £250 (normally £300+ for a Corrado). 20% reduction for other details.

Tint them, And then give it a clean! :)

Had plenty of updates done to it now. Still working on the logo so forget that for now. Thoughts? Please flick through the menu etc and point out anything you don't/do like. Cheers!

Yeah and then bought this stuff after reading on here and being advised from other forums. http://www.opieoils.co.uk I think it is. About £42 for 5 litres but lasts a lot longer so works out about the same. Power's pretty much the same. Speak to opie and the tell you why its better.

TBH, since I started using Silkolene 15w 40 my probs have dissapeared. The blue smoking has gone and oil consumption has gone from 1 litre every 800miles to 1 litre every 3,000 miles! :)

Lawrence drove over from Rochdale today in his A4 2.5 TDI V6 Quattro, a very nice car with full leathers, sat-nav, tv, mp3 screen and loads of other goodies! Thought the bodywork was in good condition regarding swirls at first glance, as you'll see, I was mistaken! Here's some pre-clean pics. After I dropped them off at the train station, so they could do some xmas shopping in Leeds, we started cleaning the alloys and the arches. Using Meguiars All Purpose Cleaner for the arches and Meguiars Super Degreaser for the wheels. This is a picture of just some of what came out of 1 wheels arch! It was the door and boot shuts turn to be cleaned next, once again using Megs Super Degreaser. Carrying on with the degreaser, we turned our attention to the engine bay. After spraying that all over and agitating the muck with soft brushes, it was rinsed down with a gentle sprinkle from the tap. Finallly finishing by dressing it with Megs NXT Interior Cleaner. Once those were finished we moved onto the bodywork. A quick rinse down with the Power Wash first, we then sprayed Megs APC onto the car, washing it with the usual Lambs Wool Wash Mitts and Meguiars Hyper Wash, which is pretty potent stuff! 400:1 mix ratio yet it foams up constantly! After rinsing it down once more, we then began to clay the car, using soapy water as the lubricant. The car was pretty good apart from in a few places where it turned the clay bar nearly black! Take a peak! One final rinse down with the Power Wash, the last thing to do was to dry off the car properly, using Sonus Der Wunder Drying Towels (very plush!) and a quick spritz of Meguiars Last Touch. It was now time to inspect the paint, and my god it was swirled! They covered the whole car and it also appeared that the paint was dulled, having little shine to it. Here's some pics. We then taped up the trim to avoid polishing and plastic or rubber parts. Now it's time to break out the Porter Cable! Using Sonus SFX Cutting Pad and Meguiars #83 I started on the bonnet. Although improved I could see it would take a while! So I swapped the pad for the SFX Polishing Pad and broke out the Menzerna Power Gloss! As it's harsher than the #83 it did the trick after just one go. The trouble is, I had to follow up the Menzerna with #80 to remove the holograms it creates! A lot of work but the finish was fantastic! Here's a picture of the bonnet with half of it done, tape seperates the two halves! Remember this is before any sealant and wax was applied! Having found the process I was going to use I carried on working my way around the car. Whilst I was doing that, Harry started dressing the tyres, applying Rim Wax to the alloys, vaccuming the interior, waxing the door/boot shuts, dressed the inside of the arches and cleaned the glass inside and out with Autoglym's Fast Glass. Phew! Once the polishing was done we turned our attention to applying the sealant and the wax. Clearkote Moose Glaze was the sealant we applied and Meguiars #26 Paste Wax, both with applicator pads and buffed off with Pakshak Plush Microfibres. The last thing to do was to dress the rubber and trim on the car with Vinyl and Trim Cleaner. 8 hours later, here are the results! Thanks for reading! More pics of the whole car should be coming soon.

A Corsa arrived this dull Sunday morn in need of some TLC, no I'll say it how it is, in need of A LOT of TLC. Lorna had never done more than a Morrisons Jet wash (yes even with the brush!) and of late done even lessw than that! She bought it from new 3 1/2 years ago and was duped into getting Diamondbrite, "as you'll never need to wax it for years again!", as the salesman told her! Well here's proof it's a waste of money! (IMO of course :) ) Please note the pink roof and god knows what on the bonnet in the third pic. It's like somethings being put on it to clean it and not taken off? She also told me that for the first 2 years it was at her Mum & Dad's parked under a very big full of sap tree! "Oh dear", I thought! To give you a clue as to how dirty the car really was, here a pic of the floor after ONE wheel arch cleaning! I used Meguiars Super Degreaser for the alloy wheels and Meguiars APC for the arches (a strong mix for this one!). All wheels and arches had to be done twice they were that bad. After the wheels and arches I moved onto the door & boot shuts, once again using Meguiars Super Degreaser. From that and with the Degreaser still in hand I went on to the engine bay, which I don't think she'd seen more than twice in 3 years! I used a radiator brush to agitate the built up dirt and grease before rinsing it down and finally giving it a dressing of Meguiars Interior NXT Spray, which I find is great for engine bays. :) Here's a pic of the finished article! I finally got the point where I could start actually cleaning the car! Usual method of 2 buckets, lambs wool wash mitts and spraying the car beforehand with Meguiars APC, to get rid of any existing wax. (Well, there might have being some!) Following this good clean I deployed the Clay Bars, and boy did it need it! You could certainly tell it was under a tree for a while. One more wash and then I dried off the car using Sonus Der Wunder Towels, which are fantastic, and a spritz of Quick Detailer to help the water dry off without leaving any marks. I'd already had a long enough day already but I hadn't actually started Machine Polishing it yet! Arrrgh! I had to tape it all up before beginning so that was done before I started the colour transformation. Tried Meguiars #80 but didn't too enough so I stepped up to #83 using the white Sonus Cutting Pad. Apllied on speed 1, and the 2 passes on speed 3 followed by several on speed 5. This did the trick so I carried on doing the whole car. On some parts it did need a cople of passes though. Here's a pic of the roof half way through, see the difference! Once that had being completed I used Clearkote Moose Glaze Sealant on the whole car, which has become my standard sealant now, and followed that up with Meguiars #16 Professional Paste Wax applied with applicator pads and buffed off with Pakshak Microfibres, which I have to say are worth the extra. The end was in sight and all that was left to do was to clean the glass with Autoglym Fast Glass and treat the trim using Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care. 8 hours of hard labour on this one, it was a bit of a bugger! Lorna was happy and drove off with a big smile! It was dark by the time I got round to taking the after pics so apologies for the lack of photos. Thanks for reading!

Another one coming up!

Not sure if speed glaze would be harsh enough? (think he wanted harsh?)

Meguiars #83 is the weapon of choice! http://www.cleanandshiny.co.uk Good place to start! Once you've machine polished it, apply a sealant and then a wax.

Scoot on over to http://www.detailingworld.co.uk Theres everything you need to know there. :)