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Apart from sitting too far inside the arch (tucked) youo may have clearance issues to suspension componants... a 10mm Hubcentric spacer should sort all that though! 8)

Yes! You've killed every Kitten on the internet! you heartless :censored: :nuts: :lol:

nice one rob! - if you need any help i can try to be of some use :D Cheers mate, I might hold you to it :lol: Kev will be helping most of the time as he's anxious to learn more about the 24v's so I'm not complaining, his help will be legendary! Shame you don't have more "Chicken shed space" Andy, could do both side by side!

No Probs... detailing's a bit of a minefield.. what works for some doesn't for others.. but what I've outlined is a realtivly cheap and easy to use intro. Oh and Halfords have a 3-4-2 offer on all their Polishing stuff! One thing I will say is avoid the Zymol Cleaner wax (blue stuff, smells of Banana/cocnut). A real Marmite product, I didn't get on with it (and Jim's had similar with his Red IIRC), all the coloured waxes, T-cut ( :gag: ) etc... The art of a good final finish is the prep work so the more time you spend on early stages the better the final finish. I warn you that you maybe on this for a few hours/days... my first pass at my Pearl-grey paint took me 8hrs just to do Stage1/2/wax! :nuts: However once you have a finish you are happy with it's only a matter of topping up the wax every couple weeks/once a month (depending on wax) and fully doing the car 1-2 times a year. I tend to do mine early in the year (March/April if weathers good) and then again Oct time to prep for Winter.

(in the voice of a "Plastic Gangsta) "Dat's sooooo 2008 bro... Brrrraaaap!" :norty:

Yes.... well I'm thinking about a kind of OEM+ (hate that phrase) look for these wheels so maybe Black Chrome will suit. Or maybe just go full-out Motorsport and go white? :scratch:

Looking at yours yesterday Lisa I do need to come down a bit at the front (about 1/2 a Marlboro packet according to my exact "measure"! :lol:).... but how did the C cope with the Himalayas getting out the my road? Remembering I have to do them twice each time I go anywhere!

Tyler, assuming you don't have access to/ experience of a machine polisher... And I'm guessing it's Tornado/Flash red? I'd recommend getting some of the Megs 3-step products from Halfords. Specifically the Stage-1 Paint Cleanser and Stage-2 Polish. As well as some foam Applicator pads. They also do a Megs Clay kit, which is quite pricy at £25 but this helps remove all bonded contaminents (tree sap/brake dust/ etc) from the paint. You can tell if you need to do this by running your fingers over the car... if the paint surface feels "Gritty" then you'll need to clay it. Places such as Elite Car care also do clay bar kits, but the Megs one is quite "gentle" so there's very little chance of marring your paint. Once you have clayed the car, go with the Stage-1 do this a couple times, this will clean up the paint, plus it has oils which help "feed" the paint and level the colour off between panels. No hard and fast rule about how much to do this, you'll know when the colour looks even. Then move onto Stage-2 (or you can use Autoglymm Super resin polish - more later) again a couple goes at this will help bring up a shine to the paint and also help hide the "Cobwebbing" you can probably see (result of using car-washes/jetwashers). From there it's a case of protecting the finish. The reason paint fades, like skin burns, is UV. So you need to protect the paint with a sealer/wax So follow up with some Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection (gold label) this is basically a sealer and will add another layer of protection to the paint. Again a couple layers will help. Then it's onto Wax, there's a huge choice out there, but I'm guessing that you will want a long-lasting easy to look after wax? My personal favorite is Colinite 915 (Available from Elite), this is a "hard wax" (in a tub, liqid waxes come in bottles) and not only gives a deep wet-look shine but lasts for months. Again whatever you chose a couple layers will help protect the paint and add some longevity. With Colinite, try to leave 12+hr between coats to allow the preceeding coat to "go off" (harden). Hope this helps and isn't too confusing. But if you have any questions please go ahead and ask!

Put a silver one up for referance... John was that done by BJV? Looks good. Not sure Black wheels will work on my Pearl Grey though?

Do all that and we *may* buy it off you! :wave: Just need to talk her indoors out of wanting either a mk5 or A3 ATM! :brickwall: Oh and she would have let me buy the "Players taxi" RS4 as well... if only I'd known! :bad-words:

Black Chrome Silver The Black Chrome finish is the one I was thinking about...

Looking good and the Dark silver colour works well with the paint!

Ok The Compo's are being run as proper winter wheels (unlike my 928 winters that took till this week to get done! :lol:) So apart from silver (and Porsche GT3RS Green!) what other colour suggestions for the refurb? I'm currently thinking either Chrome or Black-chrome Powder coat? Car's Pearl Grey BTW... Here's something to Potato-shop with if you like!

Has it just started doing this or been doing it all along? :norty:

He's somewhere on the M6 with 4x4 bits... apparently!

All reds with strips for indicator and reverse lights... on Pearl Grey...

What you two do in your spare time should stay between you! :pukeright:

Ah but it's a little thing called "Soul" Kept me into Dubs for nigh on 17 years now! :luvlove: Andy as I said you're doing "Mega-miles" in a seriously slammed estate, of course stuff's going to break on the daily, all the suspension and steering is working at it's full desgined travel limit (or probably past it) so things will wear quicker... Simple solution is to just pop it up a bit and take the stress off the componants, or fit air! My dailies have never been "Cool" just simple mods to make them better wihout scarificing reliability too much! Been and done the 2" clearance daily (in a 30yr old car!) was too damn stressful! So I bought a Sky-Rocket and only did small mods to it... Lowered 30mm, cross braced, G60BBS etc.. nothing mad to affect reliability...

Andy step away from the propellor badge! :epicfail: Know you had some "rough" VW times recently mate... Some-one take him out in a VR and spark his interest again Please... If Kev's about he could just take Andy out and scare the shite out of him! :lol:

Ah well to be "down with the Kidz" I better change mine to "MC-DJ-Snotty-B" then? Ayyiiie! :norty:

Good Job I like Marmite then eh? :tongue: And they're 928's NOT D90's! 2010 year of Acid Yellow then? :lol:

Maybe he just wanted to join the ever growing population of Andys on the Forum. :lol: Thinking of changing my user name to Andyriot13. it is overwhelmed on here with andy's, i just wanted sumthin a bit more personal tbh... Andy21 would have been more sensible! :nuts: I hate the Rocco/delorean thing so will butt out now

Luminous Green! not that bright As said Porsche GT3RS Green (Or VW Cliff-Grenn/Apple-Green from the late 70's if you are an Air-cooled head, same colour as my 1st Bug!)... As I said was toying with this or the GT3RS Orange for good couple years, this isn't a perminant look, just a bit of a Laugh. Maybe Camo-pink next year, :camp: beat Dinkus to it! (where is Dom BTW?)

Meh like I care? As to "Cool kids", these have been in the pipeline for 3 years, so technically ahead of the game in thought... As I don't have a limitless pot of cash like the "cool kids" who live rent free at home and have massive disposable income...plus the fact this is my only car, it takes a while for big things to filter through... plus there's been a lot of other additions before the "Fancy stuff" like an almost complete suspension overhaul... means I have to be a bit "Canny" about when to buy stuff! All bolt one stuff so can be changed, not like I've chopped the floors out, or hacked the roof about or anything! But thanks for the thumbs up on the wind deflectors, the Kwel Kidz hate them! :lol: And no smoking now I have my Recaros..

Lisa, register on VAGCAT http://www.vagcat.com you'll be able to find all sorts of useful part numbers there too!