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Thats much better now Chris! They looks spot on and some nice grippy eagle f1's to put that power down! When you get the coilovers and ARB's it will be awesome!

Thats just aweful!! :pukeright: And does that bonnet remind anyone else of this: :lol:

The GTA comes up pretty well as well 8) CLICKY

Lovely alfa Sam 8) i havent been in any new alfas but can only imagine clarkson being right in saying its a nice place to be as they just look so damn inviting!! Everything looks in its place!

If its a vr i would leave the 90mm spoiler on mate as the vr has a very low sump so as ben16v pointed out above, the 90mm spoiler will take the abuse away from the sump whereas with a 50mm your sump is exposed and you will end up having to replace it. Plus the 90mm spoiler looks much better imo :wink: As said though, very nice motor, good choice of rims and good ride height :)

It will be the spacers causing them to rub, find out what the offsets are and what size spacers you are running etc and then someone will be able to advise easier. Try running 9x16 et15 on a VR6 with wider track :roll: :lol:

Get one get one get one get one!!! :lol:

I really like the 147 GTA! Gorgeous car (especially in red!) the engine sounds superb and go like stink. They have lovely interiors as well. My mate has an alfa 145 at the min but is getting a GTV soon (same engine) and apparently the engine is pretty solid but like all alfas i think its the electrics that tend to go on them! I say go for it and be different, granted the S3/4motion are great cars but i think are boring compared to the alfa. And as jezza says you cant call yourself a proper petrol head unless you have owned an alfa :lol:

Nice one Nikki!! Good to see a proper colour corrado getting recognized for a change :lol: as said its well deserved yours is one of the finest :D

Yes mate they are the wipers from a lupo. The better ones are from the lupo gti i believe. Or there are Aero wipers which i have on mine and are superb!

And then i will petition against petitions against silly petitions :lol:

Good call karl, if we can get these i would definately be interested

I was in juniors school only being 8 at the time and my corrado wasnt even born :lol:

Bloody hell! :shock: sorry to hear this mate! Atleast no-one was hurt though. You must be gutted, i would be if it were me :cry:

Yes mate, i have some Speed Detailer and it works a treat and smells lovely! Use it for everything! I have a gallon of Last Touch which i havent used yet, but once the SD is finished with i shall try it out :D

Nice collection there mate :)

I havent tried it personally but i would imagine it is better but most importantly more durable as the Deep Crystal wax doesnt last very long at all.

No worries Jim, i dont mind tackling the bonnet for ya. You might not necessarily need me though, the machine polisher would certainly bring it back up, but if the paint cleaner is bringing it up then that may be all you need. The key to stop oxidisation is to apply some glaze whch will add oils into the paint and then use a good sealant to protect from UV rays. So you could try giving it a go over with the paint cleaner to bring the colour up, then a glaze such as Megs #7 or the stuff i have and highly recommend, Clearkote Red Moose Glaze. And then seal it with some Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection. Then you could also add a layer or 2 of wax to protect it further. But if that doesnt work by all means gimme a shout and i will pop over one weekend and help you out, although im not a beer drinker :oops: :lol:

Yep going back to uni for my final year in october and i do plan on doing this as a part time job so i dont have to work in a shop or something sh*t like that :lol: dont fancy getting a van though, going to try and get a tidy mk1 old school, and probs take rear seats out 8) lol. We didnt do inside, but we did have a fair few tea brakes, went KFC for some lunch and my mate popped round for a bit so chatted for a bit, so without brakes and messing about itwould of been shorter. At the minute i do take ages but i take my time as im scared to leave holograms everywhere etc, but i do want to try and speed it up a a bit as its just too tiring taking so damn long!!

Ok so my mate decided to keep his Audi A3 for a bit longer before selling it, but he is hoping to sell it soon and so asked me to use my new found skills and give it a machine polish. So he came round 9am sunday morning and we began straight away. The first thing i did was soak the wheels, arches, lower half of the car, tailgate and door shuts with APC diluted 10:1 in my Lidl 5ltr pump sprayer. Then i soaked the car in foam using the Superspray mixed with cheapy Tesco shampoo and some Chemical Guys Maxi Suds and letit soak for 10 minutes. Then rinsed off. I actually bought a Karcher pressure washer and foam lance in the week but didnt want to use it so early on a sunday morning :lol: but the superspray did the job as it was too dirty. After rinsing i washed it using the 2 bucket method, Zymol shampoo and a lambs wool mitt for top half of the car and the megs wash mitt for lower half, wheels and door shuts. Then i gave the car a clay using a Sonus green clay bar. And even though the car is washed regularly it is parked at the side of the road and so has collected quite a lot of dirt as shown in the pics: After bonnet: After bottom half: After claying the car we washed it again, dried it and then moved it into the garage to start the machine polishing. It looked bad in the sun but we couldnt believe how bad it was under halogen light :shock: The picture shows it pretty bad but in the metal looked a LOT worse. So out with the Silverline machine polisher, Megs pads and Menzerna polishes. I started with some Final Finish on a finishing pad and this removed a lot of the swirls, then i tried the FF on a polishing pad and this got out about 90% of the swirls which we were both happy with as we didnt see the point going for 100% swirl removal as he would only go and add some when he next washes the car, plus i dont have a paint depth reader so if i only took 90% of swirls out i knew i werent taking off too much paint! Here is a 50/50 shot on the bonnet: And the finished bonnet: I carried on with the combination of FF on a polishing pad for the whole car and in some areas there were still quite a few swirls left, but it was significantly better than before which is all he wanted to sell it really. Some more before and afters: Door before: Door after: Wing after (forgot to take a before shot): I tackled some scratches on the door: Before: After: As i machined each panel he followed me with some SRP to fill in the majority of left over swirls. Then after the whole car was machined and SRP'd i went over with some Clearkote Red Moose Glaze followed by Collinite 476s wax. I would of personally preferred to use Victoria Concours wax for a better finish but as he's selling i thought it would be better for a more durable wax so went with the collinite. Then we polished the glass with AG Glass Polish, protected the wheels with some AG EGP, and dressed the tyres with Megs Endurance Gel. Anyway some after shots: Wheel Before: Wheel After: Total time taken was 10 hours :shock: but worth the effort as it looked great when it was done and my mate was well happy with it! I was nackered afterwards, and luckily had today off work so i have just chilled out :lol: Cheers for looking, Rob.

Happy Birthday scarlet_vr6! :D

Yeah twas my bday mate and had a late one on the saturday night so there was no way i was getting up :lol: will be at next years though for sure!

Just wanted to show these pics i took of my car today after a wash and with my new camera which i really need to learn how to use!!! She looks sexual 8)

Stunning simply stunning 8)

One of my work mates attempted to repair a big scratch down the door of his car. Bless him i just had to laugh when i saw it, he just bought some spray paint in his colour and sprayed over it and he's got paint runs and everything, looks terrible!! I have offered to wet sand it down and machine polish it back up so i should finish up looking pretty good. When i get round to it i will post some pics of how i do it 8)