jedi-knight83

Drivers wanting to race at Red Lodge and be in for a chance of winning their race fee refunded need to pay by tonight please. Remaining spaces will be able to be purchased up until the day of the race however those drivers will not benefit from the prize. Thank you.

Race for free.... if you win the race :) See below for details. Hello. This is the second and third in a series of races I've organised for this year but please feel free to enter either as a one off event. A quick bit about me. My name is Nathan and I run a detailing company called Cambridge Autogleam so am responsible for cars worth hundreds of thousands of pounds on a regular basis. I only mention this as previously some people questioned sending money for karting to an unknown person so hopefully this in some way backs up who I am and that I'm trust worthy. I've enjoyed amateur karting for many years and in the past have organised several races all of which ran successfully. I've always wanted to race in club100 and be part of a championship but the costs are prohibitive for me at £175+ per race. So to keep costs low I'm aiming to run a series of races using the hire karts and raceware of each track we visit. The aim is that each race should be £65 or less and as i build relationships with the various tracks I hope that I can bring the cost down. As I've started this late in 2015 there will only be 3 races this year. Lakeside - Red Lodge - Daytona Milton Keynes. Over the winter I will be planning the 2016 season which I'll plan to start in March or April and will run for around 8 rounds with one race per month. As with this year, people wishing to only enter one or two races are still welcome, but I'm hoping to have a core of at least 10 drivers who will race at all the events. I've created a little blog site with all the details of all the races here. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com There is also a mailing list you can be added to and I email round now and again with updates as I don't plan on advertising every single race on the forums. Please email [email protected] if you wish to be added to that. Emails are sent BCC so your address is never disclosed and you can request to be removed at any time. And lastly there is a Facebook page which you can like and keep up with the updates that way if you prefer. Now onto these particular races. 2015 Round 2 – Friday September 25th, 7pm arrival – Red Lodge Karting The drivers list, circuit address, google maps link to the circuit and other details are on a little blog site I made. Apologies its so basic at the moment. I'll develop it as I go along. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com/upcoming-races/r2-red-lodge-sept-25th/ 2015 Round 3 – Saturday October 17th, 4pm arrival – Daytona Milton Keynes Race Format 16:00 – Arrival, Sign in, Suit up, Briefing 16:45 – 10 min Practice / Qualifying 17:00 – Race Start. 30 min sprint from a grid start 17:35 – Trophies, Lap times Cost and Payment The winner of this race will race for free!! Only drivers paying before midnight on September 26th will qualify for this prize. The race cost will be refunded to the winner of the race within 24 hrs of the race finishing. The cost is £60 per driver which is payable to me not to the track. Please pay via the PayPal link below. Through this link you can then either pay via your PayPal account or, using the link just under the account login, from a credit or debit card. The link works equally as well from a mobile, tablet or desktop computer. The drivers list, circuit address, google maps link to the circuit and other details are on a little blog site I made. Apologies its so basic at the moment. I'll develop it as I go along. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com/upcoming-races/r3-milton-keynes-oct-17th/ Thank you and feel free to ask any questions. Nathan

Lakeside race now full. Next race is Red Lodge on September 25th. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com/upcoming-races/r2-red-lodge-sept-25th/

Another little bump.. probably the last one as it doesn't seem like anyone here is interested :roll: Getting there slowly with the grid but it looks like all will be ok now and it will definitely go ahead. 8 Already paid and 4 more on that list I know are paying imminently. If you are interested in this and have been holding off now is the time to let me know please :) I've also put up the details of the next race which will be at Red Lodge at the end of September. The winner of that race will receive a refund of their race cost as a bit of a prize. See here for details. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com/upcoming-races/r2-red-lodge-sept-25th/ List for Lakeside. Green = Paid 1. Nathan Willits 2. Mark Preston 3. Mikaela Kirby 4. Andrew Stefanczyk 5. Andy Otoo 6. Matteo Macchi 7. Grant Ashley-Smith 8. Tim Phelps 9. Neil Shaw-Smith 10. Stuart McLean 11. Anu Ogunade 12. Katy Ogunade 13. Kesh Naidoo 14. Clive Hill 15. Chris Pincher 16. Sally Shaw-Smith This list will not be updated on here. Please see the website for the up to date list.

I think mostly I arranged races at rye house.. although i did a few at lakeside and one at red lodge.

No need to apologise :) if its not what people want then its not what people want.. like i say I was just a bit surprised as I used to get a good quick response. Its not just this forum.. I've posted it up quite a few places and its the same story. I've got about 12-15 people who have said they definitely want to race but until they pay I'm going to keep trying to find people that want to commit.

Sorry. Me again. I've got a small window where I could actually cancel this and get my money back. Obviously I'd prefer to run the event and race but I've been surprised by the lack of response so perhaps people aren't interested so much in karting these days? When I used to run events a few years ago the uptake was pretty fast and I always filled the grid. Can I ask is it the Price? Venue? Race Format? Anyway if anyone is actually interested if they can let me know ASAP otherwise as I say I'll have no option but to cancel and try to get my money back. Regards Nathan Willits

Yes thats me... Went from the VR6 to the blue S3... then to a grey S3 after I wrote the blue one off.. then M3.. then skint lol ... now a mk5 GTI.

Quick bump. I've had quite a few from here before come karting with me so I thought there would be some more interest?

Thanks guys. Cant believe how time flies. I was over 10 years ago I had the Corrado. I still see it now and again in Cambridge actually. Looks bit worse for ware compared to when I had it :( My old VR6 when it was nearly perfect and had the schrick manifold. Got a Mk5 GTI now, and a Caddy 2.0 TDI, and a Polo R-Line for the wife :) ... so still firmly in the VW camp.

Hello. A long long time ago (see my previous posts) I used to be part of this forum and had a lovely 95 Corrado. I also arranged quite a few karting events. In the past couple of years I've been lazy and just joined onto other open races but recently I've been getting more into it again and have always wanted to race in a championship. I understand most people won't know me but as I say I've been part of these forums for years and I also now run a detailing company you may or may not have heard of http://www.cambridgeautogleam.com . Anyway this is nothing really to do with that but I wanted people to know I'm a genuine person :) I've always wanted to race in club100 and be part of a championship but the costs are prohibitive for me at £175+ per race. So to keep costs low I'm aiming to run a series of races using the hire karts and raceware of each track we visit. Each race should be £65 or less. Now this is pretty early stages at the moment so I'm just going to take it one race at a time so if you want to just race in this one event thats fine. But I'm already planning another 2 races for 2015 to make up a little mini season so if you want to race it those as well I'll make a league table. For 2016 I want to run a season with at least 8 rounds.. but again people can just do as many races as they like, even just one single race.. but hopefully there are others out there like me who would like a fun but CHEAP championship :) Please feel free to invite friends who you think would be interested. 2015 Round 1 – Friday August 28th, 7pm arrival – Lakeside Karting Race Format 19:00 – Arrival, Sign in, Suit up, Briefing 20:00 – 10 min Practice / Qualifying 20:15 – Race Start. 30 min sprint from a grid start 20:50 – Trophies, Lap times Cost and Payment The cost is £65 per driver which is payable to me as I’ve already booked and paid for the track. Please pay via the paypal link below either using your paypal account or if you don’t have an account you can pay direct with a credit or debit card Drivers and other details are on a little blog site I made. Apologies its so basic at the moment. I'll develop it as I go along. https://thehirekartcup.wordpress.com There is also a Facebook page you can like to keep up to date with new races. Thanks and feel free to ask any questions. Nathan

Wow its been a while... and I'm STILL getting links to my site from this :) Slight update to the website since last posting here... now almost 200 cars in our portfolio. click the image to take a look. Also started doing a few youtube videos of the work. Might be worth a look too if your interested in detailing or just like shiny cars in general :) [video=youtube;4-562LuLbhk&hd=1] Can be seen in HD if you change to 720p All over and as well so follow us there if you like.. Hope everyone here is good... still miss my old VR6 :(

once a week usually :) car and van that is.

the S3 was great but it was time to move on. Im 25 now so can afford to insure an M3 at last. I have wanted one for a few years but the £2k insurance premium put me off. The m3 really is better than the S3 in every way. Was the only sensible upgrade really.

ha and as a VAG driver i now look forward to seeing your car stupidly low with tiny deep dish euro wheels and over stretched tyres :D I agree the M3 image isnt the best but the way the car drives is worth it!

was just looking back over this thread. Nov 2003 when i first got my corrado. Nice seeing some old pics of it again (i think its still in cambridge actually.. although not seen it for a while now) Anyway the Grey S3 sold last week and i picked up this M3 the other day.. excellent car and great to be back in a 6pot... the noise!!!!! Nice to see some old familiar screen names still on the forum.. hope everyone is well!

Last one for now.. and again.. on the same day i was getting use to the camera so pics were taken on a wrong setting for the best part of the day! 56 plate 335d is my clients latest daily driver and he wanted the full treatment to bring it up to his usual standard. Before.. Wheels cleaned with AG acid free Foamed with Megs Hyper wash Shampoo'd Clayed with sonus green Polshed with menz ip3.02 on a polishing pad. Most areas had minor swirls... apart from a rear quarter which was crazy! swirls gallor. Looks like it was buffed prior to collection. Before After Paint was cleansed with HD Cleanse and then waxed with 61% vintage wax. Leather was cleaned using bum

This car was done over a week ago but i had forgotten my camera on the day. It has however sat under a car cover since i detailed it and as i was back doing another car for this client today i took the time to give it a carefull wipe down and take some pics of the completed car. It was also my first go at using my new camera and it wasnt until half way through the day i realised i had the white balance set wrong! Whoops.. im also waiting for my new lens to come through so had to borrow a friends 18-55 which isnt the sharpest or fastest in the world. Camera for those into that kind of thing is a Nikon D200 body with Nikon 18-55 lens.. although the lense i have on order to taking pics of my work is a tamron 17-50 with a f2.8 through the range The car had recently undergone a full bare metal respray so was already pretty shiny but had buffer trails and light marring on all panels. Polished using menz 106fa on a finishing pad Cleansed with Dodo Juice PWC Waxed with 61% Vintage wax. Thanks for looking.

Hi Folks. This 1985 Aston Martin V8 Vantage has been booked in for ages now. 7am i left the house. My normal start to the day of washing the car didnt really happen as when i got there it looked a little like this.. perfect you might say!? well nearly.. it was technically clean as the owner never puts it away dirty. So instead of washing i just wiped off any dust using a big clean MF and lots of last touch detailing spray. Car was they clayed with sonus green which didnt really show much dirt atall. Then the leather was cleaned with gliptone leather cleaner gel and conditioned with liquid leather and left for the day to soak in. Then time to check the 25 year old paint.. Nice... shows again appearances can be deceptive and the whole reason the owner had called me was because this car only comes out when its sunny.. and thats when it looks its worst Then the 'fun' started. menz 106ff didnt touch the marks. ip3.02 left horrible buffer trails. menz 106ff on a finishing pad wasnt enough to fully get out those buffer trails... so in the end. it was ip3.02 with a polishing pad.. then 106ff with a polishing pad. Also the paint was different all round the car with the back half seeming slightly softer (yet still no easier to correct) The going was extremely slow but it was coming up nicely.. Before After Because of the time i didnt mess about with too many before and afters but you get the idea. Next thing i notice are wet sanding marks very low down on the panels (respray or previous correction??) And i can see why someone without as much dedication might have left these marks!! The owner was made aware of everything i found though and is writting to the company he bought the car from to complain. by now i was really starting to hate this detail! Some jobs i enjoy.. but i wasnt having fun today atall... and then to top it all... my spot light breaks. i tried 3 bulbs in it but nothing.. so down to one light with light outside fading fast. I eventually completed the correction work. Then on with the paint cleanse which a move back to the HD Cleanse today. Paint was finished off with 61% Vintage wax. Then i found my camera batteries were low!! great.. and the spares were dead!! great again.. so with only 1 light and low bateries i dashed round and got what i could. (the bonnet light shot wouldnt come out clean.. but i can hand on heart say there were no smears.. lens was just making it flare slightly) So job done.. drive home... walk in the door at...... 1:15am Didnt enjoy doing this at the time as it was a pig... but it came up well and looking back im pleased i got to work on a great car. the owner emailed me today and is over the moon with the results. The car came 3rd in a concours event at the weekend only 4 points behind the winner due to the engine bay (which i didnt touch) Thanks for looking Nathan

Day started nice and early to get across to where the customer lives. Once there it was straight on with the job Wheels cleaned with Swissvax wheels cleaner concentrate mixed 1:1 Foamed with Megs hyperwash Shampoo'd Clayed with Sonus Green Rinsed and Dryed Then into the garage.. well half in.. car was too long! Paint check showed 150-200 for the whole car. The swirls were quite light (luckily.. dont fancy doing one of these with bad swirls in 1 day!) Menz 106FA on a megs polishing pad (thanks Tim @ Cleanyourcar for sending them out so promptly!) Swirls didnt show up all that well on the camera but it 100% got rid of them. Only a couple of RDS were left which i later used some ip3.02 to reduce them more. Boot lid in direct sun after polishing Before After As you can imagine.. even with the relatively easy correction.. the polishing took ages! Once completed the car was taken outside and rinsed down to get rid of any dust from the crack and shuts. Paint then cleansed with Dodo Juice PWC and waxed with 61% Vintage wax Interior cleaned / wiped and leather conditioned. Final shots in fairly un inspiring low light.. but it did look lovely and glossy in the flesh!

I love these cars and this is actually the first one i've done. SO after a good few mins just standing and looking and seeing what the seats felt like to sit in :thumb: it was on with the job.. Wheels cleaned with AG acid free cleaner Foamed with Megs hyperwash Shampoo'd Clayed with sonus green Rinsed and dried Interior vac'd / wiped. Leather cleaned with Gliptone cleaner gel and fed with Liquid Leather (wiped with damp cloth after 4 hrs of detailing) Couple of areas machine polished (cat scratches on roof and sratch on NSF arch) Paint cleansed with Dodo Juice PWC Waxed with 61% Vintage wax. lovely car to be in. after a quick drive i now need one of these in my life!! thanks for looking

Been a little while since posting a write up. Been busy with topups so didnt bother posting the same cars again.. also forgot my camera a couple of times! :mad: Anyway this brand new A4 cab was sitting in the collection bay looking filthy! In the sun it was also looking a little scratched and a few dodgy buffer trails in places which the sales guy was shown and then the aftersales manager. Car was foamed twice with Megs hyperwash. Shampoo'd, Tar and Glue remover sprayed and wiped, Foamed again and dried. Fabric hood protected. Inside the areas that needing polishing were polished. Paint cleansed with HD cleanse (temp ran out of my prefered pre wax cleaner which is Dodo Juice PWC.. but the end result is pretty much the same.. just the Dodo Juice is better to use i feel) Waxed with 61% Vintage wax. Leather fed, glass cleaned, dressings applied. Slightly nervey when ALL the sales staff came in to see what i had been doing for 6hrs but all of them were very voacl about how they could see the benefit and how they wouldnt actually get the inhouse cleaners to do their cars. Customer booked ni for bi-monthly top ups. Thanks for looking..

So I was supposed to be having a week off. But i got a call about this car which interested me and so i ended up at 7am in central london. This is a 1961 Maserati GT. 3.5 straight 6 engine. It was pitched against the Aston DB4 at the time. Only about 200 of these were ever made and this is one of only 2 in the UK that are in this kind of restored condition. There are not many photos in this detail. As time went along and i realised how much work was going to be needed i just didnt stop to eat let alone take pics. Sorry Started off in the small underground wash bay by foaming the car with megs hyper wash, then cleaning the wheels, then shampooing. Car was then clayed and rinsed and moved to the owners parking space to dry and get ready for the polishing. The owner had said that there was 'alot of paint' on the car.. but quite how much paint i wasnt expecting. PTG read up to 1200 on some panels and didnt drop below 400. It turns out that the roof / boot and bonnet are original single stage paint and the sides have been resprayed and lacquered. Paint correction proved extremely time consuming and difficult. I started on the megs polishing pad with 106fa which only knocked out about 60% of the marks. ip3.02 got 95% in one hit but left horrible buffer trails no matter how finely i tried to finish it down. In the end the whole car was machine with 3.02 on the polishing pad and then i went round again with 106ff on a finishing pad. This gave 100% on the original areas and about 95-98% on the resprayed areas which i think was about as good as it was going to get after testing with 3 hits of 3.02 on one of the lacquered areas and it still not improving! :wall: Possible defects under clear???? not sure.. but i was confident this was as good as the car was going to look in the time allowed. Once all the polishing work was complete the car was pressure rinsed to get any redidue out of gaps etc. Car was dried and treated with Dodo Juice PWC followed by the 61% Vintage wax. windows cleaned, dressing applied, final wipe and done. 13.5hrs of solid back busting work. The owner who had been at work all day returned and was almost speachless and over the moon with the transformation (which cheered me up after the long day and my slight frustration at not getting some of the lacquered areas perfect) Unfortunately at 8:45 on a late Aug eve in london its pretty dark so the plans for a photo shoot outside were scrapped.. Enjoy what pics i do have though. Thanks Nathan

its the sonus ultra fine green clay

Good evening Been another long week with some lovely cars. Mercedes CLK230 deswirl Porsche Carrera GT topup BMW E28 M5 valet BMW E30 M3 valet Alpina B5 valet VW Passat W8 estate deswirl Aston Martin DBR2 recreation protection Aston Martin DB9 valet Range Rover Supercharged valet Rover 75 estate valet Nissan Primastar SE valet Ok so some lovely cars and others just cars.. ;) Monday morning was wet.. something that is become all too familiar in the UK! :( The CLK was washed down in the drizzle with PM3 via the foam lance, Shampoo'd, clayed, taped and PTG checked. Being a lighter colour and being outside (although under a car port) it was hard to capture the swirls. After menz 106ff on a polishing pad at up to 1800rpm this combo worked well on the whole car with a couple of hits needed on some areas. Paint was cleansed with dodo juice PWC and then waxed with 61% vintage wax. Interior was vacuumed and wiped down. Leather cleaned and conditioned with gliptone. Tuesday was the cars i look after regularly. CGT, M5, M3 and B5 needed cleaning and a wax toptup for the CGT which was sporting its lovely new anthracite wheels. Wednesday was back to a customers ive been to before and i knew i had the luxury of working in a nice warm, well lit garage with a good stereo system :) Sadly before i was able to get the car in the garage i had to wash it outside and my goodness how it rained!! i got soaked to the bone and ended up having to detail for a while in the locked garage with my trouser on a radiator! Before Anyway.. Car was pre foamed with Megs Hyperwash, Shampoo'd and then clayed with sonus green. As the daily hack it was pretty filthy as shown by how much came off on the clay after a pretty thorough pre wash Then taped up and PTG checked ready for polishing. The swirls.. Polished with Menx IP 3.02 on a megs polishing pad at up to 1800rpm. The menz behaved the best i have seen it in a long time! The pillars were pretty bad so these were also taped up and polished with the polish residue that was left on the pad after doing a major panel. Before > taped > during > after After polishing Then on with the dodo juice pre wax cleaner applied to one half of the car at a time and then on with the 61% vintage wax by pad and applied to 50% of the car then buffed and then the other 50%. Throughout the detail i was impressed by the paint colour. Kind of purple / blue / green very similar to the 993 RS i did last week. Anyway the finished shots.. at about 10:30pm!! And worth a pic.. i didnt wash this on the day.. but this is the TT i did just over a month ago and its still beading like new.. which is nice Friday i had been looking forward to all week. Aston Martin DBR2. Ok so this is actually a recreation. The originals go for close to £1m. Some history My job (sadly) was to prep it for sale in an auction down at goodwood as the owner didnt have enough time or garage space to enjoy it anymore. I didnt have the luxury of foaming the car down on this occasion as the interior was far from water tight... so instead i mixed up a hyper wash solution in a bottle with a foam hand trigger and applied to the body of the car in this way. Then rinsed down with the hose (which had quite a bit of pressure). Shampoo'd, clayed. After practicing with dodo juice on the rotary some more i was more confident with what it could acheive.. and as the owner had said not to worry about a fully correction i thought dodo juice PWC would be a great one hit alternative while also getting the paint ready for the wax. Before dodo juice PWC After PWC (if you flick between the pics you will see the difference. Its not huge in the pics but i was very impressed. Engine bay was wiped down. 61% vintage wax was applied to the whole car via foam pad then buffed from the whole car and wiped down an hour later witha couple of sprays of last touch. Interior vacuumed and wiped out Then i also cleaned the owners DB9, Rangie, Rover work horse and gave my own van a once over. Thanks for looking. Have actually booked a week off next week but no doubt i'll end up cleaning something.. __________________