herisites 0 Posted March 28, 2007 see how well that runs after 150k miles Exactly! well said! The VXR doesnt do it for me either, ok they are quicker than the other hot hatches but i would have the golf gti or the asbe every day of the week over the vxr!! I think Paul Dalton is awesome, he was the guy featured on fifth gear detailing the MC12 and he knows his stuff. But i agree with whats been said, its just an astra and brand new, he could of just washed it and it would still look brand new and nobody would notice, whereas an old car or a car thats been badly treated getting the same treatment is much more creditable ... like what i have been doing all night on my sisters J reg golf!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Furkz 0 Posted March 28, 2007 the detail was great. would only spend that much time and money if ti was a lambo though, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 28, 2007 honestly, if you have a brand new car, just rolled off the show room floor, and ask a guy to clean it for you, and he gets a microscope out to 'test the paint depth' you tell him where to go, especially if he is 'testing the quality' of a Vauxhall paint job.... If I had bought a Bentley, or a Rolls then maybe, but anything under that and the guy is having a giraffe, and just taking the p*ss out of you. Its a new car ffs edit: furkz beat me, but I said Bentley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted March 28, 2007 you can't polish a turd, Jim I tried, ok? :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 28, 2007 is that you 'coming out' Mave? :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted March 28, 2007 :lol: i actually didn't think of it like that!!! Anyways, I tihnk it's very pointless doing it to a relatively new car. Ok it's alright to do it to an oldish car as you're treating the paint, but to a new car? It's obsessive. And I prefer Nathans latest job better.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supercharged 2 Posted March 28, 2007 you liked what phat said cause you are an environmentalist, and like the way he recycled my comment? Therapor, LOL - it's becuase I skim-read your posts, if I actually read them I wouldn't have time to sleep! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Furkz 0 Posted March 28, 2007 i figured it out! the guy loves that Paul guy as much as Therapor loves Supercharged ;) :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_leon_ 0 Posted March 28, 2007 looks like over excessive behaviour brought on from child like excitement of getting his new car. can understand why he did all that. personally think the micron testing etc is just daft after buying a fresh new car - but each to our own. interesting to see how quickly this turned into a Corrado vs Astra debate. Who cares? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted March 28, 2007 The new Astra VXR is the new Vauxhall Nova. Read their forums and you'd know what I mean. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_leon_ 0 Posted March 28, 2007 i'm not talking about which is technically better. i'm saying he rates his car, we rate ours. who says its not foolish to spend money on an old 15-16yo car? horses for courses. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted March 28, 2007 no no no, you missed what i was saying. i read their forums a while back, and like the 18 year olds with their novas, it's "the best car evarrrrrr OMG LOLOL we'll beat anything". at least with the corrado owners we'll admit to there being better cars on the road. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60SC_Stoney 0 Posted March 28, 2007 well, i think he's being rather anal over a brand new car, whats the point ? i'd rather enjoy driving it for a while before i stuck it in a garage and tested the paint depth!! anyway i think he could have gone to a better trimmer, i think the 'VXR' logo is wonky: when you compare it to the line of stiching below?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_leon_ 0 Posted March 28, 2007 they're seeing people fitting 2L engines into tiny light cars and then (in straight line runs) blowing off evos and the like. of course theyre loving it! i know a guy up here whos done it. i wouldn't swap my car for his in a million years - but he couldn't be happier. i think the mentality of beating everything else comes from the hype of a new car/new engine etc. corrados have had plenty of time to find their place on the road. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted March 28, 2007 :scratch: you still don't get what i mean :-P i'll leave it :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_leon_ 0 Posted March 28, 2007 i get perfectly what you mean. and i've just explained my take on it. on the contrary, you dont get what i am replying with. anyway i'm not that bothered to be perfectly frank - his money Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim 1 Posted March 29, 2007 corrado owners we'll admit to there being better cars on the road. But in the case of this guys Astra, we're apparently content to look down our noses at what we consider to be an inferior car? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vwdeviant 0 Posted March 29, 2007 But seriously, It does look good but that is just OCD in a car owner, a micron off headlight glass? Or is Paul finding stuff to do? A micron would be the depth of dust built up overnight surely! Mind you at least it'll look really siny as the pull it out the hedge/ditch/field/tree/office block/school.... the first time the torque steer catches him out... Oh no it won't he strikes me as some-one who will drive the damn thing at 10mph so he doesn't get a stone chip! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blue_Joe 0 Posted March 29, 2007 corrado owners we'll admit to there being better cars on the road. But in the case of this guys Astra, we're apparently content to look down our noses at what we consider to be an inferior car? I think the point is Jim, that we all look down our noses at other peoples opinions and likes and desires, thats what makes us all human. Someone could have a Veyron and guaranteed someone would look down their nose at it even if the majority of us would sell our entire family to own one. If we didn't have these views the world would be a very boring place. The fact that we all own and love Corrados is why we are here and therefore it's almost natural for us to poo poo other cars! I'm sure that you'll get the same on astra forums poo pooing us and someone defending us!!!! It's life - and the forum gives us a medium to do so! At the end of the day there is never any malace in it and it's only natural and healthy to do so! Yes we consider it inferior! But that's in our eyes and we wear corrado tinted glasses!!! Too me it's an astra and no matter how perfect the paintwork is and how much it shines and gleams at me it'll never turn my head as its just another astra! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrishill 0 Posted March 29, 2007 I don't think the VXR is inferior in any way to the corrado, its a great motor by all accounts and I'd certainly not slap someone who offered me a free one - however - the amount of time, effort and money this guy has put in to polishing up a brand new 'hot hatch' to what has to be concourse standards is obsessive and (i feel) unnecessary. Imagine this scenario - you're walking down the road and that astra passes you in one direction and a (standard) old escort RST given the same detailing treatment passes you in the other... which car do your eyes follow? Shiny astra - meh you see one of those every day /ignore/ Out of interest how much does that 'royal' wax stuff he's using cost? wax in a big glass case doesn't strike me as being affordable to your average bloke on the street! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim 1 Posted March 29, 2007 I believe the royal wax is a very specially blended wax, and costs something insane like £3,000 a pot. Amusingly, just googling for Zymol Royal actually turns up countless forums discussing this very same subject.. lol! It seems like its gone right round the internet and then some! Apparently my guess was correct on the price.. cost is approx £3,400 or almost $9,000 in the US!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrishill 0 Posted March 29, 2007 I'd hope its made from the bones of aztec children for that price! jeeesus! whats wrong with a £5 pot of turtle wax? ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_leon_ 0 Posted March 29, 2007 i think if the astra owners read this thread they'd piss themselves. its like people are justifying why they like corrados over astras. seriously - this thread has fa to do with corrados! how come every similar thread ends up a corrado vs [insert other car here] debate... edit - and anyone paying that kind of money for wax (just WAX!) - regardless of the car its going on - needs to visit the cuckoo institute. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim 1 Posted March 29, 2007 Just.. as a side note.. I couldn't help but notice in the background of one of the pictures of the detail in the garage, a few big bottles of spring water, as in the sort you stick into a water cooler in your office. You don't suppose he uses that instead of mere tap water do you?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herisites 0 Posted March 29, 2007 I believe the royal wax is a very specially blended wax, and costs something insane like £3,000 a pot. Amusingly, just googling for Zymol Royal actually turns up countless forums discussing this very same subject.. lol! It seems like its gone right round the internet and then some! Apparently my guess was correct on the price.. cost is approx £3,400 or almost $9,000 in the US!!! Erm what was that about that wax being £3k Jim?? The Real Price! :wink: :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
