Megane CC Dynamiuqe Detail

[ChrisM]

I have also used shoe polish in times gone by, usually when tyre black has run out, shoe polish was also good for cars with all those small cracks old tyres use to get around the side walls, you know the ones sales don't want to change so its up to the valet bay to hide them, tyre paint way to obvious, also used it on black rubber trim even hides polish marks on the rubber trim.
we even used to coat the steering wheels of salesmens cars who anoyed us with interior clean, loads of it and let it dry, then when the offending salesman drove the car his hands would sweat on the wheel and interior clean would move from the wheel to his hands and they would dry out all day - RESULT!

[willholdsworth]

Im sure shoe polish can be used, Im not sure the pro detailers would agree it being a great option though for one reason or another.

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[ChrisM]

They probally wont in this day n age far too "old school" for a lot of them, we use to use a lot of gear from Astral and Auto Glim both ok for the New n used car market, but some of their trim restore was a bit well crap, it looked good once applied but soon went off depending on where the car was showroom it would last around a week, on the pitch a couple of days, Auto Glim would also leave a black line where the rain has washed it off, they both has this "back to Black" tyre black (not paint) which dried gloss black looked a state shoe polish did the trick mutch better looked more nautral and as said filled in little cracks quite nice and would last just over a week out side.
Hopefully the products will or should have moved on since my time in the valet bays as it was around 10 years back now, shoe polish no longer a cheap option though, have you tried to get proper shoe polish these days!!! it is all the liquid shoe coating now, it is quite hard to track down and not cheap when you find it
I find these days a lot of people have become quite anal over "products" every one is the total best, our "cleaners" tell me that coloured polish is the bees knees, sorry hate it with a vengance, and also Super Guard is the best body protectant out there they tell me, not impressed with it at all reminds me of the old Diamond Glaze, that was useless as well, good for initial impact thats all.
Carnuba wax I use, 2 coats, will keep both our cars beading water well for just over a month and a half, both living out side, both washed with turtle wax car shampoo every weekend, only time I have ever used a mecanical polisher is on flat cars, the hand is a perfect tool, plus I remember the early VW.s that went to water based paints all to well, you could not even leather them off as that paint marked, and remember the chap from the shoe shop with his black GTi and a mechanical polisher WHAT a mess brought it in on the Monday to see what could be done, brand new one week old, total respray, seen so many cars that people try to "buff" up to get a better price and all we see is white scuff marks on the plastics which are a real pain to get off.
So I am afraid it is Carnuba for me, was totaly amazed at Super guard, at over £200 for an aplication kit costs in the region of £30 I get the sponges from the cleaning bay free, I applied it to both our cars and it lasted around 3 weeks max before you could not tell it has even been coated, 50% less time than 2 coats of Carnuba, it is amazing how much money you can put on your car just by a decent valet.
Most rewarding jobs where the silk purse from sows ear jobs, the flat red Audi and VWs we use to get once buffed and polished looked superb extremely rewarding, White cars not so much even after the "works" done on them they never had the same impact and the other colours and especially red!
What I find amazing is how many people take a sponge and soap to a dry car, I see most of my neighbours doing this; one has a black BMW, I dread to think what it looks like close up dire no doubt, car washes are anothing I wont use, see to many cars with the paint near enough flayed of them with the rotating brushes, thousands of tiny scratches either in circles or all in the same direction depending on car washer it buffer time and even then you don't get them all out.
I think it is all personal prefferance and what works on your own car, Auto Smarts Platium polish used to work wonders on my Fiat looked like glass, yet did not make the wifes car look that good, maybe Renault respond better to carnuba, even my silver CC looks good after a wipe of carnuba but not that good good after the platium, strange really you would have thought paint was paint really all 3 cars have a clear coat lacqure on them so you are not actually polishing the paint anyway just the clear coat. At the end of the day does it matter what you use as long as the end product is the same, A nice looking motor, tell me though, how many people in your street polish thier cars? I do mine, my old next door nighbour use to now moved and that was it, at present there is only me in the whole street polishes cars, quite a few wash but thats it, looking back to when I was 18/19 years old on a Sunday it was grass cut, car washed every Sunday and polished every 3 Sundays (ish) people just don't seem to bother now, and when they see it sitting in a car park in the far corner all sparkly and clean they need to park right next to it and open a door on it, or am I just being paranoid? usually a manky car with filty windows looks like either the children or the pet dog (or both) has been licking the inside windows, a child seat in the back filty dirty and food all over the back seat left by the child, left abour 2 inches from your drivers door.

[willholdsworth]

Ignore what your friends say about the best wax

This is it
https://www.swissvax.co.uk/product_detai ... cts/divine

[ChrisM]

Bit cheap isn't it £1.75

Ooopps missed a zero out £1,750, do they wax your car for life for that, just got this vison now of a blonde and a brunette waxing my CC in there bikinis WOW well worth the grand and half, must remember to tell the wife they are trained techincians of wax and due to the complexity of the mix I am not allowed to use it unless I go to Switzerland on my own with the two technicians to "learn" how to use it.
I may be some time!

How much of it will I get away with.... or will it be the instant slap and that "knowing" look they give you, the one that sends shivers!

Belive me Will the last my friends would want to talk about is car polish, its about as taboo as which washing up liquid is good for your hands, most of them have Company cars so lucky if it sees a sponge let alone a cloth, the main conversation at present is to be "inked" why tatoos have all of a sudden become the craze I don't know, funny really how your circle of friends changes as you get older.
as a young man it is beer, football, women and cars, mid 20.s turns to Cars, beer football, mid 30,s cars, work & Children, now mid 40,s car insurance, wine and holidays and women if only you where 10 years younger!

Ah well lets get in that convertable and blow whats left of my hair off!

perhaps when I reach my 60,s I can use whats left of my carnuba on my head, for that show room shine!!!!

[willholdsworth]

haha! conversation between my mates is ale, women, cars and polishing them, maybe "polish" women to haha . Not always in that order!
I dont imagine you to be as old as your making out Chris, but then us blokes never grow up do we. Im 28 for the record

[ChrisM]

Im 28 for the record

you old fart!

I am 20 in my head it is just my body disagrees, especially in the mornings when it has to move, and I even made that involantary Uuuugh sound when I bent down the other day, I had to look around just to make sure it was ME! plus all my favorite tunes I tap my hand on the steering wheel to seem to be played on the "golden hour" now...... its not nice being 47!

Oh well it looks like walking stick and incontinance pants for me soon, thankfully I have leather seats in case of mishaps whilst I remaniss over the "good ole days" when wagon wheels where as big as yer and, and you could get penny sweets from a sweet shop not a supermarket, you only had one bin around the back of your house and if you wanted to call some one you used a big red box called a phone box not shout into your hand whilst barging through people. petrol came in stars and you didn't need a credit card to fill your car, there was no such thing as elf n saftey yet well manged to survive! the summers where always longer and hotter, christmasses always more jolly and fun, school WAS the best days of your life even if you didn't realise at the time, people where friendlier, policemen gave you a clip around the earhole not take your photo and issue you with a fine 4 weeks later for sometihng you can't remember doing, and Films, well it is not very often thesedays you see a film and think I havn't seen that before, oh and talking film - 35mm cameras, when you take 36 shots keep them for months send them away to be developed and then get back 6 out of the 36 black, another 3 out of focus and the rest you can't remember where it was anyway, or lose the film altogether and find it again 4 years later, you could also buy a pint of milk off a milk float and a pound of mince from the butchers, the good ole days eh!

[wanda]

Gentlemen, gentlemen lets take a breather ...

[ChrisM]

for the record

AND!!!! That is something else I forgot to mention.... RECORDS, 45, 33 & a 3rd and 78,s when you could not just press a button to advance tracks, oh no in those days you had to try and pick up the needle head (or press a lever if you had a posh one) find the next track break and position the needle carefully on the record, not as easy as it sounds, sometimes having to stack 2p's on the head as one of the tracks has a scratch in it and jumps so you needed to force the needle to make the track clear again move and knock it or if you had a dodgy wooden floor it use to make the horrific scratch sound when the needle jumps, DAMM more 2p's.
UFO and Joe 90 where on the telly, we where posh as well cause we had a colour one (eventually) and footballers use to use an orange ball in the snow so they could see it, I also remember decimalisation, when a shop keeper in Conwy gave me my first half pence change and told me sign of things to come lad, everything smaller and worth less! Also remember as a child holding onto my dads coat as the Express trains use to fly through Colwyn Bay station FLAT OUT blowing their horns when you gave em the horn sign, the whole place would shake, the noise was immense, the heat and wind as it passed would suck your breath away, no slowing for stations in them days it use to scare me ridged but I loved it, the sheer power and speed up close!
Excellent times!
At 28, I was driving an Escort RS turbo and working on site laying brick at something like £12 an hour or £150 per 1000 facing, I think it was, training 4 nights a week for Mr North Wales Coast, which possibly explains my aching joints these days!
Miles off topic I know, but some times it is quite funny looking back at the stuff you use to do and how things where……..
Go on then Wanda what are you? mid twenties? NO! you spend a fair bit of cash on that car and on trips abroad as well in it, maybe early 30,s what is you get up to in your days gone by?

[pkhannemann]

My God, just joined from Brisbane australia. I have a job for you when you come to visit.
Awesome job well done.

[willholdsworth]

My God, just joined from Brisbane australia. I have a job for you when you come to visit.
Awesome job well done.

Cheers dude

[wanda]

My God, just joined from Brisbane australia. I have a job for you when you come to visit.
Awesome job well done.

Cheers dude

Hello again. Thinking of having a brake in Northern Wales again, can you recommend places to see?

[willholdsworth]

Wanda, sorry for the slow reply, ive been away in Thailand!

You still want to go away to North wales ?

[wanda]

Wanda, sorry for the slow reply, ive been away in Thailand!

You still want to go away to North wales ?

Yeah would be nice. Just thinking when though....

Any recommendations?

[willholdsworth]

Wanda, sorry for the slow reply, ive been away in Thailand!

You still want to go away to North wales ?

Yeah would be nice. Just thinking when though....

Any recommendations?

Well it depends where you want to stay, but if you want a nice road and good scenery, then driving through snowdonia is a great one. I can draw you the road on google maps and paste it on here if you want ?