@RallyDarkstrike
It doesn't even have to be that far back, just a few years ago there was much more colour.
Granted some bring out something from time to time.
Some of the current colours available now.
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@DasWauto

I think I'll list Wednesday.

I'd be happy if the bike goes to another Oppo because I know it'll be in good hands.

If I'm not called to work this afternoon I'll go over some more photos with my phone of the smaller cosmetic issues and take a videos of cold start, hot start, horn, lights, and safeties for you.

@Highlander
Looking good.
I'm going to have to do Orla tomorrow, it's been two months and she's starting to look dirty.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi
114bhp. It's three years and eight months old, covered a good distance (35,000miles above UK average for it's age) and the owner isn't a car lover and has ragged it and he loves it.
Our first Skoda Superb was a Mk2 estate 124bhp 1.4TSi. It didn't want much for power.

@jminer

So far as I can make out the fuel tank issue was North America only as was the dry clutch DCT (and they're mainly manual here anyway).

@Qaaaaa
I am often surprised just how much windscreen wash a car will hold.
For the Audi A3 8P RS3 it's 5.5litres.
Which probably irks me more now when I find a car is nearly out. Lol.

@Svend
Hmmm, Chinese. Good idea.

@Svend

Good thing… now you can check this off your… bucket list…

Yeah… 😎

@Svend Wow, those are gnarly before pictures.

@drVanTraveler
Merry christmas mate.

@Svend Someone over-travelled a large overhead door last night and left two panels dangling off the rails for us to repair for today. Took up pretty much all of today. Had to get the panels back on the rails, which involved detangling the cables on the sheaves, then removing the panel rollers, then lifting them, then removing each hinge one at a time and reinstalling the rollers. THEN lowering the door. Then replacing a cable that was kinked up. Then we had to re-wind the springs. Adjust the cables to suit, and then balance the door side to side. Took one dumbass 5 seconds to burn 4 mechanics Friday up. Easily a over $1000 in labour. And that was just a DOOR. Imagine what they do to machines on an off day.

And EVERYONE has their completely unexperienced opinion on springs. OMG non-stop comments from the peanut gallery. Safety guy, to uniformed grunts. Done properly it's no biggie. I could totally replace my own garage doors by myself, and plan on it next summer. Easy. The shop's 14x16-20' doors are made of 7-9 200lbs panels. My 9x8 Garage door panels are a walk in the park, as would be the baby torsion springs.

@ash78
I've got the boot packing down to a fine act now.
It's like that game where you have different sized blocks and you have to get them in a finite sized area, only in 3D.
Ye', hose, hosepipe, garden hose are used interchangeably but also hosereel if on a reel.
In the UK we like to keep people on their toes having multiple words for one thing, but also having multiple things called by the same word.

@Svend Yes please, that sounds like my kind of car! 🙂

@415s30
Thanks.

@beefchips said in I'm off to bed, good night:

H3L4 that’s twelve freedom units

H3l4 is
Height 6.7metres, 22',
Length 2.78metres, 9.12'
Width 2.06metres without mirrors (2.47metres with mirrors)

@FourMalibus
Right, with you now.
Gtechniq went with a slight re-doing of packaging a month or so ago.
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But ye', wash and dry the vessel, give it two coats (to ensure good coverage) and your all good.

@FourMalibus
We've four 'five' cars, Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo, Mustang and GT. It's hard knowing where to put the Ecosport, Mustang Mach-e, Puma and Kuga (Escape), for MPVs, we have the Galaxy, S-Max, Transit Connect Tourneo and Transit Custom Tourneo (not sure we still do the Transit Courier Tourneo (below a Transit Connect, above a Fiesta van)).
(Looks like we still have the Transit Courier, but as a Tourneo.
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@svend that blue chrome looks pretty close

@e90m3
It's a lovely colour when clean in the sun, otherwise, in low light and lightly dirty, it can look flat and miserable.

@facw
The only interior thing I did was the glass.
He was going to drop the car off at 4:30am before going away with his uncle but there was no parking. So was going to drop it off at 4:30-5pm when he got back but it was after 6:15pm when I got the car so the interior hadn't been messed up but rear interior glass had been leant up against.
Ye', I most often swap out the generic washer cap with the Skoda one.
I could of spent more time doing the engine bay to be honest. But he was happy how it turned out anyway.
Ye', I could of easily spent another few hours going over the interior seat stains again.
EDIT 2: they came back early to put a load of drinks in the boot, no, not alcohol. But three cases of orange Tango, then a case each of Berry Peach, Blackcurrant and an Apple Tango, one case of diet Coke and two of regular Coke and one of Redbull. Seems fizzy drinks are a bit more expensive in Germany, even with our 'sugar tax' of high sugar fizzy drinks.

@Jb-boin
Ye', single DIN with Car Play, he's using an adaptor to convert the Car Play into an FM frequency but it sounds awful.
Thanks for the info.
It's all alien to me as I'd just go somewhere and say, 'I want such and such, what can you do!?'.

Looks awesome! Every sports/sporty car in the world should come with 4 way power lumbar. My 17 GTI had 4 way power lumbar and I miss it dearly. Best driving seats I've ever sat in.

Love me some WK2. My favorite is the 70th Ann. With Orange exterior paint and green interior.

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Simply glorious. Only thing they are missing is the 8spd auto from the 2015+ models.

Just realized yours isn’t black, that is a fantastic color that rarely shows itself but when it does, magic.

@svend

That's awesome.

Better-than-new car smell!

@StreetsofPerth
Cheers mate.

@pip-bip
Ye', the garage is giving them a new grille as there is some defects in it and four new tyres.
By all accounts when my colleague went to see it, it was filthy, probably having just taken it in and the previous owner was being cheap with the car.

@StreetsofPerth
Lol. I get quite a few like that.
Though the picture tell it all, it was only when standing over the top of it that I could see how bad it was, but didn't take long of much effect to clean.
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@facw
It's a great colour. When dirty you get the jist of the colour, but when clean and glossy it really comes alive.

@Someoneatacura
No, it makes quite a difference.
It's a waterborne migratory and contact corrosion inhibitor ideal for ferrous metals.
While it doesn't eliminate surface rust on brake discs, it greatly reduces it and bonds with the substraight and not simply sit on top and worn away after the first use of the brakes.

@svend
G’nite mate.

@LooseonExit

The typical course of action for any paint protection application is to deep clean, strip, and then apply your LSP (last step product).

If you're just topping after a weekly/bi weekly/whatever time frame wash then you don't need to strip, but you should choose products that will perform under those circumstances, that are designed to work with the base protection product. This is extremely important for ceramic coatings, but it still bodes true for regular waxes and sealants.

For example, if you have a ceramic coating on the car, other ceramic based spray coatings/detailers typically perform better on a coating vs a wax or sealant. This isn't a hard rule, but if you want to get the best results for your time invested, its the best course of action. You also need to pay attention to the performance/attributes of the base product. for exmaple (again) is Sonax Polymer Net Shield. It is an extremely hydrophobic spray sealant, and their accompanying Brilliant Shine Detailer is designed it top it and restore/maintain that same hydrophobic performance. The 2 go hand in hand and make up a good base and topper team so to speak.

Sometimes mixing and matching and off label use will yield good results, but I've seen it mostly do the opposite, especially when mixing based chemistry components like ceramic with polymer or wax.

In my experience any mild pure polish followed by a panel wipe/degrease (you can make your own using 99% isopropyl alcohol mix 5:1 with water - 5 parts water, 1 part IPA) will give you a bare base ready to accept any product on top. If you're working with ceramic products, Mothers makes a primer polish called CMX 3 n 1 Polish and coat. It will remove minor swirls and leave behind a base layer that allows ceramic products to bond (I've tested it with various ceramic sprays and high solids ceramic coatings and it worked great).

@svend I need to get a pro to work on the Mercedes, it was resprayed at some point and it needs to be buffed out.

@e90m3
That car is originally from the Lancashire area and likely one of the bigger cities. The car's are about 13 years old and cheap with some liking the added look of an ornament rather than a badge and make slight changes without making the car look ridiculous (some go all out and butcher the poor things).

@ttyymmnn
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@e90m3
It seems to be a common consensus for A3 owners to love their cars.
2015 ?TDi
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2014 1.6TDi
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2008 1.9TDi
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2007 1.9TDi
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@svend ye, the new DS4 is attractive despite the C-pillar being a truly horrid piece of design

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the DS7 is a past tense Audi Q5 copy; the DS9 looks good, but too Chinese in proportion and not Citroen enough. I guess it isn't one anymore.

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@Cé-hé-sin didn't they make a big fuss about how i-DTEC was supposed to be VTEC-for-diesels just before all of Europe forgot about Honda and stopped buying them?

@Armith-Vala
It was a thing on Mk1 and 1.5 and I think I recall.
And early Ford Transit Connects and Mk6-8 Ford Transitsand Ford Transit Customs.
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@flatisflat
If you want to try anything else, PM me and I'll see what I can send across.

@svend Fair enough if it's a first car.

@svend said in I suppose I should have an early night. My February in car cleaning.:

just takes patience.

That key ingredient is in short supply all too often.

@distraxi It was a B6 Passat with the six-speed (I assume) wet clutch and the 147kW 2.0TFSI. I don't think the car had been very well cared for by the PO and had probably been driven like a regular torque converter auto, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't in its best health.

I have since driven a Caddy with the seven-speed and it was much better. I also test drove an A4 with an S-Tronic and it was smooth as silk.

@drvantraveler
Unfortunately the three pedals are dying out, not because people are favouring autos, but because most hybrids and virtually all electric cars available here in the U.K. are autos.

@chariotoflove
I know of a guy on a detailing forum. His girlfriend asked him if he could do her friend's car as it was messy.
According to the write up, he spent all day doing the rear seats and front passenger seat and footwell.
It was filthy and mould underneath.
The car's owner had a very young daughter who for months had a chesty cough but the doctors couldn't understand why. None the less. Shortly after the guy cleaned the mould up, the daughter's cough stopped.
That was a few years ago, so I always try to leave the car in the safest fashion for the lil'one.
Now every car gets an anti bacterial wipe down.

@exage03040

I would mix up an IPA solution. You’d be surprised how much oil from polishes can be left behind, especially consumer polishes that are designed to be easy to work.

@urambo-tauro
I wasn't too happy with this car.
It wasn't bad, but had been abused with shoes and heels scratching all the sills, plastics inside of the sill area and lower edge of the door cards.

@svend I see what you did there.
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@britsnswedes-was-minigti I came across someone on YT commenting on how much they liked the Wizzy Wheel and it worked like a charm on both the badge adhesive and wheel weight adhesive. The wheel takes a little getting used to, since it can start to bounce a little but I'd recommend it. Leaves no residue and no damage to the painted surfaces. It does shed quite a bit of the rubber, sort of like an eraser does on paper but wipes away easily.

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@pip-bip
What feature does it posees?

@just-jeepin
Just had a cursory look and can't find anything.
Will keep looking though.
If you check out a YouTube account called, The Detailing Space, it hosted by a Detailing World member and he's posted a number of How To's, interviews, etc... videos covering all elements from basic stuff to watch out for, stuff.

@flatisflat
I bet the other driver wasn't giving a shit either way.

@chan
Oh, okay. Gotcha.

@svend Carrot was considered.

@annoying_salman
Lol. It has been suggested a couple of times in the past.

@svend it's fine, I could convert the front room into a garage 🤣

@farscythe Gravity and Momentum have both been trying to kill me for rolling up on 39 years. They haven’t succeeded yet!