ultrajim49
10-24-2002, 02:13 AM
I`m glad I`ve got my car back,
for the duration of the repair the dealer gave me some beater-car.
Just for getting some anger out of my system I detailed that little s*cker last weekend : complete vacuum, cleaned the windows(there was a film on them, from smokers I guess), washed the car
put on some cleaner-wax
polished with meguiars swirl & scratch reducer,by hand:mad:
that realy got the anger out of me , impossible to do that correct by hand , but it improved the looks alot.
finaly threw on a coat of Meguiars gold class paste wax.
Dressed the tires with TW tire-gel
and put Armor-all on on outside trim
Dealer was so impressed I got the loaner for free:)
Now for my MPV:
at the dealers I inspected the car and aside from alot of white dust inside the car everything looked great.
The car looked like freshly washed, I asked and the answer was that he took it to a touchless carwash.
Once home it took me 2 straight hours to get all that white dust out of the inside: vacuum,with plastic cleaner and MF`s, glass-cleaner.Then dressed the whole thing.Looks perfect again.
This morning I could see the car under bright light at a gasstation:
swirls gallore:eek:
And the passengers door can not be opened from the inside:mad:
For the next 2 months I can not touch the repainted parts (about 1/5 of the car!!!)so I will have a major spring clean-up to do.Lucky for me the car was freshly Z`d 2 days before the crunch,so that will have protection.
Sorry for the long post, got to get this out of my system
feel better now
Christiaan
for the duration of the repair the dealer gave me some beater-car.
Just for getting some anger out of my system I detailed that little s*cker last weekend : complete vacuum, cleaned the windows(there was a film on them, from smokers I guess), washed the car
put on some cleaner-wax
polished with meguiars swirl & scratch reducer,by hand:mad:
that realy got the anger out of me , impossible to do that correct by hand , but it improved the looks alot.
finaly threw on a coat of Meguiars gold class paste wax.
Dressed the tires with TW tire-gel
and put Armor-all on on outside trim
Dealer was so impressed I got the loaner for free:)
Now for my MPV:
at the dealers I inspected the car and aside from alot of white dust inside the car everything looked great.
The car looked like freshly washed, I asked and the answer was that he took it to a touchless carwash.
Once home it took me 2 straight hours to get all that white dust out of the inside: vacuum,with plastic cleaner and MF`s, glass-cleaner.Then dressed the whole thing.Looks perfect again.
This morning I could see the car under bright light at a gasstation:
swirls gallore:eek:
And the passengers door can not be opened from the inside:mad:
For the next 2 months I can not touch the repainted parts (about 1/5 of the car!!!)so I will have a major spring clean-up to do.Lucky for me the car was freshly Z`d 2 days before the crunch,so that will have protection.
Sorry for the long post, got to get this out of my system
feel better now
Christiaan