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First up Jaguar XK8 convertible and a truly British summer's day - drizzled the entire day!Think it was the same day BenP did the M3 cab. Process Washed with Pro Finish shampoo Wheels Meguiars Wheel Brightener Clayed with Erazer clay Polished using Optimum to bonnet & sides via rotary @...

As my daughter's with us this week, pics of recent work to be posted at weekend - complete tease and apologies in advance but..... One's an XK8 in the wonderful UK summer weather :angry , a Top Hat Alfa GTA racer and a rather (!) valuable 1970's GT racer. Will keep you all on tenterhooks...

My Makita 9227 arrived Wednesday :bounce What a piece of kit!!! Tried it on GF's dog wagon (not washed in, ahem, several weeks) and used a panel which was damaged in a hit & run a while back - I figured that if I screwed up badly, it wasn't so bad as it's due a repaint. I initially tried...

Next Bill's X5. Plan with this was for me to demonstrate the PC to Bill and John from here - I did half the car and they did the other between them (I can see no difference between "my" side and theirs so hats off to them both - good work lads) Process Wash with Sonax Extra Gloss No...

First detail from today and :2thumbs: to Bill for referring the SL to me! Hope the owner will let me do his DB9 next. First up the SL. No before shots as we were dodging the rain pretty much all morning! Wash with Sonax Extra Gloss Clay with Erazer clay Wheels - everything I had! Badly...

Guys, I have 3 MF bonnets (Sonus) available plus possibly a Sonus 5" backing plate and I'm sure there's some other bits & pieces available. Let me know if you're interested - no reasonable offer/swap refused! Andy

As it says - sorry to anyone who's been trying to PM me

Just taken the plunge and ordered my Makita! I know from talking to BenP that he's getting a different backing plate but what have other UK people done? I'm assuming that any US plates will be 5/8" thread as opposed to M14 (which I assume the Makita thread is). Thanks gents :brit

This was the second detail yesterday. 97 car with very deep swirls and chips to front end and mirrors. Process; Clayed using same clay as 360 detail Polished front end using (in order I tried!) SSR2, SSR2.5, DACP, IP on a variety of pads without much success - dealer was happy (very) but...

Suspect this may be a "yes" as it basically struggled to remove swirls and scratches from the front of a Ferrari (black) yesterday, even using IP on a purple Meguiars pad. I've never found a defect that careful use of the PC couldn't shift so I was really disheartened, esp as my rotary skills...

One of yesterday's details. Paint in pretty good shape apart from some stone chips to the front and light swirling. The dealer washes all his cars (using Meguiars products :2thumbs: ) so I didn't have to do this. Process; Clayed using Polyclay from www.erazer.co.uk (review coming)...

Just found this at www.fiber-works.com where I'm now buying lots of MF as it's a) good, no, excellent value and b) good UK shipping costs. Just following progress of my latest order and found that they now stock Turbo wax products which are apparenrly made by 4*. This may be good news as I'm...

As promised I've tried the following new (to me) products all purchased from www.smarter-world.com Aqua Flow shampoo Price £5.61 + VAT for 5 litres Appearance - purple/blue coloured shampoo Fragrance - pleasant fruity smell Produced a LOT of bubbles when mixed as directed...

3 details from yesterday. Merc ML. I last detailed this car about 5 months ago and it's seen several long trips abroad since so plenty of grime and dead bugs to deal with. Owner soon to change to the new ML when launched. I've asked that he goes for a black or dark leather as cream leather...

I've secured my first contract with a Ferrari dealer and the first 2 cars are scheduled for detailing this week - 360 Modena and 348 TS. Any tips on Ferrari paint? Soft? Hard? Thanks in advance

As it says really. Which products have you used? Which do you rate and why? Which stay on your shelf/go in the bin and why? Thanks in advance people

OK, Wednesday we went to watch BBC Top Gear being filmed. Superb afternoon and a big surprise for the UK guys Sunday evening. Me & GF with JC

OK, I met 2 people yesterday, one a Zymol retailer and the other Swissol. Zymol guy didn't say much about the product/process BUT the Swissol chap was to put it mildly scathing about pretty much everything I use. I outlined my current product lines and preferences and his comment was "well...

As it says really. I'm there doing some detailing demos (on either a GT2 or Maranello I'm told :eek: ) hopefully with Richt and weather permitting Be nice to put some faces to names so don't be afraid to coem and say hello if you're there - I only bite when I'm tired, hungry and without beer :D

I've not used IP/FP for over a year now as I felt that they were hard products to work with (by comparison to the SSR range in particular) but I pulled my garage queen into direct sunlight yesterday and :eek: swirl city - I tried RMG/YCM to no avail so I stepped back and figured ***??? Then...