Washed car - halfords

[Global_discovery]

Hey,

I washed my car today using Halfords advanced car wash and then polished it with their show room shine kit. I got it for christmas along with other sponges...etc you get.

I did it all in 30mins, not to bothered about having it really super clean anyways.

Here are some pics, i think it actually came up very well for cheap stuff, I was very pleased. All pics were taken with my V3 razor, no not the best, sorry.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic1.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic2.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic3.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic4.jpg

What do people think?

[rushy_23]

Looks quite nice and shiney, any pics of the whole car??

[Curran]

looks good to me but i'm not a cleaning whore. my car's a dirty slag.

[Global_discovery]

actually I do have 1 yeh, one sec.

[Global_discovery]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic5.jpg

There we go. Thats the only one really showing more of the car.

EDIT: I could not really take any good pics from the side as my dads car was on the drive aswel, also I was going out soon to pick my girlfriend up from college.

[BruceybabyVTR]

Looks quite nice and shiney, any pics of the whole car??

LMBO!!!

Might help eh! :y:

[BruceybabyVTR]

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/Pic5.jpg

There we go. Thats the only one really showing more of the car.

thats not the whole car mate! ;)

[Global_discovery]

thats not the whole car mate! ;)

I know its not, thats why I said showing more of the car, if dad takes his car out tomorrow, ill take one of it whole. Its only done 17 miles today since its been cleaned so its should look about the same.

[BruceybabyVTR]

would be nice to see full pics mate, really show the extent :y:

[Predator_R32]

pretty good for halfrauds stuff :y:

[Global_discovery]

ok cheers, ill have a go tomorrow getting pics, off to bed now as I want a good bike ride in the morning, ill repost some pics tomorrow night prob then. Cheers for the comments so far :y:

[hesslevtr]

some good reflections there

shame you use a sponge

[LittleDude101]

some good reflections there

shame you use a sponge

was gonna say the same... Invest in a wash mitt to help along the way :y:

[kerrie603314]

nice and shiny but make sure ppl don't crash into u cuz they cant see where they r going because of how shiny it is! xx

[Global_discovery]

Hey everyone, thanks for all the commnets, here are some pics of the whole car taken this morning. I did do a bit over 30 miles last night so it has a slight dust on the side panels below the door but I dont think my phone camera picks these up anyways.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/27-01-07_1048.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/27-01-07_1049.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/27-01-07_1047.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q212/danwinxp/27-01-07_1046.jpg

[conor]

Looks well. How much it sting you?

[bloz]

Thats pretty clean for 30mins

[saxodan]

nthing wrong with halfords or a sponge, use it all the time and my car is fine

fannies using all this waffle shit, poofs its a saxo

[Barry123]

nthing wrong with halfords or a sponge, use it all the time and my car is fine

fannies using all this waffle shit, poofs its a saxo

lol. legend.

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3820&d=1169914137

that was after a shampoo and pressure wash. cost me all of £9 for the shampoo.

shiny??? i think sooooooo

[TU-Tuning]

lol. legend.

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3820&d=1169914137

that was after a shampoo and pressure wash. cost me all of £9 for the shampoo.

shiny??? i think sooooooo

Detailed process please mate! The Furios the same silver as yours but whenever i wash it it doesnt come up like that.

I do rinse, clean every panel with poorboys and a wash mitt with the two bucket method, power wash arches, clean the wheels and then waffle it dry. Then glass cleaner using newspaper and all the interior stuff. Then tyre cleaner spray can foam on the tyres, leave for ten minutes then wipe down and use tyre shine.

Have you got polish on your paint? Ive got one of those challenger two argos specials buffers but i never really use it.



And back on subject that posi blue one came up really nicely, nice one ;)

[Barry123]

Detailed process please mate!

Yeah sure man
hosed down with pressure washer.
washed car with cheapy shampoo and sponge (single bucket method)
leave to dry.

to make it look really shiny just take a picture at near parallel to the surface. like what i did and everyone else does. put a bright light source in the back ground :y:

[TU-Tuning]

Yeah sure man
hosed down with pressure washer.
washed car with cheapy shampoo and sponge (single bucket method)
leave to dry.

to make it look really shiny just take a picture at near parallel to the surface. like what i did and everyone else does. put a bright light source in the back ground :y:

Fair enough. I reckon i may be using too much on it then it takes me about an hour and a half to do. Will look a lot better in the summer when you can actually see the effects and it doesnt get filthy instantly. Doesnt help that the old saxo was posi blue and the shine is a million times better for half the effort so i have high standards lol

[Global_discovery]

Looks well. How much it sting you?

Sorry, what did you mean?

[hesslevtr]

Sorry, what did you mean?

cost you

[Global_discovery]

ohh ok, thanks. I got it for Christmas as a kit, here it on on their website:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_21 6201_langId_-1_CarSelectorCatalogId__CarSelectorGroupId__varien t__categoryId_31372_crumb_33958-33974_parentcategoryrn_31372

£10.

[conor]

Bad slang sory! Thanks

[Ben_L]

Halfords Advanced Car Wash is well good for the price! also the triplewax caar shampoo is a good cheapy one too. just dont do it in direct sun light lol

[jclaydon]

Looks nice cleaned mate. Good result for the sheap stuff.

Ben, try using just some middle of the road shampoo. Like ad said, i found pressure washing it, then a shampoo made silver look nice.

I use a mitt and think its ace, just wondered though. Whats the deal with using a sponge? What difference does it make?

[tashavtr]

looks nice mate the halfords stuffi s good but in my opinion u cant beat autoglym!!:) definetly looking shiny!

[Hazza17]

car looks clean mate!! lovely looking 1.1 saxo!! rarely see them as clean as this!!! treat it well

[TU-Tuning]

Looks nice cleaned mate. Good result for the sheap stuff.

Ben, try using just some middle of the road shampoo. Like ad said, i found pressure washing it, then a shampoo made silver look nice.

I use a mitt and think its ace, just wondered though. Whats the deal with using a sponge? What difference does it make?

Yeah i probably will, bit pointless all the top of the range cleaning stuff on a silver car. But the mitts better than a sponge as it doesnt get grit caught in the face so you cratch the paint. I prefer it cause it goes on your hand and its less effort than holding the sponge lol

[Ben_L]

Must be easier to get into those hard to get into places too lol. Might invest when i get paid

[Connor_scotland]

looks clean mate

nice

[Global_discovery]

Thanks everyone for your replys.