Clio 172 Project

Yup I am developing a problem.

I ordered this little lot from i4detailing.co.uk and BOOM the next day there it all was.  Amazing service TBH.

Anyway I’d read a lot of people banging on about Duragloss 901 and how it’s the bestest shampoo evAr so I thought I’d give it a whirl as I was out of the AG stuff along with some Meg’s Last Touch as I’m getting down with using quick detailer as a drying aid and I’m far too lazy to wax each and everytime I wash the car so can top up the shine with it.

All in all I’m pleased with the results of both of these products and the smell of the 901 is uber.

I’M.
FUCKING.
KNACKERED.

I’ve just spent seven and a half hours detailing my car.

As I’m nearly falling asleep typing this I’ll keep it brief.  The process was this:

• Rinse
• Wash wheels with AutoGlym Clean Wheels
• Rinse
• Wash
• Dry
• Clay with Meguiar’s Smooth Surface Clay Kit
• Rinse
• Wash
• Dry
• Polish with Clearkote’s Vanilla Moose Wax Hand Glaze
• Buff
• Glaze with Poorboy’s White Diamond Show Glaze
• Buff
• Seal with Poorboy’s EX-P Sealant
• Buff
• Wax with Victoria Collector’s Wax
• Buff
• Dress tyres with AutoGlym Instant Tyre Dressing
• Clean windows with AutoGlym Fast Glass
• Death

In the pictures you can see the before, including the bird shit on the boot from a Terradactyl, and after.  All in all a good result, but the sun meant that I couldn’t let the products linger for a more “wet gloss look”, which is really what I was after, and made it a fucking pain in the arse to buff the wax off.  But it needed doing to save me a job come ISTS and fuck knows when we will next get any decent weather.  If we do then I’ll get another layer of wax on, hopefully in the shade this time.

No not that Season Affective Disorder thing, just sad.

I got home to find that the postie had brought me lots and lots of wonderful parcels, well ok three.  One isn’t important as it’s just something to let me try out a camera mount…but the other two.  WOW!

Ok I’m concerned, I’m actually excited about this shit and can’t wait to try it out lol.

Yup more cleaning products!  PMSL

What you see is a Meguiars Smooth Surface Clay Kit, from eBay £20 delivered which is the cheapest I could find it anywhere for brand new.  Clearkote Vanilla Moose Wax Hand Glaze, oddly it’s actually polish.  Poorboy’s White Diamond Glaze.  Poorboy’s EX-P Sealant.  Annnnnnnnnnnnnd the thing I can’t wait to try out as I’ve never used the real stuff before, Victoria Collectors Wax.  Oh and for the eagle eyed I’ve got some OEM side repeaters from a Ph2, not all that sure on them tbh but figured for the price and as I’ve already got some silver bulbs for them I’ll give them a whirl.

All of the detailing stuff was from DetailedObsession.co.uk and I can’t recommend Gareth’s services enough.  He spent a long, LONG, time going through the options for my paint with me and explained what each thing would do and which would work the best, not which was the most expensive/fashionable.  Really friendly guy, a good price and really fast delivery.   Oooh and he included full instructions on how to use each individual product and in what order.  I don’t know many other companies out there that offer such a personal service, not for a reasonable price.

So now all I need is some spare time and some half decent weather.  Ideally I’d prefer to of been able to machine polish the car, but as I don’t have a DA that’s impossible lol so it will have to wait till later in the year for that but hopefully it will correct the scratch I found on the rear n/s quarter when I do.  Saturday is out of the question for this big detail as the cars in at Renault to have the bonnet catch recall work carried out and then I’m off, unless it get cancelled due to lack of interest, to meet some of the ClioSport lot from my area. So Sunday, weather permitting will be the big day!

In other Clio news there has been a creaking noise coming from the front suspension which I put down to the common turret nut problem, which I ordered some washers from a “company” (which will for now remain nameless) to fix it with nearly a month ago and they still haven’t arrived…worst service EVER, but I noticed some play in the steering, a wobble at errm “speed” and the odd knock.  Guessed it would be a balljoint gone so I ran it into the garage again, I swear to god they sees more of my car than I do atm lol, and confirmed that “both the balljoints are fucked” which is the technical term IIRC.  So it’s booked in there for the 3rd April to have them replaced ahead of ISTS/MOT.

Speaking of MOT it’s booked in on 17th April.