Almost wished i had never started: full polish and ceramic coat🤔 (1 Viewer)

[TinaLes]

Your doing a great job, van looks wonderful. I would be too scared to take it down the road now, especially if its raining.

When you order up some more polish & ceramic sealer, I would add a large roll of cling film.
Simply roll some over the entire front to catch the bugs, & mud splatters, then peel off when you get to your destination. job done, sit back relax in a chair with a nice cold one.

Happy travels
LES

 

[Mikey RV]

Looking good and love your garage.

 

[Flairy]

A very nice job but I’m most impressed with your garage mine has been outside for 22years i would give anything for a garage like that

 

[Ridgeway]

Yes the garage makes life a bit easier i just rent a place from my neighbour as the unit is 50m from our house) Few other vans in there plus some nice vintage cars. The only issue i face with the garage is the floor as it’s unsealed concrete…. so can be very dusty. Hence I’ve agreed with my neighbour that we’ll seal it after he’s finished some work at his farm later this year, he’ll provide the materials and then he and i will do the work.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Yes correct. Have used RainX for many years and find it very good although the benefit soon wears off. In theory this treatment is a bit more heavy duty and is supposed to last 12months but let’s see, with 6 I’ll be happy and for me it’s more about easy bug removal after a drive

Agreed it does help with bug removal.

Out of interest did you polish the screen before application.
This makes a fair difference in water dispersal

Nice job by the way.
Wish I had a barn to work in

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[Ridgeway]

Agreed it does help with bug removal.

Out of interest did you polish the screen before application.
This makes a fair difference in water dispersal

Nice job by the way.
Wish I had a barn to work in

Yes, the cleaning process took 1hr. It was 2 steps with first using a clay type liquid/paste (diluted clay in liquid). Like a mild scourer, then it was a grease removal clean (acetone) and then applying the magic potion took 3mins, well as long as the cloth lasted.

 

[Hirsch]

Very nice finish.

I washed the car yesterday and flashed over with some of that aqua spray polish. Lazy or what?

 

[AndyP12345]

Yes, the cleaning process took 1hr. It was 2 steps with first using a clay type liquid/paste (diluted clay in liquid). Like a mild scourer, then it was a grease removal clean (acetone) and then applying the magic potion took 3mins, well as long as the cloth lasted.

Which clay and degrease products did you use? Could you give a listing of all the products that you’ve used. Looks amazing and I was about to buy a load of cleaning materials today/tomorrow.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Yes, the cleaning process took 1hr. It was 2 steps with first using a clay type liquid/paste (diluted clay in liquid). Like a mild scourer, then it was a grease removal clean (acetone) and then applying the magic potion took 3mins, well as long as the cloth lasted.

When I’m “going” for it I use jewellers rogue

 

[Ridgeway]

Which clay and degrease products did you use? Could you give a listing of all the products that you’ve used. Looks amazing and I was about to buy a load of cleaning materials today/tomorrow.

For the windscreen it was part of the kit (similar as Silver-Fox mentioned to jewellers rouge) in my case it’s a German windscreen protection kit that cost around £15 and give one treatment. For the rest i used Meguiars Ultimate Polish and again another German product for the sealing (Nigrin Black Label) but I’m sure there’s plenty of easily available alternatives.

More important were the million clothes (they’ll be washed and reused for other tasks), a ton of elbow grease and 27 cups of tea (maybe an odd jaffa cake as well…)

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[Go_buddy_go_]

Looks fab!

 

[andykim]

Couldn't you have used an electric polisher?? Looks a million dollars,shiny new pin.

 

[Ridgeway]

Couldn't you have used an electric polisher?? Looks a million dollars,shiny new pin.

Nah that would be cheating, i wanted a karate kid training

But i was a bit worried about getting carried away with an electric polisher and knowing how thin the paint is our our vans i thought it best to do it by hand. Probably nothing to worry about and just being over cautious.

 

[jongood]

Nah that would be cheating, i wanted a karate kid training

But i was a bit worried about getting carried away with an electric polisher and knowing how thin the paint is our our vans i thought it best to do it by hand. Probably nothing to worry about and just being over cautious.

Helps that the paint is pretty new but Electric polisher does a cracking job on older vehicles, much better than hand.

 

[Flairy]

Ive worn my polisher out now need a new one.Fenwicks then autoglym wrong thread for the roof.

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[Shrimp]

Van is looking good, at least you have a nice dry area to work in!

 

[Ridgeway]

Ive worn my polisher out now need a new one.Fenwicks then autoglym wrong thread for the roof.View attachment 787316

That’s cool. I have realised that once i finish that the roof may need doing…. and as I’m ordering more product and will have some left over then why not

 

[andykim]

Then you can help other people out with their polishing PM me your address and I'll bring mine round, thanks a million.

 

[Ridgeway]

Then you can help other people out with their polishing PM me your address and I'll bring mine round, thanks a million.

Worcester to Lausanne is about 1200km the kettle is on…

 

[andykim]

Worcester to Lausanne is about 1200km the kettle is on…

Do you do call outs

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[EuroTrotters]

keeps you put of trouble

 

[Ridgeway]

Do you do call outs

Back in Blighty next week but I don’t think I’d be popular if we stopped off to do some polishing unless it was at Alton towers

 

[andykim]

Back in Blighty next week but I don’t think I’d be popular if we stopped off to do some polishing unless it was at Alton towers

Brink winter clothes!

 

[Ridgeway]

Finally finished yesterday. Took about 16hrs in total but split over a few sessions. And this was the first time I’ve seen it in the daylight:

Had a full rainstorm testing as we drove up through France today, it worked well and the van is still very clean after todays 700km

 

[Charlie57]

I bet you feel like a dog with two dic tails

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[Lenny HB]

Looks cool.

 

[Lenny HB]

Back in Blighty next week but I don’t think I’d be popular if we stopped off to do some polishing unless it was at Alton towers

That gives me an excuse to go to Alton Towers, I can enjoy the rides while you treat my van.

 

[andykim]

Look ! You missed a bit.

 

[andykim]

False alarm it was a bit of Branston pickle on my phone screen.

 

[bigtwin]

That is one shiny MH!

Ian

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