Bought some road tyres to replace the chunky MTB tyres, i've only gone up and down my path but already i can feel how much better it is. Also the amount of rolling resistance is substantially less and it looks nicer!

ebay, £13 for a pair.

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About $1000, now waiting till it gets assembled and shipped.

does it come with no pedals?

That looks brilliant Ian, i done a wash & wax on my sisters fiesta yesterday; https://www.facebook.com/AylesburyDetailing/posts/1483962438549226

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Personally I don't like the idea of my front tyres being steered back and forth whilst I sit still for hours playing a simulator in an otherwise real car......

Yeah, dry steering, can't be great for the car. Would be better if they had the car on some plates to allow the wheels to turn properly, like these:

Got this new today half price from £260, just a way of getting around while i save for a 125

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You've got it easy!.. this is a 50/50 of the bonnet of a Fiesta I got asked to detail before it goes up for sale:



Thankfully not all panels are quite this bad (although most aren't good), but I'm 10 hours in on the machining alone and have only done one side, bonnet, front bumper and roof!



Cheers..

Ian

What's your process? my sister has a black 1999 fiesta and i'm planning to use it to practice swirl removal on :P

Gave the corsa a final cleanup before it goes tomorrow



Never tried cleaning in there on any car, really happy with how it came out

voi-la

Deposit on the corsa has been left and it's going on saturday for £750. PROFITTTTTT

today i discovered 9gag. i laughed at this.

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Selling my corsa, any takers? :P

£100 if you'll deliver and it has MOT / tax

(serious offer, my car is ****ed)

£100 will get you a passenger ride.

Selling my corsa, any takers? :P

Cleaned le corsa

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Looks like there's no difference, dirt doesnt really show on silver cars - it was filthy

woah, went on to the forum and was totally stunned. Completely unexpected - nice work

Quote from kars19 :

You will need it with BMW E61

i believe that post was aimed at me...

https://www.facebook.com/AylesburyDetailing/

please! I'll be posting some of my work up shortly

I'll start up a facebook page and perhaps do some leafleting in carparks. My prices are pretty competitive, just getting starting is the hardest bit. I'll put a link here when the page is up, a few likes would help

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You seem to do a good job, and more imortantly, you seem to have a passion for it... Do it!

Thank you, i have tried advertising myself and my services locally but havent had any response yet which sucks. I really do enjoy it for some reason

Quote from e2mustang :

for 30?! in a car wash the mini valet is 70

around here it's around 40-50 for everything i done. i'd like to start doing it for people and not just family though

he was very satisfied

got 30 quid for it

not mine, but my mum's boyfriends.

Gave it a good valet/detail today

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process was: hoover & clean interior including both boots, clean interior glass --->move to outside, remove bugs and tar, clean wheels, rinse and shampoo car, dry, dress tyres, dress plastics, clean outside glass, full hand polish, full hand wax and polish the exhaust tip.

beemer looks quite different to when i saw it at Silverstone in 2012 haha

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Am I blind and not see a difference in the photo except wiped off dirt or is there something special?

it was nasty grease which i never thought of trying to remove, it was annoying me, so sprayed some engine de-greaser on it and it wiped off. Just another step to getting my car factory-like clean.

dat clio...

meanwhile in ocd land -