What products do you use?

[nickz32]

might just do that mike but what's on my mind is the bits i cannot get to on the wheels, ie behind all the nuts all the way round, i need to spray on, use application brush and just rinse off, all this within a minute or two.

Go onto any decent detailing retailer, personally i use these guys http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/.

Get these two bits: http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/bilber...hp?cPath=25_30 and this http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/elite-...d.php?cPath=65 and chose the foaming head.

The reason for the foaming head is that the product clings to the surface for longer compared to a straight fine mist spray. Try it diluted at a 1:1 ratio first, but if thats no good then try it neat. You dont need to worry about it eating any laquer because its has a more alkaline Ph balance rather than wonderwheels or many other off the shelf item that are acidic (wonderwheels has got some nasty nasty stuff in it). I will admit tho, for extremely heavy soiling, sometimes there is no alternative but to use a acid based cleaner, but id rather give a wheel a couple of goes with bilberry before resorting to acid based cleaners

Post some pics up of the wheels

For the MX, personally i wouldnt use G3. As far as im aware, its very similar to T-Cut, in that the way it creates its "cut" is very very fine pieces of glass. The amount doesnt degrade the more your polish so you actually end up putting swirl marks into the paint.

Personally i would go for something like Megs Paint restore or Scratch-X. These use synthetic cutting agents that get finer and finer the more you work the polish. Both of these products are both well suiting to hand application.

[Steve Burns]

but id rather give a wheel a couple of goes with bilberry before resorting to acid based cleaners

Is the Bilbury stuff safe to use on split rims?
as the acid base stuff can cause problems with the seal

[nickz32]

Ive never had any problems with it on split rims. As i mentioned earlier its not acidic so i wont etch polished metal, and ive never seen an alkaline cleaning product eat any seals.

Its probably the most popular wheel cleaning product on detailingworld.co.uk. There a few other non acidic wheel cleaners, i seem to remember one made by Blackfire being quiet popular aswell.

[phutumsch]

Go onto any decent detailing retailer, personally i use these guys http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/.

Get these two bits: http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/bilber...hp?cPath=25_30 and this http://www.elitecarcare.co.uk/elite-...d.php?cPath=65 and chose the foaming head.

The reason for the foaming head is that the product clings to the surface for longer compared to a straight fine mist spray. Try it diluted at a 1:1 ratio first, but if thats no good then try it neat. You dont need to worry about it eating any laquer because its has a more alkaline Ph balance rather than wonderwheels or many other off the shelf item that are acidic (wonderwheels has got some nasty nasty stuff in it). I will admit tho, for extremely heavy soiling, sometimes there is no alternative but to use a acid based cleaner, but id rather give a wheel a couple of goes with bilberry before resorting to acid based cleaners

Post some pics up of the wheels

For the MX, personally i wouldnt use G3. As far as im aware, its very similar to T-Cut, in that the way it creates its "cut" is very very fine pieces of glass. The amount doesnt degrade the more your polish so you actually end up putting swirl marks into the paint.

Personally i would go for something like Megs Paint restore or Scratch-X. These use synthetic cutting agents that get finer and finer the more you work the polish. Both of these products are both well suiting to hand application.

at you request nick some pics are attached, it is just that grubbiness right at the back kind of under the nuts, cannot get fingers in there.
i need to get them clean and then i want to polish them up, so thanks for the links.



the G3 is a white compound that is like a paste and is applied with wet application, as you say similat to T-cut, a bodywork guy recommended it when i had millions of tiny specs of like gloss paint, on a black car i had,
it removed it but not that easily.



furthermore, the mx5. which is a 1991, the bodywork is full of dents and scratches so is not mint by any means, so using the G3 on it does not concern me.



my lad been to see the turkish car wash people today and they were very apologetic and will give it a full wax at my lads convenience.
i will post pics of it to this thread as it does come up very well.

[nickz32]

Bilberry should tackle that no probelms mate.

A free wax isnt exactly what you want...... all its doing is sealing in whatever the contaminant is onto the paint.

[phutumsch]

have just spent a little bit of time on the wheels whilst at work, first i used brasso with a tiny make-up brush (not mine), and it does shift the brake dust if you rub hard enough, then i buffed just with a rag.

then i thought i would give t-cut a go with the same method with almost identical results.

both products i have found are very gentle on the my wheels.

i still need to spend some more time and i think the bilberry is the way to go.
two pictures are attached and a piccy outside mike's house after i presume they had not long been refurbished as they are very very shiny, will get them to that state again soon.

[blue-bullet]

What products do you use to wash your car? I mainly use Auto glym products, what about you?

sorry i thought you said you wash your car?!?!11/1?1 must have dreamt it...

[murt]

sorry i thought you said you wash your car?!?!11/1?1 must have dreamt it...

Eh? I do wash my car, in the winter thou it sucks because its too cold! The car is cleaning itsself at the moment, well its frozen up my unit And the battery has died yet again :/