Looks lovely,the dark colours always come up the best.. I need mine doing badly.

P.s.. I'm glad to see my cars not the only one to be peppered with stone chips on the front.. Damn this Honda paint is thin!

 

I am sure that can be arranged Mikey, weather dependant of course (just realised you have a garage though, so could be done any time regardless of weather ), give me an IM lets sort out a time.

 

Shame I don't have more time as I am at the JAE this Saturday which is close to Bristol I think? Would have been happy to buff down (oooer) on your car for a few hours.

 

Top bollox guys

Wayne - might be worth booking Paul for another visit after the hoon

 

Sweet work Pie and Nut! The S looks absolutely gleeming. I'm not sure I could ever do that though, because I would be gutted when it was filthy 100 miles later, it would be heart breaking!

That said, it looks fantastic. Well done!

 

Looks well nice. Mine was washed at honda a few weeks ago after having some work done and it acme back covered in swirls..........what the hell do they wash their cars with?? is this a common problem?

 

Thanks for the supportive words people, to answer your question WayneS2 unfortunately yes it is common practice with the 'Saturday lad' that gets to wash the cars before they go to their customer. To be honest the dealers are only trying to help, and the guy doing the washing is probably thinking he is doing a good job. But all too often they don't realise using that same cloth they just wiped their oily hands on, or the same chamois they just 'washed' the 5th car today with, is actually akin to using a brillo pad on the paint. Just ignorance, inexperience, but good intentions.

Swirl marks are not just instilled by the dealers though, there will be a lot of people with swirls on their cars who do actually know how to clean their cars properly and get frustrated as they can't understand where the little blighter's come from, without a machine polisher they are unable to remove the swirls. These swirls are swirls from everyday driving, think about it they are called swirls for good reason, the air swirls dust particles around your car, and these fine grains of dust/sand minutely scratch the surface of your car in a circular motion. Very few hand products will get this out, hence the 'power' of the orbital polisher, safe to use and with a little tuition anyone can do it, its not rocket science just patiently working in small areas let the machine do the job and smoothly remove your swirls.

 

Arr I see. Thanks for the reply. Orbital polishing will be my next job then I guess.

 

No problem, and read the links in my sig there are some good sites with good information about cleaning your car either with or without an orbital, download the pdf also in my sig.

I should point out the first pic that Wayne posted at the start of this thread, if you click on the picture then click it again to get the big pic then click again just on the rear quarter of the car to get huge pic there you will see the difference. You will see those are horizontal 'swirl' marks caused by washing the car (dealer induced), however circular swirl marks are the daily occurance ones and are well ... circular in nature. Anyway have fun driving your car, don't get too het up by these things, heck I have spoken to people who think swirls are intentional and add great shine to their cars!