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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #375 on: December 19, 2012, 01:23:27 pm »
Hahaha, that's hilarious!  :lol:

After my last effort at golf, no amount detailing the golf clubs would have helped me. The mass amount of Corona's weren't doing me much favour either. There was some awesome cart driving going on though!  :grin:
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #376 on: December 20, 2012, 10:30:03 am »
My Chemguys order just turned up, this stuff looks great. Thanks again for the recommendation  :thumb:
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« Reply #377 on: December 20, 2012, 11:26:03 am »
What did you end up getting , Ash ?
I've been happy with everything I've got as far - great products.
Cheers,
Bob

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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #378 on: December 20, 2012, 11:40:47 am »
Bob, from Chemguys I got the citrus wash, the non-scratch mit and the 6pack of microfibre cloths. The material feels great, sure better then any of the cheap crap I've used in the past on my cars. I'll have to do an order for myself once we get through the Christmas/New Years period.
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #379 on: December 20, 2012, 02:08:38 pm »
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #380 on: December 20, 2012, 02:12:52 pm »
Hi Bob
My wife would kill me if I attempted to polish my car in the lounge  :grin:  :grin:  :bolt:

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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #381 on: December 20, 2012, 06:08:04 pm »
Good stuff Jack, i find it quite FLexciting! :grin:

Interested to see the power plug. Is it a USA type fitting or Australian? I have some adaptors at home if it is a USA plug.

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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #382 on: December 20, 2012, 06:54:29 pm »
Hey Rod
Plug is continental .... Simple mod to change to Aus


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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #383 on: December 20, 2012, 07:09:13 pm »
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #384 on: December 20, 2012, 07:10:12 pm »
Hey Rod
Plug is continental .... Simple mod to change to Aus


Jack

The friendly electrician JBB will help me I am sure  :thumb:


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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #385 on: December 22, 2012, 04:48:37 pm »
Hello,
Gave mine the treatment today.
Scholl polish and Lake county pads.
I am happy with the results. :pepper:
Great thread People keep up the good work.
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #386 on: December 22, 2012, 06:40:35 pm »
Looks great Peter, my Concourse 900 with lake county pads and scholl polish is under the Xmas tree so will need to wait a few more days to try it on my daily drive and then on my 66 coupe when it arrives mid Jan.

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« Reply #387 on: December 22, 2012, 07:18:04 pm »
Hello,
Gave mine the treatment today.
Scholl polish and Lake county pads.
I am happy with the results. :pepper:
Great thread People keep up the good work.
Peter.
Well done Peter. Future Mustang shows will be blinding with the increased levels of shine!  :grin:
Out of curiosity, which combination of pad/polish did you use?

Evan.

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« Reply #388 on: December 22, 2012, 10:30:02 pm »
Wow Peter - you'd have to be happy with that. Looks fantastic.
Hey Evan - I was thinking the same today - the level of shine at Mustang get-togethers is going to increase  enormously.
Cheers,
Bob
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #389 on: December 23, 2012, 06:43:44 pm »
I had been asked prior to polish a few, dame wait until they see now with the flex when it arrives  :thud:

Jack the postman Saturday was pretty confident it would come Monday, there may be time  :thumb:


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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #390 on: December 23, 2012, 07:57:05 pm »
Well done Peter. Future Mustang shows will be blinding with the increased levels of shine!  :grin:
Out of curiosity, which combination of pad/polish did you use?

Evan.
Hello, started with S3 gold with orange pad on a couple of spots of heavy orange peel.
The rest of the car with S3 gold with a white pad.
Finished off with S30+ with a black pad.
Car was painted in the States about 5 years ago (typical US paint job 6/10)
It is the hardest 2 pac paint I have ever seen.
The Gent at waxit recommended this procedure and it worked a treat and was relatively easy.
Very helpful people at Waxit (highly recommended)
Sealed with Mothers canuba wax (great product in my opinion)
The picture tells the story.
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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #391 on: December 26, 2012, 03:53:42 pm »
Hi Peter, You have done an excellent Polishing job. That vert sure looks sweet. :thumb:

Both Evan and yourself have tried the Scholl polish now and the results speak for themselves. Impressive stuff.

Interested in hearing from others too about their Polishing deeds. It seems there were quite a few Polishing Kits underneath Christmas Trees.

Justang, Did your Flex arrive in time?

Ash, Did you manage to get those Brake Hoses sorted?

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« Reply #392 on: December 26, 2012, 06:25:45 pm »
Got all my goodies. Now just need to find the time.

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« Reply #393 on: December 26, 2012, 06:57:52 pm »
Hi Justang
Kept my fingers crossed for you.  Sooooooooo is it there yet.????
Tried to send email not sure if it went.

When I was about to cut the plug off mine I got this thought I'd better test it first.  It is ok   :pepper: Dont have to worry bout warranty.
Will try it out tomorrow.  Cant today .

Rocket     You enjoy Xmas.??  Hope to see you over NY in the cool.  Will call you in after a couple of days. Hope the phone is out of the car.

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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #394 on: December 26, 2012, 08:16:41 pm »
Hi Jack, Glad to see your Flex is all good. :thumb:

Hmmm.... Christmas. Was all going very well until late yesterday arvo. Michelle has had a bit of a relapse and spent today in bed. Bugger! Consequently we are still at home. Oh well... at least it has given me time to build a disability ramp for mum. She has been waiting for me to build it for a couple of months. Job done.

So it is now a day by day proposition whether we manage to head down the South East or not. You might have the place to yourselves. EDIT- Michelle has recovered so we are headed down on Saturday morning. :thumb:

You just reminded me to get the phone out of the car. It is now inside and on charge. :grin:
Give me a call in a little while if you like.

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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #395 on: December 27, 2012, 08:27:10 pm »
Ash, Did you manage to get those Brake Hoses sorted?

Brakes sorted with new brake line, pads, fluid and swapped out the M/C with a newer one while the system was apart. They work well now  :thumb:

Unfortunately, the car doesn't. Had it die again on me 40k's out of town on the weekend and needed to tow it home again. Spent Monday trying to find the issue and ended up fixing one and finally getting a fault code on another. Got a replacement part sorted this morning, should be on its way now from Adelaide. See if that fixes it, maybe.... we'll see.

3 issues in a week, two tows and no car with A/C to take our kids in has been an issue. The public holidays haven't helped but we had 40 degree days and having no reliable A/C car is unacceptable. Did a bit of car shopping and today I picked up this. Only 112k, full service history, very well looked after for its age and the 4.6 V8 is very nice. By the time I clean up the Territory and sell it, I should be close to doing a clean swap, maybe a little cash out of pocket but that's all good. Plus my wife is really happy to be back in a V8  :burnout:





Which now brings me to this. I brought this home to look at polishing the Territory up. Will need to hit up one of the online stores and get some pads and polishes. Unfortunately some time back the car got a wash with a dirty sponge, I think it will clean up well but it's going to take a little bit of elbow grease.

Any experience with one of these? It's all new to me but look forward to the learning curve.



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Re: CAR POLISH
« Reply #396 on: December 27, 2012, 08:32:29 pm »
Hi Justang
Kept my fingers crossed for you.  Sooooooooo is it there yet.????

Jack

Hey Jack,
no not here yet  :cry:

spoke with the parcel man today and they had a big shipment of parcels as he left the depot so hopefully tomorrow

yes got email, sorry mate had a hectic time last few days


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« Reply #397 on: December 27, 2012, 10:04:00 pm »
Hi Ash, Glad to see you bit the bullet. The Explorers are seriously good cars. :thumb: Plush inside with more than ample power. Jeremy had a white Explorer which he traded for the Diesel Territory.
You wrote once before that your Territory has given you lots of good service, but unreliability cannot be tolerated, especially when your wife and children are out and about  in the car.

I do not know anything about the DeWalt Polisher, but being a rotary a bit of practice is called for on an old panel before tackling the Territory. Just spread the Polish on the lowest speed, then crank it up to about 3,000 RPM to do the Polishing. Maybe read about the DeWalt at this Link -

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/circular-polishers-rotary-polishers-high-speed-polisher/

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« Reply #398 on: December 27, 2012, 10:21:12 pm »
Thanks, Rocket  :thumb: If I had the funds, I would have got a current Territory. We had a really good run with ours and it always ticked all the boxes for us. Maybe down the track we'll get into another. For now though we are officially an all American car household  :lol:

Thanks for the tip on the DeWalt. Old panels I have plenty of. Is there a preference in colour that would help the dive in the deep end? Would a lighter or darker colour be better to see what I am doing right or wrong? At the moment I have some dark green, maroon, white and also silver. I guess I could try a little bit on them all.
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« Reply #399 on: December 27, 2012, 11:08:51 pm »
You Yankee You! :grin:

The Dark Green will be the best to practice on. Darker colours really show the blemishes.

If you can`t get all of the swirl marks off with a one step polish, there is a wax called " butter wet wax" available from Chemical Guys for $19.95

 http://www.chemguys.com.au/BUTTER_WET_WAX_p/wac_104_16.htm

The wax has some fillers in it which will help to hide any remaining swirl marks - Temporarily :grin: ( If you catch my drift ) Lasts about a month.

On the subject of waxes, I have had some Duragloss Aqua Wax in the garage for a couple of years. After i washed the Lightning Strike Territory a couple of days ago, decided to try it out. The idea is to spray it on as you dry each panel. Very, very easy way to wax a car. Could not believe how good the Territory looked afterwards. Big tick for this stuff.

 http://www.waxit.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=319&category_id=19&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

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