Clean for The Fast Show 2011
Well, with TFS on Sunday, I thought it was about time I gave the car a clean… so I popped over to Halfords to get some supplies…
So this was the state of the car at 11am this morning:
Hoovered the interior and cleaned all the dash and plastics with some Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care:
I then stopped taking photos and got to work. I also did my Mum’s car at the same time…
First up, rinsed it all down with a pressure washer.
Then cleaned the wheels with some Wonder Wheels (It’s all I had, and couldn’t justify buying some new wheel cleaner when I already had some 
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Washed the car with some Autoglym Bodywork Shampoo Conditioner, two bucket method.
Dried using a waffle weave towel and some Demon Shine as a drying agent.
Cleaned the glass using some generic supermarket glass cleaner.
Polished the glass with some Autoglym Car Glass Polish.
Sealed the wheels using some Autoglym Alloy Wheel Seal.
Dressed the tyres with some Meguiars Gold Class Endurance Tyre Gel.
Dressed the plastics and vinyl B-pillars with Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care.
Polished using a machine buffer and Autoglym Ultra Deep Shine.
That got me to this stage, where I got the wax out 
Once I waxed everything, I re-dressed the plastics and vinyl B-pillars as I got some polish/wax on them which wouldn’t come off… But here’s the file results 
So 7 and a half hours work, and the results speak for themselves 
My first time using that Autoglym HD wax… and first time using a non-liquid based wax as well… and I’ve got to say I was impressed. Smelt quite nice, spread really nicely once I got used to it. And the pot looks barely touched after I’d done the whole car, and I think I used it too thickly… so it’ll definitely last a long time I was getting put off by the £45 price tag, but I would say that’s well worth it now I’ve actually used it
I got bored and took a drill to the car…
:shifty:
It just fell apart on it’s own. Honest :couch:
Not the neatest job I’ve done, but I’m happy with it. A nice home-made aux-in port for my Eonon head unit. Rather than having a cable trailing into the glovebox, I thought I’d have a port like the higher spec facelift models by the handbrake, so I made this
Some new Eonon pics
Well here are some daylight pictures and a little video I took… and yes, in the video, I did try to demonstrate the AUX-IN feature, forgetting that I don’t have anything plugged into the AUX-IN
Fitted by Eonon D5108E headunit
Thanks very much Eonon 
I bought myself a D5108E in the group buy from Eonon on Friday and it got delivered today 
I was so excited that I tried to fit it on my lunch break, so rushed to Halfords and bought some radio removal keys, then went about slicing my finger open on the packaging for the removal keys, getting blood everywhere, breaking what used to be the antenna socket on my CD30 (plug is still OK which is the main thing) and forgetting to take a screwdriver with me to take off the delivery plates… So that lunch break was very productive… took the CD30 out, broke it, and put it back in
At the end of the day, I remembered to pick up the screwdriver off my desk and went straight out to the car to fit it. A colleague timed me as taking onto 28 minutes to fit it completely I just need to drill in my new aux-in port
Had a play with it on the way home, and the sat nav isn’t bad, but it could do with a lot of improvement… so I’ve been spending the evening trying to change the sat nav software… TomTom was in Brazilian, so I didn’t know what I was pressing and it closed itself… and iGo gives me a memory error 
So I’m about to put Sygic back on it for now and I’ll have another play tomorrow…
So, here are some pics I’d heard the colour match on the piano black wasn’t perfect… and I’ll be honest, you can really tell in these pictures… but I only noticed it when I took these pictures, I couldn’t really tell when I fitted it or when I was playing with it. It looks fine to my eyes, and I’ve got pretty good eyes
I’m quite happy with it so far I might make a little video of it in action at the weekend
Cheers,
Mike :salute:
Piano Black Dash pt. 3
Ok, I’ve had a bit of fun with the steering wheel controls. I found a nice precision torx driver set in Maplins for a tenner, so I went and bought that, took the silver steering controls off and went inside to try and swap the boards over… and to my luck, guess what?! The silver ones and the piano black ones are completely different! 
But you all know me by now. I’m one of the most impatient people around, so regardless of the orange SMDs, I fitted the piano black ones anyway I’ll just get Adam (Stampede) to re-convert them for me when he’s next down this way. I need to get him to fix my light controls and re-do my window switches anyway, so might as well get it all done together 
So here’s a nice picture of them fitted. I just need to source a mid-spoke, which I nearly won on eBay, but it sold for more than I wanted to pay
On another note, why do I have a sudden obsession with a couple of Katy Perry songs? 