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Posted: **Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:09 pm**

Just finished giving the Evo its pre-winter clean/protection.

- 2 layers of Zymol "Destiny" (http://www.zymol.com/destiny2.htm)
- lower parts (bumpers, sills, alloys) have been protected with an additional layer of Turtle Wax Gloss Guard (which should protect the wax layer against chemical substances too)
- Tyres have been treated with Turtle Wax - Platinum Series Revitalising Tyre Dressing
(don't ask me why I did that as the wintertyres probably will have to go on in two weeks

. Call it petrolhead vanity)

Took me best part of the day.

Must admit to one 'sad' act... I Zymoled the exhaust... :oops:

Posted: **Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:56 am**

Its ok, I always polish up my tailpipe, always nice to have a shinny pipe!

Posted: **Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:46 pm**

good job. mine might have similar treatment tomorrow. if anyone wants to see the worlds dirtiest evo i'll take a pic in the morning. spike, if u thought it was dirty earlier - u should see it now !! :rofl:

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:22 am**

Nice pics, Prof

Posted: **Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:48 pm**

Sandy looks like yor doors have been resprayed :angel:

Posted: **Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:30 pm**

True.

Part of it is because there are actually differences in the colour. Reason being the different materials that are sitting under the paint. Bits of the car are in aluminium, some are in plastic, other in steel.

The car being polished does also show, under certain angles, these light differences.

When are you showing us the 1mposter being Zymoled ?

Posted: **Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:52 pm**

Torrekens wrote::lol2:

True.

Part of it is because there are actually differences in the colour. Reason being the different materials that are sitting under the paint. Bits of the car are in aluminium, some are in plastic, other in steel.

The car being polished does also show, under certain angles, these light differences.

When are you showing us the 1mposter being Zymoled ?

Just been to the body repairs and they cant do the official repair until end of this month.....too busy :roll:

so I'll wait til then !

Any news of the undersealing yet !

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:18 pm**

Can someone tell me why that bloody exhaust looks shite again ???

I wash it every week and it needs polishing again.

Wax melting off ?

The funny thing is that they do't grit roads or anything.

Poster, how do you keep your pipe so clean ??

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:55 pm**

Vigorous rubbing :wink:

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:08 am**

The exhaust seems to loose its shine when it gets wet, so I always make sure I leather the exhaust in the same way as the rest of the car when washing. That way it seems to keep the shinny, polished look for longer.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:19 am**

Torrekens wrote:Can someone tell me why that bloody exhaust looks shite again ???

I wash it every week and it needs polishing again.

Wax melting off ?

The funny thing is that they do't grit roads or anything.

Poster, how do you keep your pipe so clean ??

drink 2 litres of orange juice a day
flushes the pipes rite out :oops:

autosol polish :wink:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/autosol_W0QQfc ... Z1QQfsopZ1

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:20 am**

This looks like cool stuff, Martin !

Poesy, you think the pipe loses its shine then also every time I drive in the rain ?

Or just when I wash the car ?

Never thought indeed that it wasn't sufficient to just 'wash' the pipe, but that I also needed to dry it

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:50 pm**

Torrekens wrote:Poesy, you think the pipe loses its shine then also every time I drive in the rain ?

Mine seems to matey. And there doesnt appear to be anything you can really do about it tbh :cry:

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