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[LJay]

The title made me wonder if that product was natural and if so, how long it had taken you to collect enough to polish an omega with!

How many boxes of PG do you reckon it would take?

More than an urn's worth! 

[Ian_D]

Makes me laugh when people say that phone cameras are 'good'.

I have recently upgraded to a Canon 7D - Which I love to bits, and so I should at its price  - Anyway, few weeks back I said that I would try using it in video mode for the first time, and explained to a friend that it can do HD recording... his reply was 'I've just got a new HD video camera too, so should be really good'... I asked him how much it was, '140 quid new yesterday from comet'. 'Oh right, we will see later on then' You can guess the results! 
 

[car-nut]

Like I said, I saw some people stating how good and crap some products are and aren't and thought I would just see if I could try and settle the argument on the fact that most of them make the cars look just as good 

However due to the amount of agro my Vectra 2.2 Sri has given me this week meaning it had to come off the road due to coil pack failure I didn't have time or the energy to polish it properly by hand.

So I used Demon Shine, as shown in the photo's above, but I do normally spend up to 2 hours polishing with Turtlewax colour specific polish or if I have run out of that it is usually autoglym, but I have lost interest in the autoglym super resin pollish as even thought it seems to give the best final result, if there is even the slightest change in temperature weather is slightly colder or too hot, it becomes a nightmare to remove, where as the Turtlewax is the easiest by far and 1 bottle lasts me upto a year using it on 2 cars! I am still on my first bottle that I bought 2 years ago but I got a black then a couple of blue cars before I got another silver one.

I give up. I guess the argument will always remain about which looks best.

I am now off to bed as got to take my other half to work in the morning followed by dealing with organizing my next door neighbours house move and sort my house move out too and then fix the ruddy Vectra! Catch ya another time. 

[jereboam]

What's the point of polishing a 10 year old car?  It won't get you any more money when you sell/scrap it and it's going to die of mechanical failure long before it rusts away.

[car-nut]

What's the point of polishing a 10 year old car?  It won't get you any more money when you sell/scrap it and it's going to die of mechanical failure long before it rusts away.

By keeping the car polished it protects the paintwork long term. I always have and always will keep my cars shiny

[Marks DTM Calib]

Agreed, polishing makes washing a hell of a lot easier

[jereboam]

If I remember correctly, my car is black, apart from the rust patches and scratches.  (Apart from the front bumper, of course, which is blue.)

I've never been enthusiastic about cleaning my car - used to supplement the kids' pocket money by getting them to do it.  When they got fed up, I paid the neighbours' children to do it.  When they'd all grown up, I used to take it the car wash every month.  Now it just doesn't get cleaned.

I think there may possibly be a 12 year-old tin of Turtle-wax in the garage, but I don't recall when I last used it.  As far as I am concerned, it just doesn't matter what the car looks like - nobody is going to judge me on my car.  At least not these days - I've retired and I have no need to meet new people!

[Kevin Wood]

Makes me laugh when people say that phone cameras are 'good'.

I have recently upgraded to a Canon 7D - Which I love to bits, and so I should at its price  - Anyway, few weeks back I said that I would try using it in video mode for the first time, and explained to a friend that it can do HD recording... his reply was 'I've just got a new HD video camera too, so should be really good'... I asked him how much it was, '140 quid new yesterday from comet'. 'Oh right, we will see later on then' You can guess the results! 
 

But... Look at all the megapixels... hidden behind that nasty little plastic lens 

[redelitev6]

Never mind the polish, someone needs to get their gas meter box fixed , some bugger will have the meter away!

[Ian_D]

Makes me laugh when people say that phone cameras are 'good'.

I have recently upgraded to a Canon 7D - Which I love to bits, and so I should at its price  - Anyway, few weeks back I said that I would try using it in video mode for the first time, and explained to a friend that it can do HD recording... his reply was 'I've just got a new HD video camera too, so should be really good'... I asked him how much it was, '140 quid new yesterday from comet'. 'Oh right, we will see later on then' You can guess the results! 
 

But... Look at all the megapixels... hidden behind that nasty little plastic lens 

Don’t even get me started on Megapixels... Another few years ago when I was at college we were all discussing mobile phones, most of the class kept going on about how a particular phone had more MP than others, and that because of the MP count, it HAD to take better photos! It was the superior model in their eyes! (on paper maybe, in reality, who knows without testing it). Discussion then went further down hill when someone commented on phone XYZ having more MP than his digital camera, you can guess the rest…

Oh dear… I’ve started…Better stop! 

[Ian_D]

Like I said, I saw some people stating how good and crap some products are and aren't and thought I would just see if I could try and settle the argument on the fact that most of them make the cars look just as good 

However due to the amount of agro my Vectra 2.2 Sri has given me this week meaning it had to come off the road due to coil pack failure I didn't have time or the energy to polish it properly by hand.

So I used Demon Shine, as shown in the photo's above, but I do normally spend up to 2 hours polishing with Turtlewax colour specific polish or if I have run out of that it is usually autoglym, but I have lost interest in the autoglym super resin pollish as even thought it seems to give the best final result, if there is even the slightest change in temperature weather is slightly colder or too hot, it becomes a nightmare to remove, where as the Turtlewax is the easiest by far and 1 bottle lasts me upto a year using it on 2 cars! I am still on my first bottle that I bought 2 years ago but I got a black then a couple of blue cars before I got another silver one.

I give up. I guess the argument will always remain about which looks best.

I am now off to bed as got to take my other half to work in the morning followed by dealing with organizing my next door neighbours house move and sort my house move out too and then fix the ruddy Vectra! Catch ya another time. 

I use SRP, and I've always found it dead easy to remove? That said, its perhaps because I’m comparing it to Frecla G3? That can be hard work at times, and if it gets on black plastic trim... Well, its there for life I have found! Got some on the black strip on the drivers door, its still there now (and this was +2 years ago!). Tried all sorts to get it off - no joy. Any ideas?

[MikeDundee]

Try claybarring the car, then you'll find out how much dirt is still left on the car

[Bionic]

Curiosity got the better of me in the end and I had to read this...
Wish I hadn';t now cos as with everthing else in life it comes down to personal preference with cost and effort playing a big part in that.
I polish mine everytime I wash it (3 times a week by hand and leather it off afterwards) through my pride in my mig and simply because it protects the paint and makes it easier to keep clean cos the muck tends not to stick so badly, bird muck and tree sap in particular.
Answer is really as simple as that. Each to his own 

[Martin_1962]

Makes me laugh when people say that phone cameras are 'good'.

I have recently upgraded to a Canon 7D - Which I love to bits, and so I should at its price  - Anyway, few weeks back I said that I would try using it in video mode for the first time, and explained to a friend that it can do HD recording... his reply was 'I've just got a new HD video camera too, so should be really good'... I asked him how much it was, '140 quid new yesterday from comet'. 'Oh right, we will see later on then' You can guess the results! 
 

But... Look at all the megapixels... hidden behind that nasty little plastic lens 

Don’t even get me started on Megapixels... Another few years ago when I was at college we were all discussing mobile phones, most of the class kept going on about how a particular phone had more MP than others, and that because of the MP count, it HAD to take better photos! It was the superior model in their eyes! (on paper maybe, in reality, who knows without testing it). Discussion then went further down hill when someone commented on phone XYZ having more MP than his digital camera, you can guess the rest…

Oh dear… I’ve started…Better stop! 

I wonder why the 1MP stills on my last video camera were better than 2MP stills off a phone?

My current video cammera does 4.8 or 6.1 MP 4.8 is when in video mode with 16x9 mode

[TheBoy]

A video camera has a piss poor CCD for pictures as well, Mr Imber