#valeting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #valeting, aggregated by home.social.
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Cooler today (only 25°C) so did exterior #valet of #Vauxhall / #Opel #Corsa - started with #snowfoam mix of Autoglym Polar Blast + BiltHamber Surfex HD at 10% (wouldn't normally use anything as heavy as that but you can see state car was in previously!)
Contact wash with CarPro Reset. No pics of snowfoam due to working fast because heat!
Single stage polish with Koch Chemie 3.01 mild compound+carnuba #wax, cheap cordless DA (compatible with #Makita batteries) and orange pad that came with it.
I'm fairly new to machine #polishing and didn't use best technique and too much polish (though some on YT recommend keeping pad saturated when working in hot weather to prevent polish drying out, and this seemed to work, #bodywork on this #car far from perfect anyway!)
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Cooler today (only 25°C) so did exterior #valet of #Vauxhall / #Opel #Corsa - started with #snowfoam mix of Autoglym Polar Blast + BiltHamber Surfex HD at 10% (wouldn't normally use anything as heavy as that but you can see state car was in previously!)
Contact wash with CarPro Reset. No pics of snowfoam due to working fast because heat!
Single stage polish with Koch Chemie 3.01 mild compound+carnuba #wax, cheap cordless DA (compatible with #Makita batteries) and orange pad that came with it.
I'm fairly new to machine #polishing and didn't use best technique and too much polish (though some on YT recommend keeping pad saturated when working in hot weather to prevent polish drying out, and this seemed to work, #bodywork on this #car far from perfect anyway!)
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Cooler today (only 25°C) so did exterior #valet of #Vauxhall / #Opel #Corsa - started with #snowfoam mix of Autoglym Polar Blast + BiltHamber Surfex HD at 10% (wouldn't normally use anything as heavy as that but you can see state car was in previously!)
Contact wash with CarPro Reset. No pics of snowfoam due to working fast because heat!
Single stage polish with Koch Chemie 3.01 mild compound+carnuba #wax, cheap cordless DA (compatible with #Makita batteries) and orange pad that came with it.
I'm fairly new to machine #polishing and didn't use best technique and too much polish (though some on YT recommend keeping pad saturated when working in hot weather to prevent polish drying out, and this seemed to work, #bodywork on this #car far from perfect anyway!)
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Cooler today (only 25°C) so did exterior #valet of #Vauxhall / #Opel #Corsa - started with #snowfoam mix of Autoglym Polar Blast + BiltHamber Surfex HD at 10% (wouldn't normally use anything as heavy as that but you can see state car was in previously!)
Contact wash with CarPro Reset. No pics of snowfoam due to working fast because heat!
Single stage polish with Koch Chemie 3.01 mild compound+carnuba #wax, cheap cordless DA (compatible with #Makita batteries) and orange pad that came with it.
I'm fairly new to machine #polishing and didn't use best technique and too much polish (though some on YT recommend keeping pad saturated when working in hot weather to prevent polish drying out, and this seemed to work, #bodywork on this #car far from perfect anyway!)
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Cooler today (only 25°C) so did exterior #valet of #Vauxhall / #Opel #Corsa - started with #snowfoam mix of Autoglym Polar Blast + BiltHamber Surfex HD at 10% (wouldn't normally use anything as heavy as that but you can see state car was in previously!)
Contact wash with CarPro Reset. No pics of snowfoam due to working fast because heat!
Single stage polish with Koch Chemie 3.01 mild compound+carnuba #wax, cheap cordless DA (compatible with #Makita batteries) and orange pad that came with it.
I'm fairly new to machine #polishing and didn't use best technique and too much polish (though some on YT recommend keeping pad saturated when working in hot weather to prevent polish drying out, and this seemed to work, #bodywork on this #car far from perfect anyway!)
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Wanted to get out of house but not deal with heat/crowds so did a bit more #valeting
Cleaned up #engine bay and tested against #WaterIngress - mechanic must have refreshed / checked seals on brake cylinder bulkhead (where water gets in) / or unblocked the drains (leaves and other muck stops them up) as I poured in 6 litres of water where rain would go and none of it got inside the #car
Everyone will be happy to see this back on the road, there's more demand for #automatic #cars than manual ones from our current staff (many of them are from Commonwealth countries where #driving with #AutomaticGearboxes is more popular)
Not the most refined but better than the other #Easytronic 'box in the other Corsa we had..
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Took advantage of lighter evenings to clean piano black plastic and navi screen on centre console of #GolfGTI (I don't know why this piano black stuff became so popular since about 2016, it is a pain to keep clean).
Also cleaned steering wheel with leather cleaner (it gets shiny after a few months driving due to grease from hands, should have a matt finish)
At least its not too late so folk don't wonder "who on earth is honking a horn in the yard?" (horn works with ignition off, and its easy to press the horn ring when cleaning the steering wheel)
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Took advantage of lighter evenings to clean piano black plastic and navi screen on centre console of #GolfGTI (I don't know why this piano black stuff became so popular since about 2016, it is a pain to keep clean).
Also cleaned steering wheel with leather cleaner (it gets shiny after a few months driving due to grease from hands, should have a matt finish)
At least its not too late so folk don't wonder "who on earth is honking a horn in the yard?" (horn works with ignition off, and its easy to press the horn ring when cleaning the steering wheel)
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Took advantage of lighter evenings to clean piano black plastic and navi screen on centre console of #GolfGTI (I don't know why this piano black stuff became so popular since about 2016, it is a pain to keep clean).
Also cleaned steering wheel with leather cleaner (it gets shiny after a few months driving due to grease from hands, should have a matt finish)
At least its not too late so folk don't wonder "who on earth is honking a horn in the yard?" (horn works with ignition off, and its easy to press the horn ring when cleaning the steering wheel)
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Took advantage of lighter evenings to clean piano black plastic and navi screen on centre console of #GolfGTI (I don't know why this piano black stuff became so popular since about 2016, it is a pain to keep clean).
Also cleaned steering wheel with leather cleaner (it gets shiny after a few months driving due to grease from hands, should have a matt finish)
At least its not too late so folk don't wonder "who on earth is honking a horn in the yard?" (horn works with ignition off, and its easy to press the horn ring when cleaning the steering wheel)
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Took advantage of lighter evenings to clean piano black plastic and navi screen on centre console of #GolfGTI (I don't know why this piano black stuff became so popular since about 2016, it is a pain to keep clean).
Also cleaned steering wheel with leather cleaner (it gets shiny after a few months driving due to grease from hands, should have a matt finish)
At least its not too late so folk don't wonder "who on earth is honking a horn in the yard?" (horn works with ignition off, and its easy to press the horn ring when cleaning the steering wheel)
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As usual a good in depth report from #ITV (who still excel at #crime reporting) - in which they confirm the lad had indeed been #hooning #cars that belonged to his customers, and worse, he didn't even have a valid #driving #licence or #insurance at the time!
He had tried to delete the videos, but the old bill must have put a #Cellebrite set on his phone - they've got a few of them and work with #AdastralPark for stuff like this, there's also a special #Cybercrime unit that #SuffolkConstabulary operate in some rural area like #Saxmundham
I counted 2 * #BMW, a #Mercedes #AMG and a #GolfR in the video (if you own one of these, be very careful who you trust with #detailing / #valeting or even any #repair work!)
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As usual a good in depth report from #ITV (who still excel at #crime reporting) - in which they confirm the lad had indeed been #hooning #cars that belonged to his customers, and worse, he didn't even have a valid #driving #licence or #insurance at the time!
He had tried to delete the videos, but the old bill must have put a #Cellebrite set on his phone - they've got a few of them and work with #AdastralPark for stuff like this, there's also a special #Cybercrime unit that #SuffolkConstabulary operate in some rural area like #Saxmundham
I counted 2 * #BMW, a #Mercedes #AMG and a #GolfR in the video (if you own one of these, be very careful who you trust with #detailing / #valeting or even any #repair work!)
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As usual a good in depth report from #ITV (who still excel at #crime reporting) - in which they confirm the lad had indeed been #hooning #cars that belonged to his customers, and worse, he didn't even have a valid #driving #licence or #insurance at the time!
He had tried to delete the videos, but the old bill must have put a #Cellebrite set on his phone - they've got a few of them and work with #AdastralPark for stuff like this, there's also a special #Cybercrime unit that #SuffolkConstabulary operate in some rural area like #Saxmundham
I counted 2 * #BMW, a #Mercedes #AMG and a #GolfR in the video (if you own one of these, be very careful who you trust with #detailing / #valeting or even any #repair work!)
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As usual a good in depth report from #ITV (who still excel at #crime reporting) - in which they confirm the lad had indeed been #hooning #cars that belonged to his customers, and worse, he didn't even have a valid #driving #licence or #insurance at the time!
He had tried to delete the videos, but the old bill must have put a #Cellebrite set on his phone - they've got a few of them and work with #AdastralPark for stuff like this, there's also a special #Cybercrime unit that #SuffolkConstabulary operate in some rural area like #Saxmundham
I counted 2 * #BMW, a #Mercedes #AMG and a #GolfR in the video (if you own one of these, be very careful who you trust with #detailing / #valeting or even any #repair work!)
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As usual a good in depth report from #ITV (who still excel at #crime reporting) - in which they confirm the lad had indeed been #hooning #cars that belonged to his customers, and worse, he didn't even have a valid #driving #licence or #insurance at the time!
He had tried to delete the videos, but the old bill must have put a #Cellebrite set on his phone - they've got a few of them and work with #AdastralPark for stuff like this, there's also a special #Cybercrime unit that #SuffolkConstabulary operate in some rural area like #Saxmundham
I counted 2 * #BMW, a #Mercedes #AMG and a #GolfR in the video (if you own one of these, be very careful who you trust with #detailing / #valeting or even any #repair work!)
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Lad from (now closed) father and son #detailing / #valeting company in #Felixstowe #Suffolk got 4 years #prison for #hooning a customers car in a busy surburban street, and crashing in to a pedestrian leading to a #fatality (whilst this #sentence seems light, its due to a guilty plea at Crown Court (would have started at 10 years otherwise, reduced by 2 years due to offenders young age)
His own middle aged dad didn't set him a very good example and refused to communicate with or compensate the owner of the GTR that was crashed
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Lad from (now closed) father and son #detailing / #valeting company in #Felixstowe #Suffolk got 4 years #prison for #hooning a customers car in a busy surburban street, and crashing in to a pedestrian leading to a #fatality (whilst this #sentence seems light, its due to a guilty plea at Crown Court (would have started at 10 years otherwise, reduced by 2 years due to offenders young age)
His own middle aged dad didn't set him a very good example and refused to communicate with or compensate the owner of the GTR that was crashed
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Lad from (now closed) father and son #detailing / #valeting company in #Felixstowe #Suffolk got 4 years #prison for #hooning a customers car in a busy surburban street, and crashing in to a pedestrian leading to a #fatality (whilst this #sentence seems light, its due to a guilty plea at Crown Court (would have started at 10 years otherwise, reduced by 2 years due to offenders young age)
His own middle aged dad didn't set him a very good example and refused to communicate with or compensate the owner of the GTR that was crashed
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Lad from (now closed) father and son #detailing / #valeting company in #Felixstowe #Suffolk got 4 years #prison for #hooning a customers car in a busy surburban street, and crashing in to a pedestrian leading to a #fatality (whilst this #sentence seems light, its due to a guilty plea at Crown Court (would have started at 10 years otherwise, reduced by 2 years due to offenders young age)
His own middle aged dad didn't set him a very good example and refused to communicate with or compensate the owner of the GTR that was crashed
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Lad from (now closed) father and son #detailing / #valeting company in #Felixstowe #Suffolk got 4 years #prison for #hooning a customers car in a busy surburban street, and crashing in to a pedestrian leading to a #fatality (whilst this #sentence seems light, its due to a guilty plea at Crown Court (would have started at 10 years otherwise, reduced by 2 years due to offenders young age)
His own middle aged dad didn't set him a very good example and refused to communicate with or compensate the owner of the GTR that was crashed
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"Cat wash" of #VW #GolfGTI with #KochChemie #RRW (Rapid Rinseless Wash) and just 8 litres of water (recovered from the condensate tank of the tumble dryer at my house!) - about as eco-friendly as you can get (also it is way too hot to be dealing with the pressure washer, multiple buckets etc using Anglian water at 300+ppm that will dry on the panels and leave waterspots everywhere)
Edit: The tyres were also treated to #Autoglym tyre dressing (the thick purple stuff) and plastic trims to "Vinyl and Rubber care"
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"Cat wash" of #VW #GolfGTI with #KochChemie #RRW (Rapid Rinseless Wash) and just 8 litres of water (recovered from the condensate tank of the tumble dryer at my house!) - about as eco-friendly as you can get (also it is way too hot to be dealing with the pressure washer, multiple buckets etc using Anglian water at 300+ppm that will dry on the panels and leave waterspots everywhere)
Edit: The tyres were also treated to #Autoglym tyre dressing (the thick purple stuff) and plastic trims to "Vinyl and Rubber care"
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"Cat wash" of #VW #GolfGTI with #KochChemie #RRW (Rapid Rinseless Wash) and just 8 litres of water (recovered from the condensate tank of the tumble dryer at my house!) - about as eco-friendly as you can get (also it is way too hot to be dealing with the pressure washer, multiple buckets etc using Anglian water at 300+ppm that will dry on the panels and leave waterspots everywhere)
Edit: The tyres were also treated to #Autoglym tyre dressing (the thick purple stuff) and plastic trims to "Vinyl and Rubber care"
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"Cat wash" of #VW #GolfGTI with #KochChemie #RRW (Rapid Rinseless Wash) and just 8 litres of water (recovered from the condensate tank of the tumble dryer at my house!) - about as eco-friendly as you can get (also it is way too hot to be dealing with the pressure washer, multiple buckets etc using Anglian water at 300+ppm that will dry on the panels and leave waterspots everywhere)
Edit: The tyres were also treated to #Autoglym tyre dressing (the thick purple stuff) and plastic trims to "Vinyl and Rubber care"
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"Cat wash" of #VW #GolfGTI with #KochChemie #RRW (Rapid Rinseless Wash) and just 8 litres of water (recovered from the condensate tank of the tumble dryer at my house!) - about as eco-friendly as you can get (also it is way too hot to be dealing with the pressure washer, multiple buckets etc using Anglian water at 300+ppm that will dry on the panels and leave waterspots everywhere)
Edit: The tyres were also treated to #Autoglym tyre dressing (the thick purple stuff) and plastic trims to "Vinyl and Rubber care"
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Exterior #bodywork wasn't in too bad shape (a few touch up repairs have been done over the years, there's usual stone chips but the #car had recently had a machine polish (I could tell by the residue left in odd corners!) and paint wasn't badly swirled, only needed a rinseless wash, a bit of hand polishing and a single stage machine polish on the doors and bonnets to get good results.
#Exhaust tips had been neglected, managed to make them a bit better with fine steel wool (the brillo stuff with soap) -- some chrome plating has flaked due to carbon being baked on still doesn't look too bad.
Also cleaned up inside of petrol tank flap (something I'm likely to be seeing rather a lot of as this car is a tad more thirsty than my last one!) #detailing #valeting
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Exterior #bodywork wasn't in too bad shape (a few touch up repairs have been done over the years, there's usual stone chips but the #car had recently had a machine polish (I could tell by the residue left in odd corners!) and paint wasn't badly swirled, only needed a rinseless wash, a bit of hand polishing and a single stage machine polish on the doors and bonnets to get good results.
#Exhaust tips had been neglected, managed to make them a bit better with fine steel wool (the brillo stuff with soap) -- some chrome plating has flaked due to carbon being baked on still doesn't look too bad.
Also cleaned up inside of petrol tank flap (something I'm likely to be seeing rather a lot of as this car is a tad more thirsty than my last one!) #detailing #valeting
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Exterior #bodywork wasn't in too bad shape (a few touch up repairs have been done over the years, there's usual stone chips but the #car had recently had a machine polish (I could tell by the residue left in odd corners!) and paint wasn't badly swirled, only needed a rinseless wash, a bit of hand polishing and a single stage machine polish on the doors and bonnets to get good results.
#Exhaust tips had been neglected, managed to make them a bit better with fine steel wool (the brillo stuff with soap) -- some chrome plating has flaked due to carbon being baked on still doesn't look too bad.
Also cleaned up inside of petrol tank flap (something I'm likely to be seeing rather a lot of as this car is a tad more thirsty than my last one!) #detailing #valeting
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Exterior #bodywork wasn't in too bad shape (a few touch up repairs have been done over the years, there's usual stone chips but the #car had recently had a machine polish (I could tell by the residue left in odd corners!) and paint wasn't badly swirled, only needed a rinseless wash, a bit of hand polishing and a single stage machine polish on the doors and bonnets to get good results.
#Exhaust tips had been neglected, managed to make them a bit better with fine steel wool (the brillo stuff with soap) -- some chrome plating has flaked due to carbon being baked on still doesn't look too bad.
Also cleaned up inside of petrol tank flap (something I'm likely to be seeing rather a lot of as this car is a tad more thirsty than my last one!) #detailing #valeting
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Exterior #bodywork wasn't in too bad shape (a few touch up repairs have been done over the years, there's usual stone chips but the #car had recently had a machine polish (I could tell by the residue left in odd corners!) and paint wasn't badly swirled, only needed a rinseless wash, a bit of hand polishing and a single stage machine polish on the doors and bonnets to get good results.
#Exhaust tips had been neglected, managed to make them a bit better with fine steel wool (the brillo stuff with soap) -- some chrome plating has flaked due to carbon being baked on still doesn't look too bad.
Also cleaned up inside of petrol tank flap (something I'm likely to be seeing rather a lot of as this car is a tad more thirsty than my last one!) #detailing #valeting
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#KochChemie #RRW (rapid #rinseless wash) works well (I had over last 2 weeks also done a single stage paint correction with the DA polisher I bought a few years back but hadn't had the spoons to use (felt like I was shaken to bits!) & topped with #BiltHamber Double Speed-wax) - today a random postie delivering a parcel to my office noticed me cleaning interior (as I'd hauled out everything for MOT earlier today) and complimented me on how good the car looked! #detailing #valeting #cars
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#KochChemie #RRW (rapid #rinseless wash) works well (I had over last 2 weeks also done a single stage paint correction with the DA polisher I bought a few years back but hadn't had the spoons to use (felt like I was shaken to bits!) & topped with #BiltHamber Double Speed-wax) - today a random postie delivering a parcel to my office noticed me cleaning interior (as I'd hauled out everything for MOT earlier today) and complimented me on how good the car looked! #detailing #valeting #cars
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#KochChemie #RRW (rapid #rinseless wash) works well (I had over last 2 weeks also done a single stage paint correction with the DA polisher I bought a few years back but hadn't had the spoons to use (felt like I was shaken to bits!) & topped with #BiltHamber Double Speed-wax) - today a random postie delivering a parcel to my office noticed me cleaning interior (as I'd hauled out everything for MOT earlier today) and complimented me on how good the car looked! #detailing #valeting #cars
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#KochChemie #RRW (rapid #rinseless wash) works well (I had over last 2 weeks also done a single stage paint correction with the DA polisher I bought a few years back but hadn't had the spoons to use (felt like I was shaken to bits!) & topped with #BiltHamber Double Speed-wax) - today a random postie delivering a parcel to my office noticed me cleaning interior (as I'd hauled out everything for MOT earlier today) and complimented me on how good the car looked! #detailing #valeting #cars
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#KochChemie #RRW (rapid #rinseless wash) works well (I had over last 2 weeks also done a single stage paint correction with the DA polisher I bought a few years back but hadn't had the spoons to use (felt like I was shaken to bits!) & topped with #BiltHamber Double Speed-wax) - today a random postie delivering a parcel to my office noticed me cleaning interior (as I'd hauled out everything for MOT earlier today) and complimented me on how good the car looked! #detailing #valeting #cars
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Finally a day when it was not pissing down nor below zero, so took the opportunity to do a maintenance wash on the #VWPolo to clear a months worth of winter grime #CarDetailing #Valeting #AutoDetailing #Detailing
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Finally a day when it was not pissing down nor below zero, so took the opportunity to do a maintenance wash on the #VWPolo to clear a months worth of winter grime #CarDetailing #Valeting #AutoDetailing #Detailing
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Finally a day when it was not pissing down nor below zero, so took the opportunity to do a maintenance wash on the #VWPolo to clear a months worth of winter grime #CarDetailing #Valeting #AutoDetailing #Detailing
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Finally a day when it was not pissing down nor below zero, so took the opportunity to do a maintenance wash on the #VWPolo to clear a months worth of winter grime #CarDetailing #Valeting #AutoDetailing #Detailing
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Finally a day when it was not pissing down nor below zero, so took the opportunity to do a maintenance wash on the #VWPolo to clear a months worth of winter grime #CarDetailing #Valeting #AutoDetailing #Detailing
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Alas, looks like plans for car #detailing / #valeting tomorrow are washed out #weather #Suffolk #BritishWeather #rain #bladibarsket
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Alas, looks like plans for car #detailing / #valeting tomorrow are washed out #weather #Suffolk #BritishWeather #rain #bladibarsket
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Alas, looks like plans for car #detailing / #valeting tomorrow are washed out #weather #Suffolk #BritishWeather #rain #bladibarsket
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Alas, looks like plans for car #detailing / #valeting tomorrow are washed out #weather #Suffolk #BritishWeather #rain #bladibarsket
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Alas, looks like plans for car #detailing / #valeting tomorrow are washed out #weather #Suffolk #BritishWeather #rain #bladibarsket
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A few more shots of the C4 back at home, after detailing.
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A few more shots of the C4 back at home, after detailing.
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A few more shots of the C4 back at home, after detailing.
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If anyone has need of vehicle valeting and detailing services in Edinburgh, I can wholeheartedly recommend Jason Burt at Privilege Detail, to whom I entrust both my cars. Here’s my Citroën C4 yesterday, after a deep clean detail followed by application of PolishAngel Cosmic Spritz Glasscoat.
Photos by Jason while still in his studio.