Skoda Fabia

haha never. get some towels and sit in each seat for about 5-10 min bud you will be surprised how much damp they will soak up

Okay so received my extended bolts today (thanks to Cal) so ill be fitting the 20mm front spacers hopefully tomorrow or Saturday.

I also ordered some Bilberry wheel cleaner, 2 detailing brushes and a new thick pile buffing cloth.

So plan of attack before SpringDub:
- Fit spacers on front.
- Compound rear end to try to bring red to match the rear rub strips fresh painted red.
- Full detail including window rubbers and door shuts etc.
- Clean wheels, inner arches.
- Polish and wax wheels.
- Remove fogs and compound to remove haze.
- Compound headlights to remove haze.
- Compound front lower bumper to bring to a better finish.

I was hoping to give the full car a machine polish but dont think ill have the time as the missus wants me to take her shopping on Saturday so will only have a couple of hours on the afternoon to do it all.

Have fun with all that in a few hours :p

Mmm that's an awful long list for a couple of hours, but the seats are looking good

Ill manage Car pretty clean anyway so just giving it a going over, not with a huge amount of detail this time really

Mines all fucked up! Paint is so bad, It's starting to make me not want to come, I will be coming but you know what I mean! Don't want people seeing it like this!

Sorry cal think I have misread you comment, your paint is fine you big gay bear!

I love it when people say there paint is rubbish, you must of not looked at mine when I was up
Your way



And back to chris thread, seats are looking clean as fella! Might have to rent one for mine till I sort out a re-trim or something

Well to me it's a mess! Haha

I was over the moon with how well the seat come up. defo reccommend them to anyone

Revised to do list for tomorrow as ill be a tad short on time:

- Fit Spacers
- Rubbing compound headlights and fogs.
- Touch up the lip of one wheel where the tyre glue stuff stripped paint.
- Clean Wheels & Inner Arches
- Machine Polish Full Exterior including wheels.
- Apply "Show Car Glaze"
- Wax exterior x2 coats including wheels.
- Another coat of "Show Car Glaze"
- Polish Windows.


Think thats about it, not much to do really..... :O haha

Okay so spent about 2-3 hours on the car giving it a very quick but thorough detail.

Machine polished both sides but hand polished front and rear as polisher cord wasnt long enuf to reach
Then 2 layers of mirror glaze
Then a layer of yellow wax
Dressed the tyres
Cleaned the wheels etc
Fitted 20mm spacers to the front.

Anyway heres some pics






Filling up for tomorrow


Proper cant wait for tomorrow!

lookin gd m8 u do need a cleanin bag or something lol

Cal aint happy about this but may be getting some BBS Montreals. Quick photoshop of what it may look like if they stay silver.


Or Canica Blue?

Awesome car sits mint proves well thought out mods are the way forward!

thanks mate much appreciated. Mods have to be well thought out when ur on a very tight budget lol. a 1yr old daughter ensures my budget stays very tight lol.

Haha a bet! If you get a car sitting right and clean they look so much better than ones who have just hoyed money at something and not thought about it imo... What machine polisher do you use mate i really need to sort my paint out its depressing lol

atm mate a shitty big aldi rotary thing. Still does the trick though

:0 your paint looks immaculate! tbh my paint is probably passed correction in places but that just means I may aswell have a go with a machine polisher you ever used auto glym hd wax? I'm looking for a new wax coz I use purple haze ATM and not sure if there is better out there?

I use this on a normal weekly detail:

Autoglym Shampoo & Conditioner
Autoglym Super Resin Polish New Formula
Megs #7 Show Car Mirror Glaze
Megs #26 Hi Tec Yellow Wax
Megs #7 Show Car Mirror Glaze again

Tbh its your polish that does the work making it shine and reflect, wax should only be needed to seal it in. The expensive waxes are expensive because they are full of fillers which covers the swirls etc for a little while until they wash off. I got a detail for £30 im doing atm mate lol

Ah right I use all autoglym products when washing I think I really need to bite the bullet and try and correct my paintwork instead of just putting layers of wax over it and hoping it will go away lol

Lol yeah defo worth doing it prpperly once then ur fine for a while as long as you wash it properly

right so been thinking of a boot build for a while but dont want sub and amp etc. So gunna make one for my cleaning products.

So, im planning something that sits against the back of the rear seats and along the width of the boot. It will have about 4-5 doors which either oen on the top or front where the cleaning products will be stored. Have quite decided which way i want the doors to open etc.

Heres a very quick photoshop to give a rough idea what i want it to be like. Kinda.

Good idea mate. But how about a fake double sub box that looks ICE but then opens up to reveal your cleaning stuff??.

What about...



Or my personal favourite...

Ha-Ha. Top Gear Creations!!!!