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Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio
I'd like to thank Ken, and Mark, and Richard, and Chris, and Chuck, and Heather for teaching me so much in the last 18 months... thanks to your help (and a bit of work and many $$$ spent by me) I won Best Foreign Car today in Blimey's first car show!!!

I'll post pics and a writeup later on my blog - but couldn't wait to share the news and THANK YOU folks for helping make it happen. I got lots of kudos from other car owners on detailing, paint polish, style, theme, etc, and I didn't know squat about any of that until I started hanging out with you folks.
Yea Dude! That is totally cool. Now you're hooked. Hope you had fun.
Congratulation that is really super.
 
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Yay, congrats Paul!!

I wish the weather would decide what it's going to do. One second it's sunny, the next it's sprinkling. I can't detail in EITHER, I need it to cloud over and stay that way!
i bet ML's running around inside the house.
 
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I'm doing laundry, actually...because going outside is pointless and frustrating!

But my house is clean
 
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i wish i can wash and detail my poor mini... recently washing her down found scratch marks all across the lower end of the car (curse toronto for mixing salt and sand together!), added to the fact that we got now over 200 cm of snow this year
 
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It's hailing here...so no pulling Clara out of the garage!

It's supposed to be nice tomorrow though, and I'm full prepared to detail AND maybe finally refinish my wheels where they are curb rashed!
 
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Congrats!! That's awesome man!! Woohooo!!

Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio
I'd like to thank Ken, and Mark, and Richard, and Chris, and Chuck, and Heather for teaching me so much in the last 18 months... thanks to your help (and a bit of work and many $$$ spent by me) I won Best Foreign Car today in Blimey's first car show!!!
 
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Richard that looks awesome

Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio
I'd like to thank Ken, and Mark, and Richard, and Chris, and Chuck, and Heather for teaching me so much in the last 18 months... thanks to your help (and a bit of work and many $$$ spent by me) I won Best Foreign Car today in Blimey's first car show!!!

I'll post pics and a writeup later on my blog - but couldn't wait to share the news and THANK YOU folks for helping make it happen. I got lots of kudos from other car owners on detailing, paint polish, style, theme, etc, and I didn't know squat about any of that until I started hanging out with you folks.
Congrats Blimey We're all in this together, that's why it's fun

Mark
 
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Well, you'll have to take my word for it since I didn't get any pictures, but Swirl City has been totally flattened. Spent 8 hours Saturday & Sunday with Cut on an orange pad, swirl on an orange pad and also a white pad. Those bad boys are history. Also the ghost stripe were totally eradicated. Threw some P21S on top and now I'm ready for Vegas baby. After the new stripes I will Dawn wash to drop the P21S and then put on Epic.
Now snow sits over my formally pristine finish.
 
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Now snow sits over my formally pristine finish.
yah, we're expecting t-storms tomorrow and then SNOW by the weekend. (i hope not).
 
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Wow! That's pretty aggressive - but those were some nasty swirls... I just knocked my boot swirls down a bit in the little bit of time I had on Friday, then hid some of the remaining ones with Amigo - but I need to do the hard-core boot polish (and Swirl everything else) before MOTD...

But every time I use Amigo, I love it more... on MY paint (YMMV), one easy pass leaves a mirror glaze... though if there are significant swirls, they'll still show (of course)...
 
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The only consolation is knowing I have a clean car under the snow while everyone else just has dirt.
Yeah Paul, I don't mess around. Actually worked my way up to that combination.
Did you get some pics of the show?
 
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I think I might have to give up on polishing and let someone else do it. I can't get past the hood without the bone chip in my elbow starting to kill me.

I got all the prep work done, clay and everything, and then couldn't polish So I slapped on a coat of Epic for now but I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the swirls.
 
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you need some local help ML. it seems to me a lot of people in this community would do yours if you were to supply the products, beer and conversation.
 
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ML- man, that sucks. but yah, there's got to be quite a few people
in your area that could possibly help out with some hang-out time?

until then, i think it calls for "HYDRO time."
 
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I nice, easy, low-impact hand application of Amigo before the Epic would help a bit, too... then the Hydro on top of the fully cured Epic...
 
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Blimey is now officially "The Ken of Amigo"


 
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OMG that's funny.... i simulposted in the other thread "I'm becoming the ken of Amigo"....
 
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^^ yah, i think we OCD think alike.

time to update your title under your handle like ML's.
 
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hey, did DP ever come out with their boot quick detailing kit for BCE?
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cool! i kinda wanted those official Prima stickers on my bottles though...

wonder if DP can make those instead so we can mark our own bottles?
We found a new and less expensive vendor for the labels we'd like to do for the wee travel bottles and will be persuing this very soon again!

We did think about making a do-it-yourself label with the logo but then we decided we really ought to make you guys something professional and slick looking.

I have always been impressed by everyone's creativity and motivation to do whatever it takes around here! Still, we thought we should do it for you anyway.

They'll be out one of these days. My list of projects that I have my hands into right now is SOOO deep that I can't honestly tell you when though! Surely by summer.

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Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio
I'd like to thank Ken, and Mark, and Richard, and Chris, and Chuck, and Heather for teaching me so much in the last 18 months... thanks to your help (and a bit of work and many $$$ spent by me) I won Best Foreign Car today in Blimey's first car show!!!
Congrats, BlimeyC!!! I'm so proud of you both (Blimey the MINI and Blimey the Paul).

-Heather
 
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The Ken of Amigo



now that's wat im talking about!

hi heather!
 
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I forgot to mention that yesterday was the first time I used OG's OneGrip. Man I like that tool. Basically straps the PC to your hand so you don't have to even think about holding on to it. Makes it really easy to concentrate on the polishing instead of your grip on the machine. Really lessened the fatigue in my hands and fingers. So I'm giving OneGrip !
 
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Awesome!! Glad you finally got to use and experience it. I use it everyday! =)

Richard
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I forgot to mention that yesterday was the first time I used OG's OneGrip. Man I like that tool. Basically straps the PC to your hand so you don't have to even think about holding on to it. Makes it really easy to concentrate on the polishing instead of your grip on the machine. Really lessened the fatigue in my hands and fingers. So I'm giving OneGrip !
 
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Originally Posted by BlimeyCabrio
I'd like to thank Ken, and Mark, and Richard, and Chris, and Chuck, and Heather for teaching me so much in the last 18 months... thanks to your help (and a bit of work and many $$$ spent by me) I won Best Foreign Car today in Blimey's first car show!!!

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Looks like that genious is beginning to pay off.

Way to go
 


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