What I did today....

[rafletcher]

Well I paid a significant amount of money to the guys at Excel-Dents in Stoke Mandeville for the 2-stage polish and ceramic coating of my Limited Edition. It will be up on their Facebook page soon I think, but here’s one of them.

https://flic.kr/p/2kZAMWv

Then I went and collected the refurbished Audi Q5 alloys that I’ll be using as winter wheels, now gloss black. They went down to the shed, where they got a coat of Gtecniq C5 wheel armour, then 3 coats of Poorboys wheel wax. I then added my home-brewed Cupra wheel centres, basically the Audi ones, logo removed, filled and sprayed, then a 3D printed Cupra logo glued on before lacquered.

https://flic.kr/p/2kZEpBm

 

[Billyray911]

Looks stunning-go one then, how much is a significant amount?

 

[rafletcher]

Looks stunning-go one then, how much is a significant amount?

Just shy of £700. Well £696 actually.

 

[Billyray911]

A lot of money, but the time spent and cost of the product balances it all out-and man maths justifies everything anyway!

 

[rafletcher]

Absolutely. But it’s a 2 man job for a full day, so that’s going to be what, 12 @ £30/hr, that’s £360 already. Plus premises, materials, profit and of course 20% VAT. Not cheap, but the car wasn’t either! And it does make it stand out, the guys at the wheel place (Alloy Stars, Aylesbury, excellent crew - that was another £360!) were impressed. Liked the wheels too, thought they were much better than diamond cut. Last major expense (I hope) for this year will be a set of winter tyres. Then I can do a DIY ceramic coat on the Cupra wheels myself when I swap over to winters. I’ve got rear mud flaps to fit (Dremelled-to-fit FR ones as there are none available for the Cupra) but I may leave them for the garage to do when it gets serviced in September.

 

[pburv]

Well I paid a significant amount of money to the guys at Excel-Dents in Stoke Mandeville for the 2-stage polish and ceramic coating of my Limited Edition. It will be up on their Facebook page soon I think, but here’s one of them.

https://flic.kr/p/2kZAMWv

Then I went and collected the refurbished Audi Q5 alloys that I’ll be using as winter wheels, now gloss black. They went down to the shed, where they got a coat of Gtecniq C5 wheel armour, then 3 coats of Poorboys wheel wax. I then added my home-brewed Cupra wheel centres, basically the Audi ones, logo removed, filled and sprayed, then a 3D printed Cupra logo glued on before lacquered.

https://flic.kr/p/2kZEpBm

She's looking awesome mate