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What have you done to your car today?
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mfennell
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My leaking PS saga has come to a close. I gave it to my friend Drew at Foreign Cars of Monmouth. "Yeah, it was missing a seal". "WHAT??!?" Apparently there's a seal that MB doesn't stock separately and comes with the pump if bought from MB. I have no idea why it was missing on my car but at least it wasn't a complete fail on my part.
There were a few fails though. An obviously bent control arm that I completely missed. I didn't replace the upper shock mounts, which are clunking.
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Installed a transmission skid plate, bent and welded 3/16 steel.
Are there any DIY ceramic coating products that are worth the effort? Wife's new car will not be garaged.
i put this on both my challenger and my wifes daily back in 22, still going strong on the challenger (it lives in the garage so to be exptected) but got over 2 years (i think closer to 3) on the wifes car (neither of our dailys get the garage treatment so all weather). its the consumer version of what was offered by the place that did the PPF on my challenger.
Yes, but good prep is the key. I've used this multiple times and it's good for at least two years with proper maintenance washes.
The Gtechniq also has great reviews, I'm just used to the application and flash time with the CQuartz.
They do have a CQuartz Lite 2.0, but since the prep is the same, I prefer the longer lasting products.
Oh and if you're going to run it through a car wash, I think you at best get half the life of any good product. I'd just use a good ceramic spray once a month if I wasn't going to hand wash.
JonF
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Do you wash at home? What is your process? While its not the multi-year ceramic process, I have a few quick detail Si02 products i use on our vehicles. If you wash with a foam cannon, foaming on Chem-X Snake Oil as your final step (plus drying with towel) leaves a nice slick coating that will last a couple months. If you hand wash from a bucket, you can spray on Carpro Hydr02 Lite (spray on, immediately hose off) and provides a similar coating as Snake Oil. As another option, for a spray on, wipe off product, I've also used Mothers Ceramic CMX spray detailer.
Wife's previous 6 cars were never once washed at home. Despite the fact that she likes this one, we're both retired and have plenty of free time, I still doubt this one will be either. Really just trying to prolong inevitable damage. Our sprinkler system constantly hits one corner of the car and we have very hard water. It's currently covered bay about 1/16" of pollen.
Ceramic won't really prevent hard water spotting. It will make it easier to remove and maybe some of the beads will roll off the surface before drying, but my Maverick has hard water spots from sprinklers. Then you need to make sure the product you are using to remove hard water spots won't harm the cermaic coating.
Your use case, if you aren't worried about microswirls from your car wash, I think just wash as usual and add an SiO2 products like @JonF suggested once a month or so. I use Reload but there are ton of products available. It's not really a ceramic spray wax, although some people like those as well. They are all wipe-on, wipe-off. Some you can mist on while the car is wet and then dry as usual. Saves time and less chance of streaking with the correct drying towel.
Changed the rear hatch struts so I don't need a baseball bat to hold it up. Should have gone with a lighter duty set since it doesn't have a spoiler on it at the moment, so it's a bit hard to close now.
Then I pulled the headliner because like any car from the era it's sagging. It's usually a.messay job so I wanted to get that done before cleaning up the interior
Vaccumed up under the hood a bit
Next will be a deep clean of the interior
Then I pulled the headliner because like any car from the era it's sagging. It's usually a.messay job so I wanted to get that done before cleaning up the interior
Vaccumed up under the hood a bit
Next will be a deep clean of the interior
That's the plan, going to pull the console too. Which means this is a few weeks out. Gotta deal w/ my deck first.
Seems overrated when we have rain somewhat regularly.
you should swap the engine while your in there
So I had to take my wife's 3.6R outback to the dealer for the first time ever.....the TR680 CVT needed a drain and fill on the fluid and you can't buy the fluid in anything other than 5 gallon buckets which cost $4-500...which would have been more than the dealer wanted for the drain and fill. So I dropped it off to them knowing full well I was going to get the upsell call.
Hey the trans has a leak....$3000
The rear struts...the outsides are rusty $1400 with alignment
the radiator cap is bad, $40 plus $300 for coolant flush
the exhaust is rusty, $1200
needs an oil change....im like, how would you know that? you read my log book in my garage? $125
lol...goddam....fucking con artists...I feel bad for the people who get taken in with this bullshit.
Hey the trans has a leak....$3000
The rear struts...the outsides are rusty $1400 with alignment
the radiator cap is bad, $40 plus $300 for coolant flush
the exhaust is rusty, $1200
needs an oil change....im like, how would you know that? you read my log book in my garage? $125
lol...goddam....fucking con artists...I feel bad for the people who get taken in with this bullshit.
TPI for life!
I also have them do the brake fluid flush when getting this done. I'll wait until declining all the extras then ask for this so they don't feel so rejected lol It's mind blowing that they don't suggest the one thing that's actually useful, and more of a PITA to DIY than it's worth.
These are only 2 things I do at the dealer, aside from warranty work. Partially for the reasons you describe here. Where did you take it?
Jesus you think a brake flush is hard? Get a pressure bleeder and it's like an hour no hassle at all. I spent like $60 on mine
Just easier to let them do it for $150 when I'm already there, since they both generally need to be done around the same time.