What a day!!!
I have earned this...
So I have been getting very concerned about my fuel consumption, 28mpg just isn't cutting it. I do 80 miles a day to work and back, six days a week.
80x6 = 480 a week. x 52= 24,960 a year just in commuting. 2080 miles a month.
2080/28mpg is 74 gallons. X 4.5 to the gallon, is 334 litres. X1.4 for a Power is £468 a month in fuel. Sodding ludicrous!
So I have spent the day experimenting. And win the cruise control at 62mph, if I add an extra half an hour onto my work commute down the M3 I can average...
£160 a month fuel saving, for three hours of my time. That's almost as much as I get paid for a days work! So I'm very happy with that, the MPG is very good for what it is. That said, I am a very good Eco driver.
So, boring stuff out the way. Today is my first day off since getting the S, and it's about time I put my mark on it. Or more, got somebody else's off of it.
So, I iron-x'd it. Clayed it. Machine polished it with fast cut. Machine polished it with Autoglym intensive. Hand waxed it with Dark Angel and then sealed it.
Whoop.
This took a lot longer than I wanted it to.
But it was getting there.
One side at a time.
Eventually it started to look deep and blue, like minge should.
Used up the last of the pad polishing the wheel faces.
This was a fantastic idea.
Then I decided, "do you know what has no place in 2014's modern society? ****ing purple window tints. That's what!"
This was a hugely costly, time consuming and idiotic error.
What a pain in the ****.
In the end I got my steamer out the hair dryer just wasn't doing it.
Then we were on a roll...no pun intended.
Film was off, shame about the glue...
So in the back I go with white spirit and a Stanley blade. Good job I don't really like the seats...
Luckily the back window came off easy enough, not...
White spirit was my friend here. After about two hours..
Working away...
Then a I hoovered it, steam cleaned it steamed the seats and dried them with the heat gun to remove any sagging, dyed the carpets, stained the dash and sealed it all up.
Then I shaved the seats, which was fun.
Made a huge difference!
So I took some pictures.
Now, I'm ****ing knackered!