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So, for a bit of fun, what gear do you have and now organised is it?

To start this off:

- multiple boxes for wash mitts, alloys, polish & pads, microfibres (this is a BIG box), drying towels.
- a caddy for using regular stuff like shampoo, wheel cleaner, iron out, window cleaner, quick detailer, bug and tar remover, ONR.
- raceglaze 0ppm final rinse filter.
- karcher k5 premium
- 2x buckets for wash
- 1 x bucket for wheels
- seat for ar$e or to stand on
- big crate of “spare” stuff
- mini DA and pads + scholl S20
- mega snow foam
- mega wheel cleaner
 
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So, for a bit of fun, what gear do you have and now organised is it?

To start this off:

- multiple boxes for wash mitts, alloys, polish & pads, microfibres (this is a BIG box), drying towels.
- a caddy for using regular stuff like shampoo, wheel cleaner, iron out, window cleaner, quick detailer, bug and tar remover, ONR.
- raceglaze 0ppm final rinse filter.
- karcher k5 premium
- 2x buckets for wash
- 1 x bucket for wheels
- seat for ar$e or to stand on
- big crate of “spare” stuff
- mini DA and pads + scholl S20
- mega snow foam
- mega wheel cleaner

And a pic of the stuff

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And a pic of the stuff

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Nice very nice mate, l have just decanted some of my cloths and mitts into a 4 plastic set of drawers still need another but haven't had the time to really get organised
 
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At the moment

I have about 25 x 380 gsm eagles. 4 x 500 gsm eagles
30 x 300 gsm microfibre cloths.
2 x incredimitts blue and grey and 1 incredipad
2 x buckets but l only use one lol
2 auto finesse aqua deluxe green drying towels.
1 KKD silver back drying towel.
Loads of glass cleaning towels
One silly sit up lay down trolley that l have never used.
I have around 10 different types of pads 2 of each Hex Logic Quantums had more but binned them =served there purpose
500 grams of S20, 250 grams of S40, S3 Gold xxl, 250 grams of sonax profiline perfect finish, Gtechniq Nano compound,
I have a autoglym detailing bag which is full of kit so I can do a spot detailing over at my mum's
Flex XFE 7 - 15 - 150 da
Flex XFE 7 - 12 - 80 da come box set
K4 Karcher
Will eventually get the Flex Pe 8-4-80 mini rotary but it can wait till Xmas, yeah tools and compounds/pads
Forgot to mention l have Samsung head torch got it a few weeks
 
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My modest collection of go to detailing goodies.



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Got 3 drawers of cloths for all the cleaning, applying, buffing and drying.

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And a coffee machine for those hard earned cleaning breaks.
 
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My modest collection of go to detailing goodies.



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Got 3 drawers of cloths for all the cleaning, applying, buffing and drying.

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And a coffee machine for those hard earned cleaning breaks.


Quality.......mate....a take it the Castrol Edge is for when the coffee.....isny hiting the spot....lol
 
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I am wee bit of a fly by the seat of my pants when it comes down to storing my hard earned kit. ... Just starting to get it organised to be honest here's about 75% of kit, my other kit is over at my mum's house waxes snowfoam tyre dressings detailing bag etc etc but ye get my drift oh my K4 is in the hut lol
Oh boxes are full by the way
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I am wee bit of a fly by the seat of my pants when it comes down to storing my hard earned kit. ... Just starting to get it organised to be honest here's about 75% of kit, my other kit is over at my mum's house waxes snowfoam tyre dressings detailing bag etc etc but ye get my drift oh my K4 is in the hut lol
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That is a few hard-earned £'s there! I don't doubt the boxes are full :whistle2:
 
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Quality.......mate....a take it the Castrol Edge is for when the coffee.....isny hiting the spot....lol

Cheers, for something stronger than a beer or JD if the mood takes.

Nice! Loving the coffee machine, a S-Line shelf...Was that a factory order? :chuncky:


Bosch made like the Audi parts. Adhoc the shelf had some original badges going spare. Cheers
 
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Slight Tangent - Your reload - are you using neat ? Or is that diluted in the bottle ?

Reload used neat, sparingly.

Also mixed it with QED 50/50 which works rather well.
 
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Some of my collection...... and yes I have a lot of Microfibre towels, infact Im running low on what I normally have... :) !

I have different boxes for brushes, pads, applicators, gloves and plusher higher garde MF towels, trialing products etc. I try to keep things where I know I can find them... Doesnt always work out like that though!

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A fairly wide range of items collected over the years. Looking at it, probably a tad more than I really need but I help plenty of friends, family and neighbours out with detailing so always trying new products and improving techniques!

Favourite gadgets from different ends of the price scale-

Its a tie with the Rupess Ibrid Nano long kneck and the ScanGrip Multimatch - DA machines are great and the Ibrid enables you to get into some tight spots. The lights on the other hand ...really make a big difference.. v useful to have different sources of light in the garage when compunding/ polishing.

I already have 5 fluorescent tubes and 3 seperate lights on the ceiling, but these take it to another level, especially for the sides of a car on a dark winters night. They are superb and I can highly recommend.

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And..... Detail Gardz - These eliminates the pesky hose pipe from getting caught on/under wheels. Once again v useful!

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Jungle
 
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Some of my collection...... and yes I have a lot of Microfibre towels, infact Im running low on what I normally have... :) !

I have different boxes for brushes, pads, applicators, gloves and plusher higher garde MF towels, trialing products etc. I try to keep things where I know I can find them... Doesnt always work out like that though!

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A fairly wide range of items collected over the years. Looking at it, probably a tad more than I really need but I help plenty of friends, family and neighbours out with detailing so always trying new products and improving techniques!

Favourite gadgets from different ends of the price scale-

Its a tie with the Rupess Ibrid Nano long kneck and the ScanGrip Multimatch - DA machines are great and the Ibrid enables you to get into some tight spots. The lights on the other hand ...really make a big difference.. v useful to have different sources of light in the garage when compunding/ polishing.

I already have 5 fluorescent tubes and 3 seperate lights on the ceiling, but these take it to another level, especially for the sides of a car on a dark winters night. They are superb and I can highly recommend.

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And..... Detail Gardz - These eliminates the pesky hose pipe from getting caught on/under wheels. Once again v useful!

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Jungle


By the Frickin Beard of ZEUS.......****** ****** Nora........mate organised Chaos.....yuv a Fetish for them yella....cloths mate....lol.....Love the Rupes Trio.....class act....indeed.....
Yer photos are massive...they've ******** up my old pc.....lol
 
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Some of my collection...... and yes I have a lot of Microfibre towels, infact Im running low on what I normally have... :) !

I have different boxes for brushes, pads, applicators, gloves and plusher higher garde MF towels, trialing products etc. I try to keep things where I know I can find them... Doesnt always work out like that though!

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A fairly wide range of items collected over the years. Looking at it, probably a tad more than I really need but I help plenty of friends, family and neighbours out with detailing so always trying new products and improving techniques!

Favourite gadgets from different ends of the price scale-

Its a tie with the Rupess Ibrid Nano long kneck and the ScanGrip Multimatch - DA machines are great and the Ibrid enables you to get into some tight spots. The lights on the other hand ...really make a big difference.. v useful to have different sources of light in the garage when compunding/ polishing.

I already have 5 fluorescent tubes and 3 seperate lights on the ceiling, but these take it to another level, especially for the sides of a car on a dark winters night. They are superb and I can highly recommend.

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And..... Detail Gardz - These eliminates the pesky hose pipe from getting caught on/under wheels. Once again v useful!

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Jungle

Nice one, very organised! Life the fact you have separate boxes for trialling etc. Wish I had a garage, as would then have some mega lighting installed
 
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Some of my collection...... and yes I have a lot of Microfibre towels, infact Im running low on what I normally have... :) !

I have different boxes for brushes, pads, applicators, gloves and plusher higher garde MF towels, trialing products etc. I try to keep things where I know I can find them... Doesnt always work out like that though!

View attachment 164327

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A fairly wide range of items collected over the years. Looking at it, probably a tad more than I really need but I help plenty of friends, family and neighbours out with detailing so always trying new products and improving techniques!

Favourite gadgets from different ends of the price scale-

Its a tie with the Rupess Ibrid Nano long kneck and the ScanGrip Multimatch - DA machines are great and the Ibrid enables you to get into some tight spots. The lights on the other hand ...really make a big difference.. v useful to have different sources of light in the garage when compunding/ polishing.

I already have 5 fluorescent tubes and 3 seperate lights on the ceiling, but these take it to another level, especially for the sides of a car on a dark winters night. They are superb and I can highly recommend.

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And..... Detail Gardz - These eliminates the pesky hose pipe from getting caught on/under wheels. Once again v useful!

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Jungle
What a collection of gear!! Be interesting to see the value of your collection?
 
I would blow those pictures out of the water with my old mop bucket and little meguiars case!

Impressive collection dudes
 
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The only thing you'll need ;-)
Scouring pad 500x500
 
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You only need the green side don't you?
 
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You only need the green side don't you?

Well obviously

In all seriousness, embarrassed to say but many moons ago I used one of these to get rid off a stubborn mark on the windscreen. Suffice to say despite lots of glass polish later, I could always see the scour mark...school boy error and all that
 
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I foolishly tried to remove burnt on brake dust from The wheels on my b5 Passat with one! They got plastic dipped a few weeks later!
 
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That's actually what I use on my exhaust tips! An old one of them with no soap! Works great!
 
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Well obviously

In all seriousness, embarrassed to say but many moons ago I used one of these to get rid off a stubborn mark on the windscreen. Suffice to say despite lots of glass polish later, I could always see the scour mark...school boy error and all that

I used to work at a community kids home teaching car maintenance and I asked one of them one day to give the lwb landrover a wash. Came back to find the proud lad standing back with a green scouring pad in his hand with a very clean vehicle.
Next lesson involved polish, wax and much elbow grease...
 
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Brilliant! Wax on....wax off :whistle2:
 
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@q5man - Not telling & no pics either ... :D
 
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