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Thanks for the feedback guys

Thanks mate, it's a brilliant set up

You only need to clay bar every few months, the effort for the gain will be minimal doing it often, the system that I use and recommend is: Wash (2 bucket system) Clay Wash (2 bucket system) Dry Polish Wax I generally skip polish when waxing as it brings out a deeper shine, for dark cars I highly recommend Dodo juice Purple Haze Some more general cleaning practices can be found here: http://www.bmwownersclub.com/forums/topic/10787-a-guide-to-detailing/

Hi guys, Encountering this problem when driving the car from cold, It will accelerate very slowly, and jutter at a low speed in all gears. When the car is warm, it runs fine. I don't thrash it around while engine is cold anyway as that would damage it, but even accelerating out of a junction it is extremely sluggish and laggy, I've done some research and heard it could be the MAF? Wondering if anyone else has had the same problem or any advice BMW 2000 E46 318ci

Nice one man, I'll definitely refer back to the owners handbook and see if there is anything, or just hit and hope lol

I went into further details on my other thread. Dodo juice is very highly recommended by everyone, its only £32 a tub, I'm 1/3 though and I got it over a year ago. Soft wax is the best though. Clay bar is like rubbing your car with bluetack, Polish is slightly abrasive and takes off the smallest amount of top coat. You only need to claybar quarterly, not every wash as it deeps cleans it. I used autoglym in this and the other thread because I wasn't going to recommend cheap turtle wax or terrible T-cut. I will use other products once I have used my stores up :) Thanks for the nod

It reads the disc, goes through tracks, no sound

Hello, perhaps searching or posting in relevant section might help

Good afternoon. Here will be a short guide for to clean your car to the highest standard. I have been cleaning cars to a high standard for 3 years. I will post links with Halfords as easiest place to buy from This will not include wheels or inside What you will need: 2 Buckets Access to fresh water (hose preferably) 1 wash mitt Microfiber cloths Shampoo Clay bar Back to black Polish Wax (dark car) Wax (light car) Step One. Rinse your car using a hose, on a medium pressure setting, no need to jet wash, this is to remove bird crap, leaves and other 'big' imperfections. Step Two. Fill one bucket with clean water (fresh), fill one bucket with warm water and a cap of shampoo. Add this last, and mix with hand, otherwise will foam up too much. Step three. Wet the mitt in the shampoo bucket, and using a circling motion start to clean the car. When residue is getting minimal, rinse the mitt in fresh water. Shake the mitt around, and rinse it. Then put mitt back into the shampoo bucket. Complete car using this method. Step Four. Rinse off using hose Step Five. Open the clay bar pack, soak in warm water and tear off a small piece about an inch wide and 5mm thick. Use the 'Rapid detailer' it's a spray and will create a mist. spray onto panel and use the clay bar in a small circular motion, if the bar is getting stuck, use more spray. once it runs smooth, move to the next area. Concentrate on a 5cm at a time, try to make this how big the circles are. If you look at the clay bar, it will be brown/black, flip around and continuously check. Clay bars will remove ground in dirt and tar splatters If you drop it, best to get a new piece. Step Six. Wash car. Yep. Using the two bucket set up, wash again, this will remove all residue left by the clay bar. Step Seven. Rinse using hose Step Eight. Dry using 3 microfibers Try to dab rather then drag Step Nine. Polish. Apply a small amount into a folded microfiber cloth, fold onto itself to create a bigger surface area. Pressing quite hard make small circles. Do this all the way round the car. When you get back to where you started it will have gone quite flakey/ crusty. Using a new microfiber cloth small circles to remove polish. Step Ten Waxing time. Using the application pad, make swirls, you do not need to press hard, just make sure the car is covered. It will haze quite quickly which is fine. You do not need to use too much in one area, just so its covered will be fine. Again go round the car until you come back to where you started. Then using the last microfiber cloth, remove as you did the polish, in small circles. Step Eleven Take pictures This is a W reg (2000) and the results are outstanding. Tip: Don't skimp on products. If you want your car to look the bomb, you need to spend money where it matters. I highly recommend buying the products as suggested

I stick with Autoglym, they are awesome products, if you are serious about cleaning, look into getting a clay bar again autoglym works well- this will remove any inground dirt. For waxing go for a more expensive make, I personally use Dodo Juice- Purple Haze, depending on your colour, you'd get a different kind. Purple haze is for darker colours. Comes out beautifully and rain beads on contact. Please don't use T-cut. It is too abrasive (compared to others) and can cause tiny tiny scratches.

Howdy, Picked up this car today and will be using it as my daily. I put a CD-R in the magazine, it finds the CD and it says 1-01, but nothing plays. I can skip tracks, nothing plays, I switch back to radio so its not muted or anything. Does it read MP3 format? Regards Car is year 2000 Edit: It doesn't play 'real' CD's either, or a WAV formatted CD.

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Hello all I haven't been on this site long, but thought i'd post up a few pictures of my car. I picked her up at 11am today (18.01.14) and below are the images. I'll give an outline of what I did to clean her, as I always feel better after spending time doing it. (She is a W reg, but what a quality finish) 1. Rinsed using hose with clean water 2. Wash using Auto- Glym two bucket method (one soapy, one fresh) after used soapy on car, rinse off in fresh 3.Clay barred (Removes ground in dirt) Was literally black when finished 4. Washed again using two bucket system 5. Dried using microfibre clothes 6. Polished using auto-glym 7. Removed polish 8. Dodo juice (purple haze) wax. 9. Removed wax 10. Done. Let me know what you think :)

Would like to say a big hello to everyone, I've just bought a 2000 318CI (Coupe) Midnight blue, cream leather throughout. I pick it up on saturday, cannot wait! Hope to see you all on the forums