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[Ollie milanoctr]

Ah right i see what you mean, ive just had a look at the karcher k2 and it looks very reasonable, one of the cheapest was at argos and that comes with two different lances, and snow foam lances are going for around 17-25 quid on ebay. I need to get my arse in gear

[SurreyEP3]

I think I only paid £80 for mine 2 years ago and bought my lance from clean your car .com.
That's where I buy all my detailing goodies. Yeah you do mate summer is nearly here

[Littlerob5]

Just read through the whole thread. Loving the progress. Attention to detail is spot on! Keep it up!

[SurreyEP3]

Thank you mate

[SurreyEP3]

not an update mod wise but just had my latest detailing goodies delivered to add to my armoury

from left to right:

2 x Chemical guys hex-logic orange medium - heavy cutting pads
2 x Chemical guys hex-logic green heavy cutting pads
2 x 3m fast cut plus range 3" cutting pads
DAS6 3" backing plate
Super plush drying towels
Lambs wool wash mitt for wheels (mines grubby now)
10 x Plush micro fibre towels
Meguiars engine cleaner
Meguiars engine dressing
Chemical guys pete's 53 wax
Bilt hamber soft clay bar
2 x spray bottles for diluting wheel cleaners etc.
Chemical guys Mr pink shampoo
Chemical guys jet seal 109 sealant
Chemical guys maxi suds II
Valet pro glass cleaner
Valet pro bilberry wheel cleaner
Chemical guys UFO applicator pads
Chemical guys fabric guard
Chemical guys pad conditioner
Chemical guys honeydew snow foam

I've probably got enough detailing goodies now to detail my whole villages cars when you add this lot to my collection aswell





that lot to be added to this lot

My current stuff minus 1,000,000 micro fibre towels and diluted bottles



Guess i'll be detailing the civic this weekend as it looks like its lived in a bush for ever due to scratches/swirls and grime marred on to the paint ! wouldnt think i done it all in december! Honda paint is like when you move into a new house/flat, the second you touch the wall it marks defo getting a german car again after this

Will take some before and after shots of the civic probably sunday, got a mercadese to do first

[simon_typer]

Looking like a busy weekend Jake

[SurreyEP3]

Yeah definitely, wait until you see the before pictures for what im up against....

[SurreyEP3]

Havent done much to the civic lately other than clean it up. I have ordered some new number plates and brighter headlight bulbs and grill push clips . Quite a lot of plans for my week off in July and also parts accumulating in the shed but I'll keep those plans quite for now.

Few pictures of the civic taken today after a weekly clean and wax top up, cleaned the bay again too








Also removed the rear seats and put my old boot net from my mk5 in. Just making up some brackets for my home built c pillar brace, will update when it's complete



Jake

[simon_typer]

Looking great Jake!

Liking the black on black.

Si

[SurreyEP3]

thank you mate, would ideally love some anthracite wheels though. milano's looking really clean, top work with it! its amazing what a few new bolts and some cleaning/painting can really do to a cars apperance. whats the B pipe like?

ive bought a few bits to make a c pillar bar to keep me busy in the evenings, just messing around getting the brackets to line up perfectly then she'll be in at the weekend....along with a new exhaust

[SurreyEP3]

Picked up a spoon n1 rear silencer today (if you can call it a silencer), looking forward to fitting it this week

[Ollie milanoctr]

nice, the n1 sounds insane! its the first system I had on the ep3 a mugen grille would look nice if your going with the stealth look !

[SurreyEP3]

I can't wait to Hear it when I fit it , how come you swapped yours?

[darren4]

I like the way you kept coming back to honda . How you finding the ep3's compared to you old gti's? Nice Prem btw

[SurreyEP3]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

[darren4]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

Ah nice one Jake, least you managing to be sensible while still having fun. Yeah these german cars are fast, shame the weight spoils the fun .

I live down in Purley but actually work in East Grinstead so do go past your area everyday, will be coming back to honda this year so i'm sure i'll see you around at some point

[SurreyEP3]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

Ah nice one Jake, least you managing to be sensible while still having fun. Yeah these german cars are fast, shame the weight spoils the fun .

I live down in Purley but actually work in East Grinstead so do go past your area everyday, will be coming back to honda this year so i'm sure i'll see you around at some point

They might be heavy but the K04 turbo puts down some awesome power doesnt it i'l keep my eye out for you when you buy another ep3? dc5?

[darren4]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

Ah nice one Jake, least you managing to be sensible while still having fun. Yeah these german cars are fast, shame the weight spoils the fun .

I live down in Purley but actually work in East Grinstead so do go past your area everyday, will be coming back to honda this year so i'm sure i'll see you around at some point

They might be heavy but the K04 turbo puts down some awesome power doesnt it i'l keep my eye out for you when you buy another ep3? dc5?

Oh yes managed to map my old s3 up to 282 and that was more then enough. The pulling power the K04 is crazy lol. My wife actually has an Edition 30 in black but we hopefully wont remap her car .

Will be getting a dc5, as with her having the ed30 we have the best of both worlds! Will keep an eye out for your car, which should be easy enough

[SurreyEP3]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

Ah nice one Jake, least you managing to be sensible while still having fun. Yeah these german cars are fast, shame the weight spoils the fun .

I live down in Purley but actually work in East Grinstead so do go past your area everyday, will be coming back to honda this year so i'm sure i'll see you around at some point

They might be heavy but the K04 turbo puts down some awesome power doesnt it i'l keep my eye out for you when you buy another ep3? dc5?

Oh yes managed to map my old s3 up to 282 and that was more then enough. The pulling power the K04 is crazy lol. My wife actually has an Edition 30 in black but we hopefully wont remap her car .

Will be getting a dc5, as with her having the ed30 we have the best of both worlds! Will keep an eye out for your car, which should be easy enough

Theres a REVO dealer in copthorne which is 5 minutes from east grinstead if she changes her mind spent many wage packets there

Id love a dc5 but our house is priority at the mo so will have to wait PFL champ white for me when the time comes

[darren4]

hi Darren, see your from surrey too!

my edition 30 was the best car ive owned for build quality, reliability and performance. @334hp 341 lbft it was a real weapon and combined with the suspension, brakes and tyre set up i ran it was a joy to drive and always made me and the misses smile
i sold it to fund a house deposit and bought the cosmic premier as a daily, coming from a well built German monster the lightweight noisy civic seemed 'cheap' so i decided to buy a mk4 R32 for more German goodness. however, i became extremely fed up of its heavy weight and lack of fun to drive which the light weight ep3 gave me so i started to look for another one. i found this one up for sale on pistonheads and after a few phone calls and messages to the owner we agreed a swap for my R32 and i drove away with my current ep3 + ££££ my way a week later

I really enjoy driving the ep3 as the local b roads and twisty lanes between lingfield(home)/crawley(friends)/edenbridge(work) are superb and bring huge amounts of smiles around the twistys. just wish it had more power!

jake

Ah nice one Jake, least you managing to be sensible while still having fun. Yeah these german cars are fast, shame the weight spoils the fun .

I live down in Purley but actually work in East Grinstead so do go past your area everyday, will be coming back to honda this year so i'm sure i'll see you around at some point

They might be heavy but the K04 turbo puts down some awesome power doesnt it i'l keep my eye out for you when you buy another ep3? dc5?

Oh yes managed to map my old s3 up to 282 and that was more then enough. The pulling power the K04 is crazy lol. My wife actually has an Edition 30 in black but we hopefully wont remap her car .

Will be getting a dc5, as with her having the ed30 we have the best of both worlds! Will keep an eye out for your car, which should be easy enough

Theres a REVO dealer in copthorne which is 5 minutes from east grinstead if she changes her mind spent many wage packets there

Id love a dc5 but our house is priority at the mo so will have to wait PFL champ white for me when the time comes

Yea house is more important, dont wanna have a nice car and no home haha. The ed30 pulls hard as it is but will keep it standard for as long as i can .

Good taste in colour when you get your dc5