The Post a Picture of Your Ride as it Sits Thread

The opposite of Kevin's pic.

After a day of tooling around Christmas shopping and my minor touch up of the tire dressing....because I'm OCD.

 
kevincwelch said:
Opposite indeed!

Hmm...that box lid needs straightening out....

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haha! ALL those boxes are outta-here soon! Our storage unit needs cleaned out and the old files shredded then these replace them. All in all I have about 36 boxes at the house that need gone! I plan on working on that tomorrow.

our big remodel begins in January which I'm excited about but fearful of as well given my OCD'ness.
 
Nice. Would love to see the end results, esp if it gets you some new garage storage units.

I can't wait for the spring myself. I plan on replacing the garage door and the siding. After the garage purge, I think a few new gladiator racks on the wall will be helpful with my OCD nature!

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Just did what seems to be my Saturday morning ritual, wash all the salt and muck off and let the car sit till I have to go work Monday, actually Tuesday in this weekends case.

I should do a mini review of the new products I used and am about to use:

1. To wash the car I used the sample I received with one of my recent orders and that was MCKEE'S Rinseless wash and wax. This was the larger sample size, 4 ounce and I was very happy with the results. You could actually see the wax in the mix when washing the car! For you smell freaks out there you will love this stuff, banana smell and the color is yellow.

2. Griots Garage fine grade wash mitt. I also recently recieved this and the FAST grade clay towels in my orders. My Nan9skin gave up the ghost after doing an outstanding job but I wanted to try the GG towels as their products NEVER disappoint, same deal here. I used it right out of the box and it knocked out the little bit of grit I had on the car. I'm a firm believer in "clean as you go" and this towel helps me do just that. After cleaning each panel I resprayed the panel for more lubricity and go to it. You could feel the panel getting smoother and smoother and you just keep moving along, no problem.

3. Mini Big Blue drying towel. Now I reviewed this last weekend but it was the middle sized one, this time I wanted to see if the mini was just as mighty...IT WAS! The towel was damp to the touch but kept soaking up the solution, just like it's larger brother. Once again I would like to thank NICK for chowing me as one of the winners to try out and review these towels.

4. Griot's Garage tire gel. Once again, another item I ordered to try out. Now as everyone knows I'm a huge fan and user of TW tire coating but I had to give this a try for a couple reasons. The first reason was it said it didn't sling off. Next was it lasts for weeks and finally it's something new from Griots and as they don't just rush out products to "keep up with the Jones' (those people are so hard to track down) I knew it could be something special. Now I applied TW tire coating last year to the tires and it seems to be doing just fine, could use a re-touch but I'm going to apply a thin, single coat and see how it goes. I will report back with a separate review for this at some point down the road but I need to go upstairs and get it now, thanks for reading.

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Quick correction, the new Griot's Garage tire gel is called Black Shine. It applied very smoothly and evenly and left behind a rich sheen. I would say it's a step above a matte finish but certainly not "used car lot shine" either. This could certainly be a winner if it does what it says, doesn't sling and lasts for weeks, stay "tuned".

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Ok, so here's 1 coat of the new Griot's Garage Black Shine tire gel applied a couple days ago. I should say the TW tire coating was there still but was a light matte finish, so I did apply this on a previously treated tire FWIW.
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First pic is no flash and the 2nd one is, obviously.

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Been a long time since I've driven on a clean, dry and non white road, thanks for the break Mother Nature

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Klasse Act said:
What kind of gains did you get?

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Ha Hard to tell. I just added longtube headers and a custom tune. I have to drive a little while and d another data log and fine tune the custom tune. No dyno runs will be done. It responds quicker, definitely more power with the headers and no CELs without rear )2 sensors due to tuning them out
 
Some morning frost on the bed rail trim of my pickup after being hit with some Wolfgang Exterior Trim Sealant the day before.
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