Greased Lightning - Showroom Shine Review

A few months ago whilst I was washing my car in the usual way. You know, water, car shampoo, sponge, and polish. An old guy who lives down the road decided to chat to me and tell me all about some new car wash stuff that you just sprayed on, and wiped off.  I immediately thought he'd been at the whiskey, and was spouting rubbish.

However, i then have an investigate on the internet and discovered that the product he was talking about "Greased Lighting, Showroom Shine" was actually quite a hit! So i decided to trust his adhoc review, and give it ago.

I bought it from the LivingTV website, for £19.99 - which came with two micro fibre cloths.  I've just finished using it and i am pretty impressed with it!

All you do is spray it on the car, wipe it over with one cloth, and then immediately wipe it off with another cloth. It's easy, and it does remove light dirt, and give the car a shine with ease. just as it says!

It does say that it removes road grime, but this isn't completely true. I would recommend washing any dried on bugs, and road grime off first before using this.  Also not recommended to put on the windscreen.  It does work to clean plastic, but you need to wipe it off immediately to stop it drying too much, otherwise you will get white marks on it!  If you follow the above, then you will be pleasantly impressed!

Here's some pics of our cars after finishing using the product:

Ford Focus Headlight Bulb replacement

I had to change my headlight bulbs in my ford focus this morning.  Having had a nightmare with headlight bulbs in our Renault Megane and losing many skin cells, and blood in the process - i was a little worried as to how this would turn out.

As it happened, it was as easy as finding an ugly picture of Cherie Blair on the Internet. Very! I had both bulbs changed in 10 minutes!

1. Unscrew screw securing headlights to body
2. Pull headlight assembly out
3. unclip the backing of the headlight
4. unplug wiring
5. unclip bulb, and withdraw
6. Place new bulb in and put bulb clip back
7. Re-plug in wiring
8. Put headlight backing on and clip back
9. Put headlight Assembly back into position
10. Screw back screw.

Job done!! How easy is that!  Compare this to changing bulbs on the Renault Megane:

1. open bonnet
2. Take wheel off
3. Put arm into wheel arch
4. Scratch arm
5. Try to reach bulb through the smallest hole in the world
6. Cut arm,
7. Swear lots and get annoyed
8. Cut finger
9. Get first aid kit
10. Put wheel back on
11. Drive to halfords
12. Stand and laugh at assistant trying to replace bulb and repeating steps 1 to 9.
13. Sell Renault and vow never to buy a French car again!