GR Yaris What did you do to your GR Yaris today?

Not actually today but yesterday I gave it a wash and decided to polish my exhaust tips with some good old fashioned Solvol Autosol and a small rotary felt buffer. Well worth it TBH.

As an aside, I've not had any PPF or ceramic coating but I applied some Turtle Wax Graphene Flex Wax from new- 2 coats over 2 days. The factory paint to my eyes was already something special, so smooth and pretty much faultless but after the application it felt better, even smoother and silky almost. That was about 10 weeks ago. I've cleaned it a couple of times since then and it washes so easily, almost back to new even just after using snow foam. Any remaining insects slide off with nothing more than a gentle wipe. As advised by TW I top it up after rinsing (apply to wet car) and then towel dry.

Seems like a great product to me. The one thing to watch is not to put too much on, they advise 2 sprays per panel, any more and it can take a while to get rid of smearing.

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Chrisnufc said:
Sounds fun, do you recommend any routes?
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If your 'Oop North' mate then the Blakey Ridge > Helmsley Road loop is a beaut

Route

Blakey Ridge is a quick road and the sheep like to play chicken so proceed with care. Helmsley is a nice li9ttle market town to stop for a brew/sandwich.
 
Today these dash trim parts arrived.

I didnt like the fact that in the TRD kit you only got 1 left hand part of the dash trim when the dash clearly has 2 pieces.

So i decided to raid the scrap yards to make my own version of the dash upgrade kit, but will get it wrapped in carbon (after smoothing them down).

And yes, my Kitchen worktop matches my Yaris roof!

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I've purchased a pressure washer in readiness of my GR Yaris. It will be only used at low pressure on the car until it's been to a detailer for PPF and ceramic coatings
 
What someone else did to my car today 😭😡, I've left out all the expletives you know are running through my head

Raging, they've dinged the upper body line, which apart from trying to colour match the black will probably be a pain. Work carpark (multiple companies), there's camera's so I'm hoping I'll be able to find and have a conversation with the culprit about them paying to fix the damage they caused.

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Annoyed as well because I saw the culprits blue SUV parked next to me at 09:30 and was really tempted to go out and move the GR. Would've either have been able to hunt them down onsite or may have avoided the damage, depending on when they caused it. As you'd expect no note or anything
 
GWAD said:
What someone else did to my car today 😭😡, I've left out all the expletives you know are running through my head

Raging, they've dinged the upper body line, which apart from trying to colour match the black will probably be a pain. Work carpark (multiple companies), there's camera's so I'm hoping I'll be able to find and have a conversation with the culprit about them paying to fix the damage they caused.

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Annoyed as well because I saw the culprits blue SUV parked next to me at 09:30 and was really tempted to go out and move the GR. Would've either have been able to hunt them down onsite or may have avoided the damage, depending on when they caused it. As you'd expect no note or anything
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Some people 🤬hope you get it sorted
 
Technically yesterday but had very little time and phone signal at the same time.

Found this little interloper determined to ruin my trip 🤬
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Obviously there are no PS4S anywhere, but they have managed to get me a PS4 today so that at least I can finish my NC500. Nightmare!
 
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