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After a few days and a good few miles covered on our trip to the Lotus factory and around Norfolk the Elise looked OK from a distance as the weather had been good for the whole trip. But it was pretty grubby plus I wanted to get some wax on it so time for another clean.
Not looking too bad.
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But up close.
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Properly clean so back into the garage for a couple of coats of wax.
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Long lasting wax so I shouldn’t feel the need to do it again until next summer.
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Wax on.
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I thought I’d use the end of a tin of Collinte 476 for the wheels. I don’t usually bother waxing wheels as wheel cleaner will just strip it off so quickly but the Elise won’t need cleaning that often and I’ll use a very weak mix of wheel cleaner so thought I’d see how the wax lasts.
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Wheel done now tyre shine.
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Ready to hit the road again.
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