Life can be a bitch
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Further to the posts about the huge amounts of money some spend on cleaning / polishing their cars I thought I'd post this little tale following a phone call this morning.....
Chap we know is a Concours type who even cleans the inside of his exhaust for shows. Not my thing but each to his own so no critism intended here. Anyhoo, hears about the specialist who fettles Supercars so he decided to invest in similar products and spent the last week doing his Porsche 911. Saw it on Saturday at our local and it was indeed the cleanest thing I had ever seen.
Apparently on the way home a stone was thrown up onto his bonnet and into the screen. Big gouge and screen cracked. Got home, parked outside and heard his alarm go off, kid had booted a football into the passenger door. Big dent and scratched paint. Reversed it onto his drive, straight into his wife driving out
Lesson there methinks
Dont think I'll bother even washing my cars.
Chap we know is a Concours type who even cleans the inside of his exhaust for shows. Not my thing but each to his own so no critism intended here. Anyhoo, hears about the specialist who fettles Supercars so he decided to invest in similar products and spent the last week doing his Porsche 911. Saw it on Saturday at our local and it was indeed the cleanest thing I had ever seen.
Apparently on the way home a stone was thrown up onto his bonnet and into the screen. Big gouge and screen cracked. Got home, parked outside and heard his alarm go off, kid had booted a football into the passenger door. Big dent and scratched paint. Reversed it onto his drive, straight into his wife driving out
Lesson there methinks
Dont think I'll bother even washing my cars. TonyHetherington said:
You gotta feel for the guy. I take great admiration for people that take that much pride in their car!
Same here! Don't have the patience for it all myself though. By the time I've washed and clayed etc I'm either too knackered or bored to carry on polishing and waxing etc. I then get fed up, go out for a hoon for a couple of hours and end up with the car as dirty as it was before I started.
zippee said:
TonyHetherington said:
You gotta feel for the guy. I take great admiration for people that take that much pride in their car!
Same here! Don't have the patience for it all myself though. By the time I've washed and clayed etc I'm either too knackered or bored to carry on polishing and waxing etc. I then get fed up, go out for a hoon for a couple of hours and end up with the car as dirty as it was before I started.
Same here, currently my car has a clayed bonnet, a clayed polished and waxed offside wing and roof, and thats it.
Takes too bloody long to do a whole car!
Dave
hammerwerfer said:
TonyHetherington said:
You gotta feel for the guy. I take great admiration for people that take that much pride in their car!
Cars are for driving! I respect someone whose car has some battle scars, and wears them proudly.
It is possible to do both. I clean my car this much and drive it this much.
Taking pride in your car does not mean you don't use it like it's intended! There are some, I grant you, but it's not exclusive.
[quote=TonyHetherington I clean my car this much and drive it this much.
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Wahtever about the driving, the cleaning routine seems a bit excessive. Whatever blows your skirt up...
I do scrape the bugs off when I can no longer see through the accumulation and I hose the salt deposits off in winter as well. Once or twice anyway.
The rain seems to get the mud off just fine.
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Wahtever about the driving, the cleaning routine seems a bit excessive. Whatever blows your skirt up...
I do scrape the bugs off when I can no longer see through the accumulation and I hose the salt deposits off in winter as well. Once or twice anyway.
The rain seems to get the mud off just fine.
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