Filthy car!

[domcross]

Having spent most of this week using the M400 for mundane work trips up and down the country I decided to give it a clean today. When I opened both the front and rear clamshell I was amazed at the quantity of mud, small stones and general c**p underneath both.

Is it just me or should I not drive the car during the winter? It's not as though I've driven in the rain; just crud being fired up from the road surface. It looked as though I'd been on a Land Rover off-road weekend with the wrong car!!!

I spent the best part of 3 hours trying to get all the muck off the engine and, mainly, the small stones out of the trays at the bottom of the front and rear.

Any advice on keeping this car looking half decent 'under the bonnet'?

Dom.

[mc101]

Mine does that too in this weather -- not helped by the fact that I live down a narrow lane when its covered in mud and stones half the year !

I hover the gravel/stones out of those awkward areas with the Missus Miele hoover --- works a treat :-)

[AMG Merc]

Yes, it does get messy in those wheel arch areas especially after a run in the rain - just use a light hose pressure along with a stiff hand-brush to loosen the dirt. Only spray the rear of the light pods lightly as they aren't sealed units!

[V6GTO]

Mines covered in flys and butterflys !

Martin.

[Richard Marshall]

French Filth!

Yup one of our customers just bought his car in for a post South of France jaunt check over.

I know not if they use a stronger salt or whatever but yikes! what a mess.

It took a good few hours to bring it back up to "nice and spinkly" as it was when he left.

WD-40 is as good as most things for protection and also helps when you do blast it all off.

Yes caution on or around the rear lights as they are not well sealed as standard, but can be.
Fords printed curcuit (ish) is a bit of galvanised monkey metal and corrodes for fun.

BTW Vegantune have sorted out the headlamp misting up
malarky on the 3R.........

[AMG Merc]

Richard Marshall said:

BTW Vegantune have sorted out the headlamp misting up malarky on the 3R.........

Richard, OK you have my (our) attention?! :-)

[UFO 2 NOB]

domcross said:

Having spent most of this week using the M400 for mundane work trips up and down the country I decided to give it a clean today. When I opened both the front and rear clamshell I was amazed at the quantity of mud, small stones and general c**p underneath both. Is it just me or should I not drive the car during the winter? It's not as though I've driven in the rain; just crud being fired up from the road surface. It looked as though I'd been on a Land Rover off-road weekend with the wrong car!!! I spent the best part of 3 hours trying to get all the muck off the engine and, mainly, the small stones out of the trays at the bottom of the front and rear. Any advice on keeping this car looking half decent 'under the bonnet'? Dom.

Yep use it in the dry only like me, mine as new still,better even,mug of tea and admire it in a nice warm garage till spring!!!

[joust]

UFO 2 NOB said:

Yep use it in the dry only like me, mine as new still,better even,mug of tea and admire it in a nice warm garage till spring!!!

And be a boring fart? Is it a coffee table object, or a car FFS?

Why do people worry about rain, sleet and snow? If you want something to look at by a Ferrari 348 - it's similar money and would look far better in your garage....

J

[Hughesie2]

joust said:

If you want something to look at by a Ferrari 348 - it's similar money and would look far better in your garage.... J

Joust in Noble Slur shocker.

When questioned Lee Noble (AKA T boy) mistakenly made every body a cup of Espresso instead of their usual PG and served them Pasta at Lunchtime.

[hunttheshunt]

domcross said:

Any advice on keeping this car looking half decent 'under the bonnet'? Dom.

Yep, don't look.

[UFO 2 NOB]

joust said:

UFO 2 NOB said: Yep use it in the dry only like me, mine as new still,better even,mug of tea and admire it in a nice warm garage till spring!!! And be a boring fart? Is it a coffee table object, or a car FFS? Why do people worry about rain, sleet and snow? If you want something to look at by a Ferrari 348 - it's similar money and would look far better in your garage.... J

Yep boring fart but not stressed and very clean car with no work to do,already had a nice 348 Spider coffee table but sold that to make way for 3R,have nice pic of 348 in garage to remember!!!

[UFO 2 NOB]

hunttheshunt said:

domcross said: Any advice on keeping this car looking half decent 'under the bonnet'? Dom. Yep, don't look.

YEP WD40,LOTS OF ELBOW GREASE FOLLOWED BY SILICONE SPRAY AND A BUFF!!

[UFO 2 NOB]

Check out on the adds section the picture of my car, 3r titanium, under the front hood picture,now thats what you call clean!!!

[m12_nathan]

I got my car back of vegantune recently and they had cleaned the engine bay! Good service

[DanH]

m12_nathan said:

I got my car back of vegantune recently and they had cleaned the engine bay! Good service

Did you get the brake cooling kit?

[AMG Merc]

UFO 2 NOB said:

Check out on the adds section the picture of my car, 3r titanium, under the front hood picture,now thats what you call clean!!!

Bloody hell, he's right - who did that?! :-)

[UFO 2 NOB]

AMG Merc said:

UFO 2 NOB said: Check out on the adds section the picture of my car, 3r titanium, under the front hood picture,now thats what you call clean!!! Bloody hell, he's right - who did that?! :-)

It was me,all me own work and MUCHO cups of tea,service available at a grand a corner,must admit sad bastard i am but it does look good!!!

>> Edited by UFO 2 NOB on Wednesday 2nd February 07:52

[Marlon]

Unbelievable. You people really have nothing better to do that polish your engines, do you. It's a car FFS, it's designed to go outside. A bit of rain won't hurt its feelings. Honest.

[m12_nathan]

DanH said:

m12_nathan said: I got my car back of vegantune recently and they had cleaned the engine bay! Good service Did you get the brake cooling kit?

Yep []

Testing it on sat at Bedford.

[UFO 2 NOB]

Marlon said:

Unbelievable. You people really have nothing better to do that polish your engines, do you. It's a car FFS, it's designed to go outside. A bit of rain won't hurt its feelings. Honest.

FFS WOT,UFO 2 NOB,sorry but i had to do it!!!