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Fellow car cleaning obsessives...
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Auto Finesse currently have some good black friday deals on if any fellow car cleaning obsessives weren't aware. I use quite a lot of their stuff and rate it.
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Pink Duck
Active Member
If careful can do a laminar rinse with low PPM water from a resin filter or such after snow foam and pressure wash.
Might even be viable to hand spray some clothes drying water condensate and lightly use a damp microfibre if previously sealed surface.
Might even be viable to hand spray some clothes drying water condensate and lightly use a damp microfibre if previously sealed surface.
I put Duel Flex hydrophobic coating on my car & can get away with just rinsing with a pressure washer for at least 2 or 3 weeks after a full wash, sometimes a lot longer if I'm not using the car much. I then dry the car with my leaf blower, so it's completely no-touch to avoid any grit swirls. It's not perfect, but gets most of the grime off.
Honestly I'd feel a bit silly drying the car with the leaf blower if my drive wasn't completely out of view of the road, but it's very effective
Wattsisname
MY Red/White/Gems
A PPF strip along and below the crease would really help.I put Duel Flex hydrophobic coating on my car & can get away with just rinsing with a pressure washer for at least 2 or 3 weeks after a full wash, sometimes a lot longer if I'm not using the car much. I then dry the car with my leaf blower, so it's completely no-touch to avoid any grit swirls. It's not perfect, but gets most of the grime off.
Honestly I'd feel a bit silly drying the car with the leaf blower if my drive wasn't completely out of view of the road, but it's very effective
For all car washers: I buy demineralised water from a dispenser. I fill 20l jerries and use it via the Karcher for final rinsing.
No water spots.
This is why I haven't bothered to wash the car in over 12 months....My daughter noticed these weird mud splatters on the car today. On closer inspection they are car paws going all the way up to roof.
So the car jumped onto the car, with mud covered paws/claw, walked all over the car. Imagine the scratches......good thing the car is very much now 'hack' status, so I really couldn't careless.
So the car jumped onto the car, with mud covered paws/claw, walked all over the car. Imagine the scratches......good thing the car is very much now 'hack' status, so I really couldn't careless
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I'm long past caring what others think of me when cleaning the car, My neighbours probably think I'm odd because of my obsessiveness for keeping the car pristine, I will wash the car whilst its raining, I take the wheels off to clean the inside of the wheel - and apply tyre shine to the inside tyre wall, I clean the plastic panels underneath the car and even polish the wheel arch liners.Honestly I'd feel a bit silly drying the car with the leaf blower if my drive wasn't completely out of view of the road, but it's very effective
My car never really gets dirty, it gets cleaned after pretty much every use, Use lots of quick detail spray (Last Touch) However bear in mind I'm retired and don't take the car out in bad weather - if i really need to go out and the weather is bad - I take the wife's Fiesta.
Twice a year the car gets machine polished and carnauba waxed - a full detail and that takes at least 5 x12 hour days to do it, I spend longer cleaning the inside of door shuts than most do to wash an entire car and leather it down. Friends jokingly say - In the grand scheme of things and priorities my car comes first - they may have a point.
WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
I'm long past caring what others think of me because I never wash my cars ...
Doudeau
Member
The only upside about the depreciation in the last year (compared to the first 2) is that I don’t feel the need to maintain the car like I did when it was still worth the purchase price.
I don’t grimace at my kerbed alloys anymore either.
I don’t grimace at my kerbed alloys anymore either.
Wattsisname
MY Red/White/Gems
WannabeOwner
Well-Known Member
My MS has PPF so I don't need to worry about paint corrosion if a pigeon craps on it, and I don't have to help the paint recover if I snuggle up against a countryside hedge.
But its mostly that I choose to do other things with my time. Perhaps I should worry about how obsessively (on topic here
) I optimise my life ...
I used to get some of that but not so much these days... I wait until they are up on the roof and then remote open the boot and then they scarper... cants dont easily forget.So the car jumped onto the car, with mud covered paws/claw, walked all over the car. Imagine the scratches......good thing the car is very much now 'hack' status, so I really couldn't careless
Ive tried the farts but they just sit there look cool like "its not me"
Several cats, our included, used to use my car as part of their standard route until I fitted some spikey things to the top of the fence they jumped on next. Now they take the long way round.I used to get some of that but not so much these days... I wait until they are up on the roof and then remote open the boot and then they scarper... cants dont easily forget.
Ive tried the farts but they just sit there look cool like "its not me"
I was a little disappointed to not actually see them discover it wasn't a good way to go, I suspect they were too smart to try.
I thought of that but even though I dont have cats anymore I thought that might raise brows with some neighbours and I cant really be done with tensions.
Or maybe they did when you weren't looking
I think I get away with it as 2 of them were ours (notice very much not mine), there are 2 others that regularly take that route looking for a fight but I get away with that. We would have had the vet bills if they tried.I thought of that but even though I dont have cats anymore I thought that might raise brows with some neighbours and I cant really be done with tensions.
Or maybe they did when you weren't looking
I will link this as a cat lover, but with a sometimes dark sense of humor.
NOT for the squimish!
NOT for the squimish!
