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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 3850671 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2655 on: 25 May 2012, 02:01:06 »
Quote from: Elite Pete on 24 May 2012, 17:09:42
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 24 May 2012, 17:06:52
Blimey! I bet that had some lard under the rocker cover. ;D

Loads of the stuff ::). I couldn't believe how little oil was in it as well. Typical female on a low budget :-X

Payment in kind, was it? ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2656 on: 25 May 2012, 10:22:56 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 25 May 2012, 00:04:28
Kosovans washed it. Kosovans appear to have scratched it.

More bloody polishing.  Sigh...

Kosovans? I'm disappointed in you, Chris. :(

Better to leave it dirty like I do. :-[
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« Reply #2657 on: 25 May 2012, 10:52:41 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 May 2012, 10:22:56
Quote from: chrisgixer on 25 May 2012, 00:04:28
Kosovans washed it. Kosovans appear to have scratched it.

More bloody polishing.  Sigh...

Kosovans? I'm disappointed in you, Chris. :(

Better to leave it dirty like I do. :-[
It is if they're going to scratch the paint.

Something in the wash mit I reckon. No two bucket method with these guys. ;D

But what do you do. Hose pipe ban on. I'm not pissing about with a watering can.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2658 on: 25 May 2012, 10:56:48 »
The Kosovans round here have a single bucket in a shopping trolley to last them all day. :o

Hook your pressure washer up to a water butt. :y

.. or wash it by hand and take it to the local garage for a rinse before and after.

I notice there's no hosepipe ban for the garages. ::)
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« Reply #2659 on: 25 May 2012, 11:07:21 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 May 2012, 10:56:48
The Kosovans round here have a single bucket in a shopping trolley to last them all day. :o

Hook your pressure washer up to a water butt. :y

.. or wash it by hand and take it to the local garage for a rinse before and after.

I notice there's no hosepipe ban for the garages. ::)
Considering water butt option. Don't have one currently... Don't suppose I'm allowed to fill the water butt with the hose? seeing as there's no rain due for a week ...? No? Thought not.  :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2660 on: 25 May 2012, 11:11:05 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 25 May 2012, 11:07:21
Considering water butt option. Don't have one currently...

There was some cheap deal on to encourage recycling with the local council when I got mine. Worth a look.

Quote from: chrisgixer on 25 May 2012, 11:07:21
Don't suppose I'm allowed to fill the water butt with the hose?

The expression "who's going to effing know" springs to mind. :-X
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2661 on: 25 May 2012, 11:11:34 »
Pressure washer in bathwater? I have a lot of baths. And I'm not that dirty normally.

Can see gayboy throwing a hissy fit if his car was washed in Radox though....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2662 on: 25 May 2012, 11:17:07 »
I've yet to try a Turtle wax bath. How bad can it be? ::)
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« Reply #2663 on: 25 May 2012, 11:19:32 »
On a black car...? Ooh hiss    eee     fit... All that soap scum. ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2664 on: 25 May 2012, 11:27:32 »
I have been using a pressure washer/water butt combi for a while now.  Way before the hosepipe ban started in fact.

Reason being that rain water is soft water, which means far less water marks.  A godsend on a black Omega estate, because it's nigh on impossible to get around the whole car before it dries.  :y

Edit:  Oh and I would never, ever let anyone else wash my car!!  It tooks me approx. 60 hours to detail her last year, and remove all the surface marring.  One bad wash with contaminated water, and I'd be back to square one!  No way!!  >:( 
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« Reply #2665 on: 25 May 2012, 11:31:24 »
Good point twig. :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2666 on: 25 May 2012, 11:32:26 »
Made a ramp by myself as it's being planned for a time. :y Not a big deal but I consider it really important.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2667 on: 25 May 2012, 11:32:34 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 May 2012, 11:17:07
I've yet to try a Turtle wax bath. How bad can it be? ::)

At least if you drip dry you should be streak free :D ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2668 on: 25 May 2012, 12:05:13 »
Done my HBV after yesterdays leak went from a small leak to a can't do 2 miles without a warning!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #2669 on: 25 May 2012, 12:32:32 »
Left my house at 4am, drove to Blackpool, did a day's work, & didn't have to fill up again til Birmingham on the way home......amazing what no traffic, and a sensible right foot can do!




Couple of collection s in Brum & Coventry, got home at 11:30 pm, 570 mile day.

I was rather knackered!!
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