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We had my youngest daughter's christening over the weekend and I was
persuaded by my wife to wash the car, and encouraged by my 4 and 5 year
olds to take them through a car wash.
Now I have had this particular 80 for 18months and apart from a
attacking it a couple of times with a pressure washer to remove
seriously thick mud (after Salisbury '04 and the end of the '04/05
shooting season) and relatively regular trips through a local
watersplash, I've not bothered washing it.
Anyway we went for the 'works' at the car wash (only just fit with
about 1" either side of the wing mirrors) and the results are appalling
- all these shiney silvery bits have appeared and it now looks some
sort of metalic dark green colour. I keep on getting distracted by
reflections in the body work and every time I look out at it I wonder
whose car it is, I'm certainly far too embrassed to take it out for a
drive in it's present state - at least it was thick fog on Sunday so
nobody saw me.
Well, I have had enough of it and am off to find a mud pit at the
weekend to put it through to get some colour back into it's flanks.
And the next time my wife suggests that I should wash the car, I think
I'll just ignore her! She is as embarrased about it as I am.
[I know many of you were passionate about getting your LCs cleaned
after Salisbury last year - you really shouldn't bother, you get a lot
less hassle and more respect if you don't. The last time I took a
clean 80 into town (the rural haven of Cirencester where every other
car is a 4x4) I got a key run down the side of it.]
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Regards,
Julian Voelcker
Mobile: 07971 540362
Cirencester, United Kingdom
1994 HDJ80, 2.5" OME Lift
persuaded by my wife to wash the car, and encouraged by my 4 and 5 year
olds to take them through a car wash.
Now I have had this particular 80 for 18months and apart from a
attacking it a couple of times with a pressure washer to remove
seriously thick mud (after Salisbury '04 and the end of the '04/05
shooting season) and relatively regular trips through a local
watersplash, I've not bothered washing it.
Anyway we went for the 'works' at the car wash (only just fit with
about 1" either side of the wing mirrors) and the results are appalling
- all these shiney silvery bits have appeared and it now looks some
sort of metalic dark green colour. I keep on getting distracted by
reflections in the body work and every time I look out at it I wonder
whose car it is, I'm certainly far too embrassed to take it out for a
drive in it's present state - at least it was thick fog on Sunday so
nobody saw me.
Well, I have had enough of it and am off to find a mud pit at the
weekend to put it through to get some colour back into it's flanks.
And the next time my wife suggests that I should wash the car, I think
I'll just ignore her! She is as embarrased about it as I am.
[I know many of you were passionate about getting your LCs cleaned
after Salisbury last year - you really shouldn't bother, you get a lot
less hassle and more respect if you don't. The last time I took a
clean 80 into town (the rural haven of Cirencester where every other
car is a 4x4) I got a key run down the side of it.]
--
Regards,
Julian Voelcker
Mobile: 07971 540362
Cirencester, United Kingdom
1994 HDJ80, 2.5" OME Lift