I only washed my car a few days ago but yesterday some birds seriously dive bombed it so I thought a quick drive over to the Shell garage jet wash bays would be useful just to blast it all off.

A guy pulls into the next bay in a black Jaguar XF and we know how easily black paint shows scratches and swirls. So he gets out, fires up the machine and gave rinsing a miss! He went straight to the foam brush and started brushing away at dry hot paintwork! What a buffoon 🤦🏼‍♂️ LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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Company/Lease car.......he don’t care. Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

Nooooooo . .


Mark 2009 FL2 TD4 SE (Sadly gone)
2007 FL2 TD4 GS (The wifes , gone after 8 great years)
2012 FL2 SD4 SPORT LE(Gone and missing it)
2015 DISCOVERY SPORT 2.2SD4 HSE (Now gone)
2014 Ford Bmax 1.0 ecoboost ( Gone but what next )
2014 Ford Focus 2.0tdci Zetec S (Gone,but what a car)
2020 Ford Fiesta ActiveX 1.0 Ecoboost
2024 Skoda Kodiaq 1.5 Tsi SEL

That's why I use my local Eastern European hand wash.... full wash, foam, door sills, tyre blacking etc etc for £6... why waste time washing it your self I ask... Updated- Waiting for a Scotland v England 6 Nations home win. 24th Feb 2018
Gone-1972 88 SWB Soft top
Gone-1981 24v FFR Lightweight
Gone-2009 Freelander 2 TD4 GS manual
Gone before it bankrupted me- 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 Auto
2013 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto

And only the finest fairy liquid used

I do my car myself once a month. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

When mine gets embarrassingly dirty I get the power wash out, a bit of snow foam, soak and rinse......if it’s not clean by then I go and have a cup of tea until the next time it’s looks so bad  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

I watched the guy next door wash his few years old qashqai. It’s a dark brownish thing , it was a hot day yesterday with full sun . I put my house on it he would use fairy liquid. No rinsing the car to start with then went on to wash the whole car . It dried virtually instantly, so basically he just moved the dirt around. Once he was done he then got buckets of water to throw over it.
I washed , dried and 2 coats of wax on my wife’s new Mokka x today, took me the best part of three hours. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

I remember someone once suggesting over on the Disco3 site that to stop door prangs in car parks, he never washed his D3, but left the muck to accumulate. The theory was no-one would want to park next to a car that looked like it has just driven out of a pigsty. I wonder if it worked. Updated- Waiting for a Scotland v England 6 Nations home win. 24th Feb 2018
Gone-1972 88 SWB Soft top
Gone-1981 24v FFR Lightweight
Gone-2009 Freelander 2 TD4 GS manual
Gone before it bankrupted me- 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 Auto
2013 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto

mcsimmo

It works on me. I have been known to move my car to another parking bay, if the the next vehicle (normally a white van) is covered in dents and looks neglected.

PS For my car washing I normally wash my wheels, door sills, and just under the lower front and back of car, and then use a normal car wash on a program which includes waxing. Gives a good result on white car. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
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Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

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mcsimmo wrote:

That's why I use my local Eastern European hand wash.... full wash, foam, door sills, tyre blacking etc etc for £6... why waste time washing it your self I ask...

I tried my local East European car wash a couple of times. They missed bits, and completely missed under the wheel arches, used dubious chemicals, didn't dry off properly just wiped it over with a dirty cloth which left bits caught on the wipers. It's goodbye East European washes and back to the good old fashioned DIY wash.

How many on here remember the old mechanical car washing machines where you could get a wash for £0.20? If they were set up correctly they would give a better wash than the EE washes although they could take your wipers off.

J

Since our cars are partly Ford, well I have a very nice Ford Ecoboost engine. Maybe Stuartc could give us the heads up on this mod for the Freelander!

 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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Jimboland wrote:

How many on here remember the old mechanical car washing machines where you could get a wash for £0.20? If they were set up correctly they would give a better wash than the EE washes although they could take your wipers off.

My brother and nephews got stuck in one recently when the rollers stopped across the doors. Apparently one nephew asked if they were going to die.

Eventually they managed to ring the garage and an apologetic staff member released them and plied the boys with sweets to make up for the emotional scarring.

Get white cars, they don't need cleaning, this photo is after 10 weeks around Australia, including 2000km of dirt roads, but we did clean the car with onboard air as there is no water in the outback!

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