car wash
#21
Leave it dirty if you don't want to wash it. My 12 year old MINI looks brand new twice a year when I wash by hand. Otherwise I drive it (hard).
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#25
The care that goes into the design and build of such cars is a work of art and deserves to be treated as such. You wouldn't clean a valuable painting with harsh chemicals and they should not be used, along with brushes, on our cars.
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#28
Honestly, I never feel my cars, especially the high performance cars, are "just a car" and never treated them as such. If I wanted "just a car" I would buy a 10 year old Honda Civic and not care how I treated it (no offense to Honda Civic owners).
The care that goes into the design and build of such cars is a work of art and deserves to be treated as such. You wouldn't clean a valuable painting with harsh chemicals and they should not be used, along with brushes, on our cars.
The care that goes into the design and build of such cars is a work of art and deserves to be treated as such. You wouldn't clean a valuable painting with harsh chemicals and they should not be used, along with brushes, on our cars.
By all means treat is as special, 'cause it is. VERY special. But, in the end, it is just a car...and a work of art.
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#31
Truth is, there have been times when I just can't wash my 2004 Audi A8L for quite some time - with plenty of built up road dirt, grime, etc. - and when I [usually hand] wash it it ends up coming out looking brand new!
I think that that shows that automobile finishes have come a long way.
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#33
For comparison, a 1989 VW I used to own had paint that the bodyshop refused to touch after the first visit as - apparently - their polishing mops had no effect on it, while wet and dry struggled. Organic solvents, rather than water-based though.
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#35
I already have the reduction pulley sitting on my desk for an F-Type I won't be getting for another 6 months.
Last edited by Unhingd; 12-30-2014 at 01:57 PM.
#37
I took it through a brushless car wash a few times last year, which used high pressure water for the rinse which made me a bit nervous. Car was fine, but I discovered the this spring that the roof stopped beading water. I reproofed it, but decided the car wash blasts the waterproofing off quicker than I'd like, so I only hand wash it now.
Last edited by DJS; 12-31-2014 at 09:00 AM.
#38
That's where you are wrong. PetroCanada has 90 day passes for $180. So that's $720 a year and in 4 years will be $2880.
Plus, I also store my Jaguar in the winter. It probably gets 50 odd washes a year. The Range Rover gets the bulk of the washes in the winter!
My detail guy put this "Opti-Coat Pro" on both the Jag and the RR. The RR is from 2012. They both gleam in the sunshine without swirls et. al. despite the automatic non-touch carwash.
Last edited by enfield; 01-01-2015 at 10:11 PM.
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#40
Touchless
I am in Canada and have been hand washing the car....can't do that in really cold weather. Planning to only use touchless drive through once a week. I think the impact on the convertible top is less of a concern that getting the salt etc. off the body and underside once per week. Agreed???
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