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Old 03-23-2016, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SeanU
I have no room in my garage, so I have kept my Black XK outside with a Covercraft Noah cover through the fall and winter. I have to say, I didn't need to wash the car all season. I took it out every sunny day I could when the snow was off the roads. The cover has worked out great... maybe some light swirl type marks around the haunches, but honestly they may have been there since I got the car. Getting the cover on and off takes me just a few minutes now that I've done it a bunch of times. I give it a once over with a car duster before putting it back on. I'll probably keep using it during the rest of the year to keep off the bird poop and pollen.
What color is your car?
 
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Old 03-24-2016, 08:24 AM
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What color is your car?
Black(Ebony)
 
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Old 03-24-2016, 09:37 AM
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Right now in the Carolinas it is impossible to keep any car clean. I did a mini detail this weekend. Wash, clay bar, wax. I took the XKR out yesterday for a drive and it had yellow pollen all over it. And it stays in a garage.


Ah spring in Charlotte. Where everything outside turns yellow for a month!!! A keep a duster in the trunk. But it only gets about 80% of the pollen off the paint.


I was actually disappointed. I had to stop for gas and no one commented about the car. That does not happen very often.
 
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Old 03-24-2016, 11:20 AM
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I was actually disappointed. I had to stop for gas and no one commented about the car. That does not happen very often.

I find offering to pay for their gas most effective.

Perhaps they no longer confuse it for a Camaro
 
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Old 03-25-2016, 12:30 AM
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I find offering to pay for their gas most effective.

Perhaps they no longer confuse it for a Camaro
When people ask me what I drive, I smile and say a British built version of a Dale Earnhardt edition Chevrolet Camaro.
 
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Old 03-25-2016, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by kyle191
Right now in the Carolinas it is impossible to keep any car clean. I did a mini detail this weekend. Wash, clay bar, wax. I took the XKR out yesterday for a drive and it had yellow pollen all over it. And it stays in a garage.
We are still pretty far off from pollen season, but there's no escaping it covering your car once it's season.
 
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Old 03-25-2016, 08:41 AM
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When people ask me what I drive, I smile and say a British built version of a Dale Earnhardt edition Chevrolet Camaro.
Haha I like that. When I had my old Ferrari they would see the horse on the back and ask me what kind of Mustang it was.
 
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Old 03-26-2016, 09:27 AM
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Hopefully with all this rain this weekend in the Carolina's it will wash away the pollen. After washing my car the other night I had green pin stripping down the hood.
 
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I am one of you who spray details the car every other night. random people always ask me if its new. I don't know if I can let the car get dirty, I love it too much.
 
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