Well, the rain has finally washed all the snow away. The rain itself has stopped. If I don't busy myself soon there'll be shelves to put up or something before long. She can't bear to see me unoccupied.
Both cars are bogging with salt. Whether it is nobler in the mind to wash or not to wash. That is the question. To suffer the slings and arrows of the undone DIY or by hosing, avoid them?
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Gave the Ka a quick wash (water only) yesterday.
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Im thinking about it, wifes car is filthy esp.
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Who do you get in to do it Stu??????
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Hose still frozen despite having been in the garage. Ah well...never mind eh ?
:-)
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Gave the car and drive a blast with the pressure washer this morning, a huge amount of dirt and salt came off the bottom of the car.
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Got the pressure washer under both this morning, too wet to bother with a proper clean yet.
I never new how warm 9 degrees could feel, but after sub zero for nearly a month it is positively tropical here.
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>> I never new how warm 9 degrees could feel, but after sub zero for nearly
>> a month it is positively tropical here.
9? its now 11.5c here!
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>> 9? its now 11.5c here!
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A couple more and I bet you'll be taking the snood off!
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A right bummer that Humph....:-o
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"Hose still frozen despite having been in the garage."
Could you not hose it with hot water using another hose?
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A two hose man eh Dave? .... Show off.
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Proper wash for the C5 this morning. Now driving trying to avoid following or meeting artics!
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"A two hose man eh Dave?"
The first one got dirty.
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Well, I've done them both anyway with a bucket and a watering can. Did seriously consider more TV slobbing and mugs of tea but decided deep vein thrombosis was a distinct possibility. Jeez they were dirty, especially mine. Trouble is, it's black so if I even venture a couple of miles in it later it'll be minging again. Still, a bit of fresh air consumed and joinery avoided. Still got a turkey leg to eat I think...
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"a watering can"
I'm not normally one to care what the neighbours think, but I draw the line at sprinkling my car with a watering can during daylight hours.
Is it a green plastic one or a trendy silver metal one?
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>> "a watering can"
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He's trying to make it grow, must keep up with the neighbours. :-)
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It'll never grow into a Bentley.
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>> It'll never grow into a Bentley.
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Now that is a company car !
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It would be mad to wash the jalopy now. The snow and ice have turned to liquid mud all around here. Roads still salted where they ever were. Filth rules.
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Embarrassingly enough in present company, I've only just now got around to checking the tyre pressures on her new car. It's been snowing since we got it. Now they're supposed to be 2.3 bar at the front and 2.1 bar at the back. Anyone like to hazard a guess? No ? Well moving clockwise beginning at front offside. 2.6, 1.8, 1.6, 3.0.
Not surprised though. Never yet had a car presented to me either new, second hand or indeed having had tyres fitted where the pressures have been set even close to where they should be.
It probably shouldn't annoy me but it does.
:-(
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Last week at work washed it and polished it looked amazing.
This week it's back covered in black muck, Pants!!
Tonight at work it's getting a wash and a vac out the polish from last week keeps the paintwork ok and the hot wax wash it will get should look nice.
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At work? Oh marvellous! Planning on doing any, er, "work" as well? Or is that a silly question?
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The guards are on strike so NO is the answer did nothing last night and seems like nothing tonight but i'll have a clean car to show for it and the overtime to spend.!!
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Its the "I refuse to work on Boxing day unless I get triple time and two days off in lieu" season.
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Not washing mine till all the roads round here are a bit cleaner and dryer.
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Fair enough Z. Not like washing it will make it look much better anyway eh? Silk purses / Sow's ears and so on...
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If that remark had come from someone with even a modicum of good taste, my feathers may have been ruffled.
Yours
Smooth feathers of Surrey.
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I used to wash the motorcycle with one of those high powered toy water guns, the one's that lok like Rambo would have carried.
Easier to manouvre than a hose and no danger of getting water past the seals. I never care about the neighbours, they all think I'm mad anyway.
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>> Not washing mine till all the roads round here are a bit cleaner and drier
I washed the Escort yesterday morning as soon as the temperature went into positive figures... It was bugging me sitting outside so filthy, I could almost hear it rusting. The rear wheelarches have deteriorated noticeably over the snowy spell, I may have to do something about the sharp edges before its MoT in May.
I'm keeping it clean by not going anywhere in it this week :)
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Being coated with BMW wundercoating the X1 has come out remarkably clean apart from the rear hatch - no doubt I'll have to clean it this week coming...
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Prob'ly best leave it a bit grubby PU. A too clean white X1 could look a bit, well, metrosexual...know what I mean? Don't drive it in a polo neck jumper whatever you do.
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>> or indeed having had tyres fitted where the pressures have been set even close to where they should be.
You need to go to a proper tyre fitter Humph. They always inflate to whatever you say for each axle, and if uninstructed tend to leave the tyres on the hardish end of manufacturer's spec for that car, 33 psi all round sort of thing.
I agree no one else gives much of a damn except fast drivers, and not all of them. I've been in hire cars... I remember an Austin Cambridge hired in Oxford with the n/s rear tyre at about 10psi. Lady driver nearly spun it on a wet bend in some small town in the middle of the night. Of course she hadn't noticed the lopsided handling until then.
It was an early driving opportunity for me though. She lost her nerve, I knew what to do and seemed a competent driver to the others in the car although I had no licence, and in consequence was allowed to race about in that motor for three days learning the ropes.
We were all lucky to survive I can't help thinking. Only one or two real moments but my mature self would probably have suffered some fear as a passenger.
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Austin Cambridge?
Would not want to be seen dead in one...
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>> Austin Cambridge?
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>> Would not want to be seen dead in one...
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Your choice, a comfortable motor in their day, like driving a leather armchair. Even my OH enjoyed driving ours and she is not a car person, she sees cars as domestic appliances.
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>> Even my
>> OH enjoyed driving ours and she is not a car person, she sees cars as
>> domestic appliances.
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Much like we see them, eh?...;-)
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When she ran her own car her idea of maintenance was telling me "its making a funny noise" or "my car feels odd". I used to have two daughters who did the same, now they are their husbands problem. :-)
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>>now they are their husbands problem. :-)
Oh how I wish. I seem to have inherited their husband's problems.
Both ended up at Thicktwit's the Sunday before Christmas. Thankfully their problems prevented them driving to me.
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Austin Cambridge...good motors and at the end of life made superb all rounder's in banger racing, preferred the Westminsters though.
You lazy lot of gits, i washed both of them on Christmas Eve afternoon, neither of them turned a wheel till yesterday...during which time they both had a couple of days of top up battery charging.
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>>washed both of them on Christmas Eve afternoon
"Both of them"? Aren't you forgetting something teutonic and neglected? Christmas too....phew.
Couldn't have done it on Christmas Eve for two reasons, one being I was stuck in traffic on the M5/M6. The second being that it was hard frozen and snowing at home anyway.
OCD has kicked in though. Just been out in the black one and this AM's efforts with the bucket, sponge and watering can are amateurish at best. Streaks hither and thither. Not satisfactory at all. May have to sneak the hose into the utility room tonight to thaw it out.
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Actually I wasn't on on the motorway on Friday come to think, that was Thursday. But it was still too cold and there was panic shopping to do.
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>> But it was still too cold and there was panic shopping to do.
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That's about as lame as the likely excuse for smoking......again.
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>>That's about as lame as the likely excuse for smoking......again.<<
My ole brother smoked all his life, but was always healthy - a healthy smoker.
When he eventually gave it up, he contracted Alzheimer's and Colitis.
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The Austin Cambridge... First car I can remember Dad driving - used to take us to Southport Sands at the weekends! Four kids in the back and Dad flat out on the A59 at about 86mph and an old tin bath full of sand in the boot to top up the sand pit in the back garden at home!!
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>> Austin Cambridge?
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>> Would not want to be seen dead in one...
An interesting car to "make progress" in.
It could be done, but the lean angle became a cause for concern, primarily with regard to not sliding off the chair.
At least Dad had the steering wheel to hang on to....
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A basic understeerer capable however of pirouetting when provoked, with crossply tyres of course, limited damping and quite a good column gearshift.
But I was a bit tiresome in it, making the tyres squeal twice on every roundabout down the old Oxford bypass and generally stretching the envelope. Never definitively too much though. I was young but rational.
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The KIA's been stationary in the garage for 10 days now, after being washed, dried, and polished. It's gleaming - I don't want to take it out anywhere now! Luckily I filled it up too, 'cos petrol prices seem to be going up twice a week at present!
It quite probably won't get driven for another 10 days yet - cheap motoring eh?!
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Ran the Octy through the car wash for the first time in 9 months this afternoon. I'd forgotten it has silver wheels at the front as well as the back...
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Washed it last night at work and pampered it inside left it soaking up the heat in the Train shed it was nice and warm inside this morning.
And still did no work but tonight it's back to graft. yipee.!!
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Did the finger test. It failed. So no wash yet..
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Can't. Car washes are not open because its too cold (-5degC) and its illegal to DIY on the drive :-(
Anyway, I need to get rid of the 5mm of frozen rain somehow before I can wash it, my blue car is white or opaque!
Joe
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"its illegal to DIY on the drive :-("
Where are you that you are forbidden from doing this - Germany?
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Yes. You can drive as fast as you like (in some places), but cam't wash your car at home for enviromentalist reasons.
Joe
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Ah yes, environmental reasons - must remember that! That's the reason my car hasn't been cleaned...
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No. Not the top, that is. There is some merit to having someone hose off the underneath, none in doing the top - it'll be filthy again within 10 minutes on the road.
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>> There is some merit to having someone hose off
>> the underneath,
No need to disturb the servants, just shove the garden sprinkler under it. :-)
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The Jetta is sparkling again.
Apart from getting the salt off, it's also a matter of pride...:-)
What's more I went out in it half-an-hour after emptying the bucket....
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The Ceed went in for a service today so has been given a wash down at the dealers & is now shiny black again and no longer caked in salt. However by the time i get to work tomorrow...........
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Bees decided after 4 weeks of sbow and ice to emerge and deposit 4 week's excrement all over car.
No choice: now washed.
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I couldn't stand it any longer so I had my black Passat washed by the local hand wash guys. Plenty of high-pressure hosing, fluids, hand wash, chammy dry, door shuts and inside windows cleaned, all for £5. Superb job. I think I'll use these guys regularly. Wife's car next!
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£.*******
Swaer filter did not like my eference to half a bottle of gin or cheap plonk...far better value than a carwash...
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Gonna wash it? - tyro
