Motoring Discussion > Good Quality Chamois Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Clk Sec Replies: 18
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 12:14 
 Good Quality Chamois - Clk Sec
I bought an excellent chamois for my limousine a couple of months ago that was recommended by HJ in the telegraph a few years back.

Not exactly Lidl prices, but at £13.99 (including postage) for their 4 ft version, I am well pleased.

www.grovemillchamois.com/index.html

I'm a customer of this company - nothing more.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 12:39 
 Good Quality Chamois - L'escargot
I assume you mean 4 sq.ft, not 4 ft.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 12:48 
 Good Quality Chamois - Skoda
Some folks really do spoil their cars :-P

I got one of those thick pile microfibre drying towels and they work pretty well too. Seems to work better the wetter it gets (up to saturation point obviously) quick skoosh with the hose before starting and it's pretty fast.

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 Thu 15 Jul 10 12:55 
 Good Quality Chamois - Mike Hannon
I'm a microfibre convert.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 13:05 
 Good Quality Chamois - Iffy
I've not used a chamois for so long, I've forgotten how well - or poorly - they do the job.

The Vileda Flunky car cloth - as recommended by Stu on here - is the best synthetic cloth I've had in years.

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 Thu 15 Jul 10 13:18 
 Good Quality Chamois - L'escargot
>> I got one of those thick pile microfibre drying towels ............

I can't stand microfibre cloth. It sticks to my rough hands.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 13:41 
 Good Quality Chamois - madf
I bought from Halfords a synthetic leather in c 1995. It still workd perfectly : no holes etc.. It is kept damp in original plastic case... Never allowed to dry out - as per instructions.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:19 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
A quality chamois can be had from The Leather Shop on the Quay in Mevagissey, ask for Don and say Dog sent you.

:)
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:27 
 Good Quality Chamois - Oldgit
I use, almost exclusively, Autoglym's synthetic 'leathers' although they appear to have just gone up in cost to £9.99 in Halfords. I can't stand MF cloths as they don't seem to do what they're supposed to and on glass they drag and sometimes leave a film of very small fibres which is most irritating.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:31 
 Good Quality Chamois - Clk Sec
>>A quality chamois can be had from The Leather Shop on the Quay in Mevagissey

I'd have to stop overnight. Do you do B & B ?
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:36 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
>>Do you do B & B ?<<

Would have to be a healthy brekkie though, so that's no eggs, no bacon, no sausages, no butter etc., etc., etc.
So its porridge made with water and a little salt (sea-salt)
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:40 
 Good Quality Chamois - Clk Sec
That's fine by me. Light on the sea salt, though!
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:48 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
>>Light on the sea salt, though!<<

See! that's another myth, about salt being bad for you, its a case of using *the right* kinda salt ~

www.celticseasalt.com/
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 14:54 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
This is a better site for Celtic sea-salt ~ www.regenerativenutrition.com/content.asp?id=30

Can be used on roads as well (motoring link)
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 15:06 
 Good Quality Chamois - Clk Sec
>>*the right* kinda salt ~

Interesting to sea the other side of the argument.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 15:15 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
((Interesting to sea the other side of the argument.))

Yeah, takes all salts.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 15:22 
 Good Quality Chamois - Zero
>> >>Do you do B & B ?<<
>>
>> Would have to be a healthy brekkie though, so that's no eggs, no bacon, no
>> sausages, no butter etc., etc., etc.
>> So its porridge made with water and a little salt (sea-salt)

No chance.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 15:21 
 Good Quality Chamois - Zero
>> A quality chamois can be had from The Leather Shop on the Quay in Mevagissey,
>> ask for Don and say Dog sent you.

I prefer the pasty shop next door, just ask for pasty mary and tell them fat zero sent you.
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 Thu 15 Jul 10 16:12 
 Good Quality Chamois - Dog
>>just ask for pasty mary and tell them fat zero sent you.<<

Funnily enough, Ole Don was fat, he ended up with type 2 diabetes and dangerously high cholesterol

:)
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