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Offline Exonian

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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #30 on: 23 October 2009, 19:29 »
More pictures would be good, my youngest deleted my nice desktop wallpaper off the other day so your GTI in a nice location could fill the blank void on my monitor  :grin:
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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #31 on: 23 October 2009, 20:02 »
Quote from: Neil gti on 23 October 2009, 18:41
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Have to give her a wash over weekend and sort some decent pics out, mud sprays marks down the side at mo, looks like me been rallying :laugh:

Sigh.  I'll have to give mine a bath too, he's filthy.  [Rolfe wonders again about those mud flaps the dealer said wouldn't make much difference....]

I hardly ever washed the Peugeot, because that gold paint job really didn't show the dirt.  And I had a decent car wash nearby.  Now, I don't have a car wash anywhere close, and even if I had, I wouldn't go near it in a car with a very new paint job.  Five weeks since collection, and you could plant seeds on my tailgate though.

I suppose if I asked for advice, I'd just be told to go visit the detailing section?

Rolfe.
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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #32 on: 24 October 2009, 10:22 »

I suppose if I asked for advice, I'd just be told to go visit the detailing section?

Rolfe.
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Nah, you don't need to detail it to keep it clean. Two buckets, one with warm shampoo water and the other with just warm water and a grit guard (plastic grid that goes in the bucket to get any grit off your wash mitt (that's right Rolfe, no sponges!)

Hose off the major debris or jet wash, use your wash mitt to clean, rinse in the other bucket with the grit guard, start from the roof down. When you've cleaned it all off, hose off any excess shamps and dry with a specific drying towel or a chamois. Periodically wax him off as well or find a decent mobile valeter and get him around once a month?
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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #33 on: 24 October 2009, 20:27 »
Ta muchly!

Well, what did I see parked outside my neighbour's house this morning?  A mobile car valet van.  (This is a guy who washes his cars obsessively, and even came to my door on Boxing Day and offered to wash mine....)

He's just got a new sports coupe, about two weeks before I got my car - 59 number plate.

Rolfe.
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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #34 on: 25 October 2009, 21:08 »
Rolfe keep away from all the 'hand car wash' outfits either roadside or more commonly in supermarket car parks, they are often worse than automatic car washes.
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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #35 on: 27 October 2009, 15:45 »
Quote from: gossa on 25 October 2009, 21:08
Rolfe keep away from all the 'hand car wash' outfits either roadside or more commonly in supermarket car parks, they are often worse than automatic car washes.

Spot on!



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Re: Who has 19s?
« Reply #36 on: 27 October 2009, 15:56 »
I was sat in a supermarket carpark watching those idoits wash a black VW Touran,the water and sponge were filthy and i can honestly say the car looked worse when he had finished.Washing it in full sun with very little water and letting it dry .
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