Door Mirrors and washing your car ANNOYING!!

[SiGibbo]

Is it just me or am I being too anal about this?

After washing or paying to have my golf washed as I drive off water collects under the door mirror and as you build up speed (it doesn’t have to be much 20mph and above) the water then sprays down the side of the car on the windows and the bodywork. I then have to shammy the side of the car when I get home.

I know it seems small but I have never had a car with this problem and it is starting to wind me up.

Does anyone else find this

Simon

[bobotheclown]

Also when you wash tghe car watrer builds up underneath the aerial housing and steadily dribbles out leaving a small snail like trail of water

[joesgti]

and the rear window traps water and also the rear badge lock thing, oh and also the honey comb grills,  cant think of any more 

[SteveP]

It is annoying 

But I think it's more of a general VW thing rather than just the Golf as it did the same on my old Passat and on my GF's current Polo.

[08micsta]

Guys....  Simple fixes... Now if you cleaned your car as often as I cleaned our you would know this: 

1. Water in the mirror casing.

When drying the car. Simply push the mirror in so that it folds in and then with out allowing it to click into position shake it a bit and bam the water is gone. Simply open the mirror after that again.

2. Rear window traps water.

This is very simple. After spraying the car down simply open the boot for a few seconds with a chamois/ microfibre on either corner of the window or just let the water flow out by itself. The reason I suggested the cloth was because in some GTi's the water does spill slightly into the boot 

3. Rear badge traps water.

This is also simple. When you open the boot to allow the water to drip out the window ledge simple stuff a cloth in there to soak the water up. When you close the boot. Take it out. It only takes two minutes.

4. Honeycomb grills keep water.

This used to annoy me until I tried a few things out. So some tips. Forget about the honey comb grills and the entire front end. When you dried the rest of the car (dont do the door sills etc) simply take the car around the block for only a minute a do some heavy braking once or twice. The water simply glides straight out. If you are really anal then when you park the car you can open the bonnet and dry the top of the grill too.

If driving around the block aint your style. Then simply take a microfibre/chamois (Chamois absorbs more and wont scratch the plastic) and open the cloth on your hand and in a slightly violent manner smack your hand against the grills drying the cloth out. Then take the car around the block just for the fun of it 

THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION! (For females only)

Ask the missus if you can use her hairdryer and just switch onto full power and blast the water out of the boot. Grills and lining. Just dont screw your paintwork up or damage the clearcoat. And no. Lipgloss is not allowed on the red piping on the grill 

THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION! (For men only)

Forget the missus and get a leave blower. Great toy to have around the house. Useful for blasting leaves and little kids but very useful with the car as you just switch it on and blast all the water off with the leave blower and since its cold air it wont do damage and simply rub the car gently with a Microfibre cloth to give it the ultimate shine.

**I swear I am in no way affected by OCD**

[Top Cat]

I can just imagine my neighbour's watching a bald man drying his grill with a hair dryer. 

[08micsta]

Who said I was bald?

My grill does need cleaning though...



 

[Top Cat]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

[Hurdy]

If you think all that is OCD then you'll love this:-

I take off all the bolt caps after washing the car to get rid of the water that builds up in there.

The bottom of the rear window - I use my credit card an hold the card vertically against the bottom of the window and the edge of the card catches the water and lets it all run out. Failing this you can use your fingernail.

The petrol cap area also holds water and I always open it to get out the excess water.

The water in the mirror casing - I put tissue paper in the gaps and leave it there until its pulled out all the water (before driving off in the car I hasten to add! )

[08micsta]

^^^

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