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Hand job or not?
Andy:
thought with the title it was some thing else :grin:
andrewparker:
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Agreed. Avoid local hand wash places at all costs!!
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There was a thread recently where someone had taken it to a local car wash and they had badly damaged his paint work. I can't remember who it was though...
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Can remember that thread as well, think it was called something like "6 reasons not to use the local hand wash place" ?
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This is it - http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,47262.0.html
So yeah, don't use your local hand wash!
Ranbeer Singh:
Re: subject title
Yes please :laugh:
richtung:
to try and steer this thread back on topic.....
If you can spare a couple of hours to give the car a once over and get some sort of protection wax down, that would be best.
After that, through the winter months, mimimise contact with the paintwork due to the increase of general crap thats stuck to the paint work.
Today, i managed to give a quick wash and a coat of Collinite 476 down. I had already done a pre winter detail last week.
This will be the last time i hand wash the car for a few months. To keep the salt and crap to a minium, i take my car to a local tesco petrtol station, spray the whole car with Valet pro citrus pre wash (sprayed from a 5 litre pressure pump thingy) and then rinsed using the power washer at the petrol station.
I plan to do this every couple of weeks and will only take 20 mins tops! :happy2:
Hope this helps
Rich
zerolag:
Even if it's not the best result; get as much salt off the car as you can when you can, it's better than leaving it 6 weeks, imho.
If these means an automated car wash, so be it... but your probably better off using that time with the manual service pressure washer on the underside / brakes / suspension / exhuast etc. areas...
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