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Paige

How do you like to wash your car?

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I just got finished slaving over washing my new car. It's a pain since its a cconvertible and you can't just take it to the gas station car wash or one of those nifty drive throughs. The soap in those is too concentrated and will ruin the waterproofing on the fabric top (note to convertible drivers).

I just wanted to know who washes their car the old fashioned way? I have always done this because I used to show cars and had to detail them to perfection. Wondering if there are other purists or anal retentive people like myself :Pwhen it comes to cleaning cars. I have a feeling in this fast paced society, most don't take the time to scrub their baby themselves.

If you do the dirty deed by hand, try the new Mr. Clean Auto Wash thing.:)
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Self service spray etc.
or the drive thru if it's really dirty.
When i see people wash "normal" cars by hand at home.....I wonder if they bag their grass too when mowing.
( not a printable opinion)
I'd rather go jumping than worry about a car being slightly dirty.


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I wait for one of those "High School Fund Raiser" care washes to happen (about 1 every 2 weeks in Elsinore it seems) and then pay them to do it. Five 18 year olds in bikini's will make sure its done right.....


I am NOT a perv.....

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When i see people wash "normal" cars by hand at home.....I wonder if they bag their grass too when mowing.



Hummmmm, my grass gets the bag but I don't do the mowing. ;):)
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Every time I go to wash my car, it ends up getting washed like that sooner than I would like. All that acid rain really erodes a paint job:S Sometimes that's all it needs though, esp. when jumpin calls:)
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I wait for one of those "High School Fund Raiser" care washes to happen (about 1 every 2 weeks in Elsinore it seems) and then pay them to do it. Five 18 year olds in bikini's will make sure its done right.....


I am NOT a perv.....

:D



Damn, sounds like you got the master plan ;) What more could a guy ask for?!?!
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I have a process everytime I wash my vehicle. It goes in these steps:

1)Jack up the car and hand scrub the wheel wells.
2)Tooth brush and degreaser to clean the exhaust tip, also some steel wool pads.
3)Spray car with water section by section and soap an water that panel only. I go over the whole car like that.
4)Hand dry the car and all the door jams, hood jams, and trunk jams.
5) Go over portions of car with Scratch X remover from Meguirs.
6) Go over some portions with polishing compound.
7)Go over the whole car with a dark polisher.
8) Use wax that actually has car color pigments in it and wax the whole car.
9)Go over the whole car with an air compressor to blow all the dust, polish pad bits off of it.
10) Wax my windows.
11) Vacuum all of the inside and go over it all wish a Q-tip and compressed air can to clean out vents and tight spots around my tuning computers.
12)Rag sprayed with armor all on the tires. I use a amplicator so when you drive the excess doesnt splatter all on the sides of the car.

I do this 2 sundays a month. I start at 8am and finish at about 7pm. I wait to wax it till its dusk and the car is cool and shaded. Since skydiving I do this 1 time a month now.:P Photo below show the results.

Joe
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Maybe I'll get that crazy with my next ride. I'm thinking of buying something pretty HIGH DOLLAR after I start my next job. Plus I'll have two months at a time off to do nothing but enjoy life. Of course.....I'll probably be washing my Dually and 5th wheel since I want to be DZ Mobile. B| I was kinda diggin something like Skymonkeyone's set up.

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