This'll make the detailer's hair stand on end.....

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guydewdney

guydewdney

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Just washed my car - starting with the wheels. Utterly filthy, black with dust, mud, poo, you name it. Cleaned the spilt veg oil off with Simoniz Alloy Cleaner (black bottle - seems to be an end of line product). OK so far?

Yeah - so I tried it on the spilt oil around the filler cap. Wow - got that all off in a minute. So I did the whole car! :eek:

Only left it on for a minute or three, but did a better job than anything else I have tried. Fiver a bottle. Looks all shiny. Thoroughly washed it off with a karcher jet wash, especially behind the side body trims which seem to hold muck.
 
I cleaned mine this afternoon, dodging the raindrops.

It has to be done - I can't drive a dirty car :devil:.
 
Just pulling yer leg. Its what some of the detailers do to compare the beading of waxes (I might be totally wrong, but that's what I think I remember seeing on a detail thread)
 
I washed mine earlier , and was lucky it started raining just before the end , so I didn't have to leather it off !! :thumb:
 
Howard said:
I washed mine earlier , and was lucky it started raining just before the end , so I didn't have to leather it off !! :thumb:
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If you use rainwater to wash it, you don't need to leather it off anyway, it dries sparkling.

I once saw a chap had stopped and was washing his car in a layby in the pouring rain.
 
I used the hardest London water I could ...
 
Dieselman said:
If you use rainwater to wash it, you don't need to leather it off anyway, it dries sparkling.
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Whilst we're away I wash our caravan in the rain. It not only saves leathering but it saves carrying water and throwing it high enough to do the top! ;)

I usually do it wearing my swimming shorts too. The neighbours must get concerned about their safety with the 'man washing his caravan wearing Speedos' next door :D
 
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That's because their buckets were full of coal.
 
Dieselman said:
Not quite, it was in Lincolnshire... ;)
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Yellow bellies don't normally like getting wet...

If it had been a Yorkshireman, he'd have got the old imperial leather and loofer out and been giving himself a good wesh!
 
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