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markjay said:Car wash today:
renault12ts said:Tfr?
Traffic Film Remover
Traffic film remover
Basically truck wash.
It's a cutting agent used similar to acid for wheels but not as harsh or acidic.
I posted at the same time as the poster above me. I know what TFR is. I was asking MJ if he thought that's what the problem was.
It's a hand car wash. It's in an underground car park. A place I have been using for years but now under new management, apparently.
I use one of these and was planning to entrust them with the post-two-thousand-mile-blast-through-France clean on my slab-fronted Discovery.
I appreciate you may not want to on open forum but would you mind naming exactly which one on a PM in case it is the one I use as I'd imagine they would use a lot of TFR or similar to cope with my dead bug collection.
I appreciate you may not want to on open forum but would you mind naming exactly which one on a PM in case it is the one I use as I'd imagine they would use a lot of TFR or similar to cope with my dead bug collection.
All of the standard hand car wash places will use TFR in some form or other. How they dilute it and how quickly they rinse it off remains to be seen though.
Sadly with a lot of car washes their aim is to get cars through the door as quickly as possible so they'll use harsher chemicals that clean more quickly, unfortunately they're not always the most friendly either.
I think the issue is that the damage usually shows after a while and they know that it is nigh on impossible to demonstrate which car wash caused the damage.
I think the issue is that the damage usually shows after a while and they know that it is nigh on impossible to demonstrate which car wash caused the damage.
Even in my case where I drove back to the car wash immediately, the manager (owner?) was grumpy and kept muttering that they wash dozens of cars every day and never had a problem.
Although, to his credit I will say that he refrained from calling me a liar outright and did apply some (token) effort to correct the damage, could have been worst....
I did not take him up on his offer to come back another day when his 'Autoglym guy' will try and buff it out. Firstly life is too short, and then if it can be buffed out, I'll get someone who knows what they are doing to buff it out (can't cost too much buffing out a small area).
If not - I'll live with it.... the car is now 10 years old and I find it difficult both practically and mentally to keep maintaining it in 'as new' condition - even my OCD has to let go at some point. *sigh*
And my COMMAND NTG2.5 is still on maps v10.0 even though v13.0 is now out... Yes the standards are slipping in MJ Cardom
You have been set free MJ, enjoy it while it lasts for when you buy a new car again the clock resets back to being fussy about such stuff.
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