"Svend" (svend)
02/25/2018 at 11:52 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
02/25/2018 at 11:52 • Filed to: None | 4
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The weekend is the only time I can get the neighbour’s daughter’s car done and as I am off work using up my holidays before the end of the contract year and will be off for 13 nights I asked if I could give the car a once over, her friend Sophie was staying over so gave her Ford Ka a going over too.
Befores. Just traffic film really, nothing great.
However the Ford Ka lives out in the country and had been driven over some fresh new road and was covered in tar spots all the war along the sides and up the rear.
AutoFinesse ObliTARate making short shift of it though, spray on, let dwell, wipe off, job done.
Leisurely two hours in total.
Degrease, spray wheels with wheel cleaner, pressure rinse, wash with HydroFoam (shampoo and sealant), pressure rinse to activate, dry. (Ka was degreased and rinsed, de-tarred, wiped down with sealant), tyres and wheel arches dressed, glass wiped down.
Afters. (Sophie needed to use her car mid-wash hence why it’s parked on the other side of the road).
MrDakka
> Svend
02/25/2018 at 12:42 |
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What’s a Renault elf?
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Svend
> MrDakka
02/25/2018 at 12:45 |
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You had me thinking I miss spelled something for a second then remembered it’s a Renault and ELF lubricants partnership. Renault has recommended ELF products as far back as I can remember.
BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> MrDakka
02/25/2018 at 13:04 |
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Almost every Renault I’ve seen had one of those stickers (including mine). The Renault-Elf relationship started sometime in the 70s when both were owned by the French government, and has continued since then, both in the form of racing partnerships, as recommendation stickers on passenger cars.
AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
> Svend
02/25/2018 at 14:01 |
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Wait so do you vomunteer to clean your neighbor’s cars? Or is it like an ongoing plan you both have where you charger her each month?
Also, side note, if you remove the car names in the first paragraph this story would take on a much different theme.
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Svend
> AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
02/25/2018 at 14:25 |
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I clean cars to relax, I don’t take money or gifts. For me it’s a way to put the world on hold for a while. It’s a standing thing I do neighbours cars. I can go up to most houses, ask for the car keys and be given them, no questions.
The cars have been on here before.
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AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
> Svend
02/25/2018 at 20:32 |
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Wow that’s cool of you to do. I think in the states most people would never give their keys to a neighbor to wash since they’re afraid the neighbor would do something illegal with it. Guess it goes to show what the country is like here versus the UK.
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Svend
> AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
02/25/2018 at 21:40 |
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I think there are people just as weird as me in the U.S.
I enjoy doing it and found money complicates things.
I only do cars that belong to people who care about them.
If you ask me to clean your car and say, ‘usually I don’t care about it as it’s just a thing to get from A to B but the other half is badgering me to get it cleaned’, I’d just reply, ‘well if you don’t care about your car, there is no reason for me to’.
I like doing it for the satisfaction of something achieved, a clean car to the best of my abilities or best of what time I have, and a happy owner who likes and enjoys a clean car but just doesn’t have the time, energy, inclination or ability to do it themselves.