Car Cleaning

"LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com" (limitedtimeonly) 01/04/2020 at 12:10 • Filed to: Clean is relative, svended, cleaning

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I know that many here lovingly detail their cars. By contrast, today was a good day because my cars are back to basic cleanliness. The Outback got all of the nasty salt washed away and I apologized to it for subjecting it to northern weather and treated roads , if only briefly.

More importantly I took a glass scraper razor to the GTI. I took off very resistant dots of something on the windshield tha t had been annoying me for months. Also scraped off the remnants of the autocross season tech sticker that had become a mess. And I VERY CAREFULLY chipped off the fossilized gum that had adhered to the front of my hood. Oh, so much better, and no obvious paint damage.

Soon I’ll call in a pro to Svend the car and hopefully the residual gum marking can be repaired, or at least look like the paint chips already taken out of the hood. I should probably have paint correction done now that it has 52k hard miles.

Svend > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com 01/04/2020 at 12:18

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With the weather and my health, it’s been a while since I properly cleaned a car. Hopefully I will be able to get back to it soon. 

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > Svend 01/04/2020 at 12:24

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I hope so. You are an inspiration to us all. Even if some, like me, don't take it so seriously, it's good to see cleaning done right. 

Svend > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com 01/04/2020 at 12:34

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Thanks mate. I wish I wasn’t so poor as to be able to get a lovely garage to clean in, somewhere with a nice kitchenette and a small bed to bed down in from time to time. 

Nibby > Svend 01/04/2020 at 12:46

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svend has been slacking!

Svend > Nibby 01/04/2020 at 13:00

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Ye’, I got three cars ‘washed’ only in December in one day . It was cold but I needed to get the majority of the crud off.

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Oppenheimer - not missing my shitboxes anymore > Svend 01/04/2020 at 15:29

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Go t the Jazz in March 8th, washed it twice only. S hame on me.

Svend > Oppenheimer - not missing my shitboxes anymore 01/04/2020 at 16:44

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I know a guy, known him for about 20 years, when I lived with him I used to clean the company car he used, it was one of two pool cars that was shared amongst over a dozen drivers and I was the only one to ever clean it.

Later he bought himself a Mk2 Focus. I washed it once, when it was (to him) eight years old, that is the only time it’s been given a proper wash during his near 15 years of owning the car. It now gets used as a ‘dog car’, used to take his black lab Alfie to walks, etc... the rest of the family refuse to get into the car as it’s so filthy and smelly.