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11/03/2020 at 12:52 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
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Neighbours car quite well needed wash.
Pre-wash, snow foamed, washed, then tar remover next.
then fallout remover,
door shuts cleaned and sealed.
re-washed, rinsed and then snow foam sealed.
satin wheels came up nice
Interior full clean and seal, leather surfaces sealed, piano gloss surfaces carefully cleaned and buffed.
E90M3
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:00 |
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I quite like the A-Class hatch, it’s too bad they don’t sell them here, not that I’d buy one as it’d be way too much money.
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> E90M3
11/03/2020 at 13:04 |
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Likewise. I’d be very tempted by the RS3 hatchback if it was available. But it isn’t, and I don’t want a tiny sedan.....
Poor_Sh
> E90M3
11/03/2020 at 13:09 |
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I really like the exterior, but that interior is just nowhere near what I’d want. But yeah, sad not to see them over here. One of the few Mercedes I actually like the look of these days.
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Poor_Sh
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:09 |
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Great job! Looks factory fresh.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:15 |
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That's a good looking hatch. We get the horrible GLA instead though.
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Svend
> Poor_Sh
11/03/2020 at 13:17 |
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Cheers. It didn’t need much inside but one or two spots needed attention.
The exterior already has a few stone chips I’ll need to address in due course.
Khalbali
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:17 |
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Love the a-class, we don't get the hatch but I'd love a nicely depreciated sedan all the same.
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Svend
> E90M3
11/03/2020 at 13:18 |
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I like it, but it’s quite a bit smaller than Sandy the Superb and I’d feel a bit hemmed in.
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E90M3
> WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
11/03/2020 at 13:27 |
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The sedan just has the wrong proportions. I rented an A3 hatch when I was in the UK, and I quite liked it.
Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:29 |
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Piano black trim has no place in a car. It looks terrible the moment you open the door and a tiny spec of dust lands on it.
Lookin good though. I wish Merc would sell the A Class hatch here. Not that I’d buy one.
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Svend
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/03/2020 at 13:32 |
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It’s nice looking but blends in too much with the other hatches, nothing about it really stands out.
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Poor_Sh
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:33 |
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Given your experience with a range of car ages, have you seen actual evidence of my anecdotal belief that paint on modern cars chips much easier than on older ones?
If so, any idea why? My thought is maybe the metal is thinner now or a different material which is more flexible/malleable which breaks the brittle paint shell. Older steel body panels likely wouldn’t flex as much. Then again it could be more traffic, therefore more garbage in streets, higher speeds possible with today’s cars, etc etc etc
Longtime Lurker
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:33 |
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Someone has a yellow A45 AMG hatch in the next neighborhood. Quite the looker.
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Svend
> Poor_Sh
11/03/2020 at 13:37 |
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Judging by the brake dust on the wheels, the amount of tar splatter going quite a wat back from the front wheel arches and the amount of fallout removed from further forward than if the car had been driven from a safe distance behind other cars, I’d say the owner has been driving quite close, but not too close, behind other cars then driven at speed in semi rural areas.
So all in all, he’s pretty much asked for those chips.
Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:37 |
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If I could get one in yellow, i t would be hard for me to ever really want another car.
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Svend
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/03/2020 at 13:38 |
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When the weather is more favourable I’ll be ceramic coating all the piano gloss areas inside and outside the car to add a little more scratch protection.
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Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:39 |
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Once you scratch it, there’s no going back. It’s too late for my own car.
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Poor_Sh
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:43 |
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Victim blaming! lol but yeah I sometimes hear some plinking on my bumper before realizing I need to back off from the car/truck in front to avoid their backscatter.
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Svend
> Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
11/03/2020 at 13:44 |
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It can be done, quite easily. Just need a little patience taping the area, very light polish, buff and seal.
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Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 13:49 |
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I really need to polish the black plastic on the b pillars of my car. They are starting to fade and really need attention. Last time I saw my car (as I’m away at college and it is at home) it really was getting to be absolutely filthy. I’m glad I have weathertec mats and put on a fresh coat of wax before I left.
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Svend
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
11/03/2020 at 13:51 |
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The yellow A35 AMG Premium Plus looks good.
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Svend
> Longtime Lurker
11/03/2020 at 13:56 |
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The 2016 MB A Class, 2.0 A45 AMG Petronas 2015 World Championship Edition 376bhp was a looker.
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Svend
> Poor_Sh
11/03/2020 at 13:59 |
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I love cleaning cars, not just looking, listening and feeling what the car is telling me needs doing to make it clean in the safest possible way but also what the car is telling me about the owner and their driving habits.
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Poor_Sh
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 14:01 |
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You’re an Oppositelock Holmes. Powers of deduction used to investigate people based on their car conditions haha
Nom De Plume
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 14:08 |
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I remember a time when MB wasn’t a lifestyle accessory company and showed some grasp of their place in the automotive industry throug distinct absence of an A class AMG variant.
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Svend
> Nom De Plume
11/03/2020 at 14:16 |
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I loved the old M ercs of the 90s, they had a discreet presence, they weren’t show off’y and garish.
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Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 14:33 |
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I’m not sold on the rear wing yet, maybe if it was body colored. In any case, I would still gladly drive it unti l its wheels fell off!
Textured Soy Protein
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 14:50 |
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In America it would stand out by the mere fact of being a Mercedes hatchback which hardly anybody has seen here.
One of my neighbors is a diplomat/consulate staff of some kind and has both a B-Class that they obviously brought here from somewhere else, plus a 1st gen Smart. Both of which fit in their teensy little driveway front to back no problem.
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Textured Soy Protein
> E90M3
11/03/2020 at 14:51 |
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The A35 can be bought in Canada.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/03/2020 at 15:01 |
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The 1st gen GLA45 AMG does a pretty good job of making the GLA look decent, and can be had with the silly aero kit to make it more hot hatch looking, even if it has too much crossover-y cladding.
It got a little better looking after the 2018 facelift.
The new GLA is much more crossover-y shaped. The 35 without the aero kit barely looks like an AMG at all.
The 45 with the aero kit is just stupid enough, perhaps.
feather-throttle-not-hair
> Svend
11/03/2020 at 15:27 |
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This is just one of the many reasons to give lots of space when following someone.
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Svend
> Poor_Sh
11/03/2020 at 16:04 |
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Unfortunately Watson left my company.
When he asked why I put citrus fruit up his butt , he did not appreciate my reply, ‘a lemon entry, my dear Watson’.
Off topic but worth a look.
Have a read and a laugh about this.
http://thetaleofsirbob.blogspot.com/2013/07/watson-and-other-excitable-characters.html
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Hopefully, this heading did not make you ejaculate with shock! Recently, I watched the first episode of the QI J-season, and after a particularly entertaining passage on language and literature, I ejaculated with joy. However, I did so not in the most common modern sense of the word, but in the late 18th century sense. The e comes from latin out (of) while iaculor is to throw or hurl (like a javelin) , so while re-ject means to throw/send something back and e-ject means to throw/send something out, an ejaculation used to be just any kind of outburst.
In this particular QI episode, the use of the word in the Sherlock Holmes canon was the object of much mirth. There are 23 ejaculations in the canon, all of which presumably intended to be verbal, but like imagining Frodo and Sam as lovers in The Lord of the Rings , once you’ve thought it you can’t un-think it and you’re scarred for life:
This is just a few, though, and so you might ask, “Surely, this must be something for someone with a blog on literature! Why not the lot?” And you did, to which I reply, “Enjoy!”
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You must have observed the way in which he held his head and swung his cane. A steady, respectable, middle-aged man, too, on the face of him—all facts which led me to believe that he had been a sergeant.”
“Wonderful!” I ejaculated.
“Commonplace,” said Holmes
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Simple as it was, there were several most instructive points about it.”
“Simple!” I ejaculated.
“Well, really, it can hardly be described as otherwise,” said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise.
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“NOW, WATSON,” said Holmes, rubbing his hands, “we have half an hour to ourselves. Let us make good use of it. My case is, as I have told you, almost complete; but we must not err on the side of over-confidence. Simple as the case seems now, there may be something deeper underlying it.”
“Simple!” I ejaculated.
Lol.