Polishing your vehicle

[numbnuts]

I live in a flat on first floor and the carpark is 63M away, my car cleaning equipment is in a lockup some 100M away
So I go the the garage pick up my bucket, electric pump, and 5 gallons water container, I take that to the car.
I pick up the 5 gallon container and fill up at my flat, I've got a small trolley for the water, then go and clean the car,
and then have to put it all way again, it's a bit of a work up, but I refuse to pay £13 to have it hand washed.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I used to wash mine regularly before we went on a water meter, about 75% less now.

 

[presta]

I once went to see a Granada that was for sale, and immaculate it looked too. The owner obviously doted on it, and even gave me a lecture on how to polish it: "straight lines from front to back you understand, not round in circles". Anyhow when I looked closely, it was covered in grey patches where he'd polished holes in the top coat all the way through to the primer.

 

[Drago]

I once went to see a Granada that was for sale, and immaculate it looked too. The owner obviously doted on it, and even gave me a lecture on how to polish it: "straight lines from front to back you understand, not round in circles". Anyhow when I looked closely, it was covered in grey patches where he'd polished holes in the top coat all the way through to the primer.

That used to be a moderately common sight as late as the 1980s as people were for some reason keen to use abrasive polishes a lot.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

That used to be a moderately common sight as late as the 1980s as people were for some reason keen to use abrasive polishes a lot.

Polishes have had to be made much less abrasive these days now that paint is not allowed to kill you to death anymore.

 

[cyberknight]

Every couple of weeks does me, the car is barely used .the old car got cleaned maybe once a month.

 

[tyred]

Polish? Not familiar with that word. Where's my dictionary?

 

[stephec]

Company car driver since 1998 so it gets a wash whenever it goes in for service, at least I think it does.

 

[Seevio]

Polish? Not familiar with that word. Where's my dictionary?

It's when you export your car to Poland.

 

[Baldy]

As it happens, I gave mine it's annaul wash yesterday if it passes it's MOT it'll get another in about a year, or two.