Jamz3k

My car looks like its been attacked by a case of Super-aids but personally i think its too cold to wash it and i'm too skint to get someone else to wash it what the **** is a man to do in a situation like this?

Personally i've drank enough tonight that i'm tempted to do it myself right now but i am concerned that i may create swirls in my paintwork due to the poor lighting conditions and being rubbered

yours truely



James Esq.

WRX_Dazza

leave it mate !!!
it will be rank in about 200 yrds of using it again !!!

just do what i do and follow a lorry close behind in the rain, that tends to clean the front a bit !!

fatherpierre

I don't wash it in summer!!

Jamz3k

To be fair thou, you don't drive an Alfa. Imagine is everything, thirst doesn't really come into it. How am i supposed to bring all the girls to the yard with a dirty Alfa?

fatherpierre

Plus an Alfa will fall to bits (quicker) unless kept clean.

ScoobyWon't

I'm not convinced a meeting of water and the wiring of an Alfa should be risked.

Jamz3k

true which is a worry with the amount of salt on the road at this time of the year!

RA Dunk

Winter time is probably the most important time out of the whole year to give it a regular clean, all that salt dosent do it favours and dosent take to long to start corroding things either

fatherpierre

Aye, my old mercs don't get used and stay in the garage and generally unused this time of year. Just the odd run to keep em going when it's dry and nice.

The Dogs B******s

I was going to wash mine today,but couldn't be arsed

nick172sport

iTrader: (6)

same as me got some one else to wash it a week ago no point its as black as they come now to could freeze mi bollocks off all week so **** washin my car

Glowplug

iTrader: (8)

Far too cold for a proper wash n wax

Quick jet wash to remove the ****

Can you imagine trying to wax in this

WRX_Dazza

give it a jetwash down the local cleanpark £3 or so should rid most salt deposits.

rally slag scoobs look good filthy, so thats my excuse !!

tarmac terror

iTrader: (2)

Jamz, you live near the sea dont you.... Back her down the the slipway then turn her round and put her down it nose first, should take the rough off her!!!

Jamz3k

mine looks like a BTCC slag Alfa WRX_Dazza is this acceptable?

WRX_Dazza

Jamz, its all good bruv

just waiting for photobucket to kick in and i'll show you a work in progress on dirt !!

Jamz3k

A few week ago I was down at whitehead picking out stones for my fish at the beech and i have to say the slipway was tempting me.

Go on big lawd! I may do the same tomorrow after doing the Islandmagee 500 rally track!

WRX_Dazza

day 1, just a primer of dirt:-



hoping for a good 2nd coat tomorrow !!

Jamz3k

Looking good Dazza the more Rally Slag pics the better imo!

WRX_Dazza

upsets the purists, dontcha know !!!

Jamz3k

If some purist 40 year old virgin from ther internets doen't like it **** em! You love it and thats all that matters!

CrisPDuk

I must confess to quite liking the way the Golf looks at the minute

I left it sat on our snow covered works car park in the sun yesterday, in amongst all the shiny rep-mobiles, just totally absorbing any light that came near it, giving absloutley no clue as to what colour it might have been when it left the factory

WRX_Dazza

hahaha love it.... this thread requires more pics me thinks....

Jamz3k

i will get pics up tomorrow i just fear it may be illegal for me to get within a meter of my car at the mo!

CrisPDuk

You'll be OK so long as you don't have the keys on your person

eggy790

iTrader: (20)

in winter i dont wash the car myself

have a mobile valeter who comes to my house to wash it.

£15 (regular customer price, normally £5 a wheel and no free wash) for a wash and wax along with all 4 alloys cleaned! absolutely spotless, front and back, better his hands breaking when they hit the caliper by accident than mine lol although he usually takes the wheel off if he's not happy with the work

does extras like polishing etc at an additional cost too

both parties hapy, he's coming today at 11am :P

tarmac terror

iTrader: (2)

Ahhhhh, such foolishness - you can see a few days worth of dirt has already rotted away the rear spolier. I'd give it a week there will be nothing but a drive train and block left.

Leslie

Worth giving the car a good coat of wax before the winter starts and keeping the worst of the crud off it to prevent water seeping into the cracks.

Les

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Who cares, its the middle of winter and perhaps a covering of grime, salt and snow will cover up the fact its an Alfa and people might think its something half decent under there !

PS, only joking,

Regards, the 39 year old virgin from the internet.

CrisPDuk

Here's one of the Golf taken before it snowed on Thursday;



I was actually contemplating washing it this weekend, but have since changed my mind