Nick1

Is it safe to take a scooby with the prodrive rear wing through a car wash?

Don't fancy comming out the other side without the rear wing

Disco

I've never tried with the STI5, and wouldn't want to either for safety.

(Dont be so lazy)

simb 2

iTrader: (3)

Not worth the risk, I'd say it would get ripped off, not only that think of all the grit in the brushes. Dig out the bucket and sponge!!

Nick1

LOL @ DISCO

I know what you mean but I wont be until 6:30 tonight and my wife has arranged visitors at 7pm for the evening and i am leaving for Japfest @ 5am in the morning.

No time to hand wash and wax car

Maybe I could take it to one of the jetwash places

By the way DISCO how are the PIAA wipers?

Disco

Oo sorry about wipers, I'll post up now.


Drop the car round mine I'll do it for £50!

m18use

Put mine through with the prodrive wing on and it was ok,
i sat nervously watching behind though

Nick1

£50... does that include and ECU remap

Cheers for posting about the wipers. Guess I will see you tomorrow, can't rememebr where you are meeting

Foot_Tapper

To be honest, i wouldnt put a scoob through a standard car wash.
You'll get hundreds of small marks on the paintwork.
Hand wash or jet only for me.

Nick1

Cheers Foot_Trapper I will go to one of those jet wash centres

Disco

Sorry couldn't stretch to a new map for £50, but I could find a Collins Atlas of some kindg

vindaloo

The P1 addendum leaflet says don't do it!

Nick1

Thanks for your comments guys

I will either go to a jet wash tonight if I can find one open or when my friends come round I will turn it into a car wash party and give them all a bucket and sponge LOL

markscooby

Yes you can bung it through the car wash with a rear wing, but their crap and only clean half the car, get your sponge out!

Tiny

Trying to do mine in the garage without getting it to wet , Will be taking me stuff down to C/C to do it again in the morning as well!!
Tiny...

yoza

Check out the thread in WWW.5ive-o.com,in law related area

Mark Underwood

If you drive your car to a drive thru car wash you'll really regret it...why? Cos you'll mark the paintwork with thousands of fine lines..........you have been warned.

Subaru paintwork is less than half the thickness of European paints and as such it marks really easily.

Silver Scooby Sport

iTrader: (15)

CAR WASH !!!!!!! you must me mad to even consider it ???

CEL

iTrader: (1)

One of the lads at work took megane through the car was a few months ago, ripped the small spoiler clean off the boot

I personally wouldnt go near them

Jimmy wrx

Mark Underwood has somed it up in one

skoosh

DON'T DO IT MATE !!!!

I took a mark 1 MR2 through a carwash a few years ago and it ripped the spoiler clean off and also bent the boot lid aa well as lifting the car up off the ground at the back. Fortunately there ws no disclaimer at the garage and they paid for a brand new bootlid and spoiler from Toyota, total bill £960 ! Next day there was a disclaimer put up, I was very fortunate, although Toyota had to have the car back 4 times due to really crap spray job.

Skoosh.

Steve A

Why bother it is going to be pi**ing down tomorrow

Nick1

PMSL

Leslie

Most carwash brushes are hard on the paint, cant beat a Jetwash for doing a safe job and getting all the crud off from under the wings etc.

Les

47 NAT

...or call your local mobile valeter. Should cost about £12.50+ for inside and out, unless your tight

Nath

slacker

i do often consider when my Sti8 looks like its just come back from a trip to the farm but would never actually do it. theres one set up at my local shell station and the guy who operates it said, we get all sorts here. we got a guy with a rear wing stuck on with double sided tape (i think it was a corolla...LOL), but for the majority of cars that have wings we usually give them a semi-solid push and pull to see if they can withstand it but we always tell the owner that the risk is theirs and if it comes off then nowt to do with us

so i wouldn't do it personally...

MAC76

I am in love with my Subaru , i cant control it ! , i cant stop thinking about her 24/7

DreXeL

I put mine through a car wash once and regret it now. In certain lights at certain angles you can see 'hazy' parts in the paint, with nice scratches running through them. It's not noticable atall unless under certain conditions, but it's there.

barge

Get Aran to wash it for you


personaly I would not use a car wash on anything worth more that the car token