Shiny! (Clean car)

KMC said:
IF you paid for paint protection it already has paint seal cream applied. The only additional products apart from ph neutral shampoo is Supagard Gloss enhancer. It is a pink cream & a pea on your applicator is enough for a panel.wipe on evenly & simply buff off with the supplied soft cloth. The official Supagard seller I recommended on ebay sold it to me for £17:95 delivered but I haven’t had chance to try it on mine as yet.
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I did pay for paint protection, and got the Supagard ph neutral shampoo in the cleaning kit that came with the car, so part of the way there. It does come clean so easily, and I guess that's down tot he paint seal. The paint seal cream says a reapplication now and again to keep it topped up is needed. I will look at the gloss enhancer after next payday. Thanks for the advice.

Ian Key said:
I guess a V8 Landy and it's locked away to stop your wife using it and spending thousands on petrol 😁
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No, I have a V8 Range Rover, and it won't fit in the garage.

OriginalBigAl said:
Get a cuppa.

In 2015 a 16 year old Sicilian, Maurice, came to Bristol to study English history at one of the many fine colleges. Between lectures he would tour the museums and attempt to improve his very poor English. To fund this adventure, he found work as a pizza artisan in a restaurant which claimed to be authentic Italian but was owned by a red-necked, bigoted , ****hole of a man (you know the type). Maurice was a great find and business boomed, giving an authenticity previously lacking. As this work started to develop Maurice's muscles, and his olive-skinned tone reflected in the wood-fired ovens, Maurice also became a great hit with the ladies of Bristol. His few words of English (I ama the Maurice with a Parisian dialect) rang around the restaurant as he span his dough with only the flourish and skill a Sicilian could manage, whilst bigot man enjoyed the profits. His hatred of Maurice intensified and he vowed vengeance.

Moving on to the start of covid, and shutdowns began and the effects of "the vote", Maurice thought, time to go home. Bigot man in an unexpected moment of kindness bought him a bus ticket to get to Portsmouth to catch one of the last ferries available for some time. Maurice quickly packed and rushed to the bus station, only on arrival to find biggoty had found a ticket for yesterday's bus. Destitute and on the street, his English never needed to improve. Inarticulate, he sat in a car park and almost cried. By fortune Mr D Simpkins happened to be passing. A kind man by nature (to be amended later?) he recognised Maurice, as pizza was one of his family's passions and the restaurant was regularly visited.

Seeing the mess that Maurice was in they took him in, but as the times were uncertain, secretly. Maurice was given the garage to live in, a bed, small kitchenette, and a wood-fired pizza oven with chimney were installed. Happy with his redemption Maurice set to work producing the best pizzas of his life. The neighbours, unhappy with the carcinogenic wood smoke, were pacified by the bread-based treats being exported from the Simpkins residence, although they had no idea how!

To improve his English Maurice was given a CD, Divine Comedy's Greatest Hits, which unfortunately contained the tracks National Express and There's something in the Woodshed. These started to prey on Maurice's mind, and with his knowledge of Bristol's rise of wealth and history and longing to return to Sicily, decided that when all the restrictions were over he'd be off, although thankful for the civility shown to him. This was also exacerbated by the fact that Mr D owing to "the vote" was now unable to access the right ingredients needed for the quality of pizza required by Maurice; Dairylea and ketchup and inferior flour just don't cut it.

The neighbours, now bereft of their snacks, started questioning the pollution. Fortunately Mr D bought an MG4 and the wood oven went and was replaced by an electric one, which was run by the V2L from the new car which of course could not access the garage. Unfortunately the ingredient problem was insurmountable and Maurice packed his bags, leaving the CD. Mrs D, distraught, decided that some of the pizza profits would go to a classic Italian car to be kept as a keepsake to the memory of Maurice (a name they always pronounced with a northern twang), so she bought a 1980s Morris Ital 1.3 in beige (like the dough) and that now takes pride of place in its cosy oven-heated garage.
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A lovely story, and I do love pizza, especially authentic pizza, and although this is fiction, if those circumstances presented themselves, Maurice would be able to use the wood fired pizza oven in the garden, and our spare room.

The Morris Ital is pure fiction, but my friend had one, and my first car was an Austin Maestro (so not far off!)
 
salty said:
A car cleaning cul-de-sac. 🙂👍
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With a heated warehouse at the end large enough to have a wet bay for washing, a dry bay for waxing and cleaning the interior and a bay with a lift for tinkering. Also a seated area with a coffee machine so those who aren't cleaning their cars can voice their opinions on those that are.

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Rolfe said:
Something I've been meaning to ask, birdshit aside, is there much benefit to garaging a car regularly as opposed to leaving it parked outside? I see a lot of cars that have never been in a garage in their lives looking pretty good, and I think I read somewhere that garages can hold the damp and promote rust.
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UV will damage the paint if the car is left outside. So a carport would suffice.
 
Blacksmith said:
UV will damage the paint if the car is left outside. So a carport would suffice.
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Car ports tend to be better for vehicles as most of the time the air is circulating, no condensation. No UV under a good car port either and out of the rain/fallout. Many garages will attract condensation, mostly invisible unless a dehumidifier is used but then that adds cost/hassle.
 
It sounds like a lot here like me enjoy cleaning their cars + I like to look after them

& we spend a fortune on shampoos, waxes, ceramic sprays, glass sealants etc ..

Does anyone remember back in your teenage years, Sunday morning ( if the weather was nice ) 2 buckets of hot water with Fairy Liquid added, an old bath towel probably ripped in half that was used to wash the car,

Next it was 2 buckets of clean water that was just thrown over the car & then borrowed dad’s shammy leather where you needed arms of a power lifter to rinse out properly?

The car still looked nice after 👍😂
 
Adam C said:
It sounds like a lot here like me enjoy cleaning their cars + I like to look after them

& we spend a fortune on shampoos, waxes, ceramic sprays, glass sealants etc ..

Does anyone remember back in your teenage years, Sunday morning ( if the weather was nice ) 2 buckets of hot water with Fairy Liquid added, an old bath towel probably ripped in half that was used to wash the car,

Next it was 2 buckets of clean water that was just thrown over the car & then borrowed dad’s shammy leather where you needed arms of a power lifter to rinse out properly?

The car still looked nice after 👍😂
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Oh, the good old swirly paint days 😒
 
dsimpkins said:
The Morris Ital is pure fiction, but my friend had one, and my first car was an Austin Maestro (so not far off!)
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Both fantastic cars - we had one Ital and two Maestros. The Ital was 1.7 O series and the Maestros were the 2.0 turbo diesels. And I also had two Maestro diesel vans again with the 2.0 turbo diesels the first of which did way over 200,000 miles and then broke down one day
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Ian Key said:
They can do unless the car is put away dry or in an air conditioned garage with a dehumidifier. A carport is probably the best us mere mortals can do.

Another advantage of parking the car on the drive is your insurance might be lower than if its kept in a garage.
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Apparently this has changed now. The thought is that if you park your car on the road it's cheaper.
1 because if it's garaged or on the drive you can cause damage getting out of the garage and of the drive.
2 more people have front door cameras so more likely to see someone attempting to steal your car .
Can't seem to remember where I read that seems to make sense to me.
 
siteguru said:
Intrigued about this - why? Surely it's more protected and a reduced theft risk if in the garage? Do they think there's a greater risk of accidental damage when getting in and out of the garage?
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^^^^^ This, me. So little space in my garage once the car's in, actually no space for moisture!!
 
Took the bucket and sponge to the other seagull magnet this morning. It was filthy from a trip to Tortworth Lake last weekend along some muddy tracks. Have a new micro fibre drying towel and it's amazing! Saved me loads of time.
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Also, for those of you wondering what my wife's pride and joy is. Well here it is. Her very first car, and restored back in 2000-2002. Only comes out when the sun shines now.
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