First long road trip

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But Mrs S is adamant we will get a hybrid next time round, because she hates hanging around for the charging.

How does she feel about the massively increased risk of fires that hybrids are prone to?

 

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Is that a thing?

 

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Maybe she will be tempted back to fossil, then?

I'm still an EV nut!

 

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Washed the MG post trip.

Got rid of the most humongous bird poop. Covered several panels with huge splats. Must have been an albatross that had eaten cement. Took ages to soak off.

The insect spatter evaded my washing: the car was not ceramic coated beforehand and I found I had run out of bug removal spray...

Also washed my PiLs car. It was beginning to get on my OCDs t*ts......

Sadly, I forgot to take a before picture. It was all awful, but the roof was the worst. There was gunk in all the nooks and crannies, underneath the roof rails, and the window rubbers were caked with stuff that had solidified. The rear wiper: I had never seen anything like it! It had mud and moss and lichen all along the crevices of the blade and arm and it needed soaking for 30 minutes to even begin to soften it up and start removing the crud.

The lower panels had tar spots galore, some of which I got off with TFR, but I hadn't got anything suitable to actually dissolve the tar.

But.....it looks a whole heap better than it did, and my eyelid doesn't twitch when I see it anymore!

It still needs the tar removing, clay barring, and a flipping good polishing, followed by a wax.

Or a ceramic coating.

I spent absolutely hours on the silver car, but having done 2, I was well up for doing number two lad's car, an i30 estate, but wanted help with it. Went upstairs to see if he was up for it.

He was asleep!
It was Mrs S's 60th birthday party last night and he was in the garden at 4am when I went to bed.... I still got up at 8.30, though!

Might do it tomorrow, I'll see how I feel.
I love taking a really filthy vehicle and making it pop.