friday old men are always young enough to learn

hopkinb wrote:

I take mine to the Romanians at Tesco when I can no longer see the paintwork or seats. £15 inside and out, plus a fiver tip cos it's so grotty.

Park the car in my street. That'll pi$$ the neighbours off.

Garry H wrote:

"Washing Cars", is that a thing?

Apparently.

I hope you are sitting down - the sun has popped out.

I have a jet wash. Thought it was for washing the kids.

Stopped raining over here and the wind has gone. Midges are out in force though.

hopkinb wrote:

I take mine to the Romanians at Tesco when I can no longer see the paintwork or seats. £15 inside and out, plus a fiver tip cos it's so grotty.

You've been diddled mate. The Albanians round here do inside and out for a tenner

Busy day and just collecting Stropteen so will update when I've opened the various packages that have arrived in the post over the last couple of days...

seanoconn wrote:

Anyone notice that ballysmate is hanging round like a bad smell lately?
Get a life Bally. :roll:

That's it, I'm flouncing.

Ballysmate wrote:

hopkinb wrote:

I take mine to the Romanians at Tesco when I can no longer see the paintwork or seats. £15 inside and out, plus a fiver tip cos it's so grotty.

Car washers round these here parts tend not to be from Romanian extraction. They tend to look more like members of the Taliban.

Have you moved to Luton?

Pinno wrote:

Ballysmate wrote:

hopkinb wrote:

I take mine to the Romanians at Tesco when I can no longer see the paintwork or seats. £15 inside and out, plus a fiver tip cos it's so grotty.

Car washers round these here parts tend not to be from Romanian extraction. They tend to look more like members of the Taliban.

Have you moved to Luton?

It may be shite around here but Luton????
FCuk me, no.

meanredspider wrote:

I'm with you V68. Briefly owned a black car but decided it was a disaster as every spec of dirt or slight scratch showed. Silver or grey is great - ideally with leather seats. If only I could train Mrs MRS not to put apple cores or banana skins in the door pockets or her thumb print in the middle of the rear view mirror....

This one is the worst possible combo - metallic black paint, and pale beige leather interior. Both show all the marks.

It is. Cool, but sunny.

Yeah bought one to try. Get what you pay for, so it may be returned for a replacement already, sounds like they forgot to fit a bearing or bushing in it somewhere.

It works ok, and will do the job for what I want. Slower speed than I expected, but easy to use. I still apply the polish by hand. Gave it a go on the ute first, which is plain white paint, and certainly makes things easier to buff the shine up, but not perfect. Still needed to finish it manually, but at least that was easy.

I don't make a habit of it. Car(s) get washed maybe once a month, give or take, but polished maybe once a year if that. Three weeks of long driving and parking at the beach had it looking pretty shite, covered in bugs guts and salt spray, so it was time to give it a tidy up.

I don't mind the fact I need to do it, just looking to minimise the effort involved. Out here the local places are manned generally by Sri Lankans or Lebanese, and they can be a bit, er, cavalier about doing the job properly. I've had more than a few extra scuffs and scratches appear when I've taken a car in there...

Nah he's fine. Takes a bit more than that to offend me. :-)

Stevo 666 wrote:

I think Pinno is a woman. Far too much verbiage and never apologises, even when clearly in the wrong

Hmmm... that reminds me of certain person in a few threads in CS.

Yep, buy a reliable old banger.

Pinno wrote:

Yep, buy a reliable old banger.

I do a lot of driving. Life's too short to spend that much of it in an old banger...

Besides, we have a ute for hack duty.