Mike,
If you're confident in all of your hardtop seals, then go for it. That would
be my main concern. So long as passenger compartment leakage isn't a problem,
then your second concern should be THOROUGHLY drying your car after the wash
-- in ALL the nooks and crannies that a commercial blower won't reach. My
tool of choice for this job is my electric leaf blower attachment for my shop
vac. Run it down all the seams, under the bumpers, etc., until the entire car
is bone dry. So long as water isn't allowed to pool anywhere on your car, you
should be fine. With all the effort that I put into drying my car, washing it
with a soft brush and bucket of suds is the least time consuming part of the
equasion.
Take care,
Jeff McNeal (San Diego)
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:25 AM
Subject: Car-wash
Dear All,
Has anyone ever taken their Spitfire through a car-wash? Now the
weather is miserable, and the hard-top is on the car, I have this mad
urge to take her through a mechanical car-wash, rather than washing her
with a bucket of soapy water, as has been my wont during the summer -
but I fear the possible consequences...
ATB
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Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html
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