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Re: Car-wash

To: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Car-wash
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:59:16 -0400
A short drive on the freeway has the same effect...


At 01:51 PM 10/11/01 , you wrote:
>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)

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