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Re: Car-wash

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Subject: Re: Car-wash
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:33:43 +0100
In article <11EEFA4B6844D511A0E70008C71E9F01383485@ABDEXH01>, Richard 
Gosling <richard.gosling@exprogroup.com> writes
>Mike,
>
>I've frequently taken Daffy through a rotating-brush car-wash with the
>hard-top on.  I get a slight dribble at the corner where the windscreen,
>window and hard-top meet, but nothing that can't be wiped with a paper
>towel.  Otherwise, no problems at all, and like you say, much easier than
>doing it by hand!

Hmm.   Interesting.
>
>Nothing has ever fallen off (yet!), although I need to lower the aerial and
>it ususally knocks the door mirrors out of kilter.

It does that to modern cars, and I don't see this as a major problem.
>
>Given how frequently Daffy (and indeed Carly) sit out in the rain, I think
>Jeff's enthusiasm for drying would be very much shutting the stable door
>after the horse has bolted.

I always dry and polish Carly after washing her, but, as you say, she 
gets rained on pretty much every day from September to June (and most 
days in July and August).

ATB

-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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