jacko198
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Registered: 1st Mar 07
Location: Buckinghamshire
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Anyone else do this? I havent cleaned it for months so i feel i should.
Only thing is, i would have to de ice it before i start 
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BarnshaW
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Registered: 25th Oct 06
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was going to , went out to get the hosepipe and it was frozen solid so walked back in
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: nowhere near ginger people
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go give a fiver to the nearest polish/hungarian place to wash it. then polish it when you get home.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Thought about but not even got as far as the front door before deciding I can't be arsed  It's too cold.
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
Location: Glasgow
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Fuck that, it's a pain in the arse. I was working at a car wash part time this time last year since I got made redundant, you had to spend twice as long wetting the cars up becuase you had to blast the ice off them.
Thats was with a heated line as well 
[Edited on 28-11-2010 by alan-g-w]
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Only driven my car once since the roads started being salted. It's absolutely filthy now, washing it would be a depressing game 
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Kieran
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Registered: 12th Sep 08
Location: Kent
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
was going to , went out to get the hosepipe and it was frozen solid so walked back in
same
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Manchester
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quote:
Originally posted by BarnshaW
was going to , went out to get the hosepipe and it was frozen solid so walked back in
Every year I end up buying a new spray nozzle because I let it freeze and crack
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thegsi
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Registered: 3rd Feb 07
Location: Kidderminster Drives: Evo (you can't afford one)
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Had a go this morning. By the time I'd rinsed the one side, it'd frozen over when I got round. Then the snow foam froze solid then the warm water turned to cold water and was defective now the car looks part dirt, part clean, part shampoo, part ice, all shit. Fail.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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i cleaned my focus last xmas and i had to pour warm water on the hosepipe as all the water inside it had frozen
took about 30 mins to get the water flowing through. looking back i was stupid.
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spikedjack
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Registered: 16th Oct 08
Location: wolverhampton/cannock
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hozepipe will be frozen, fully can not be bothered to get cold checking, will be dropped to the polish later on in the week for sure.
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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Ive spent the morning fitting poly bushes to the saxo and its fucking cold
Car looks like its done a rally stage but it can stay that way, can imaging the driveway freezing over and creating a ice rink if I do it
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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Baskey
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Registered: 31st May 06
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I fitted two new shocks to the golf gti yesterday outside. Rusty old bolts are not fun when it's well below zero.
Going to clean the 172 shortly. Can't really be bothered but the girlfriends been driving it last week and I need to check for damage!
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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Just spent 90 mins defrosting the hose enough to top up the water tank in the van 
The Mini can stay dirty - it's testing the durability of Zaino to the maximum anyway
The van will be cleaned when it's stupidly dirty - sorry, but you can't expect it to be spotless this time of the year!
And clients cars will get cleaned to the highest standard I can manage in these conditions - providing they're happy for me to do it still.
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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mines not been washed in months
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Chris x
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Registered: 11th Sep 08
Location: Bexhill
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quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
mines not been washed in months
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connollygt30
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Registered: 16th Nov 08
Location: West Lothian
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quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
Just spent 90 mins defrosting the hose enough to top up the water tank in the van
The Mini can stay dirty - it's testing the durability of Zaino to the maximum anyway
The van will be cleaned when it's stupidly dirty - sorry, but you can't expect it to be spotless this time of the year!
And clients cars will get cleaned to the highest standard I can manage in these conditions - providing they're happy for me to do it still.
Does business dip quite bad for you in this weather rich?
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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It begins to slowly tail off from the backend of October usually until end of February.
This year it's still manic (7 days a week if I want it to be) but it's the weather that now ruins it - a lot of people have garages etc, but you still need to wash the car first, and if it's freezing on the car or freezing on the tarmac, I usually can't do it due to health and safety and or ruining the paintwork!
So yes one way or another I get affected pretty badly
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Piér
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Registered: 4th Jan 10
Location: Gloucestershire
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My friends car is white and it was black, so last night we gave in and took it to a petrol station thats got undercover jetwash stations... You can choose what order you use the things in, so we took a cloth, rinsed the shampooed the car with the nozzle, let the shampoo sit, washed the car with the cloth, put more money in the machine, rinsed it all off and use the wax stuff, cost 3 quid, bargain  no freezing either!
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Phillips_91
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Registered: 20th Jan 10
Location: Blackpool. Drives: Sapphire Black Mk4 Astra 1.8
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i attempted mine yesterday, as i was rushing i've missed half the bloody car, looked clean when it was still wet! and by the time i had finished my drive was an ice rink!
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
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I sinned badly this weekend. Hoovered/cleaned out the inside of the car yesterday in -1 conditions then got all the gear out to wash it but my pressure washer was frozen up!!!
Then realised that the water would have turned my drive into an ice rink anyway!
So I took it the the local BP and put it through the car wash. Tbh its probably done less damage then the poles do with their drying blades.
I'm gong to sod washing it myself through winter and then get it machine polished in the spring.
Silver hides swirls anyway!
[Edited on 28-11-2010 by Ben J]
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Gerrards Cross Drives: Porsche 911
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Did it frkshjdfkusdkiabuDnphxhkfg
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Gerrards Cross Drives: Porsche 911
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Bloody iPhone
i did it a few years ago. Just kept spraying water so it didn't freeze.
Now I use the car wash or get rich to do it
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I think I'll come use the car wash next time I make it back
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Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
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http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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