damn car wash attendant
05-31-2007, 11:33 AM
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damn car wash attendant
entering car wash, about to line up front left wheel to the guide rail, when attendant waves me in energetically. no one behind me (this was like an early sat morning). i'm feeling like what? it doesn't feel like i'm lined up right. i give him a look like "are you sure?" and he nods and keeps waving me forward. i think, man, i must not have been paying attention to the location of the guide rail. i pull forward. crrrrunch. WTF? i grind my wheel on the rail. he changes his motion, telling me to turn my wheel right. what jackasses, both of us.
05-31-2007, 11:50 AM
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ouch...you just described the exact reason i never use the kind of auto washes that use guide rails
either a treadmill style track, or drive yourself....and even then that's a rarety...DIY carwash ftw!
05-31-2007, 12:44 PM
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well you really only have to figure it out once ...
and i feel like i pretty much know where my tire is, but this guy was so insistent that i went with him. shame on me.
i think most people in this forum are keeled over simply at the idea of anyone not hand washing and waxing. i would probably get stoned if i then showed people here the residue i left on my black paint from my first attempt at debadging. you can see the ghost of the "2.0" still. i'm thinking about covering it with some noble cause sticker.
i think most people in this forum are keeled over simply at the idea of anyone not hand washing and waxing. i would probably get stoned if i then showed people here the residue i left on my black paint from my first attempt at debadging. you can see the ghost of the "2.0" still. i'm thinking about covering it with some noble cause sticker.
05-31-2007, 01:00 PM
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Same thing happened to me...
My car was something like 2 weeks old. The irony is that it happened at a "touchless" car wash. Har har. Scraped rim went in the trunk -- spare went on the car.
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05-31-2007, 05:46 PM
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Ditto. I'm hand wash or bust.
When I lived in Vegas there was ONE rail-guided touchless place where the rails were nylon coated and very finish friendly, and they hosed the car with a machine and then hand-finished it. I took my B5 there sometimes, but usually not.
06-01-2007, 04:58 AM
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well i'm not that cut and dry (i'll use an automated machine during the wintertime)
I try to hand wash as much as possible, but imho that's not always a reasonable option...when I can't hand wash I will go automated, but I never use the kind that has the rail guides
06-01-2007, 06:45 AM
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yeah i think it's adhesive residue
i used some directions i found in the forums (thanks!), but instead of fishing line, i just grabbed some floss. it didn't really take the foam off cleanly. i got most of what was left off with wd-40, but noticed only later that i see a ghost image when the car is clean. interesting thing is that i got the A4 off cleanly with no residue. i'm thinking about grabbing one of those wax/paint touch-up tubes. in the meantime, i'm convinced that every driver behind me that's laughing is laughing at my weak debadging effort; yes, because there's no other reason they could be laughing.