His or yours...Originally Posted by threedogs
His or yours...
Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
threedogs (11th January 2015)
So all you poor bastards that crawl under the car have I got the sale of a century!!!
Do yourself a favour and get one of these
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$10 bucks anywhere.
Attach it to the hose and lay it under your car. Start at the rear and drag it to the front in 10min increments.
Hell even do the wheel arches to..
Hour so far washing and have got a drip on me yet..
Tomorrow I'll wash the outside with the pressure cleaner and broom. And flush out the chassis
Cheers
Kallen Westbrook
I used the car wash at Robe. I spent an hour washing and rinsing the Old Trol with rainwater at home. As I had to repair the mud flap I lost in the dunes, I have taken all of the plastic and rubber off the vehicle and am in the process of fish oiling the inside of the guards and painting any chips or cracks in the duco. I will spray fish oil inside the chassis after the heat has evaporated any moisture.
My advice is: not to follow my advice.
Cant think of anything worse than salt ,sand and a 4x4,, just wreaks $$$$$$ in repairs[/QUOTE]
As long as you prep and maintain and do a proper wash after , all is good , my last 4by did nothing but beach once or twice a month for 10 years and not a speck of rust , but unlike the tv adds I don't drive in salt water , I get a good laugh at Eli creek when people cross it at high tide as the waves wash a good 50 m up the beach part of the creek , people think it's fresh !
If ya not using it buy a prius .....
I agree you need pressure, my car is all painted black underneath so sand is easy to see, garden hose simply does not remove all traces of sand, high pressure water does, but I use a water blaster with much more power than the local car wash places have.
Pressure washing the body paintwork is also much better IMO, as you can easy remove heaps more of the dried on abrasive salt/sand spray before you even go near it with a sponge and soap, hose pressure does not remove much of anything, the less you rub contaminates over paint the better.
This came up a while back about the car wash at Rainbow Beach, with some guy saying they use recycled water on the cars, as this is a wash I use/have used, I was interested to find out if that was the case, so i did some research and actually ended up speaking to the owner, while they do recycle some water for back flushing/driveway cleaning etc, the water going on your car is fresh water NOT recycled, and he pays a hefty bill for the water consumption.
I was under the understanding that high pressure pushes sand and salt further into cracks and crevices where as low pressure high volume washes the salt away. Non salty sand is ok after the salt is diluted and washed out.
I might just test it then lol .
Steve if your using a better pressure cleaner than a car wash bay or a kartcher or a gerni that uses a petty 1000psi@8 ltr per min it may be like the one I use for work that uses 3000psi@25 ltrs per min.
If using a 8 ltr job its best to put a sprinkler under the car for 30 mins to remove all the loose sand before washing.
While i understand the benefit and the reasoning behind simply diluting the salt (and that's good) I want to remove "everything" that was not there before the trip, I can see how high pressure into seals etc could push water/contaminates , but you don't hold the blaster point blank pumping water into any one spot near a opening, I doubt it would be much worse on seals than hitting a puddle at speed.
As a experiment, when you car is really dirty, hose your paintwork with a low pressure garden hose for a hour and see what residual contaminates are still left, in comparison, hose your paintwork with a decent pressure washer and most of the time, it will be almost clean in 5 min, when you think about it, the same contaminates are all under your car (if not more) so unless you also get under the car and wash your underbody/chassis/diffs with a sponge then rinse, I cant really see how you are removing much of anything, low pressure hosing may eventually dilute the salt ,but does not really "clean" the underside of your car good enough IMO.
Yeh, ive also got a little domestic Gerni, its way better than a hose, but does not get all the crap off either, it will draw blood if you hit your arm at point blank range as I found out the other day (almost healed now, haha)
I think the one I use is about the 2000psi@14 (but don't quote me), never used a 3000 Troy, but you want to be careful when testing as im sure you could also have too much pressure and start wrecking stuff at close range (lol)
What do you guys do after a "muddy" 4wdriving trip if you don't use pressure ?
I wouldn't go near the gu with 3000psi unless I wanted a respray
Off the beach I use a gerni for the body but just a hose and sprinkler for underbody.
Glasshouse is sprinkler and a lot of gerni and with ct18
But There's also a road around the corner from my place the frequently gets hit at 80kph when it's flooded
I've gone one step further and attached mine to a stick for ease of placement lol
BigRAWesty (11th January 2015)
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