Miata Mailing List: December 1997, Message #58
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From: 	Jeff C Gehrig <miata@ozemail.com.au>

Subject: Re: auto car wash

Date: 	Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:18:19 +0000







Henry C. Barta wrote:



> > From realbig.com!miata Mon Dec  1 10:25:40 1997

>

>     [...]

>

> > my advice to you:   hand wash and wax that baby

> > and love every stroke of it.     garranteed to look

> > better and look better longer than an auto-wash.

>

>     Reasonable advice. But... Here near Chicago we can get weeks

>     of below freezing temperatures. And it gets colder as you go

>     further north. Where can you hand wash in the middle of winter?

>     Are there places that rent heated stalls? (when I used to be

>     a member of a volunteer fire department, access to a heated

>     equipment bay was one of the perks.)

>

>     What about the coin operated high pressure spray washes? Does

>     anyone have experience or opinion regarding these? (I'm asking

>     about the ones where you use a wand to spray whatever part of

>     the car you want to wash.)

>

>     hank

>

> --

> Hank Barta                              White Oak Software Inc.

> hbarta@wwa.com                          Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)

>                 Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois



Hank,

         I may be wrong but I'm sure I've seen reports, either here or on

Miataville (CIS) of high pressure washers lifting the paint, in sheets, from

Miatas. I too, wash mine by hand, using a machine would be like putting my

daughters in a washing machine.

Jeff