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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by PerryGunn » Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:29 pm

pvr wrote:
LordOxygen wrote:Nice tip on the mirrors, never thought of that.

My grip is the seemingly impossible task of getting all the bits up from the carpet and slide rails that are down the sides of the front seats.
I bought the Miele set for that, is about £50 and contains the carpet roller attachment as well as very long thin pieces to get to those impossible areas. It also comes with a 3 meter hose which makes life easier.

You obviously need a Miele vacuum for it though.
I've got a set like this - much cheaper and works with virtually any vacuum cleaner
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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by MartynFrancis » Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:56 pm

My major major irritation iswhen the car in mint, you go to use the windscreen washers, and they dribble on the bonnet leaving water marks. Boils my p1$$.
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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by LordOxygen » Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:03 pm

MartynFrancis wrote:My major major irritation iswhen the car in mint, you go to use the windscreen washers, and they dribble on the bonnet leaving water marks. Boils my p1$$.
Yep that's a bad one, up there with the car in front using their washers :x

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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by LordOxygen » Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:03 pm

PerryGunn wrote:
pvr wrote:
LordOxygen wrote:Nice tip on the mirrors, never thought of that.

My grip is the seemingly impossible task of getting all the bits up from the carpet and slide rails that are down the sides of the front seats.
I bought the Miele set for that, is about £50 and contains the carpet roller attachment as well as very long thin pieces to get to those impossible areas. It also comes with a 3 meter hose which makes life easier.

You obviously need a Miele vacuum for it though.
I've got a set like this - much cheaper and works with virtually any vacuum cleaner
Nice, just ordered what looks like an identical kit from Amazon. :thumbsup:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00 ... 1TND3A4IEN

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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by MartynFrancis » Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:13 pm

LordOxygen wrote:
MartynFrancis wrote:My major major irritation iswhen the car in mint, you go to use the windscreen washers, and they dribble on the bonnet leaving water marks. Boils my p1$$.
Yep that's a bad one, up there with the car in front using their washers :x
I took the fuse out for the headlight washers as that annoyed me no end! :rofl:
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Random car cleaning irritations

Post by MartynFrancis » Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:25 pm

This is what I do to get all the suds and water from the mirrors, look at all the foam that collected in the mirrors! Otherwise when you start driving you end up with foamy water go faster stripes! :driving:
http://s89.photobucket.com/user/Martyn_ ... p.mp4.html
Hopefully the link works!
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