Dirty Dirty!

lukechad · 24 Dec 2007 at 09:51

Cleaned mine 2 days ago now, looked quite nice actually for this time of year, just a pressure wash is all I gave it...done 100 miles in it since and it seems I just wasted my time and effort! It looked dirty enough to warrant a clean after abuot 20 miles!

Damn winter roads! fingers crossed its goin to rain today and wash the crap off the roads!

PyroboyUK · 24 Dec 2007 at 10:29

That is dirty!

I just washed mine the other day aswell. Didnt think to take a pic of it, but if it gets dirty again will get the camera out.

To give you an idea though how dirty mine was, the bare metal swing arm was Black!!

My CBR seems to be the exact same as your Gsxr 750, on the back seat we both seem to get sprayed with crap from the road.

West · 24 Dec 2007 at 11:41

Here we go, and I only washed it 3 days ago

Not too bad from the front

Rear wheel arch...

Rear is just ewww

Fireskull · 24 Dec 2007 at 11:43

Lol PyroboyUK yea my backpack is ruined aswell its covered in crap from the road and given it a wash but its all discoloured now :/

helpimcrap said:
careful with that suzy Fireskull.... they don't like the wet. bits have a tendency to fur up and fall off.

Hehe i know you should see how much ACF50 ive got coated on it

my baby aint rusting

last winter my brakes on the SV650 seized from the salt, not happening this year

Mechanical Arts · 24 Dec 2007 at 12:26

steve45 said:
was spotless about an hour before that pic was taken, went for a blast round the country roads and it came back like that.

I seen your car parked just around the corner from machine mart in dundee a couple of days ago, I recognise that spoiler! Nice car btw.

Tom|Nbk · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:16

Not as bad as some.

Matt82 · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:18

the rear of mine is so dirty the rear plate can barely be seen, the rear lights are barely visible either

loltim · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:31

Tom|Nbk said:
Pointless washing in these winter months. Just make sure you have a decent coat of wax on. I put my new coat of Collinite 476S on last week .

Not really, it's worth a quick blast just to get rid of the salt, wax or no wax.

spaz · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:33

My new two tone clio:

mrk · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:44

You should put some finger decals on that ^

Matt82 · 24 Dec 2007 at 13:48

my mk2 has "i wish my mk3 was this light" written in the dirt on the rear window

zain · 24 Dec 2007 at 16:41

What is mines?

I haven't seen one clean car in a while, everytime I go to the boot I get dirt on my fingers. When the weather isn't too bad and I get sometime its going to get a good clean.

Tom|Nbk · 24 Dec 2007 at 16:56

Tim said:
Not really, it's worth a quick blast just to get rid of the salt, wax or no wax.

What's the point though, once you wash it it's only going to get exactly the same it was after, oh about five minutes of driving, hence pointless.

loltim · 24 Dec 2007 at 16:58

So 5 minutes of driving has the same amount of salt as a week of driving? k.

Tom|Nbk · 24 Dec 2007 at 16:59

Ignore, cba.

Ben M · 24 Dec 2007 at 17:15

gave mine a quick clean on friday, because it was clean where the L plates had been =p

Draeger · 24 Dec 2007 at 18:17

The Vec is minging. Washed it two days ago, drove to Crieff for works Xmas party night and back again and its minging again.

The RSV however, is sat hibernating coupled up to the Optimate, so its as immaculate as it was when it first got covered up a month or two ago and will most probably not see the light of day until at least Feb next year, unless I can't resist the temptation to nip out for an hour or two at some point on a dry day.

ajgoodfellow · 24 Dec 2007 at 18:19

West said:
Here we go, and I only washed it 3 days ago

http://upload.lhurgoyf.net/gal/Other/FrontDirty.jpg

Not too bad from the front

http://upload.lhurgoyf.net/gal/Other/Sidedirty.jpg

Rear wheel arch...

http://upload.lhurgoyf.net/gal/Other/RearDirty.jpg

Rear is just ewww

You do realise that your Mini was designed by Rover and kept by BMW after the split? It's a Rover!

PardonTheWait · 24 Dec 2007 at 19:09

My bike mings. Not got a picture, haven't ridden it in about a week, but yeah.. it mings.

thedazman67 · 24 Dec 2007 at 20:29

Didnt take any pictures of mine before i cleaning it was very dirty the number plate was just about readable.