What have you done to your car today?
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Snow foam with a pressure washer is a lot more entertaining than just a gilmore gun, it goes on much thicker and as such does sit on the car far longer without streaking, a good five minutes or so.
So if anything that has to help as its like the car sitting in a bath, it will help loosen the dirt.
Then the pressure washer is blasting at higher pressure so takes more dirt away from the paint and where the pressure came into its own was blasting the wheels and calipers clean, the pressure washer pretty much removed all brake dust by itself.
End result is probably same as with just a gilmore and free flowing hose, but the pressure washer and snow foam is cool and fun.
Just blew my top with my neighbour. Oops.
Cleaned the cars, they were outside so saw me doing it.
They then proceeded to throw a load of bread out.
I asked them if they were taking the ****. They didn't get it. I pointed out bread attracts birds. We live near the sea. The birds round here are flipping massive gulls. Gulls crap everywhere. This explanation involved much venom on my part.
Naturally living next to the sea the bread attracts seagulls as predicted which proceed to crap all over the 2 newly washed cars as predicted.
Cleaned the cars, they were outside so saw me doing it.
They then proceeded to throw a load of bread out.
I asked them if they were taking the ****. They didn't get it. I pointed out bread attracts birds. We live near the sea. The birds round here are flipping massive gulls. Gulls crap everywhere. This explanation involved much venom on my part.
Naturally living next to the sea the bread attracts seagulls as predicted which proceed to crap all over the 2 newly washed cars as predicted.
As much as I sympathise, I don't really think you can expect a non car person to make the connection between you washing your car and them feeding the birds.
Totally agree, it doesn't necessarily reflect very well on you in the situation tbh
Whilst it's annoying it's worth bearing in mind that most (normal) people wouldn't deliberately do anything to cause damage and would probably.just never make the connection
Whilst it's annoying it's worth bearing in mind that most (normal) people wouldn't deliberately do anything to cause damage and would probably.just never make the connection
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My mum feeds the birds in our garden, suffice to say if you were her neighbour and called her a dumb **** it wouldn't go down very well.
My mum feeds the birds in our garden, suffice to say if you were her neighbour and called her a dumb **** it wouldn't go down very well.
And are those birds the size of small helicopters that drop nuclear bombs? If so she'd find herself on the receiving end of one of these...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...geons-seagulls-soiled-neighbours-washing.html
They're aerial vermin. Not delightful little song birds.
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No it's not, what a silly thing to say.
We get pretty much everything: thrushes, pigeons, crows etc. Used to annoy me when I lived at home so I can definitely sympathise but if I was ever to broach the subject with a neighbour I'd be doing it in a very polite, "sorry to be awkward" kind of way.
Like I said, he'd literally been out the front when I was washing them so he knew what I was doing and how long I'd been out for. He couldn't miss that they were finished and I'd put everything away when he threw the bread out either as our houses are at 90 degree's to one another.
He's also lived here longer than me so knows the issues with the gulls. Thanks to them about 1 in 10 loads of washing that get hung out in the summer by us or any of the neighbours has to be re-washed. Heck even his wife complains! We've also.had attacks on some people's dogs by the things too.
He's either incredibly stupid, incredibly ignorant or did it intentionally.
None of which deserve politeness. What was funny was his wife asking him wtf he was thinking.
Bird poo eats paint. Just like acid
Your suggestion is malicious damage, feeding birds is just annoying but well intentioned.
Replaced what I think the original battery was (had VW part number on it) with new one.. not bad going for ~9 years if so. The car was stuggling to turn over and noticed some controls like the electric window controls didn't work for the first ~10 seconds after starting the engine. Perfect again now. Just need to copper grease up the new one.
Also picked up Castrol 5l + 1l oil - total £110 for all three which wasn't bad from ECP.
Also picked up Castrol 5l + 1l oil - total £110 for all three which wasn't bad from ECP.
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Minor facelift for my Focus mk3 Estate seeing as I have green eyed monster over the ST version and put in some Phillips racing vision dipped and main beam lamps, LED side lights and indicator lamps front and rear. Quick install of resistors to get rid of hyperflash and discovered that the previous owner had had installed aftermarket parking sensors (didn't even know they were in there) which don't seem to have been wired up properly so another project for another day to get them going along with installing the LED fog lamps.
Some might say it's like putting a wig on a pig but I'm pretty pleased with the overall added sharpness to it all and increased visibility on the roads.
Some might say it's like putting a wig on a pig but I'm pretty pleased with the overall added sharpness to it all and increased visibility on the roads.
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