[AT] OT: Car Cleaning tip

[Phil Vorwerk]

No, you're not out of tune; I should have explained better.  It's a black
Mercedes SL 500.  I had posted the same thing on the BenzWorld forums and I
thought "ya know, I bet there might be some people on ATIS that would find
this useful too"  So I copy and pasted my post from there, but I really
should have modified my post better.  Sorry about that.

Phil

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Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] OT: Car Cleaning tip

Phil,
     I must be out of tune.  What the heck is a black SL?

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 7/1/2012 3:37 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Good tip Phil.  Thanks.  I'll look for those filters.
> My truck is midnight blue metal flake.  I think it might be harder to 
> deal with than black.
> I would never have believed it until I bought it.
> Mostly I just don't worry about it.  The thing stays dirty most of the 
> time but when I do try to clean it up good I have to deal with those 
> water spots and streaks.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Vorwerk
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:53 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: [AT] OT: Car Cleaning tip
>
>
> At the risk of bringing something up that is common knowledge, I 
> realized something this year that I wish had dawned on me years ago.
>
> I have a black SL, a mixed blessing.  Looks great when clean but shows 
> everything.  I had sworn many years ago that I would never own another 
> black car, but when I found this one everything else was so right that 
> I went against my long standing rule.
>
> One of the frustrating parts of washing a black car is trying to get 
> rid of all the water spots.  I had gone to using only soft water, and 
> bought a special car wash sprayer that had a filter that was supposed 
> to give you a spot free rinse.  Besides the resulting low water 
> pressure from the filter that made rinsing the car rather tedious, I 
> was underwhelmed with the results - still a lot of streaks or water 
> spots that were left, even using a high quality, clean, chamois.
>
> This spring I was getting ready to wash my SL when I had an "Aha!" moment.
> On the shelf I had a couple of water filters that I had bought to fill 
> my hot tub.  For the heck of it, I decided to use one of the hot tub 
> water filters instead of my special car wash filter.  Unbelievable.  I 
> have never been able to get such a clean, streak and spot free finish 
> before.  And the best part is these filters are not expensive to use.  
> The cost was less than $20.00, and it is supposed to be good for 8,000 
> to 10,000 gallons before replacement.  This one has at least 5,000 
> gallons run through it already (my wife uses it to change out the 
> water every week in our 500 gallon fish pond) so I think the rating is
pretty legitimate.
>
> Anyone else tried this?  I hope I'm not bringing up anything that is 
> already commonly done, but I'm so thrilled with the results that I 
> just had to share it with the forum.  Black cars do look just awesome when
they're clean.....
>
> Phil
> Sunny Courtland, MN
>
>

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