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Conference terri::cars_uk

Title:Cars in the UK
Notice:Please read new conference charter 1.70
Moderator:COMICS::SHELLEYELD
Created:Sun Mar 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2584
Total number of notes:63384

2200.0. "Car washes and Aerials" by CMOTEC::HARWOODJ (Judy Harwood - REO - 830 2879) Tue Jan 04 1994 12:31

    Has anyone tried taking a new shaped Astra estate through a
    car wash recently ?
    
    The reason I ask is that this vehicle has a rear roof mounted aeriel
    and it doesn't seem to be detachable.  I'd rather not find out the
    'hard way' that I should stick to the 'bucket and sponge' method
    of cleaning it ?
    
    Hubby also has a roof mounted aerial - but this time it's a front
    mounted jobbie, on a Volvo saloon.  Again has anyone found a carwash
    that doesn't mangle the aeriel ?
    
    Judy 
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2200.1Hope this is useful!PEKING::ATKINSAPRC Vauxman.Tue Jan 04 1994 13:377
    
    If it's the same roof mounting aerial as on my Corsa,it is unscrewable.
    I found out one night whilst covering my car,and thought what a pain 
    it was sticking up.
    
    Andy.
    
2200.2COMICS::FISCHERTue Jan 04 1994 13:447
The rubber roof aerial on the Calibra is supposedly 
carwash proof. I think it says so in the manual somewhere.
I haven't tested it though. I find washing by hand far
better than using the carwash.


	Ian
2200.3LEMAN::CHEVAUXPatrick Chevaux @GEO, DTN 821-4150Tue Jan 04 1994 17:046
    .2�I haven't tested it though. I find washing by hand far
    .2�better than using the carwash.
    
    How about high pressure water jets ? I only use these as they prove to
    be better in terms of quality of job and better for the paintjob in the
    long term.
2200.4COMICS::FISCHERTue Jan 04 1994 17:171
Never used one. How do you clean the sills with one of these?
2200.5Bucket and sponge man myself!PEKING::ATKINSAPRC Vauxman.Wed Jan 05 1994 07:2410
    
    Carefully !  ;-)
    
    
    
    
    Happy new year (a bit late)!
    
    Andy.
    
2200.6EBYGUM::WILLIAMSHFlat tank Sunbeam riderThu Jan 06 1994 13:195
    I've taken my Calibra through various car washes, and all OK.
    
    it's also got one of those roof mounted flexible 9-inch aerials.
    
    Huw. 
2200.7BAHTAT::EATON_NSmile when you say that!Thu Jan 06 1994 13:4912
    
    I did hear a story about a BMW dealer in Colchester. They had their own
    car wash, and one morning they drove a nice big Beemer into the wash
    for its final wash before delivery.
    
    One it was in they found that the local vandals had tied bolts onto the
    brushes.........
    
    Ever since I heard that I avoid brush washes! 8^)
    
    Nigel
    
2200.8frozen brushes!VARDAF::CHURCHDave Church@VBE (DTN 828-6125)Thu Jan 06 1994 13:582
    Then there is the one about the first car through the wash after the
    water on the brushes had frozen during the night!
2200.9show offsWARHED::PATTERSONThu Jan 06 1994 16:484
    My wire coat hanger always gets caught up in the swirly brushes. It`s a
    right piggin pain, so I just don`t wash it anymore.
    
    CP.
2200.10Buy a new coathanger cheaperCMOTEC::JASPERStuck on the Flypaper of LifeFri Jan 07 1994 12:538
    Who wants to spend �1-50 to wash a 10p coathanger ?
    
    :-)
    
    Back on track : My PUG 205 has an unscrewable aerial (antenna to those
    who care).
    
    Tony.
2200.11Re .10 - Do coathangers really cost THAT much?CMOTEC::POWELLNostalgia isn't what it used to be, is it?Fri Jan 07 1994 15:189
>>>  Back on track : My PUG 205 has an unscrewable aerial (antenna to those
>>>    who care).    ^^
    		     ^^
>>>    Tony.


	MY PUG, Tony?  I thought that was your wifes!

				Malcolm. 8^)
2200.12front roof mounted aerial can be layed flatWELCLU::YOUNGPolicemen aren't nasty peopleFri Jan 07 1994 17:477
    
    My previous car and my current car both have roof-mounted aerials
    (citroen bx and renault 19 16v) all I do on the rare occasions it goes
    through a brush car wash (usually hand wash myself) is to push the
    aerial down flat on the roof, seems to do the trick!
    
    Richard
2200.13SUBURB::THOMASHThe Devon DumplingMon Jan 10 1994 09:326
	My roof mounted ariel telescopes down, as did my previous one.

	For those that don't, isn't there anything in the handbook about it?

	Heather
2200.14COMICS::PARRYTrevor ParryMon Jan 10 1994 11:274
    My new shape Astra has a short roof mounted aerial.  It does unscrew
    and the manual says it is safe in car washes.
    
    tp