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Old 05-04-2012, 11:02 AM
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You live on the coast. Your car is probably only ever clean for 30 minutes.
I wash every week and half or every week depending. Everyone goes why do you wash it so often? If I didn't it would get salted by the air and fog....
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:10 AM
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i wash every week and half or every week depending. Everyone goes why do you wash it so often? If i didn't it would get salted by the air and fog....
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by slugrx
just washed my girlfriends 2.5i...my dirty car in the background...washed only 4 times in 4 years haha



How have you not traded tailights with her?! Unless you already did and like the 06-07 style lol
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:39 AM
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I washed my car over the weekend and it randomly rained just enough to make it dirty yesterday. It's the worse when you wash a car then it rains
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Old 05-04-2012, 11:45 AM
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It rains because you washed it
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Old 05-06-2012, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by wilde
How have you not traded tailights with her?! Unless you already did and like the 06-07 style lol
haha the 04s are mine, the 07s were her stock tailights, but they look worse on her car than mine, so i took one for the team hah

we might do a light tint on the 07s and put them back on her car
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Originally Posted by slugrx
haha the 04s are mine, the 07s were her stock tailights, but they look worse on her car than mine, so i took one for the team hah

we might do a light tint on the 07s and put them back on her car
Haha stand up guy if you are ever near Campbell, I have some extra spray tint you can have!
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Washed, quick meguiars wax, need to claybar it today. Dropping it on Sti struts and springs next weekend. Then hopefully tint at the beginning of summer.
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Originally Posted by aspenforesterxt


Washed, quick meguiars wax, need to claybar it today. Dropping it on Sti struts and springs next weekend. Then hopefully tint at the beginning of summer.
Beautiful. I'm pretty damn jealous...
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Old 05-06-2012, 05:24 PM
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too much foam?
As long as you have diluted it to form the recommended cleaning solution ratio. Sudds/foam does not mean anything.
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Beautiful. I'm pretty damn jealous...
Thanks man.
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