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DoloWIGHTY wrote:

PollyB wrote: Fairy Liquid in the spray).

OUCH!

Would certainly make ones eyes water!

More the high salt content in washing up liquid I think...

If I were bathing bare steel then it would be an issue but it won't be an issue here. The salt is washing up liquid is used to bulk it out and make it gloopy so it's not like brine.

SprintMWU773V wrote:If I were bathing bare steel then it would be an issue but it won't be an issue here. The salt is washing up liquid is used to bulk it out and make it gloopy so it's not like brine.

And hopefully the solution wasn't very strong

True, anyone going to such lengths to clean a car is also highly likely to treat any bare metal uncovered anyway.

Essentially, it could be a lot worse! I do remember getting a proper dressing down for washing the Pontiac with washing up liquid once though... I was only 5 mind.

Oli_88 wrote:True, anyone going to such lengths to clean a car is also highly likely to treat any bare metal uncovered.

If I know my mother at all she wouldn't dare! Haha (probably going to get hit for that when I get home)

Maybe.
We use Fairy only on really dirty surfaces. Autoglym on paintwork.
I polished the enginebay afterwards anyway so

Maybe they should use it in their advertising

It is no secret that washing up liquids are harmful to windscreen rubbers..............






Ian.

sprint95m wrote:It is no secret that washing up liquids are harmful to windscreen rubbers..............


Ian.

Is it? *noted*

sprint95m wrote:It is no secret that washing up liquids are harmful to windscreen rubbers..............

Ian.

REALLY? For many, many years I always used a drop of washing up liquid when FITTING windscreens having been advised to do so by an old and old school windscreen fitter when I was just a callow youth. I no longer fit my own screens, laminates and glue-ins have stopped that but I still use the stuff to encourage rubber suspension bushes in and have never suffered any ill effects from doing so on bushes or windows.

Steve

My hands aren't doing too bad
I get my wrist slapped if I mention putting it in the washer bottle but a dilute solution on road dirt - can't beat it.
AutoGlym Paint Conditioner is good if the paint is quite clean anyway such as on EFR894W and that is what we use for a quick rinse before polish.

Thus is beginning to sound like a visit to the Boots Beauty Counter.

Registration hard to read, but could this be.....



Will you take it to STAR90?

What a super photo Ronald, where did you find it?
She will, of course, be going to STAR90 but her engine is in the kitchen atm ready for paint.

...wish I were allowed engines in the kitchen.