Ok. Thanks gents. Looks like the DW post#2 system will be in use this winter.
Ok. Thanks gents. Looks like the DW post#2 system will be in use this winter.
-Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
ZHP Pre-Ride Briefing
2005 ZHP, Alcantara, Silver Cube, Nav, Sharked, BMW Perf Intake, BMW Perf CF Strut Brace, CF Valve/Fuel Rail Covers,
Shadowline Grills, CF Splitters, Fog Light Inserts, Euro-mirrors, CDV Delete, Beisan vanos, GAS DISA, BP Coded
Dane's method, detailed in post two, looks pretty good to me.
The carwashes around me don't open if it's around 0 degrees or colder. You wouldn't want to anyhow. Everything freezes immediately. Luckily, that super cold stuff usually only lasts for a couple days here. The rest of the time its more like teens and twenties through winter.
Ben, you know there is room for you in SoCal.
My car is hibernating for the winter but in the summer I usually do either a hand wash or the do it yourself coin-op pressure wash. We have so many bugs around here in the summer that it's nice to just hit the coin op to get them off everything. I never use the brush at those places though, just the wand.
I was out one night last spring for a drive down along the river and some idiot didn't know how to adjust his underground sprinkler and before i knew it I was driving through a shower of water that left white water spots all over my car so I hit up a touchless that night around midnight. That's the only time the BMW has been through one but I use them all the time for my other vehicles.....never had a problem. One nice thing about them for you guys that drive your cars all winter is I believe most of them have an underbody spray that hits the bottom side of your car as you drive (slowly) into the washbay, at least the one I use does. Might be a good idea to use one now and then to get the salt and crap off the undercarriage.
Days like today I really wish I lived farther south! Temp right now at 4pm is -1 with the wind gusting to 30mph giving a wind chill of -22! I'm just glad I'm off for the next 3 days, supposed to warm up some by Sunday. A couple of days ago it was 40 though, that sure felt nice.
Barry
We are at 71 and the high was 74...