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Re: [doc] RE: cleaning



Hi Chris!

Um... basically the 205, but it's a DeLorean
newsgroup... so I asked as a very general question~ :P

Right, so I better clean the my car's arches then~ at
least it will get rid of the salts!!

BTW, I am really sorry Ian... I didn't know the
pressured washed did damage to your D. (The washer was
given to me to wash though...) I hope she is ok now in
its nice garage!? I am really sorry :(

Regards,
John Tien
DOC 8
RHD 3046



--- chrisparnham <chrisparnham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Are we talking Peugeot 205's or DeLorean's here
> John? 

> Regarding my everyday cars, I always wash under the
> wheel arches when I
> wash the rest of the car. The first time you do this
> you will wonder
> where all the muck comes from. Next time it's much
> easier.

>   When I got a job as an apprentice garage mechanic,
> some 40 years ago,
> my foreman once said to me "Do you know what the
> best rust preventative
> is?"  No. says I, "Water", says he. Always wash mud
> away as it holds the
> moisture.

>  If you car is mud free, it its gets wet, then it
> dries again pretty
> quick. If it's got muck and filth around the wheel
> arches, its remains
> damp for days, even weeks, thus ensuring a good
> attack of rust and rot.
> As were working on 25 year old milk floats at the
> time, that still
> looked good, the lesson was well learned.

> Now, if we are talking about your pride and Joy
> DeLorean, then it is NOT
> going to rust around the wheel arches!  And the muck
> does not really get
> in any place much underneath.

> Personally I don't like pressure washers; I think
> they put water in
> places that water wouldn't normally get. Indeed
> John, after you
> pressured washed Ian's car in N.I., some years ago,
> it got damp and
> mouldy inside later. ( because of lack of use).

> For members who have only got one car and that
> happens to be a DeLorean,
> then they have very few problems with rust compared
> to any other
> "Classic" I can think of from the 1980's!

> Certainly that was a major attraction to me, when I
> chose to buy a
> DeLorean.  After many years of welding and bodging
> and re-painting on a
> succession of rotten classic cars.

> J M O

> Best regards
> Chris Parnham
> DOC 2
> RHD  vin 5638
> BTTF vin 20049

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