gonzilla

You guys are right. The sprinklers broke at the high school down the street. The baseball field was completely saturated with mud and I decided to just do donuts for about an hour straight. Now the wheel wells are coated with mud again and I'm back at square 1. I can now go to the track with the rest of you guys without shame. Cleaning your car is for pussies!!! Anyone want to buy some extra cans of Xenit?

When are you gonna give me your wheels?

To the rest of you - Thanks dudes!!!

AOW162435

As promised.


Andreas

pcarhombre

Mr Bock: I'm not familiar with sand buffing. Is this something I should do to my neighbor's car when I'm angry, or a description of some tantric thing best to be performed at the shore? Inquiring minds want to know.

Cactus

What is Xenit?

gonzilla

I don't know, but if you huff about 6 or 7 cans of it in a day your car starts looking really clean.

BTW, my garage smells like an orange grove.

larpy

I continued on my cleaning journey last night. I spent about 2.5 hours with "00" stainless steel and polished up the aluminum after applying my "secret sauce" to brighten everything up. Looks amazing! I will post pics when I have some time.

Kika

I probably missed it in one of the earlier threads, but doesn't the cosmoline help with rust protection? It sure is ugly looking stuff, but why does everyone want to remove it?

larpy

It was used as a protectant against salt water. The aluminum engine case, steel parts, etc when shipped overseas could have been damaged by the sea salt.

Many of our cars will never see snow so the need for cosmoline is not necessary. I do not know if it is true but I believe cosmoline may also hold heat. I have nothing to base that on. I just use it for my own self justification to keep removing that crap off the bottom of my P-Car

gonzilla

+1 to what Larpy said. Plus they managed to get it all over all of the plastic wheel well liners and everything else that had no chance of corroding. I feel like I managed to shave about 5 lbs of the stuff off of my car just with the wheel wells! Plus I think it reduced my Cd.

When I told my dad about the cosmo cleaning, he told me that during the Korean war he used to have to clean cosmoline off of the rifles. He didn't tell me if he used Xenit though.

Kika

OK, I understand about the weight savings and it if isn't really necessary anymore. But, I don't see how Mike has time for this kind of stuff with a 1 year old at home...

gonzilla

Ha!!! I think the weight savings was closer to 5 mg, not 5 lbs. As for time, Carrie and the kid are back east right now. They come back Thursday. The last thing on my list is replacing the control arm bushings. I just went to Lowe's last night to get all the stuff I need to do them. I'm going to start attacking tonight when I get home. You're welcome to come over and help. Free beer!!!

Kika

Tuesday is softball nite, just got back from my game. I am free Wed nite though, let me know if you need help, you have my email.