How "anal" are you with respect to keeping the 993 clean?
03-04-2013, 01:25 PM
#31
Noodle Jr.
Rennlist Member
Rennlist Member
explain this to me, cause I've never really understood. Washing a car is a brutal, annoying, and unpleasant experience. Then you have to dry it. Then you have to clean up the drips, streaks, etc.
Can you explain what you find enjoyable about it?
another thing that needs some explanation. 15 hours of work to park on someone's lawn, just to lose points for having a spec of dust in an air vent and "excess grease" on a hinge. Seeing people spend so much time cleaning a piece of metal only to be disappointed when they get a 91 or whatever seems like a silly exercise to me.
Can you explain what you find enjoyable about it?
another thing that needs some explanation. 15 hours of work to park on someone's lawn, just to lose points for having a spec of dust in an air vent and "excess grease" on a hinge. Seeing people spend so much time cleaning a piece of metal only to be disappointed when they get a 91 or whatever seems like a silly exercise to me.
03-04-2013, 01:31 PM
#32
RL Community Team
Rennlist Member
Rennlist Member
Drive the car 4 or 5 days a week, don't wash it much, two or three times a year. I keep a bottle of Kodak Photoflo wetting agent in a spray bottle and when it rains I give it a once over with the wetting agent and let it rain! Seems to work well except for the exaust carbon residue that clings to the rear bumper. I hose that off once in a while.
The again my previous 1986 never got washed. My wife drove it to work every day in Cleveland, Ohio. With the salt roads, snow tires and Midwest grime what was the point?
The again my previous 1986 never got washed. My wife drove it to work every day in Cleveland, Ohio. With the salt roads, snow tires and Midwest grime what was the point?
03-04-2013, 02:00 PM
#33
I find washing (anything) is kind of therapeutic to me as well. boats cars... Music, sun and warm temperatures are required. if I'm pressed for time, or cold, it's exactly the brutal annoying experience you describe.
03-04-2013, 02:26 PM
#34
Race Director
I try to wash as little as possible. Wash only when it's dirty enough that it starts bothering me.
I find washing (anything) is kind of therapeutic to me as well. boats cars... Music, sun and warm temperatures are required. if I'm pressed for time, or cold, it's exactly the brutal annoying experience you describe.
I find washing (anything) is kind of therapeutic to me as well. boats cars... Music, sun and warm temperatures are required. if I'm pressed for time, or cold, it's exactly the brutal annoying experience you describe.
03-04-2013, 03:22 PM
#36
Addressing those who like the car clean or even spotless, how would you react to the following situation:
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
03-04-2013, 05:11 PM
#38
Rennlist Member
Addressing those who like the car clean or even spotless, how would you react to the following situation:
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
off my face .Cheers Guy
03-04-2013, 05:28 PM
#39
Race Director
Addressing those who like the car clean or even spotless, how would you react to the following situation:
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
Just washed/clayed/rinsed/wax your car to perfection, and out on a Sat morning drive. While you're enjoying the breeze in some 55 mph suburban 'Pkwy', you notice 500ft ahead the local city officials have turned the fire hose on, presumbly doing some equip testing. The road ahead is wet, putting it mildly. Cars next to you are zooming by at 50-60 mph.
What would you do?
03-04-2013, 08:39 PM
#41
Rennlist Member
Probably strapping the snowboard to the roof, and head up the hill on Friday. Will it be dirty enough to justify a wash it over the weekend???
(If the cars could talk, what would it be like to line up the ~150K milers with the ~50K (or fewer) milers, turn out the lights in the lot/warehouse and come back the next day?)
(If the cars could talk, what would it be like to line up the ~150K milers with the ~50K (or fewer) milers, turn out the lights in the lot/warehouse and come back the next day?)
03-04-2013, 08:49 PM
#42
Drifting
I try to think of my 993 as being a really well built, good handling, fast car, rather than being a "Porsche". Then I don't feel guilty about not washing it more often. 
03-04-2013, 09:28 PM
#43
Instructor
I drive the 993 about thirty miles every two to three months. The rest of the time it is comfortably resting in an A/C garage. Every time it goes out it gets a two hour clean job. I love to see that baby sparkle clean. I wax it every three months with Zymol Concours Glaze.
03-04-2013, 09:36 PM
#44
Rennlist Member
03-04-2013, 09:52 PM
#45
Instructor
Mine is a daily driver but I wash it all the time. Fortunately I have another car so while I drive the 993 year round I do try and avoid snow, slop, and salt.
I end up washing it about once per week. As long as temps are above freezing I will keep it clean. My neighbors think I'm nuts...
I will wax it every few months and twice (maybe three times) per year will breakout the polisher to eliminate swirl marks.
I just love having it shiny and find a sick sense of enjoyment in chasing away dirt, dust, and swirls.
This weekend it was in the low 40's:
I end up washing it about once per week. As long as temps are above freezing I will keep it clean. My neighbors think I'm nuts...
I will wax it every few months and twice (maybe three times) per year will breakout the polisher to eliminate swirl marks.
I just love having it shiny and find a sick sense of enjoyment in chasing away dirt, dust, and swirls.
This weekend it was in the low 40's: