Accumulator
05-16-2018, 01:15 PM
Figured I`d start another of these for this year.
Gee, just had a big surprise, and a good one! I`ve posted about how "no, you can`t blow off dust, gotta wash it"..but YMMV popped up again :D
Twenty-one months ago (!) I cleaned up the Crown Vic and put it in the back corner of the shop (near the clothes dryer..think "lint") to do some suspension/undercarriage work. Sigh...this morning it was still sitting there, and in the interim it got *covered* with dirty dust. When I cleaned the exterior glass I was shocked by the nasty [stuff] I was cleaning off and !oh man! did the car look awful under the lights. [Shoot], and I keep that shop so nice and clean too.
Sigh, thought I`d have to wash it immediately, but first...I pumped the tires up to [I won`t say how high] and took it for a spin anyhow just to get them back to round. OK, vibration gone...back to the shop.
Got the car home, pulled it back into the shop, thinking how I`d have to schedule that wash, but...hey, it looked OK! Not Autopian/ concours-ready, but it no longer looked like it needed a thorough washing. Virtually no dust remained, not on the FK1000P, not on the Ultima TTG+, nothing to speak of at all, at least "best in parking lot"-clean. It blew off during my little drive. Lucky Me!
So *maybe* you can blow off dust after all, at least with a good coat of the right LSP; won`t know until you try.
Gee, just had a big surprise, and a good one! I`ve posted about how "no, you can`t blow off dust, gotta wash it"..but YMMV popped up again :D
Twenty-one months ago (!) I cleaned up the Crown Vic and put it in the back corner of the shop (near the clothes dryer..think "lint") to do some suspension/undercarriage work. Sigh...this morning it was still sitting there, and in the interim it got *covered* with dirty dust. When I cleaned the exterior glass I was shocked by the nasty [stuff] I was cleaning off and !oh man! did the car look awful under the lights. [Shoot], and I keep that shop so nice and clean too.
Sigh, thought I`d have to wash it immediately, but first...I pumped the tires up to [I won`t say how high] and took it for a spin anyhow just to get them back to round. OK, vibration gone...back to the shop.
Got the car home, pulled it back into the shop, thinking how I`d have to schedule that wash, but...hey, it looked OK! Not Autopian/ concours-ready, but it no longer looked like it needed a thorough washing. Virtually no dust remained, not on the FK1000P, not on the Ultima TTG+, nothing to speak of at all, at least "best in parking lot"-clean. It blew off during my little drive. Lucky Me!
So *maybe* you can blow off dust after all, at least with a good coat of the right LSP; won`t know until you try.