What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

**vaca22** · 07-07-2022, 07:39 PM

Thinking of stepping outside later and doing a rinseless wash in the dark.

Why not? No one will be around to bother me

**mattmann** · 07-07-2022, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by vaca22

Thinking of stepping outside later and doing a rinseless wash in the dark.

Why not? No one will be around to bother me

Only our state bird……..the elusive mosquito

What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

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**Tasmania** · 07-08-2022, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I cleaned and treated my windshield and wipers today. I had a long drive home last night, my regular route was flooded, on unfamiliar roads in dark and rain. The wipers started chattering about 10 mins in to an hour's drive, very annoying.

I cleaned my wipers the other day with 303 Aerospace Protectant, after noticing webbing left behind. Obviously I made them too clean, there was no more webbing, but the chartering was bad, but only on the return stroke. So I wiped some graphite powder on them, then cleaned the glass with Krystal Klean, I really like the bubblegum scent, and then gave it 2 coats of Rain-X.

Went for a drive to test it out, no more chattering, and almost didn't need the wipers at all. Now if the roads re-open I might get back to work tomorrow.

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Nothing worse than trying to concentrate when it's pissing down and you get the wiper chatter...Good to see the lock lube helped

**dgage** · 07-08-2022, 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by mattmann

Only our state bird……..the elusive mosquito

You in Alaska? I attended junior high in Nome and high school in Fairbanks as my dad was in the Army. I was fishing one time in Nome and stepped onto this marshy small island and a gray cloud of mosquitos surrounded me. Luckily I was wearing a repellant impregnated mesh hooded sweat shirt and they stayed about 2 inches from my face but if I didn’t have that mosquito repellant shirt on, I might have been taken to the bone there were so many. Then of course there are the numerous times when small children get carried off by a flock of Alaskan mosquitos the size of hummingbirds.

**dgage** · 07-08-2022, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by Tasmania

Nothing worse than trying to concentrate when it's pissing down and you get the wiper chatter...Good to see the lock lube helped

I was pretty annoyed the last time it rained as apparently something small got under my wiper at the store and so my wipers missed a tiny section of water on the way home and it was RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SIGHT LINE. Drove me nuts.

**Big Dave** · 07-08-2022, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by dgage

I was pretty annoyed the last time it rained as apparently something small got under my wiper at the store and so my wipers missed a tiny section of water on the way home and it was RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY SIGHT LINE. Drove me nuts.

It's not just me then, the rain gremlins target you as well. The webbing I got rid of, that led to the chattering seemed to only affect the wiper blade on the driver's side.

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**vaca22** · 07-08-2022, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by mattmann

Only our state bird……..the elusive mosquito

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I got WRECKED. It looks like I have chicken pox.

**mattmann** · 07-08-2022, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by dgage

You in Alaska? I attended junior high in Nome and high school in Fairbanks as my dad was in the Army. I was fishing one time in Nome and stepped onto this marshy small island and a gray cloud of mosquitos surrounded me. Luckily I was wearing a repellant impregnated mesh hooded sweat shirt and they stayed about 2 inches from my face but if I didn’t have that mosquito replant shirt on, I might have been taken to the bone there were so many. Then of course there are the numerous times when small children get carried off by a flock of Alaskan mosquitos the size of hummingbirds.

Alaska? No. Flies are so bad there though lol. A little further south in Arkansas!

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**dgage** · 07-08-2022, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by mattmann

Alaska? No. Flies are so bad there though lol. A little further south in Arkansas!

Haha. They’re bad in Arkansas but they’re normal size. The mosquitos in AK are truly huge and just as aggressive. I don’t remember the flies, only the mosquitos. And the cold, the damn cold. -80 F with wind chill in Fairbanks, AK the winter before I left.

**Big Dave** · 07-08-2022, 11:26 PM

Time to rotate the spare in again, I do it every 5000km. So it's a good time to clean the wheels inside and out. They didn't need anything special, used Carpro Reset, an old Meg's lambs wool mitt, and a detail brush for the fiddly bits. Raining again tomorrow so I'm not dressing the tyres.

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