Keeping a promise
Jun. 7th, 2006 18:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI may have missed my last deadline of before Baycon, but I did finally wash my car today.
I took an extra half-hour or so and did a full wax. For those who have seen Gwen, it may seem like the lipstick for the pig, but it really does help protect what paint she has left... so this was part apology (for not washing her earlier), part protection from sun and wind, and part looking out for myself. The green walnuts have started forming on the tree above my parking spot, and it won't be long before the squirrels rain walnut hulls down on my car... the greasy black spots come off sooooo much easier if the paint has been recently waxed. I dislike spending 90 minutes just scrubbing at the top of the trunk.
Someone, somehow, dripped candle wax on my car. That's not what's known as a "hard wax", people.
I spent another 40 min or so vacuuming out the inside and beating the dirt out of the mats. Literally handfuls of dust from the footwell... but it was dwarfed by the amount of mud I found between the driver side door and the frame. Gobs. Shovelfuls. It was jammed all the way up the hingespace to the top; I ended up taking a spray nozzle to it and washing it all out. There wasn't any on the other side -- I guess that's the reason why those mudflaps in the wheelwell exist. Pity I lost the one on the driver's side.
It might explain why the hinges have been unhappy, though. I'll let them dry out, then take some oil to them, and maybe they won't sound like I'm murdering puppies anymore.
So I have a shiny clean car, and other than a little roughness at startup (happens every time I bring a hose near her) she seems happy. The mystery: my stereo system abruptly stopped its extended-play behavior, where it plays for 10 seconds after I turn off the ignition and pull out the keys. It shut off cleanly twice today. Since I could never figure out why it started in the first place (two years after I got the car) and it has since stopped and started again at least once even after buying a new stereo deck, I can't find a logical reason why cleaning the car would change things.
Sometimes being an animist makes things so much easier to explain. :)
I took an extra half-hour or so and did a full wax. For those who have seen Gwen, it may seem like the lipstick for the pig, but it really does help protect what paint she has left... so this was part apology (for not washing her earlier), part protection from sun and wind, and part looking out for myself. The green walnuts have started forming on the tree above my parking spot, and it won't be long before the squirrels rain walnut hulls down on my car... the greasy black spots come off sooooo much easier if the paint has been recently waxed. I dislike spending 90 minutes just scrubbing at the top of the trunk.
Someone, somehow, dripped candle wax on my car. That's not what's known as a "hard wax", people.
I spent another 40 min or so vacuuming out the inside and beating the dirt out of the mats. Literally handfuls of dust from the footwell... but it was dwarfed by the amount of mud I found between the driver side door and the frame. Gobs. Shovelfuls. It was jammed all the way up the hingespace to the top; I ended up taking a spray nozzle to it and washing it all out. There wasn't any on the other side -- I guess that's the reason why those mudflaps in the wheelwell exist. Pity I lost the one on the driver's side.
It might explain why the hinges have been unhappy, though. I'll let them dry out, then take some oil to them, and maybe they won't sound like I'm murdering puppies anymore.
So I have a shiny clean car, and other than a little roughness at startup (happens every time I bring a hose near her) she seems happy. The mystery: my stereo system abruptly stopped its extended-play behavior, where it plays for 10 seconds after I turn off the ignition and pull out the keys. It shut off cleanly twice today. Since I could never figure out why it started in the first place (two years after I got the car) and it has since stopped and started again at least once even after buying a new stereo deck, I can't find a logical reason why cleaning the car would change things.
Sometimes being an animist makes things so much easier to explain. :)
