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How often do you guys wash your car? I use to have more time but adulting is hard and I have more cars than before
Usually every 3 weeks as I park it indoors - more if it's been outside a lot. In the summer it's a foam cannon and in the winter it's ONR (rinse less) or a touchless if it's really dirty. ONR is faster and I could do it during the summer as well but I enjoy the deeper clean of a foam wash (getting into nooks and crannies more). Twice a year I do a decontamination wash that includes IronX etc (I'm ceramic coated).
My kid is getting old enough that I'm starting to feel like I don't have to rush my washes anymore and I can take my time - for a while it was just doing the bare minimum as we had other things to do.
In fairness to trollface, my 2004 Mini Cooper S has over 325,000KM on it, which is very surprising considering all the dodgy history of repairs, parts, number of owners (6+) and so on.
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I literally do not plan on buying another vehicle in my lifetime, assuming it doesn't get written off.
some of them are approaching 25 years, there are ones at half a million km's
adequate oil lvl, the odd valve clearance check and chain tensioner if it gets noisy and it'll keep going
Nothing wrong with it - all relatively low miles per year really. Time's a bigger factor than mileage - all of these cars suffer more from brittle plastics than worn mechanicals
Thread content - went to pick up my car this morning at my aunt's house - found it parked behind a 91 Blue spektrum e-Golf. 1 of 4 made in this colour.
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replace that wood for who gets producer the wood.
Last edited by The Producer; 09-25-2023 at 09:58 AM.
didnt realize they offered spectrum to non-R's, Canada only?
Spektrum was available for e-Golf and R in Canada.
Back on topic: manifold didn't blow up and the rain held off. Good day yesterday. (Feels much better in the midrange after the tune, really good power).
EDIT: Corrected as per The Producer
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Damn, not only is yours veiny AF, yours is thick AF too. Yours is twice as thick as mine.. That looks like a 2" or maybe even 3"?
My AFC gave me an ABS CEL code of LOL while at WOT!
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didn't realize they offered spectrum to non-R's, Canada only?
yes. the spektrum program actually started w Canadian e-Golfs. the take up was pretty small (104 total cars) but they were tooled up so they brought it to the R's also for the 7.5's
Pretty interesting back story actually. Couple of enthusiastic VW north america execs got involved. You don't see that as often as you used to.
Production breakdown by year/model/country/colour. There's a very active group that tracks these cars.
Spektrum was available for e-Golf, GTI and R in Canada.
no GTI's. The Rabbit edition special colours (cornflower blue) were not part of the spektrum program and were not hand painted away from the production line like the spektrum cars
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replace that wood for who gets producer the wood.
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Throw out bearing lasted 600km so only got 3 runs in.
I was at the event too! I heard you mentioned back in the parking that it was starting to have issues. Hopefully you were able to make it home driving through the city instead of towing
Thanks Traum for the photos
Spoiler!
Your car feat my car in the back because mine only looks good 20 feet away
Also peep my hanging external air temp sensor becuase it doesnt like to stay clipped in place during autox
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and I have more cars than before
