When rain stops play

[Marky_]

Guys, what is the etiquette when it starts to rain whist you're detailing your car?

Do you guys leave it till the next day or dry it off by hand etc?

It always seems to come when i'm either polishing or sealing & waxing. If it just spits for a bit, I usually end up drying as best i can with a microfibre (which i don't like doing) and carrying on where i left off. Very annoying when it's abit stop start.


Marcus

 

[Ali]

Garage!

 

[Marky_]

Garage!

If only it wasn't clogged up with crap

 

[Ali]

To be fair... i don't know how people detail in this weather. I washed and clayed the car this mornin, took about 1.5hrs...That all i could bear!
heated garage tho! Tomo's job! ha!

 

[Rich]

As Ali if the weather looks crap I don't even bother washing let alone anything else.


If I did have to polish this time of year I would polish and then seal a wax a panel at a time. If it then rained I would re wash and then carry on after the rain.

 

[Brand86]

I don''t have a garage, I am just a hard (and stupid) b*****d!

I have to check the weather report the day before if I am unsure, nothing is worse having to stop half way through!

 

[Giles]

To be fair... i don't know how people detail in this weather. I washed and clayed the car this mornin, took about 1.5hrs...That all i could bear!
heated garage tho! Tomo's job! ha!

can I use your garage?? :rasp:

 

[Rich]

I don''t have a garage, I am just a hard (and stupid) b*****d!

I have to check the weather report the day before if I am unsure, nothing is worse having to stop half way through!

My garage ain't big enough to work in wish it was, all is not lost can't wait to build the new bugger.

 

[Brand86]

A man of many talents?!? I would love to build a bigger one, sadly I don't think my parents would be too happy! And no room where my flat is...unless I clear out the bin room?!?

When I get a "proper" house a double garage is essential!

 

[Ali]

To be fair... i don't know how people detail in this weather. I washed and clayed the car this mornin, took about 1.5hrs...That all i could bear!
heated garage tho! Tomo's job! ha!

can I use your garage?? :rasp:

lol! Yep! We've got 3 cars and a kart in the garage and still got loads of room to work!!!

In a wk's time i'm bak to living in a flat!! No outside tap!!!

 

[Marky_]

If I did have to polish this time of year I would polish and then seal a wax a panel at a time. If it then rained I would re wash and then carry on after the rain.

I do it a panel at a time, but i don't think i'm up for this detailing malarkey. Couldn't be doing with rewashing it :rasp:

Thought i'd better give it a wash last weekend, as it'd been neglected for 2 months! Shocked by how many new scratches, stone chips and what seems like bubbling on my paint work

 

[Marky_]

In a wk's time i'm bak to living in a flat!! No outside tap!!!

Nightmare.

 

[Ali]

In a wk's time i'm bak to living in a flat!! No outside tap!!!

Nightmare.

Although i have a plan....My room has an onsuite and the window over looks the carpark....Hummm.....4th floor could be an issue tho! LOL

 

[Rich]

A man of many talents?!? I would love to build a bigger one, sadly I don't think my parents would be too happy! And no room where my flat is...unless I clear out the bin room?!?

When I get a "proper" house a double garage is essential!

lol - I wish, I should have said get it built !

 

[Marky_]

Nightmare.

Although i have a plan....My room has an onsuite and the window over looks the carpark....Hummm.....4th floor could be an issue tho! LOL

Gravity > pressure washer

 

[Ali]

Although i have a plan....My room has an onsuite and the window over looks the carpark....Hummm.....4th floor could be an issue tho! LOL

Gravity > pressure washer

errr...dunno i'm not nearly clever enough to work out these things!

 

[Marky_]

Lol!
I can just imagine you now peering through a little window 4 floors up, with a hosepipe aiming at the vee!

 

[Marky_]

Can't be bothered to start a new thread so while i'm here, what would offer more protection;

2 layers of sealant with no wax
or
1 layer of sealant and 1 of wax?
(i'm using Jett trigger and jeffs carnuba at the minute)

 

[Rich]

I would do 2 layers of the Jeffs AGT, and then add a layer of Carnuba the next time you wash the car.

 

[Ali]

I'd probably do 1 and 1!! And Top up with a spray wax each wash!

 

[Marky_]

Thank you sweetness :approve: