RKA

Normally it snows and I brush the snow to within 1-2" of the paint, and leave the rest alone. This prevents dragging snow or a brush across the surface of the paint and swirling the **** out of it. Well, for the first time in 7 or 8 years, I had no choice but to run the brush right down to the paint to remove the heavy/icy crap that built up overnight. Thankfully I had a chance to stop by the car wash last night and rinse a month of accumulated salt, sand, and other stuff off the paint. The film of dirt however...still there. Oh well...I'll get over it.

Audi Junkie

woot

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Tundraman

DON'T ever do what I did a couple winters ago. I had a good 2 feet of snow on my truck, so I took my plastic shovel, and kept 1" above the metal, and took all the snow off... unfort. it pushed the ice, and scratched the hood and roof! I was able to use my pc and buff it out after a number of passes, but it looked like h*l till I could do that!!! I now only use a brush, and make sure I'm more careful when ice is on the base!

-Tundraman

SilverThing

got the brilliant idea to pound (lightly) on the hood &amp; trunk with the wooden end of my snow brush (being "careful" just to break up the ice &amp; not the car...or so I thought) - upon completion of this task, I then saw that I had created about a dozen nice qtr-sized dimples in each panel (didn't beak the paint fortunately). Haven't gotten the repair done yet (body shop wants ~ $700 to fix)but learned my lesson going forward: "Thou shalt not pound on the ice crusties"

daves4izzle::ASP 3-

The Brilliant Black gods forgive you, buddy! BTW, we need to meet up to return the "babies"... :-)

bac2h

This is my first and LAST Brillant Black car for all the reasons listed here...

RKA

Knowing how to wash/detail makes all the difference in the world. Living with the days when it's dirty help prolong my life span, and I'm pretty happy when it is freshly washed.

RKA

I'll be around this weekend. Just drop me a line when you have some spare time.

bac2h

I'm OK with the wash part...need to ditch the PC and learn the rotary..

IanB

Rotary FTW....hands down