I this weekend planned to wash my car as it has been used as my daily driver over the past couple of weeks whilst the polo has an MOT and a mini service carried out; I’ve just not had time to get it into the garage so the LCR has been used, which is no bad thing apart from it’s filthy now.
My old hosepipe had seen better days so off to Homebase I went (I lead an exciting life as you can tell…..). Whilst there, they had a Karcher on offer and so I bought one of those too, convincing myself that my Halfords own brand pressure washer was on its way out, which it wasn’t, but a bargain is a bargain.
The Halfords pressure washer, which cost me £30 I think in a sale a couple of years ago, is naturally worlds apart in terms of both build quality and performance. The Karcher I bought is the K2.56 deluxe model. I also got a Karcher 4 way lance thrown in for free. Using the Karcher, I noticed that it was quieter and the pressure was a lot stronger (1.2 bar), in comparison. My car is seven years old now and whilst there is no evidence of lacquer peel, I’ve known of a few cases occurring with LCRs, amongst others, and so I was a little cautious at first, but it was fine. I was very impressed with the results but now I need to buy a new snow lance as my current one is not compatible with the Karcher’s fixings. I’ll buy one at some point in the future, probably from Clean Your Car. The Ulimate snow foam that they sell, in my opinion, is an excellent product.
With the car washed and waxed, and a bit of spare time this past evening, I decided to go take some photos of the car as the majority, if not all, of my photos had been taken on my driveway which is sloped and gives a disproportionate view of the stance.
The location was nowhere exotic or interesting (I apologise) but the photos give a 360 view of the car.
I think it’s fair to say that the car's stance will look much better once the coilovers have
been fitted. I'm starting to give some serious consideration to the choice of colour when refurbishing the wheels now, although I will probably do it after the winter; not sure what colour to choose. I like the wheels current colour but I've seen a LCR set painted black with a light pearl lacquer, which gives it a nice glossy finish. Black wheels would make sense as I have black wing mirror caps and the bay's theme is generally black, but in the flesh, I'm just not sure.
Any comments/advice welcome. Thanks for reading.
James