removing snow from car without scratching?
10-04-2004, 11:56 AM
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removing snow from car without scratching?
does anybody have suggestions on how best to remove snow from the car (other than using your sleeve)? i feel like the hard plastic bristles found ont the ordinary snow brush will leave little surface scratches on the paint.
10-04-2004, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Aurora
does anybody have suggestions on how best to remove snow from the car (other than using your sleeve)? i feel like the hard plastic bristles found ont the ordinary snow brush will leave little surface scratches on the paint.
If you do get scratches, they will be very small and easily polished out or even covered with a good scratch/swirl remover wax.
10-04-2004, 02:32 PM
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not really taylor. Those stiff bristles will "pierce" through your wax coating almost instantly... I just try and brush most of it off without touching the paint, let the little amount left blow off on the highway.
10-04-2004, 02:54 PM
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I haven't tried this one, but people that used it said it doesn't scratch.
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10-04-2004, 07:34 PM
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Thanks for all the feedback guys. I think I'll try a little of all of the above.
Taylor, do you suggest a particular brand of wax for winterizing? And anybody try that SnoBrum?
Taylor, do you suggest a particular brand of wax for winterizing? And anybody try that SnoBrum?
10-04-2004, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by AlBoston
Those stiff bristles will "pierce" through your wax coating almost instantly
Wax is for preventing things like bird poop from bonding directly to your paint. A layer of wax will not stop solid objects like brush bristles!!!! Wax is soft, and can be scratched, rubbed, melted, or dissolved away.
10-04-2004, 07:58 PM
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when the snow is light and fluffy, i whip out the leaf blower or i just use my hands with gloves. when it's heavier, i just a clean off the windows and i use the snow thing with the bristles lightly so i'm now touchin the paint but it just touchin the snow.
10-04-2004, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Aurora
Thanks for all the feedback guys. I think I'll try a little of all of the above.
Taylor, do you suggest a particular brand of wax for winterizing? And anybody try that SnoBrum?
Taylor, do you suggest a particular brand of wax for winterizing? And anybody try that SnoBrum?
I've had excellent results with Zymol....others like the polymers...but carnuba holds up to salt/sand very well in the winter
10-04-2004, 08:28 PM
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if it's not really much snow on the painted areas, i'd just leave them be and clean off the windows/viewing areas. Let the wind blow off the rest and heat from the engine above the hood melt off the rest.
if it's a lot, i usually just brush off as much as i can without touching the paint.
if it's a lot, i usually just brush off as much as i can without touching the paint.
10-05-2004, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Aurora
does anybody have suggestions on how best to remove snow from the car (other than using your sleeve)? i feel like the hard plastic bristles found ont the ordinary snow brush will leave little surface scratches on the paint.
(yeah i know damn near impossible & major $$$)
