Still looking good for 8 years old!
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2020 GLS450 (wife) / 2024 Ford Bronco (mine) / 2014 VW Tiquan (son)
Still looking good for 8 years old!
not too shabby for being 8 years old! Cleaned her up this past weekend for the 3rd time in the 5 years I’ve owned her. Claybar, polish, alcohol, 3 coats of “deep ice” ceramic from “the last coat”. I used that stuff two years ago when I did this and my wife’s GLS. It’s held up remarkably well, with just automated car washes in between and a few wipe downs with their weaker ceramic spray called “the last coat”. Wife’s car has done better than the 212, but the 212 got nailed by tree sap and aphid bug sap last year. The hood and trunk were full of little sticky bumps. The claybar was very satisfying to do, but took a few passes to get it all off there. She might have a few highway beauty marks for her age (67k miles), but overall, she’s still got it!
at some point the front bumper is likely going to need a repainting. It’s pitted pretty badly from road crap. They use sand here in DC in the winter, and it’s hell on a bumper’s paint job..
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Nothing more satisfying than spending a day with your car and giving it the special treatment. It’s a great personal feeling of satisfaction and cars always seem to run better afterwards. It’s like they know you still love them! 😁
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Thanks guys! I do love the car, and hope to keep it for at least another 5 years. When it comes to cars, I’ve found that my interests have shifted away from new things, to well maintained older things. I was sitting at the stoplight the other day in my wife’s 2020 GLS, and next to me was a sparkling white GL550. Had to be at least 6 years old now (GL instead of GLS). It was a far more appealing MB than our 2020. Just looked like more time was spent to design it. Truly a beauty and wish I could’ve found one like it two years ago when we were shopping. I’d of bought it over the new version.
amazes me how quiet the 212 becomes when all of the road grime is off the hood and windshield via the claybar. 80 mph and hardly any wind noise whatsoever. It just slices through the wind like a hot knife through butter. Probably all psychological, but also seems to need far less effort from the engine to get up to speed too. Has to be in my mind though. No way it makes that much of a difference in that regard. But the wind noise, that’s not psychological. Especially the windshield.
amazes me how quiet the 212 becomes when all of the road grime is off the hood and windshield via the claybar. 80 mph and hardly any wind noise whatsoever. It just slices through the wind like a hot knife through butter. Probably all psychological, but also seems to need far less effort from the engine to get up to speed too. Has to be in my mind though. No way it makes that much of a difference in that regard. But the wind noise, that’s not psychological. Especially the windshield.
