Advantages of Polishing

**JDNSW** · 26th January 2009, 07:23 PM

With my having to return my Grand daughter to Yass in the next few days, I got to thinking of the prospects of driving through the anticipated locust plague. Having been there before, it occurred to me that they would be a lot easier to get off if I gave the old girl a polish.

So this morning I set to and washed and polished her. While doing so I found two relatively minor problems, which could have taken a lot longer to find without going over the outside with a cloth. These were:-

1. Another "popped" rivet on the bonnet. The Isuzu vibration is literally rivet popping!

2. The left hand windscreen hinge was loose on the windscreen frame. This is probably the rattle in the dash I have been looking for, although I have not done a test run yet.

John

**Grover-98** · 26th January 2009, 08:30 PM

Done a test run yet?

**JDNSW** · 26th January 2009, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Grover-98

Done a test run yet?

No, probably won't until late tomorrow - busy getting packed and organised. I have to take back to Yass a bunch of stuff that my son could not fit in his commodore - including a doll's house that will just about fill the back of the County and two beds and a fridge in the box trailer.

John

**weeds** · 26th January 2009, 09:05 PM

a mate of mine puts polish on prior to a trip but does not buff it......much wasier to wash when he gets home

**JDNSW** · 28th January 2009, 09:24 PM

Seems to have stopped the noise.

John

**dmdigital** · 28th January 2009, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Seems to have stopped the noise.

John

So you've either:
(a) gone deaf
(b) got polish stuck in your ears
(c) bought a Range Rover

Do you think it will improve the top speed too

**JDNSW** · 30th January 2009, 06:33 AM

Originally Posted by dm_td5

So you've either:
(a) gone deaf
(b) got polish stuck in your ears
(c) bought a Range Rover

Do you think it will improve the top speed too

Only stopped that particular rattle, not by any means all of them. I don't think it affected the speed, but I brought a trailer down.

John

**sschmez** · 30th January 2009, 09:07 AM

I heard they were putting baby oil into a pump spray and spraying that on the front of the car to make the locusts easier to remove ... hate to get it on the screen though

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