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Thanks, you made me laugh! Not at your expense you understand, but because I have found exactly the same thing. Halfords sell an almost unbelievable array of potions and elixirs for cleaning every nook and crannie of your car, I've tried a few, and most of them are crap. The last time I was there I bought a bucket, a sponge, a chamois and one other thing. I now wash my car with plain cold water, then chamois it dry immediately. This is when that other thing I mentioned gets used: Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection. It's the one thing I buy from Halfords, and it's well worth it. For everything else, there is nothing better than elbow grease.
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May I Indulge In A Grip--Technical You Understand!
I like driving a ‘clean polished car’ no big deal. When it’s scrubbed up, my Black Metallic 1989 BMW 5.25i, is in show room condition and I like it looking that way! But I hate cleaning cars!! So I browsed around HALFORD’S car cleaning product’s shelves seeking the easy answer to my prayers! Or what have you!. Wow! Have you seen the prices of some of these items? Anyway, conforming to budget I select a top of the range combined , Car Shampoo & Polisher In One Easy Application!
Squirt a dose into a bucket of cold water, swish it around, the car that is , rinse it off and there you are, a gleaming, shining non streaking finish…as if! The bloody thing looks worse than when I started, streaks!! You would not believe it! (No problem on Glass?) Who’s ruddy glass? Because on mine it’s now impossible to see out the windows!
So, back to HALFORD’S. What I need is one (sorry, two, one is Green and the other is coloured Blue) of those Magical Space Ship Clothes, Manufactured from elements of the core of Mars and combined with the DNA of Superman and thus guaranteed to clean you’re car’s body work and windows like they have never been cleaned before! Baby, now you’re talking my language!
OK, what function does the Blue cloth specialise in and when do I use the Green? Try it out pal..
Have done just that. Result: The Blue and Green Cloths leave streaks all over the glass surfaces! Both the Green and Blue cloths leave streaks all over the car’s body works!!So no, quite frankly I have never had my car cleaned like this before!! What I need to do is to go back to HALFORD’S and reprogram my search!
BINGO.. there it is. The SQUEEZE WIPE! It’s a 10” piece of hard plastic with a piece of ‘soft’ plastic stuck to one side and it only costs £9.99 (peanuts, when you’re on £4.37 !/2 pence an hour) Anyway, this thing works (or not) with just the same efficacy as a window cleaning rubber, costing about £5 at Tesco (or elsewhere) So my friend, shampoo your 5 series, and swipe this ‘space age’ crap down your bonnet and what do you see at either side of the ridges on the BMW’S bonnet? (Plus; the pillars, headlights, door area, windows etc. Ruddy great pools of ‘streaking’ water because this thing is useless. (I got similar results from using my £5.00 Tesco Window Scraper!)
But come on, everything at HALFORD’S cannot be a rip-off? Why a few weeks ago, (must have had a winner at the races) I splashed out on what seemed an attractive offer on a ‘NON SLIP MAT’ Now this was wrapped in a fancy bag, illustrating all sorts of uses for this unique product! And if you have a BMW 5 series like mine, do you like your sunglasses etc. sliding all over the ‘well’ on the passengers side of the dashboard? Cost for this solution to one of my problems: £2.45 for about 8 sq inches of the product! Yes, Sir I’ll have that! Yes, if you cut it ‘perfectly’ it will (just about) cover the passenger dashboard ‘well’ and that’s about it!
Then I was having a cup of coffee in a B& Q store a few days later and this roll of rubber caught my eye. Yes folks, it was the Space Project Non Slip Material I had just bought from HALFORD’S. BUT, now I could buy a One Metre Wide by Two Meter Length of this stuff for £3.50 …….
I am not going out of my way to point the finger at HALFORD’S but it just happens that. Whilst on my trip for ‘car cleaning items’ at HALFORD’S I noticed an Upholstery Cleaning Can which promised to clean (guess what? You’re car’s upholstery!) Fine, I have another car, an XR3i Cabriolet and its upholstery needs cleaning (open air!) But at some £8 a can..I’ll give it a miss. Then in HomeBase what do I find to solve the stains on my lounge carpet? Why a can of upholstery cleaner! And the cost £2.75 ( Guess what? I now have a stain free lounge carpet and the XR3I seats, look a treat?)
Anyone else have tales of Car-Owners Rip_Offs?
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