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The Medway Handyman writes:
On 01/04/2012 19:08, Rod Speed wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote
Andrew Gabriel wrote
Hugo wrote

Reading car forums, the overwhelming opinion is that a pressure washer is needed to wash one's car properly. So I
went and bought a cheap

Really?
I thought a problem with them for this purpose is the pressure can take the paint off.

Urban myth.

Nope, fact, at least with motorbikes.


I sold pressure washers for 30 odd years. I only know of on instance of
paint removal & that was a Lada the owner had hand painted.

'If' a pressure washer takes paint off - the paint was coming off anyway
- the pressure washer just brought the date forward.

The water based paints they have to use today don't stick
as well as the solvent based paints which used to be used.

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Andrew Gabriel
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