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Subject: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 21 Aug 12 - 06:38 PM Last truck... the ex washed it and waxed it when it was new. Ya know, pissing on something lays a claim to it kinda shit I guess. I took it up country and ran it into the pine trees, side to side at 30mph, so I wouldn't have to worry about scrathin it any more. Done that with two trucks before that. This here truck don't know what an alder is but that's a loooong and sad story. I got grief today fer it bein dirty. WTF? Don't the three years of dirt and grime protect it against rust? Wash my BUILT FORD TOUGH truck... I just can`t see it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Bill D Date: 21 Aug 12 - 06:48 PM Why, at a certain point, the dirt is what holds it together! (The last time I remember totally washing a vehicle was about 50 years ago... and it wasn't mine.) I did wipe down my big van recently because it had gotten really grimy from Winter slush and Summer dust... but it is hard to load & unload it at craft shows without getting grime on ME.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Bobert Date: 21 Aug 12 - 07:18 PM Trucks are like cats... They hate baths... Good on you, Gn-ze... Here's the next thing ya' need to do... Next time you see some mud, stop, get out, get it all over yer feet and crush it into the carpet... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: GUEST,MarkS Date: 21 Aug 12 - 08:00 PM Just do the inside of the windshield so you can see where you are going. Other than that, dirt will hide the dents |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Joe_F Date: 21 Aug 12 - 08:05 PM I have read that there are truckdrivers who pay extra to have their trucks washed in deionized water so it will not leave *spots*. It takes all kinds. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Wesley S Date: 21 Aug 12 - 08:05 PM My guess is that women think that what they find on the outside of a mans truck - is the same thing they'll find inside of his mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Janie Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:02 PM Hope not. Or at least hope the reverse is not also true - elsewise there are a lot of men who think I have a "dirty mind." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Bobert Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:05 PM Okay, I have a dirty mind... (No, Boberdz, but yer truck show nuff is skanky...) B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Beer Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:21 PM I have a 1998 truck (small one), washed it the first year once, maybe twice. Then I washed it again when I went visiting and stopped at Gnu place. He didn't look at my truck because I knocked on the door and had fun the rest of the evening inside. I don't think I have washed my "Country Cadillac" since. I treat it like a truck because that is what it is. Adrien |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Wesley S Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:44 PM There's nothing funnier than a four wheel drive off road vehicle with an exotic paint job on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Ed T Date: 21 Aug 12 - 09:52 PM I would never personally worry about washing a truck of any type(especially a black one, that would look dirty an hour after), as many see them as work vehicles, not passenger vehicles, that call out for occasional washing. There was a time when many folks just drove them through a brook to clean the mud off. But, we now know that this is not good for fish habitat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Janie Date: 21 Aug 12 - 10:25 PM Not to give false impressions - I don't drive a truck. I drive a 1997 Legacy Outback Subaru wagon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Aug 12 - 10:34 PM My 2000 Chevy pickup truck got washed more often when it was new (I'm the original owner) than it does now. When the kids were here I'd pay them a modest sum every so often to knock off the worst of the dirt, usually right before some event where they were going to want extra cash. Now that it's mostly just me and the truck, I wash it a couple of times a year. I think. I do believe I washed it this spring. I've always told people that I protect the paint with a good coat of dirt. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Janie Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:05 PM A woman after my own heart! I always figure it is the mud that keeps the fenders glued on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: ranger1 Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:10 PM Isn't that what rain is for? And Janie, you've got good taste, I've got a 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback. I think I have almost as much cargo space as my S-10 had, and it handles better in snow and ice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:10 PM I don't often wash my car but I do wash the lights. A little dust seriously cuts the amount of light that the headlights and taillights put out. When I'm getting gasoline, I run the thing for washing the windshield over the head and tail lights. I do like a clean windshield. I have to park on the street, and I feel a comfortably dirty car is less tempting to car thieves. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:29 PM If it's been three years, you really should wash the thing. That's about the length of time it takes for vehicular crud to evolve into a sentient life-form. If you wake up some morning and your truck's gone, it'll be because the crud woke up and decided to drive it to a family reunion in a nearby swamp. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:57 PM If I was still living in Eastern Canada I'd run my vehicles through a car wash that does the under carriage and waxes it a couple of times in the winter. down here in the sunny south, I keep the windows and lights clean and wash the bugs off in the fall. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Gurney Date: 22 Aug 12 - 12:57 AM If you leave it long enough, it self-cleans. Falls off in lumps! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: JohnInKansas Date: 22 Aug 12 - 03:37 AM In some parts in my vicinity folks rely on the Caliche mud to hold some of the parts together. With the recent drought, some of the mud's been dryin' out to the point where there's lots of fenders and an occasional bumper scattered 'round in the ditches. A while back, there was some debate around the coffee pot 'bout whether a gentle wash might stick some of the mud back together and hold things up tight like they oughta be, with the opposition arguin' that washin' 'em at all would likely just take all the stickum out and they'd fall apart right away. By now, the consensus is that the livestock needs the water worse than the livin' space, and ain't nobody gonna waste any water washin' much of anything. And 'sides, who the #@$! needs #!$@% fenders when there ain't been no mud to play in fer half a year. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 22 Aug 12 - 05:34 PM Lights and windows? Yeah... of COURSE! Ya GOTTA wash em. Safety first eh? And don't ferget the plates fer chissakes... the RCMP gotta problem with dirty plates. Stop ya if they can read em, sure. But they'll stop ya if they can't read em even if they could eh? >;-) Tight lines and straight shootin eh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 22 Aug 12 - 05:51 PM Thank you, gnu. It's nice to know that somebody shares my point of view. John: this drought is getting serious. Did you see where part of the MISSISSIPPI River near Greenville MS is closed to barges because of low water levels? I wouldn't have thought it possible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 22 Aug 12 - 06:14 PM Stock up on staples while they are "cheap", leeneia. $s are gonna go UP. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: JennieG Date: 23 Aug 12 - 12:56 AM I always thought dust and dirt was a protective covering, whether it be for trucks or furniture. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Tangledwood Date: 23 Aug 12 - 04:56 AM There's nothing funnier than a four wheel drive off road vehicle with an exotic paint job on it. Funny to be sure, but I'd give the number one spot to off road vehicles with ultra low profile tyres on highly decorative mag wheels. There's a Jeep I see around here dressed like that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 23 Aug 12 - 03:38 PM "with an exotic paint job" Yeah, they are called homobiles by the good ol boys up country here. I do laugh when I see yuppies in fancy rides like that what ain't never seen an alder. Save my last truck, every one had "Kent County Racin Stripes"... alder scratches from nose to arse... on the roof too. Pine gum on every nook and cranny. The MOST laughable is a paint job that looks like mud all over and not a scratch anywhere... fool + money??? BTW... alder scratches can be a selling feature on accounta ya know it's a factory paint job so it ain't never rusted thru. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Janie Date: 23 Aug 12 - 07:38 PM BWL, now I understand why we spent so much time blocking, jacking and winching that old F250 after it sunk up to the axles in mud or mangrove muck. I always knew that truck had a will of it's own! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 23 Aug 12 - 11:32 PM Blocking and jacking? No osiers handy? Er is that just me? I've seen good ol boys doin tha same... shovels an all. I always just cut some white birch saplins, near saplins, some pine broughs if need be an haul ass outta bad spots when I thread the trees and branches under the tires... even in swamp shit... cept once... I got pictures. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Janie Date: 24 Aug 12 - 12:03 AM When yer in up to axles and transmission case and have 3 tons of assorted "stuff" loaded for a 4 week craft show circuit or herb and root gathering expedition.... Yer an idiot for driving off the pavement to begin with! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: Ed T Date: 24 Aug 12 - 08:28 AM Was at a local shop where many deep pocket trucker-dudes hang out to buy customized truck parts (it's calledcalled Princess Auto). A highly modified longbox Chrysler (aka Dodge) Ram pulled in beside me. It had huge (and brand new) knobby tires, and was jacked up very high. Had no running boards, so it was quite a task for the driver to slide down to ground level from the odd looking "thing". I did not need to bend down to see the shiny hydraulics underneath. I expect someone made big bucks on this dude-job. Now, I speculate the height maybe was attained to drive it off road, as I doubt the "mods" would result in a nice, or economical highyway ride? Indeed, the body was high and I expect the driver could see better. But, outside the extra tire height gave to the the axles, the height did not seem to give the "big footed" vehicle much more clearance for off road conditions? The purpose of such "mods" escaped me? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 24 Aug 12 - 03:33 PM Big tires don't sink into soft stuff as much. Or he's got a small dick and don't know how to crawl thru mud. "Shiney hydraulics" gives me a hint it might be both. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 24 Aug 12 - 03:42 PM Ya oughta wash yer damn truck coz it's a public disgrace, gnu. Yer never gonna pick up no hot dames drivin' a heap like that. I can't figger these men that drive dirty old trucks. Unless yer job is haulin' junk around or deliverin' goods coast to coast, what's the point? What a man needs is a real spiffy lookin' sedan or sports car. Sedans are actually better coz they got more room in the back where ya can stow guns, ammo, and explosives...or just relax and have a nice time. Know what I mean? - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 24 Aug 12 - 08:51 PM "Yer never gonna pick up no hot dames drivin' a heap like that." I had a hot dame. Got burned. "... stow more..."? I gotta a TRUCK. With a back seat and a box. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Wash my truck? Why? From: gnu Date: 24 Aug 12 - 09:30 PM The last time it was washed... the day I got it. |
