Just don't use your old issues of North American Pylon!
--Pat Kelly
"Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}" wrote:
> Ah hah, I've spent many of my 25 years battling this problem and I think I
> can help. The film is from the plastics in your car "de-gassing" or
> whatever, and I've had some pretty ridiculous examples of this thanks to my
> parent's fascination with vinyl seats. If you try to use regular paper
> towels and Windex, you just smear it all around. The first thing to do is
> to go to Target or somewhere and buy an alcohol-based window cleaner
> designed for cars. I tried the one made by Rain-X and it worked fine. Note
> this is NOT Rain-X, but the Rain-X brand auto glass cleaner. For some
> reason alcohol is much better at dissolving this stuff than ammonia. The
> second problem comes from white paper towels. The white bleachy stuff they
> use leaves its own streaks and residues. This is going to sound really
> weird, but the best stuff to use for cleaning car glass is newspaper.
> Crumple it up and start wiping. I'm sure you are cringing at the thought of
> all that black ink getting on your windows, but for some reason this really
> does work well. I didn't believe it until I tried it. Hope that helps!
>
> Peter Thana
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Esra [SMTP:philesra@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:48 PM
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Three runs in Round 6?
> >
> > I had to miss this event, but, if there's no time for fun runs with only 3
> >
> > runs, that seems to answer the question!
> >
> > phil
> >
> > ps oh, while I'm thinking about it--I've been getting this weird film on
> > the
> > inside of my windshield. I clean it off, and it gradually reappears. It's
> > kind of oily. Its appearance seems to have coincided with using armor-all
> > on
> > the dash, but that was a long time ago now. Anyone have a theory? How do I
> >
> > make it go away for good? I cleaned the armor-all off the dash, but that
> > didn't seem to help...
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> >
> > >From: "Jerry Mouton" <jerry@moutons.org>
> > >To: "Bay_Area_Autocross_List" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > >Subject: Three runs in Round 6?
> > >Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:13:54 -0700
> > >
> > >Well, folks, what was your impression of having only
> > >3 runs for Sunday's event? I had fun, even with 3 runs, and
> > >there seemed to be a lot less stress and pressure on
> > >people running the event. 258 and through pretty early.
> > >But of course, not time for any fun runs -- just time to breathe.
> > >
> > >Maybe it's worth it for local events? What do you all
> > >think?
> > >
> > >Jerry
> > >
> > >Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
> > >rouler!
> > >
> > >
> >
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