I just spent pretty much the last 3 hours waxing, vaccuming, and cleaning my car. Poor thing hasn’t been cleaned in quite some time – and I’m usually pretty darn good to her!
It was nice to actually use some of the toys I purchased on sale at Canadian Tire over the winter or last fall which I never got a chance to before – namely my Simoniz Vaccuum and Buffer.
First thing I used was the buffer, and it worked as advertised.. what a difference in how smooth the car is now that it’s waxed.. crazy. I had to show Liz as she was wondering what I was doing (I don’t think she’s used to doing a lot of car cleaning, but with her new car I think she wants to take care
The vaccuum also is pretty handy, it’s got a shoulder strap an it’s no bigger than a bathroom garbage can, oddly enough it really is pretty darn powerful. I found it unfortunately not that handy with the enormous amount of Beagle fur I have woven in the carpets of the Vibe. The seats aren’t bad at all, it’s the carpets that seem to keep the fur stuck in it.
Actually, I noticed that buy.com has a Dyson vaccuum on (the roller ball one) on for $299!! Now that our dollar is getting closer to par this is one hell of a deal. I think one of my good buddies has one of these and he thinks it’s the best vaccuum ever (yes, the topic of a vaccuum came up between shots of tequila and war stories). Does anyone have one of these? Are they worth the money? I’m thinking that it’d be nice to have something that would really get that fur out.
Anyhow back to the car cleaning – I did realize one thing that I wish I knew before. Using armor all on the car is a hell of a lot easier when applied with a sponge. I swear it’s taken me 15 years to realize this.. but it was a breeze to make that smooth armour all look which you can’t get while trying to spray it and spread it with a cloth (usually you end up getting armour all all over the windows and everywhere you don’t want).
So now I’m really hoping it doesn’t rain the next few days!

