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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Left Coast, Canada
Posts: 4,572
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Re: My car's dirty little secret
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Originally posted by Hetmann
I've been disassembling my car in preparation for new paint and have found approximately 10 pounds of dirt up near the headlight buckets and bumper mounts, back near my tail light housings....
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Right!
And those dirt-filled areas get wet and stay wet for a long time, promoting rust. A normal wash job cannot flush all that crap out.
When I first got my car, I spent a whole weekend probing all the dirt loose. It filled a large Shop-Vac!
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