1) Clean your wheels of brake dust after EVERY drive?
2) Slow down on country roads behind slow cars when you can't pass, just to speed up to take the curves faster?
3) Delay the shift out of 2nd, just to hear the jet engine sound?
4) Start a thread which sounds alot like "You know you are an 8 owner when...". Sorry, just came in from a drive and I'm still excited.

 

i think you should make love to your car...

 

Make love, perhaps...

I found myself on my knees, cleaning the crap out of the inside of the tailpipes with Nevr-Dull floss.

INSIDE the pipes.....that is just stupid! Come on people - just because they were shiny once, doesn't mean you have to clean all that crap out, every wash!

Stop the insanity! If any other car owners cleaned inside their tailpipes I would be amazed, yet here it seems required?

S

 

what do you clean your wheels off with? what's best to use? i hate how they seem to get dirty so fast, cleaning them (even if not every day) isn't a bad idea at all!!

make love to the car... shifter, um no thanks. e-brake-- even more no thanks. LOL

 

I just use one of those dash dusters. Works good, if you do it after EVERY drive.


Forgot, I'm guilty of the tailpipe cleaning ritual as well (inside and out). Someone please help me, now if I could only apply this madness to washing dishes.

 

::hangs head in shame::

I use simple green to clean the exhaust tips...inside and out. Glad to see that I am not the only one who obsesses about it.

 

1) Clean your wheels of brake dust after EVERY drive?
No, but maybe the duster is a good idea. Hmm ...
2) Slow down on country roads behind slow cars when you can't pass, just to speed up to take the curves faster?
Oh yeah.
3) Delay the shift out of 2nd, just to hear the jet engine sound?
Sometimes.

And clean the inside of the exhaust tips? Yep. Even started a thread about it, and I'm thinking of looking into that tip about waxing.

 

its pretty normal
I do that stuff
most everyone on here does

 

People at work: "Does your car EVER get dirty?"

Me: Nope

 

1) Clean your wheels of brake dust after EVERY drive? Yes - on a silver car, if the windows and wheels are clean, the whole car seems clean.

2) Slow down on country roads behind slow cars when you can't pass, just to speed up to take the curves faster? Yes

3) Delay the shift out of 2nd, just to hear the jet engine sound? Yes - mostly just to hear the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

4) Start a thread which sounds alot like "You know you are an 8 owner when...". No.

 

so i can just take a cloth and simple green and clean my wheels and exhaust with that? awesome!

what do you guys use to wash it with? recommend.....? i've seen (i think it's armor all's) carwash + wax in one. anyone know anything good/bad about that?

also i need to contact mazda i think, for a thing of touch up paint. there's a tiny chip in my paint on one side and i need to fix that shizzy... is there somewhere online i can order it? :/

 

I keep a plastic-bristle brush in the garage - my wife uses it attached to a handle for her entire car - it's not unlike those found at coin-op car wash places. It works VERY well to clean the dust off wheels quickly, and easily.

 

Slinky-
The wheels are clearcoated, so check to see if simple green is cc safe.
As for washing in general, a lot of people are die-hard Zaino fans, myself included. There are mucho threads debating Zaino vs. NXT vs. Mr. Clean etc. I like Zaino because it lasts forever and a day.
As for touch up paint, you should receive some in the mail shortly (assuming you just bought your 8). Otherwise you dealer should have some.

OK, so answers
1. Quite often, not everyday. I do need one of the car dusters so I can do it when I pull in my garage every night.
2. Yes
3. Yes, then repeat in 3rd
4. No, but I responded to yours.

 

so something like tht doesn't scratch the coating, eh? i would have thought it did (why i suggested cloth.)

i wrote in here and usurped this thing and i didn't even answer.

1. i've only driven it like, 5 times since i got it due to the weather... so no, not yet, but now that i am learning what is good to clean with, i will start :D
2. did that last night (lotsa country roads here!)
3. uhhh i'm still learning how to shift... heh heh. if i delay the shift out of second, it isn't on purpose. yet. ha.
4. no