Ari Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Was giving Claudine a real thorough post France trip clean yesterday afternoon (had only washed her since and she needed the interior doing) and took the wind deflector out to clean around the back of the interior. Whilst it was out I decided to just run a cloth over it. Oh. My. God! You would not believe the crap that came off the mesh! I suppose thinking about it logically, its very nature is to get in the way of the wind that whips over the top from the screen and funnels back so its going to be full of road dust and dirt, diesel fumes etc, and being black it doesn't show the dirt. But with every wipe the damp cloth was just black, it was absolutelty filthy! Never ocurred to me to clean it before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCab Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 [ QUOTE ] being black it doesn't show the dirt [/ QUOTE ] Black? But they're supposed to be chrome originally, to go with the metallic surrounds and windscreen frame. You must have been given a second hand one. You'd better get back out there and keep scrubbing until it's back to silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Hmmmmmm......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braytak Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 [ QUOTE ] But they're supposed to be chrome originally, to go with the metallic surrounds and windscreen frame. [/ QUOTE ] You may have something there, it would have been a real piece of design and quality imagery for the wind deflector to have had an aluminium surround to match the the rest of the outside trim. Ari thanx, never occurred to me either, lovely jublee something else to clean on my beautiful Cab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 [ QUOTE ] You may have something there, it would have been a real piece of design and quality imagery for the wind deflector to have had an aluminium surround to match the the rest of the outside trim. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, an aluminium framed wind deflector with black mesh would look fantastic! Or even better, the mesh colour coded to the paintwork, so on mine aluminium frame and dark blue mesh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braytak Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 I think you definitely have something there,do you mean colour coded to the interior or the body colour. I think my one will have to be coded to the blue interior but yours could look ool in Moro . Maybe Audi will take notice of the Idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Was thinking body colour, but interior colour would work on the right application, ie a pale grey mesh to go with a pale grey interior for example, but not sure a colour like Anis would work so well... One of these aftermarket wind deflector companies needs to take this on board, I'd imagine there was a market if the price was sensible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 While we are at it we could add a blue neon strip to the top edge, make it electrically operated and put the words 'POLICE STOP' on the fabric netting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 For a moment there when I read "add a blue neon strip" I thought we were going all "Fast And Furious" Or at least "Reasonably Quickly And Mildly Irate" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCab Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 [ QUOTE ] [/ QUOTE ] I see your stalking has paid off and you've managed to get a snap of CabGirl... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted May 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yes indeedy. It's a little blurry as I was being carried out by security at the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CabGirl Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Tee Hee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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