since it was 65 out i decided to take some picso f my car and its new upholstery
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since it was 65 out i decided to take some picso f my car and its new upholstery i took the car around the subdivision today and took some pics. unfortunately i overestimated how much salt was removed from the roads by the rain and some did get on my gfx and wheel wells but i spent a good 45 minutes with QD and damp cloths wiping off all the salt i could find. i'm pretty confident none got to the inner parts of the undercarriage because i reached under there and verified that the dirt i came back with didn't have any salt in it (don't ask how i did that, let's just say it involved one of the 5 senses and it was not smell, sight, sound or touch) 
anyway, onto the pics.
anyway, onto the pics.
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those are factory headrests for 93-97 cars. they may appear slightly larger since the fabric hasn't totally formed to them yet (the passenger side almost has but the drivers side kind of still looks a little out of shape)
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there wasn't really that much, just what the tires kicked up a litle bit on the gfx and wheel wells. i got it all out of there. it wasnt slushy or anything like that. the roads were dry. i do hate that they use it though. its the main reason i don't drive it through the winter because the body is rust free. (my rear rotors have some rust in the middle of them but that happened about a month after i pu them on in FL some 4 years ago. not sure why)
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i ended up washing the car this afternoon after driving around in the beater for a few hours and since i had it washed this morning to remove some rocks that were wedged in the front air damn (friends driveway i think collapsed last night, they have this dip that is a PITA but last night even creeping through it with the wagon the front nose got stuck in the rocks on the incline and i had to kind of push my way up the incline)
anyway i went and got the T/A washed and now i have a free wash for later because their doors hit my car
after going through the wash there is a pretty steep decline coming out and i was going slow so i didn't bottom out, but also had been creeping really slow through the dryer and came almost to a complete stop before going down the incline. anyway just as i'm startin to go down the incline i feel something tap the side of my car. it was the doors of the wash (they open outward to the sides. i parked the car and checked for damage but luckily didn't find any. i still went in and complained and had the manager double check with me and she was pretty cool about it. turns out her husband has an IROC that he stores in the winters too. she gave me a free wash and said the side doors do have rubber guards so they rarely if ever do any damage. once i got home and was looking over my car i realized something. depending on where the doors were when they tapped the car (whether they were adjacent to the rear wheels or behind them, i'm not sure) they probably hit the tire because the rear tires stick out at the bottom a little wider than the fenders. oh and that little ding above the back of the rear wheel is not new.
anyway i went and got the T/A washed and now i have a free wash for later because their doors hit my car
after going through the wash there is a pretty steep decline coming out and i was going slow so i didn't bottom out, but also had been creeping really slow through the dryer and came almost to a complete stop before going down the incline. anyway just as i'm startin to go down the incline i feel something tap the side of my car. it was the doors of the wash (they open outward to the sides. i parked the car and checked for damage but luckily didn't find any. i still went in and complained and had the manager double check with me and she was pretty cool about it. turns out her husband has an IROC that he stores in the winters too. she gave me a free wash and said the side doors do have rubber guards so they rarely if ever do any damage. once i got home and was looking over my car i realized something. depending on where the doors were when they tapped the car (whether they were adjacent to the rear wheels or behind them, i'm not sure) they probably hit the tire because the rear tires stick out at the bottom a little wider than the fenders. oh and that little ding above the back of the rear wheel is not new.