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Old 09-20-2006, 12:44 PM
Lilarienne Lilarienne is offline
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Default Dead bugs plastered on the car...

I just took my beautiful car to the car wash today to have it washed mostly because our trip to Vermont resulted in a lot of dead bugs plastered to the front end. I am very disappointed to say that after my $15.99 "Super Wash" there are still a lot of bugs plastered to the front end. Too bad I didn't notice until I got back into my driveway (and no, I could not possibly have gotten this many dead bugs on my car between the car wash & here since it's not that far and I never exceeded 35mph between there and here-- so less really bug-grinding impact speeds).

My husband suggests that we wash it ourselves in our driveway, which I am not thrilled to do because our driveway is formerly gravel, now mostly dirt and grass. (Paving the driveway took a back seat to putting a new roof on the house this spring.) However, I don't want to drive my pretty Jasper Pearl car around with the remains of hundreds of insects dotting it's front like pock marks.

What do you all find to be the best products for removing dead bugs without harming the finish?

Also, this sort of ticks me off, because I paid for exterior protectant (yeah, I know waste of money, yada yada yada) and I expected these little dead bugs to just fall right off...

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