get the bugs off!!!

[bugimike]

I just came across this and found it worked way too well to keep it to myself, so here goes!

Living in Fl. we have a tropical abundance of insects that just "love" (pardon the pun, Floridians, you know what I mean!) to imbed themselves all over the front of our cars /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif , especially at night. Lots of elbow grease and tar-and-bug remover and one can usually get most of them, right /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif ?

How about doing it with a little gentle wipe and then a gentle sponging to just wash them right off /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thankyousign.gif ? It is nothing short of incredible!!!! All you need to do is put a little Bounce into the job!...Literally!!!... Bounce (or I would imagine any other brand) Fabric Softener sheets, those ones you drop into the drier to keep the clothes soft, used as wet wipes on the bugs just get the job done!! Try it next time you are really getting bugged and it will bring a smile to your face!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif

 

[Exotexs]

great tip! I'll try it.

Bounce is also great for eliminating Static Electricity, the kind that gives you a shock when touching the door knob in the house or any metal part in a car.

I always recommend that you keep a few sheets in the car to rub your hands when fueling your car. Static Electricity causes fires/explosions in gas stations, especially when women wearing panty-hose touch the fuel filler. Panty-hose creates static electricity.

 

[BritCarFan]

I wonder if it also work for getting bugs out of your teeth.

 

[bugimike]

I wonder if it also work for getting bugs out of your teeth.

It might, buut it might soften them too! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[bugimike]

great tip! I'll try it.

Bounce is also great for eliminating Static Electricity, the kind that gives you a shock when touching the door knob in the house or any metal part in a car.

I always recommend that you keep a few sheets in the car to rub your hands when fueling your car. Static Electricity causes fires/explosions in gas stations, <span style="color: #FF0000">especially when women wearing panty-hose touch the fuel filler.</span> Panty-hose creates static electricity.

I have always been a firm believer in getting them out of their panty-hose BEFORE letting them touch the fuel filler!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[jlaird]

Runs and hides......... Bad Jack, bad.

 

[Nunyas]

great tip! I'll try it.

Bounce is also great for eliminating Static Electricity, the kind that gives you a shock when touching the door knob in the house or any metal part in a car.

I always recommend that you keep a few sheets in the car to rub your hands when fueling your car. Static Electricity causes fires/explosions in gas stations, especially when women wearing panty-hose touch the fuel filler. Panty-hose creates static electricity.

It's also been proven (on Myth Busters I believe it was), that the static electricity that triggers fires at pumps happens when the person pumping the gas is too lazy/impatient to stand there and hold the pump nozzle till the car is full, and instead sets the pump lock to on and then goes back and sits inside the car, and then does not make sure they discharge on the car chassis before reaching for the pump nozzle after getting back out of the car.

In my personal experience, I've found that vinyl and even more so cloth interiors (particularly seating surfaces) generate static electricity the most. Out here where it's arid, I've found that the cotton clothing I usually wear will generate enough static electricity, just from pivoting to get out of a car with cloth seats, to give me a heck of a jolt.

Most gas stations in my home town in FL have the pump nozzle locks removed which forces the person (if they're not very ingenuitive) to hold the pump nozzle till the car is full. I remember asking about it once (shortly after they started disappearing), and IIRC the answer I got was "it's to prevent over filling", which I didn't believe then and still don't. Instead, it seems to be a 2 fold safety measure, IMO: 1) Vehicle operators are ~LESS~ likely to drive off with the nozzle still stuck in the fuel filler, which seems to happen quite often out here in the LA area, 2) you get the side benefit of being less likely to start a refueling fire because the average person is less likely to be getting in and out of the car repeatedly (thus building up even more static electricity) during the refueling process.

 

[Exotexs]

funny, I had more episodes with Static Electricity in Tennessee than I do in Florida since moving here, and they say this is the Lightning Capital or something like that.

Yes, I've seen some scary lightning here, but no worse than I have seen in the Caribbean islands, where I once saw "Ball Lightning", or something that looked like a very hot, liquid chromium teardrop, the size of a baseball, with very fierce energy emanating from its edges, coming straight down at very fast speed, and when it reached the height of the power cables, it exploded with a very loud "pop" which left my ears ringing for 20 minutes. I was told it was "good luck" to see ball lightning! May be to see it, but not to hear it.

I have noticed those fuel fillers without the locks and it annoys me because it forces me to breathe those gasoline fumes by forcing me to hold the trigger near the tank.

Women and pantyhose and static electricity...