Bodywork

soup presented the following explanation :

Try Tcut, or Brasso, or chrome cleaner, or toothpaste on a cloth.

There used to be a product available called 'cutting paste/polish', with which you could gently rub the affected area to remove the scuff.

I think it might still be avaiable from a well know high street motor accessory shop.

Aldi/Lidl do a kit from time to time coarse and fine.

Their fine gets a better polish than Tcut.

It's not diy, but there is a national franchise chain called Chips Away. Locally they give god results.

On 08/02/2019 18:35, charles wrote: ... snipped

Are they taking-over from vicars? ;-)

T-Cut or equivalent.

Far Out!

Fiat Panda GTi

If your road is anything like mine its a nightmare for parked cars and the local fire teams tell me that if they have to attend a fire here many cars will get damaged. Half the problem is that the powers that be want to stop cars, but the car makers want to sell them but the local planning regs do not make sufficient parking for the number of houses, flats etc they build so you can see the result all over the country.

Brian

I think local planning does make provisions for parking in new builds. The problem is in streets built before car ownership was common place especially where many houses were converted to flats for multiple occupancy. I believe that my councils planning department will no longer approve conversion of a house to flats in many areas unless the developer makes provision for off road parking.

Never enough though.

For years they only allowed one space per household on many new estates

- to deliberately "encourage" people not to have cars. Of course that was useless as most couldn't get to and from their workplaces; carry a week's shopping for a family; get the kids to and from clubs and the like without.

They may now be making sure that there is more parking now, but even then it is often only two spaces and frequently one in front of the other, so one car is blocked in by the other and to avoid that they park one on the road still.

In reality, many households have a husband and wife, both working and needing cars. These days, there are often one or more grown-up children there as well, who cannot afford their own home yet, but also need cars to be able to work and have a social life, while they build up a sufficient deposit for their own home.

That is a good move!

SteveW

Don?t know but his son would have a something like a Nissan Qashqai, ......because it is a crossover.

GH

Not all.

Around here, social housing is provided in purposely "car free development"

Next move - ye pay extra rates to park in ya own drive...

In already built up places with no room for the cars, there is simply no solution, unless one goes to the expense of constructing under-road parking tunnels. Any other proposed solution is not really one.

NT

On holidday in Amsterdam, the canal outside our hotel had been drained and a multi-storey car park was being built downwards. The canal would be refilled with water after construction finished.

In Nottingham, employers are charged for providing parking spaces to their employees and it's mostly re-charged to the employees ... looks like the idea is spreading

better just buying a beater car .....then you just laugh

It's common to have a clear coat over the colour these days. Even with a solid colour.

Farcla G3. Much faster than T-Cut. But remember all such things remove some paint as they are abrasive.