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Subject:Re: Wheel Cleaner Spray Bottle Rant
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:14:40 -0500

Go to Home Depot and buy one of their ZEP Products spray bottles for a
couple or three bucks.  Report back to us how long it took for that bottle
to fail.  Most anything ZEP has it's name on is pretty high end stuff.

DM&FS
At 09:01 AM 6/17/2002 -0700, luvoldvws wrote:
>To all,
>
>Has anyone else notice this?
>
>The last two bottles of spray wheel cleaner that I
>purchased, the pump spray quit working before I used
>up the contents of the bottle.  In both cases I
>purchased a cheap empty pump spray bottle at my local
>variety store and filled it with the remaining
>contents of the wheel cleaner.  This new pump spray
>bottle worked for only a couple of applications before
>the pump sprayer quit also.
>
>Possible conclusions:
>
>1.  I am the victim of bad luck, most pump sprayers
>work well beyond the depletion of their contents.
>
>or
>
>2.  There is a property of wheel cleaner that wears
>out pump sprayers prematurely.
>
>or
>
>3.  Wheel cleaner manufacturers want to sell you more
>wheel cleaner and design the pump sprayer to fail
>early.
>
>What say the list?
>
>Oh, BTW mandatory Vanagon content:  Keep your alloy
>wheels clean.  Brake dust build up can erode the metal
>of the OEM alloy wheels and do permanent damage.
>
>
>
>=====
>Dennis Lockwood
>91 Carat
>Original Owner
>
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