I suspect we will all be driving, or at least looking into buying, all-electric (EV) vehicles in the not-too-distant future. I appears to be an unavoidable course to our future...much like it was in the days when the horse and buggy was replaced with the horseless carriage.

 

Gave it wash since it was 76 degrees in Maryland, in February.

 

I've only been half kidding/teasing about yours being my next car . I tend to keep cars for a very long time so there's some advantage to basically getting a newer version of what I already have with fewer miles.

If you did decide to get rid of it I'd certainly be up for chatting to see if we could make it all work - and you're close enough that it shouldn't be too difficult. Feel free to PM me any time - and no matter what we still need to have that beer we talked about wayyyy back at the start of the pandemic

 

Looks great!

Mine needs a really good bath soooooo bad but we're very unseasonably cold right now so it'll be a few weeks. She's been getting the brushless carwash - it gets the front and sides decently but does a really crappy job on the rear.

 

I'll be happy to keep you posted, and even more happy to have that beer one of these days!

 

Agreed I just sold my 2021 ES Hybrid and got a 2023 Tesla Model Y Long Range. I was very much concerned about range, charging etc. But now that I've lived with it, it's a lot easier than I thought. The best car I've ever had hands down period. I look for excuses to drive it every chance i possibly get and it's so much fun. Plus as of yesterday, it just got an extra feather in its cap from the IIHS. The only car to ever ace the new strict Side Impact 2.0 test. The thing is a super-tank.

 

Pressure washer gave my door handle a nice new chip during a wash. Of course I'm going to get it repainted 😡.

 

@KPGS - Damn!

That car wash air compressor's pressure for the pressure washer must be cranked-up really high. Really high PSI water pressure can be similar to an abrasive sand/grit media sandblaster. It'll literally rip paint layers right off any surface or cut wood down leaving just raised grain. How close did you hold that pressure washer spray nozzle head to the paint for that to happen?

 

Reminds me of Matt LeBlanc pressure washing a Volvo on Top Gear,

 

I used a 1900 psi washer. I saw a black spot on the handle and focused the area, then the paint flew off lol.

 

 

That's a resi-grade pressure washer, but I think you need to crank it down some, or step way back or use a different nozzle head when washing your car...unless of course you want to sandblast the paint off or deeply embed road grit and bug guts into your paint...

 

I doubt you get 1900 psi at the nozzle. Pressure washers are rated in psi at the head of the unit and not at the end of the nozzle. The only way you would know actual psi is with a pressure gauge at the end of the hose.
Obsessed Garage has done extensive testing on most residential brands and not one in their testing has rated anywhere near factory claims. Sounds as if you may have used a more aggressive nozzle such as a 15 or 25 degree nozzle and obviously got too close to the paint which was already chipped. My unit is about 1,000 psi at the nozzle with a 40 degree tip and that's all that is needed for washing cars. In the end, most units are a gimmick in psi claims.

 

I finally made it to 12,000 miles!

 

Drive the Damm 450h, you spent 1k miles asking questions about it when you got it. Congrats!