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I wouldn't call it hair raising LG, but only because I've no hair to raise :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D Allan, definitely a hair raising experience I have only used one once and that was enough for me

Having been driving for over fifty years, and owning cars for almost as long, yesterday I decided to do something that I have never done before.

I took my car to an automatic car wash establishment.

Fantastic, feed $20.000 note into the machine and off you go; the only problem was that there were so many instructions that I got confused.

Fortunately the car in front had only just gone in so OH went to find someone who could help.

Another slight problem; the windows on the car are electric and the motor suffers an intermittent fault so that sometimes the windows will open, but once open may not always close.....I'm assuming that that is not a risk to take whilst going through a car wash :-(

Got all the details for the machine sorted and waited for our turn.

Drove into the bay and, as per instructions, switched off the engine and applied the hand brake.

Then the 'fun', and the slight nausea, started.

First a giant arm spraying water started to move very slowly, but the experience that I got was that the CAR was moving. As there was so much water being sprayed, I couldn't focus on any fixed point and I began to feel not only slightly sick but also slightly panicky.

I also rationalised that actually jumping out of the car at that moment would do neither myself or the car any good.

Once the water spray stopped and I could see se clearly everything resolved itself.

The car came out of the experience in a better condition than I did :-D