Post by WDB on Sept 10, 2016 13:38:25 GMT
Rain is falling from the end of the world. Well, it's wet anyway. So I gave my car a wash because it was dirty, and because the rain saves all that tiresome rinsing and wiping dry.
Easy enough, despite finding a hole in the base of my car wash bucket. Until it was time to do the wheels. This car has BMW's full M-sport kit, which still manages to be quite discreet in sapphire blue rather than try-hard black or red, and that means big 18-inch wheels with - and here's the difficult bit - multiple spokes. I counted them: five pairs of spokes, each with a gap I can just get my little finger into, and five single spokes in the gaps between the pairs. Plus five deep bolt holes, plus five smaller holes that serve no obvious purpose at all and into which none of my cleaning devices will fit. All times four, of course. I must admit, they do look pretty - when they're clean, as they now sort-of are - but when they were designed, did anyone give a thought to keeping them clean?
And how do people cope with even more spokes, or the ones that cross over and form a lattice like the top of a pork pie? Have I just found the reason for the boom in immigration from Eastern Europe? Perhaps even for the rise of Ukip and the Leave vote? Bloody hell, is it all my fault?
Easy enough, despite finding a hole in the base of my car wash bucket. Until it was time to do the wheels. This car has BMW's full M-sport kit, which still manages to be quite discreet in sapphire blue rather than try-hard black or red, and that means big 18-inch wheels with - and here's the difficult bit - multiple spokes. I counted them: five pairs of spokes, each with a gap I can just get my little finger into, and five single spokes in the gaps between the pairs. Plus five deep bolt holes, plus five smaller holes that serve no obvious purpose at all and into which none of my cleaning devices will fit. All times four, of course. I must admit, they do look pretty - when they're clean, as they now sort-of are - but when they were designed, did anyone give a thought to keeping them clean?
And how do people cope with even more spokes, or the ones that cross over and form a lattice like the top of a pork pie? Have I just found the reason for the boom in immigration from Eastern Europe? Perhaps even for the rise of Ukip and the Leave vote? Bloody hell, is it all my fault?
