29/08/2026
You washed the whole 4WD and skipped the dirtiest thing on it.
The awning sits above your paint. Red dust, salt off the beach tracks, bird mess, tree sap, mould in the bag — it all collects up there and stays.
Then it rains. Or you wash the car. And every bit of it bleeds down the rack, across the roof and down the doors you just cleaned.
“It’s a 4WD. It’s meant to get dirty.”
Dirt is fine. Dirt rinses off.
What doesn’t rinse off is what’s in that runoff — bird acid, sap and salt sitting in a streak, drying slowly in the sun, etching into your clear coat while they do it. That’s not dirt anymore. That’s damage, and it’s permanent.
Wash the awning first. Top down, every time.
And on coated paint that runoff has nothing to bite into — it rinses off instead of eating in.
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