18,300 Look what a mechanical car wash can do to your lovely sports coupe... Generally I don't use mechanical car washes, because they tend to do half a job and there's no substitute for elbow grease. However, the other day I was weak. It was late, I was in a rush and the GT86 was dirty, in the way only a car that visits a horse yard every day can be dirty. I was at a filling station with a mechanical wash, so I used it. After it did its shabby, disconcerting, rag-twisting thing, I drove out, folded out the door mirrors and reattached the aerial. Then I spotted a problem. Now, if you leave things protruding from a car, you get what you deserve, but a bent numberplate? I can barely comprehend how agricultural the machine must be.
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