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Old 05-15-2007, 01:07 PM
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Problems with Hydro

Now here is a problem I never expected.

I recently started using Hydro.
I also use a car cover each day at work. I have been doing this for almost 20 years.
Now the paint is so slick when the wind blows, the cover will not stay in place. It slips up the body (yes it is a fitted cover).

Hydro, the good & bad news.
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Old 05-15-2007, 01:26 PM
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Ha! I hadn't taken the Hydro plunge yet, but that story does it for me!
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I can see kenchan dropping a nut over this one. That title will have him going before he can read the post.
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Now here is a problem I never expected.

I recently started using Hydro.
I also use a car cover each day at work. I have been doing this for almost 20 years.
Now the paint is so slick when the wind blows, the cover will not stay in place. It slips up the body (yes it is a fitted cover).

Hydro, the good & bad news.
why don't you try some duct tape under the car?
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It's just like trying to keep sunshine in a bottle....
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Velcro would work better. (I'll keep my solution to myself).
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Did you hydrogasm ken? just a little?
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Did you hydrogasm ken? just a little?
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Did you hydrogasm ken? just a little?
The title actually made him Hydroflaccid. But then the content perked him back up.
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The title actually made him Hydroflaccid. But then the content perked him back up.
I dunno if the title would have done it as it is more commonly caused by hydrorectile dysfuntion
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I dunno if the title would have done it as it is more commonly caused by hydrorectile dysfuntion
Hydro does come in a blue bottle, doesn't it?
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Hydro does come in a blue bottle, doesn't it?
Yes but that has little impact as hydrorectile dysfuntion is usually tied in some form to a bad spray nozzle
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Amazing how fast this went completely off topic.
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if your fitted cover has grommits on both sides do like I do and use a long bungee cord to keep it on
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i took Hydrogrow (similar to Urigrow per SNL) so im fine. lol

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if your fitted cover has grommits on both sides do like I do and use a long bungee cord to keep it on
Is this your cure for hydro... dysfunction
OK I'll quit now

maybe
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Has someone been polishing the knob?......
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Hehe,..he said "knob",..hehe.

Question of the day:
Is it better to polish the knob with Hydro or spank the monkey with a Monster Fluffy?
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Ohhhhhhhhh boy... I can see this thread is going to rival the "Pickup Lines" thread.

Say... if you use Hydro for more than four hours, should you consult Heather and tell her you suffer from Hydropism ? :impatient
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Amazing how fast this went completely off topic.
This thread is still all abou Hydro , just...a different world of it. The underground world, that began in Amsterdam
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Whatever happens between consenting adults and their cars, in the privacy of their own garages, is OK with me as long as no one is harmed because of it.
That said: I do have this grainy 8mm movie involving an elf, a leopard and a 1963 3/4 ton Chevy pick-up with lots of Hydro ...
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...The underground world, that began in Amsterdam
Yes that is the seedy underbelly from which H&M arose. I have seen triple HHH movies full of Hydromasochism. It wasn't pretty. I mean people in little black rubber suits taunting their cars with Hydro & then at the last moment squirting them down with some no-name Walmart special QD & wiping it off with a terrycloth towel
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Okay. So what, exactly, does hydro do, other than make your car slippery?
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