2nd Gen R60 Countryman Washing the Countryman is a PITA

Does the reverse of the shopvac blow dust from the cannister onto the car? I've got a Sears one I could use

 

Clean out the vac, and remove filter

Mark

 

How I washed a CountryMan

How I washed a black Countryman




Lots of places to collect water, so I used my air gun






Debadging


Polishing






Black Wow on left

 

I'm late to this party. For me the pain in washing my CM is the height of it. Being vertically challenged wasn't an issue with my R56, but unless I get a stool to carry around various points I can't to the roof beyond the paint between the rails and sunroof. Sucks to be short.

Just a note... the stool thing isn't great since I don't have a garage and the paved portion of the driveway is just a foot wider than the car.

 

Since I'm the designated Countyman washman, I do a power wash then vacuum using a small had unit.

A caution, I find that if you have a daily driver (aka wife) who parks under a locust tree and leaves the sun-roof open for air circulation you gather a number of pesky locust leaves. They dump into the CM when you open the pull screen/anti-glare screen. WAPITA.

I sometimes use a low step stool to get the sunroof with hydro.

I sure wish I had OctaneGuys setup, that looks SUPER.

Don

 

Some options besides some sort of stool would be to climb up on the rear tire, or open a door and step on the door jamb. This is a lot easier if you have some sort of rack or rails up there.