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Car Care Instructions
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Your Official
Porsche Centre has
specially
de-
veloped
car care
products from the Porsche
range
available either
singly
or as complete
car care
sets.
The staff of the Centre will be
pleased to help you
select suitable
products.
Always follow the instructions for use printed
on the package.
In order to ensure that the vehicle's
condition
is professionally
checked and
the long-life
guarantee
remains
valid for the full 1 0-year
period, any Official Porsche Centre will in-
spect the level of
care
and maintenance of
the vehicle and record the results in
writing.
The Centre will then make out
a
Status Re-
port and
certify
this under "Long-Life Guaran-
tee Status Report" in the "Guarantee and
Maintenance" booklet.
Washing
The best method of protecting your Porsche
from the
damaging effects of the environment
is
frequent washing
and the application of a
pre-
servative. Once the period when road
s
are
salted and gritted in
the
winter is over, at the
latest, the underside
of
the
car should also be
thoroughly washed.
The longer
salt,
road dust and industrial
dust,
dead insects, bird droppings or
substances
from
trees (resin, pollen)
are
allowed to remain on
the
bodywork, the more
serious
is their harmful
ef-
fect.
Caution
• Using high-pressure cleaning devices to wash
your
car
can cause damage to the tyres.
When cleaning with a flat-jet nozzle or what is
known as a
"dirt
cutter", maintain a minimum
distance of 20 em (8"). Tyres must never be
cleaned with a round-jet
nozzle.
If a tyre is
inadvertently sprayed with
a
jet of water from
a high-pressure nozzle, its
surface should
immediately be examined for possible dam-
age.
• The
design
features of
some
car-wash
systems
can also
cause
damage to the wheel
rims.
Please ask your
car-wash
operator for
information.
Door and lid
seams
or door
sills, and
other
parts of the bodywork inaccessible to
a car
wash,
must be cleaned by hand
and
leathered
down.
Cars should
be washed carefully with plenty of
clear water
to protect the
paintwork.
Dark paint
fini shes,
especially,
show
up the
smallest
of
sur-
face damage (scratches)
more readily than light
colours.
Dark
colours are also more susceptible
to
scrat-
ches because of the composition of
their pig-
ments and
therefore
require special care
and at-
tention. Washing
a car by hand
does more dam-
age
to the
environment
than using
a car-wash
system. To prevent
soot, gease,
oil
and
heavy
metals from
contaminating
the
environment,
your
car should
only
be
washed
at places spe-
cially
designed for that purpose.
When washing by hand, use an abundant supply
of water,
a soft sponge or
wash brush and the
Porsche
car shampoo.
Begin by
spraying
the
body thoroughly with water to rinse away loose
dirt.
Do not wash your Porsche in bright sunlight
or while the bodywork is
still
hot. After washing,
rinse
the car with plenty of water and then
leather
dry.
Do not use the same wash leather for rubbing
down
as
you use for cleaning the windscreen
and
windows.
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