green shite on cabrio hood.

[Faker]

What's the best way of getting rid of the green moss type shite that seems to bastard breed on soft top hoods? It's a golf. The pics were taken in a car park with trees ahead. The vehicles isn't usually parked near trees.

[Faker]

Pics taken in a car park! Golf isn't parked near trees normally!

[Asimo]

Nailbrush and car / hair shampoo. While it is raining.

[Faker]

Hair shampoo?!

[Faker]

Like fukin head and shoulders?!

[Timewaster]

I used to have a very tatty transit that I left parked in a hedge for weeks on end.

When it turned green the pikey interest in it seemed to treble.

I found washing up liquid and a broom worked wonders so I would imagine shampoo would be fine.

Or try lynx shower gel to turn it into a babe magnet?

[Faker]

I think cabrio hoods are a different kettle of crab. I've scrubbed this many times before. Tooth brush for the stitching kind of cleaning. Bastard green shite keeps coming back!

[Faker]

It looks like streaks from front towards the rear.

[Vince70]

I always use Milton bottle steriliser and warm water with a good quality brush..

[matto]

Autoglym roof cleaner has previously done wonders for both the cloth roof on my old e30 Baur and the vinyl on my mk1 mx5.  Comes in a pack with a rough sponge thing, think it's packaged as cloth roof cleaner but it removed green stuff off both.

[dave21478]

Second vote for the Autoglym kit.

 

 

I did a second application a few days later and it came up mint.

 

The second part of the kit is to rewaterproof the hood after cleaning.

 

 

[Honey Badger]

Renovo is great stuff for getting rid of the green sniz, the S2000s vinyl roof was a sod for going green and the Renovo kits brought it up like new. 

 

The roof protector is very good as well. 

[Rocket88]

Paint the roof green?

[Dead_E23]

I park my Defender so that it touches the bushes overhanging my drive. A tribe of yellow snails that live in the bushes swarm all over it to feed on the algae on the roof and after a couple of weeks it looks a bit better.

 

Is that lazy?

 

I bet Jeyes fluid would get rid of it quicker, but I cba getting up there with a brush.

[Mad Cyril]

Second vote for sterilised (Milton) warm water and a brush.
A smidgen or two cheaper than the Autoglym option I'd imagine.

[Pillock]

Yeah, since the green shizz is "alive" you need something to kill it rather than just give it a bit of a wetting.

I used the Autoglym one with good results, but I was knackered after an MGF roof as I'm a massive weedy wuss. You need to give it a good old hoofing scrub.

[Faker]

Thanks for the tips folks

[stripped fred]

Another vote for autoglym. It comes with a cleaner and a waterproofer. Had good results with the other half's beetle cabriolet.

[BavarianRetro]

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