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Ok, I've just heard about this and it seems ridiculous.
Spray on mud for those people in cities with 4x4's to spray on their cars to give the impression that they've actually been using the car for its intended off road purpose.

Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid. If you have a 4x4 and want it to look dirty, then go out and do some off roading, you might actually enjoy it. I dont see why you have to go and spend like, £10 on stuff to spray on your car as a possible justification for owning a 4x4 in a city!

And who had the idea??

This is one wacky world!!

www.sprayonmud.com for those of you who think I've maybe been using chemicals in a confined space!

Will

http://www.sprayonmud.com

Sorry, that should work!

Reminds me of myself when I buy new trainers. I always feel self-concious walking down the street with a pair of pristine footware and so I find the nearest dusty road and jump up and down in the dirt until suitably scuffed. Result.

<<£10 on stuff to spray on your car as a possible justification for owning a 4x4 in a city!>>

Complete waste of time amd money. There is *no* possible justification for owning a 4x4 in the city. Ever.

Noggin

Wait 'til I show hubby.. he complains about having to wash the car at weekends!

"And who had the idea??"

Unfortunately, it wasn't me

hmmm. How about, 'spray on splattered bugs', to give the impression you've been driving at speed down back country roads?
Or artificial 'bits of shrubbery', for that, 'I drive my 4X4 through *anything* look?
Or a 'stick on' high water mark, to tell all you've been 'crossing raging torrents'?

*wonders at the point*

Ever wonder at the stupidity of people at times?

>> There is *no* possible justification for owning a 4x4 in the city. Ever.<<

My aging parents own one of the smaller 4WDs and live in a city. Dad has a degenerative condition that means that he can't tramp the way he used to. When they go out of town they often go to places in the 4WD that they couldn't get to otherwise (or wouldn't feel safe taking a normal car to).

I agree that a huge number of people who own 4WDs are just wasting money and f*cking up the environment. But, to be pedantic, there *are valid reasons for *some people.


The spray-on mud thing is really stupid

Not sure if this makes more sense of it:

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Mr Dowse strongly denies suggestions that the real purpose of Sprayonmud is far more sinister - to obscure and disguise number plates to prevent them being picked up by speed cameras or, in London, cameras enforcing the Congestion Charge area.

This is despite the fact that his website features a large photograph of the rear of a Land Rover, with its number plate partially obscured by mud and contains a prominent warning not to use it for that purpose.

However, the site advertises on, and is linked to, websites run by anti-speed camera campaigners; these sites carry advice on how to avoid getting caught by cameras, which includes the suggestion of smearing them with mud.

Mr Dowse said: "I can only tell you why we launched it. What people do with it when they have bought it is up to them. We linked to the motoring websites just to get our hit rate up."
While driving with an obscured number plate - whether accidentally or deliberately - is punishable in Britain by a fine equivalent to as much as $2560, it does not carrying the points penalty or possibility of disqualification that speeding fines do.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=6&ObjectID=10330632

Yeah, spray on bugs should be the next thing. And a fake moose to hang over the front of the car. And some poisonus blow darts stuck in the side door.

Fake cracks in the glass would be next!

Fake bulletholes. I remember you could get them in the Donald Duck magazine a few years back.

I remember..

Many of the 4x4 Chelsea tractors are incapable of truly off-road driving anyway. They are not designed for it! Nor are they the safest vehicles on the road, especially those fitted with bull bars (how many bulls has anybody seen in city centres recently (don't anybody mention Pamplona))? And are the subject to the congestion charge?

Spray on mud is about as sadly pathetic as it gets. Making cars muddy would be a great little earner for the local children during the summer hols though (notwithstanding hosepipe bans of course). Not that 'Tristram and Abigail' would want to get muddy (or be allowed even!)

turvy being parenthetical today!