Ok stupid question, but everyone I take for a drive asks me the same question on my rear-spoiler-less FD when I pop the hatch:

Since it's a bit difficult to close the hatch(especially with windows up), how do you keep from smudging the finish with your hand?

Anyone use a towel, hanky, their shirt, etc?
You R1/R2 guys have it a bit easier.

 

I just don't worry about it - But my paint is rather beat and silver dosen't show fingerprints like black or red.

 

Don't open the hatch; there's not much back there to show. Seriously, I usually keep a door open, close the hatch, then clean the fingerprints off with any soft cloth close by.

 

Mine is easy to close.

maybe you are just a greaseball.

 

I pull my car-cover out from the hatch, tyvm.
Guess my door weatherstrip seals are tighter than your rattle-trap, 'Tini, shaken and not stirred..

 

I always close the hatch and hood with the end of my shirt between my fingers and the paint. This is kinda off-topic, but try opening your hatch a little bit and tying it open a tiny bit with some rope and then go drive for a while. I had to have my hatch tied down with a rope a while back and I couldn't believe my car after having it slightly open and driving at the same time. I could actually hear my exhaust! I was like, "Whoa! WTF is that! Oh, it's my car!!" I wish I could hear my exhaust like that all the time! Makes me wanna go and turn my FD into a convertible!! j/k

 

Why were you driving around w/ the hatch cracked open, Rix7, did you have something large in the trunk, did the latch not work properly, or did you just want to hear the exhaust?

 

OMFG. They're just fingerprints, people!

 

i dont know, one time i drove around with my hatch open because i had a box in the back. i had exhaust gases coming from the back, it sucked smelt bad.

 

...how so ?

 

Because you have a spoiler to use as a handle to open and close your hatch. What did you think it was for?

 

..usin the spoiler that way is bad practice.....stock mounting does not provide for that kind of abuse

 

Toadman, where have u been?

I tried to PM u once and got no reply.

alainbt@msn.com

 

 

toadman, if you have a rear windshield wiper, you could use that, I suppose.