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Environmental charge on test driving car!

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  • Scrapit
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    you could say dont do the covid clean just leave the vehicle for 2-3days so any covid present dies off on the surfaces.
  • Grumpy_chap
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    I wonder how the OP's daughter got on collecting her car?
  • MinuteNoodles
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    Scrapit said:
    you could say dont do the covid clean just leave the vehicle for 2-3days so any covid present dies off on the surfaces.
    If the car was parked outside on Friday it's probably dead now given temperatures reached 38C in London.

  • Scrapit said:
    you could say dont do the covid clean just leave the vehicle for 2-3days so any covid present dies off on the surfaces.
    If the car was parked outside on Friday it's probably dead now given temperatures reached 38C in London.

    No evidence (as of yet) that heat kills the virus, however it can only survive on metal/plastic surfaces for around 72 hours.  
  • Grumpy_chap
    Grumpy_chap Posts: 18,580 Forumite
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    Judging by radio silence, the OP must have been locked in the car.
  • Scrapit
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    Scrapit said:
    you could say dont do the covid clean just leave the vehicle for 2-3days so any covid present dies off on the surfaces.
    If the car was parked outside on Friday it's probably dead now given temperatures reached 38C in London.

    No evidence (as of yet) that heat kills the virus, however it can only survive on metal/plastic surfaces for around 72 hours.  
    What? Where you getting that from cos its available.
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