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How often do you wash your car?
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Yikes. I live in a wet bit of Lancashire: I rarely wash the car. Rub it down to clean glass & lights, yes. Wash, empty out <blush>, generally make it an object to be proud of? Last time was before a family wedding.
Front passenger footwell a cheery tinkle of empty Max cans (why bother with "Hi honey, I'm home!" when the dulcet jangle rings out every time I brake?!)
Back seat & footwell shortly to get an Eco designation of it's own (three sons, fewer inhibitions) - no moss As Yet, should interest an archaeologist curious to study stratigraphy.
There are car washeries I have patronised when the salt was really obvious, or the evidence of narrow country lanes driving likewise, but neither my car nor I have a visual reputation to maintain - we do our jobs & scrub up for special occasions & let the weather do its bit...0 -
I clean my car about as often as OH runs the vacuum cleaner round the house.
OH does the car cleaning....though now he normally takes them to a hand wash facility run by some Polish men....and they do a great job.
We are rural and our cars get absolutely filthy.....there has been a lot of tractor activity recently which left quite a lot of mud on the roads and I'm sure my car has a mud magnet. If we left them you would barely be able to tell what colour they are.
When we lived in an urban area they never got like this.....I was driving home the other evening and my headlights were really dim and I thought there was something wrong with the car...... it was called mud on the headlights. I carry a pack of baby wipes in the car so was able to at least give them a bit of wipe.0 -
nope, don't bother, it only gets dirty and needs doing again.Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today!:mad:
Cos if you do it today and like it...You can do it again tomorrow..
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WOW, you can wash cars, well I never...... you learn something new every day.:p"We could say the government spends like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money."
~ President Ronald Reagan0 -
I take mine to the man at the end of the road who hand washes it for 4.50 weekly. But then I live in a very rural area and the roads are filthy with muck from the fields0
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I take mine at the beginning of salt season to have one of those waxing treatments.
Then I next take it to wash it when its the next dry spell ....limp through winter like that.
In summer I only bother if we are going somewhere and I don't want the back of my legs/clothes to get dirty as I get in or out!
Our car is a working car...goes across mud and rural roads. While I am concerns to protect it from water holding mud and salt I also feel washing the mud off too often is redundant and the thing ends up being wet for months on end whatever one does. Washing just makes it a more expensive way to stay wet.0 -
Thanks for all your replies.0
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