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Published 14/11/2006 @ 03:13:59, By Neptune
This is off topic I know, but I was wondering how often does everyone here wash their vehicles?

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Published 14/11/2006 @ 05:46:36, By firebird86
I wash my Yukon, Liberty and Firebird every week and wax all of them once a month. But thats just me.........
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Published 14/11/2006 @ 05:57:58, By Hecubus
I haven't washed my truck at all yet, and I never washed my last car either (they're both basically beaters though - if I washed them, the duct tape would fall off :|)
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Published 14/11/2006 @ 09:40:49, By antp
I try to wash my 206 at least once a month
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Published 14/11/2006 @ 14:29:40, By wickey
well, if I can remember the last time I was in the car wash... :whistle: grey is great colour - you don't see dirt on it :tongue:
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Published 14/11/2006 @ 16:08:26, By ahight
i haven't washed my passat in weeks. btw, Neptune, have you tried the carwashing place up in Porter's Neck on Market? they have this triple foam stuff you spray and rinse off and the car shines like it's brand new. mine's a 99, so a shine like that makes me very happy :grin:
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Published 15/11/2006 @ 05:49:29, By Neptune
i haven't washed my passat in weeks. btw, Neptune, have you tried the carwashing place up in Porter's Neck on Market? they have this triple foam stuff you spray and rinse off and the car shines like it's brand new. mine's a 99, so a shine like that makes me very happy :grin:


No, I haven’t ever been there before, although I’ve drove past it. Usually if I take my vehicle to a public carwash, I make sure its one of those "touch-less" carwashes. I might stop by there and try it out when I get a chance. About how much does it cost to wash your Passat?

:smile:

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Published 15/11/2006 @ 12:58:15, By stronghold
..I haven't washed my Rover since I brought it (..over a year.!)
Just not worth it in the area I live.!
(If it looks good ..it's more of an attraction for vandals/gangs.!!) ...so better Dirty and camouflaged.! (..as long as it runs ok...i'm not worried about the appearance.!)
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Published 16/11/2006 @ 07:54:49, By qwerty_86
I used to wash my Sable every two weeks. Then I got lazy and I'm lucky to even wash it once a month. This was from one and a half years ago after we got some heavy snow (we use sand instead of salt):

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_BeforeAfter.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_BeforeAfter2.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_Dirty-Clean.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_Dirty-Clean2.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_Dirty2.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b279/qwerty86/Cleaned/th_Poopie.jpg

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Published 16/11/2006 @ 09:32:00, By antp
"sable" meaning "sand" in French, there is something funny there :figti:
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Published 16/11/2006 @ 17:14:54, By dwd4X4
I am in Connecticut, and my car is in Alaska. I go to AK for the winter, and while I am up there I wash my car every week. And when the weather is warmer, I wax it every two weeks. The interior is never dirty really (people must take their shoes off if they are dirty before they enter it, and put them in a box in the trunk).
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Published 16/11/2006 @ 19:06:35, By modell
I usually wash my car (automatic car wash) once every couple weeks and I hand wash and wax it twice a year.
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Published 15/01/2008 @ 15:21:56, By G-MANN
When I had my Clio I hardly ever washed it, I preferred to let the rain do that job :grin: It never got that dirty although a slight layer of grime (not very noticable) began to coat the car (which the rain doesn't get rid of), so my fingers would get dirty if I touched the bodywork. If I had a car I was actually proud of, then I'd wash it often. People don't seem to bother waxing their cars these days, because modern cars have paint that is already treated to protect it from the elements. My dad said it was something most people only used to do in the 60s (and maybe 70s), the days when cars actually needed working on at weekends.
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Published 16/01/2008 @ 20:42:31, By lastinpurple
..I haven't washed my Rover since I brought it (..over a year.!)
Just not worth it in the area I live.!
(If it looks good ..it's more of an attraction for vandals/gangs.!!) ...so better Dirty and camouflaged.! (..as long as it runs ok...i'm not worried about the appearance.!)

So you own a Rover :bave: ! Which model? Is it reliable? It's easy to find spare parts after the demise of the marque? :crazy:
I don't want to make you an interrogation, but it interests me a lot
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Published 16/01/2008 @ 20:53:56, By ingo
My K 70 I'm washing before club-meetings (but sometimes I'm too lazy), so 1 to 2 times per year.

My all-day-Opel Omega I'm washing, when the windows are too dirty to look out.

The Omega I'm driving mostly through the car wash, the K 70 never. At first I'm suspicious about scratches in the 34-year-old-metallic-paint and because a K 70-back will never getting clean in a car wash.
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Published 19/01/2008 @ 05:54:44, By MBSL65fan
Once every couple of weeks is good enough for me. :wink: , however it's cleaner than all of my family's cars. :grin:
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Published 19/01/2008 @ 21:48:46, By Buc84
My Crown Vic,once every 1-2 wks,though I haven't waxed it for awhile,and won't be for awhile?(getting repainted soon,bad clearcoat issues)My pickup gets washed when it rains,it's old & beat up,it looks worse clean!(Dirt hides a lot of dings & dents....and mismatched paint..)
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Published 23/01/2008 @ 01:31:07, By LondonItalian
I wash the Daimler usually weekly(by hand), but in this weather(constantly raining) it`s dirty again within 3 miles...

Lastinpurples right though, I think clean cars do attract vandals more.

Mine had an "N" keyed into the bonnet over the Christmas break...
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Published 23/01/2008 @ 09:29:26, By 02Silverado4x4
In the summer I washed and waxed the minivan once a month. I usually wash and wax the Tempo and Cheyenne at least once a month except for the winter season.
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Published 25/01/2008 @ 23:31:07, By ingo
Once I've washed my NSU 1200 C with scouring-creme and a cooking-pot-sponge :grin:
That car has burned a lot of oil, so the whole back was sticky with smeary black oil-dust.
The painting (which wasn't good and original anyways) I could fresh up later with polish and wax - but the colour of the license-plate and even the registration-stickers on it were gone. :whistle:


Such a car I had, even in the same colour: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_118734-NSU-1200-1970.html

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