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[STEMO]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

"According to The car wash advisory service"  There is actually an organisation The car wash advisory service !! 

[BazaJT]

Well someone had to give the advisory service people a job after they'd failed the interview to be a car washer

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Excellent. 

[aaronjb]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

Surely the answer to the question "Are these people working voluntarily?" has to be filed under "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

I mean, would you wash cars for £5 a go?

[biggriffin]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

Surely the answer to the question "Are these people working voluntarily?" has to be filed under "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

I mean, would you wash cars for £5 a go?

Use to when I was a boy in the war, to earn money to buy airfix kits,

[Sir Tigger KC]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

Surely the answer to the question "Are these people working voluntarily?" has to be filed under "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

I mean, would you wash cars for £5 a go?

Use to when I was a boy in the war, to earn money to buy airfix kits,

Which war was that then?  The Boer war?   

[Rods2]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

Surely the answer to the question "Are these people working voluntarily?" has to be filed under "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

I mean, would you wash cars for £5 a go?

It is not even £5 in some towns as you get a complementary Magic Tree air freshener. You can understand why Eastern Europeans are attracted from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, where if you can get a job as they have high unemployment and get paid as pay will be intermittent it will on average only be around £50 a month, why anything earnt here and sent home will seem good money.

So when it is fully regulated the prices will go up to £20 a car to pay the council licencing fees and nobody will use the service. The council then have to use council tax to cover the 10 loss making council officials who are each on £50k a year.

[Varche]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

Surely the answer to the question "Are these people working voluntarily?" has to be filed under "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

I mean, would you wash cars for £5 a go?

Use to when I was a boy in the war, to earn money to buy airfix kits,

Which war was that then?  The Boer war?   

Don't be silly, they didn't have airfix kits then. It would have been the First world war.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

 Being poor I wash my own cars.

You pay the 'illegals' £4 a pop to clean the Astra.

[grifter]

"How could anyone wash a car for 5 pound"

emm i would do it, fiver for 10 mins work not bad bunce!

[Viral_Jim]

I paid the local eastern european chaps at the imo car wash £30 to clean SWMBO's skoda inside and out.

Arguably expensive, but given that its spotless inside and out and they removed enough dog hair to knit a whole new dog, I think it was ok value.

[TD]

"How could anyone wash a car for 5 pound"

emm i would do it, fiver for 10 mins work not bad bunce!

Ive just had my car washed for £5, it did only take 10 mins, but divide that £5 up between the 5 guys doing the cleaning after paying expenses (leccy bill must be quite high as they have a washing machine/tumble dryer for their cloths and they also heat up 1/2 of a 40gallon oil drum for warm water to wash the soap suds over the cars)

[zirk]

My Local one is 4.99 inside and out and you get 2 Magic Trees, a yellow plastic floating Duck for the water in the Boot and a Free Mot Certificate thrown in. 

[deviator]

They don't need to make a profit or even enough money to pay the staff. However that doesn't mean that they don't make profit and lots of it too. A lot of these types of businesses are money laundering fronts for drugs or other dodgy dealings.

After all, how does the government/coucil etc know if they cleaned 1 or 100 cars today? The fact that they are cleaning the money means the business has a significant throughput of money and pays taxes, albeit limited by using multiple sites and clever accountants.

Last time I paid proper money, it was £50 for a full valet. Came to my house with his own water and electric. He proceeded to wet clean all the seats and carpets and spent ages gettting the oil out of the boot carpet  . Washed and waxed the outside, the full works. I was very impressed.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I have a hand car wash operation near me that is staffed entirely by Eastern Europeans.  They do full valets as well, with it all being done on a production line basis. You queue up and gradually roll forward through the various stages of wash, all for sensible prices.  It is a great service, and they really do clean the car thoroughly. 

It is very popular, and if it was closed down due to bureaucracy I think that would be a great shame.  The lads all seem to be pleased for the custom, and I reckon, with the tips they get, they do all right, but I also recognise they will never become rich doing this work.  But to them it is work, it pays money, and probably gives them a chance to get a foothold to live in the UK, which is what they want away from the conditions they faced in their native lands.

 

[2boxerdogs]

Charge me £7.00 for the 4x4 no matter how dirty it is sometimes it is cakes with mud do a great job, would quite happily pay a tenner if asked.

[redelitev6]

Charge me £7.00 for the 4x4 no matter how dirty it is sometimes it is cakes with mud do a great job, would quite happily pay a tenner if asked.

  £10 for a muddy hand job ?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed of with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

[Kevin Wood]

Agreed on the 2 bucket method although it means it doesn't get washed as often as it should.

Frankly, I prefer to take it through a car wash than have anyone else hand wash it, for the reasons stated above, and because, if I drop the sponge, I make damn sure it's clean again before it goes anywhere near the bodywork.

[Kevin Wood]

.. and collected rainwater is free (and plentiful, at the moment).

I have a system that pumps it into a tank in the rafters above my garage so there's enough head that the Karcher can run on it too.

[STEMO]

Fickin old women.  I've never had any car wash do any damage to any car I've owned. Some of you are really showing your age.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed of with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

Agreed.

However, there is a bone idle work shy scouser of this parish  who may disagree.

[Rods2]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed of with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

Agreed.

However, there is a bone idle work shy scouser of this parish  who may disagree.

I think it helps him keep a low profile, where he was bragging on here the other day that it is over 2 years since he last had his collar felt.

[2boxerdogs]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed of with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

.


Agree my Merc & the wifes Subaru are washed & polished properly , the 4x4 is a workhorse & treated as such.

[BazaJT]

Must admit when it comes to my cars I'm one of the bone idle and on the rare occasions they get washed it's either bung the local immigrants a fiver or when the local fire station has a charity car wash[2 or 3 times a year]I nip round there and bung them a fiver for doing it.Having said that the last time the V70 was washed was middle of last year and the Omega was last washed about 3yrs ago so none of them are getting rich off me. Mind you the V70 is being washed as I type this by gods very own shampoo-yes it's raining

[Nick W]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed off with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

You're worried about dirty water and chemicals, yet you rinse with rainwater?

[Sir Tigger KC]

It is very popular, and if it was closed down due to bureaucracy I think that would be a great shame. 

I don't think that cracking down on slavery and illegal immigration is just bureaucracy to be honest Lizzie.   

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I have never paid someone to wash my car and I hope I never will. Cant see why an able bodied person would want to tbh.
The supermarket hand carwashes will wreck your paintwork in the end btw. The dirty water and strong chemicals do untold damage, which isn't visible in the short term.
Two bucket method, rinsed off with collected rainwater, then dried properly with microfibre towels is the only method I will use for the Omega.
As for the 190 - it gets the buckets of dirty water leftover from washing the Omega chucked over it.
I'm now going outside to wash mine. 

You're worried about dirty water and chemicals, yet you rinse with rainwater?

Yes, because its relatively pure compared to tap water. That's why it doesn't leave streaks all over the paintwork and tap water does, probably due to the chlorine content. 

[aaronjb]

Unless you live under a flightpath .. my memory of that is that even washing would come in off the line with interesting colours if it rained. Seems to be full of pollen and/or sand, too, based on what it leaves on my car after a shower..

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

True, but if its collected in a butt, that stuff falls to the bottom,so you take the water from the top.

[aaronjb]

I should probably hook my water butt up to a drainpipe.. shame there are no appropriately positioned drainpipes, really. I could at least use it to re-fill the pond in the summer instead of paying to keep the glorified goldfish (that we inherited with the house) alive

[STEMO]

True, but if its collected in a butt, that stuff falls to the bottom,so you take the water from the top.

And when you rinse your cloth in it, all the rust from your car sinks to the bottom. 

[Kevin Wood]

I should probably hook my water butt up to a drainpipe.. shame there are no appropriately positioned drainpipes, really. I could at least use it to re-fill the pond in the summer instead of paying to keep the glorified goldfish (that we inherited with the house) alive

Hence the over-complex system of float switches, relays and pumps that fills mine.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

True, but if its collected in a butt, that stuff falls to the bottom,so you take the water from the top.

And when you rinse your cloth in it, all the rust from your car sinks to the bottom. 

Who rattled your fickin chain ? 
Actually, when using the two bucket method you wouldnt believe the amount of dirt that ends up in the bottom of the rinse bucket. Using a single bucket, this stuff would be getting rubbed all over the paintwork.

[Kevin Wood]

.. and I wonder how many cars the Kosovans wash on each bucket?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

From what Ive seen sitting in Sainsburys car park, while swmbo does the shopping, quite a few. 

[STEMO]

No buckets involved in our Eastern European car washes. Proper bays with high, Perspex sides for the initial blow off and soapy sponge, next bay for rinse, then on to wipe dry, wax, air line the excess from mirrors, etc., tyre shine, interior windows, smiley smelly and that will be £5 please.
If you are in a bad mood, you can flog a slave round the back for an extra 2 quid. 

All in all, a much more efficient and cleaner way to do it. Unless you are an old fart who likes Jacob Rees Mogg and his ilk. 

[STEMO]

It actually has a sign up there saying no omegas and the like allowed as the pressure washer is likely to blow effing big holes in the sills and rear wings. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

No buckets involved in our Eastern European car washes. Proper bays with high, Perspex sides for the initial blow off and soapy sponge, next bay for rinse, then on to wipe dry, wax, air line the excess from mirrors, etc., tyre shine, interior windows, smiley smelly and that will be £5 please.
If you are in a bad mood, you can flog a slave round the back for an extra 2 quid. 

All in all, a much more efficient and cleaner way to do it. Unless you are an old fart who likes Jacob Rees Mogg and his ilk. 

Ah...the minister for the 19th century.

I'd pay him a one and a tanner to wash my car. If he does a poor job I have the right to put my boot up his arse.

[Rods2]

No buckets involved in our Eastern European car washes. Proper bays with high, Perspex sides for the initial blow off and soapy sponge, next bay for rinse, then on to wipe dry, wax, air line the excess from mirrors, etc., tyre shine, interior windows, smiley smelly and that will be £5 please.
If you are in a bad mood, you can flog a slave round the back for an extra 2 quid. 

All in all, a much more efficient and cleaner way to do it. Unless you are an old fart who likes Jacob Rees Mogg and his ilk. 

Ah...the minister for the 19th century.

I'd pay him a one and a tanner to wash my car. If he does a poor job I have the right to put my boot up his arse.

I would have thought a more appropriate 19th century punishment would have been to deport him to Australia. If you really want the punishment to include soul destroying hard labour, then put him in the Ashes playing England cricket team where they have to continuously play Australia for the duration.

[Kevin Wood]

No buckets involved in our Eastern European car washes. Proper bays with high, Perspex sides for the initial blow off and soapy sponge, next bay for rinse, then on to wipe dry, wax, air line the excess from mirrors, etc., tyre shine, interior windows, smiley smelly and that will be £5 please.
If you are in a bad mood, you can flog a slave round the back for an extra 2 quid. 

All in all, a much more efficient and cleaner way to do it. Unless you are an old fart who likes Jacob Rees Mogg and his ilk. 

Ah...the minister for the 19th century.

I'd pay him a one and a tanner to wash my car. If he does a poor job I have the right to put my boot up his arse.

I would have thought a more appropriate 19th century punishment would have been to deport him to Australia. If you really want the punishment to include soul destroying hard labour, then put him in the Ashes playing England cricket team where they have to continuously play Australia for the duration.

Agreed, but because I reckon the queue would get too long for the "boot up the @rse" option.

[BazaJT]

Wouldn't playing cricket for England come under "cruel and unusual punishment" even for him                              


What am I saying of course it wouldn't

[Mr Gav]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

 Being poor I wash my own cars.

You pay the 'illegals' £4 a pop to clean the Astra.

Being sensible I also wash my own car, who knows what shit they use to get the dirt off, at least I know it's getting done right when I do it.

[STEMO]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

 Being poor I wash my own cars.

You pay the 'illegals' £4 a pop to clean the Astra.

Being middle aged and anal, I also wash my own car, who knows what shit they use to get the dirt off, at least I know it's getting done right when I do it.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This is why we have an obesity problem in this country. Washing and drying a car probably expends about 300 calories.

Standing watching the illegals wash your car whilst necking a bucket of greasy chicken only makes it worse.

In Victorian England wealthy people were the fat bastards while the poor were short and skinny. In 2018 many of the most obese in this country are poor. Go figure.

[STEMO]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

Yes...I have a skeleton with a meagre 14 stone of flesh to cover it.

[STEMO]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

Yes...I have a skeleton with a meagre 14 stone of flesh to cover it.

6' 1" and 14st equals obese. Fat bastard. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

Yes...I have a skeleton with a meagre 14 stone of flesh to cover it.

6' 1" and 14st equals obese. Fat bastard. 

I prefer 'big boned'

[BazaJT]

Yes to begin with you had "puppy fat" then you went to "big boned" when you didn't lose that.No-one was ever obese.I still pay someone else to wash my car when I get interested enough to bother having it done,it isn't making me fat let alone obese.I still have a 28" waist that I've kept all my adult life and my all time top weight is 10st 2lbs and I'm just shy of 6ft. Probably why I can change a crank sensor on the V6 without having to raise it any

[STEMO]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

Yes...I have a skeleton with a meagre 14 stone of flesh to cover it.

6' 1" and 14st equals obese. Fat bastard. 

I prefer 'big boned'

I only have one big bone.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Car washing to obesity.......hmmmm.

If wealth is directly correlated to body mass, you must be like a fickin skeleton. 

Yes...I have a skeleton with a meagre 14 stone of flesh to cover it.

6' 1" and 14st equals obese. Fat bastard. 

I prefer 'big boned'

I only have one big bone.

Sounds like Lord Opti can't see his!   

[Mr Gav]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

 Being poor I wash my own cars.

You pay the 'illegals' £4 a pop to clean the Astra.

Being middle aged and anal, I also wash my own car, who knows what shit they use to get the dirt off, at least I know it's getting done right when I do it.

If you care about your car don`t take it to someone who doesn`t to get it washed 

[STEMO]

These MP's want to mind their own business 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43868920

 Being poor I wash my own cars.

You pay the 'illegals' £4 a pop to clean the Astra.

Being middle aged and anal, I also wash my own car, who knows what shit they use to get the dirt off, at least I know it's getting done right when I do it.

If you care about your car don`t take it to someone who doesn`t to get it washed 

A car is different things to different people. Mine is a tool for transportation purposes, yours is obviously far more. But, judging by the number of very expensive cars I see using the car wash I do, I still maintain that no damage is caused.
Even if the paintwork was slightly dulled after many washes, who keeps their car for years these days? They are a disposable commodity.

[aaronjb]

who keeps their car for years these days?

You do remember which forum you're on, right? 

[STEMO]

who keeps their car for years these days?

You do remember which forum you're on, right? 

I do, Aaron, but quite a few (most) don't own omegas any more.

[aaronjb]

who keeps their car for years these days?

You do remember which forum you're on, right? 

I do, Aaron, but quite a few (most) don't own omegas any more.

Good point.. they've moved on to middle aged Jags instead

[Gaffers]

who keeps their car for years these days?

You do remember which forum you're on, right? 

I do, Aaron, but quite a few (most) don't own omegas any more.

Good point.. they've moved on to middle aged Jags instead

Excuse me, they are called Jaaaaaags!  Get it right, peasant

[aaronjb]

Excuse me, they are called Jaaaaaags!  Get it right, peasant

I read that in the voice of Clarkson, as intended, no doubt..  Who said TV has no influence?

[Gaffers]

Excuse me, they are called Jaaaaaags!  Get it right, peasant

I read that in the voice of Clarkson, as intended, no doubt..  Who said TV has no influence?

I rarely say Jag these days.  It's either kitty or Jaaaaag ala Clarkson

[BazaJT]

Could be a lot worse,you could go all American and call them Jagwars

[TheBoy]

I'm with Nurse Gaffers on this one, mine gets called Jaaaaagggg or Kitty. Or on here, esp for Opti, Black Pussy.

[STEMO]

Common as muck, though. Black jags every where.

[Doctor Gollum]

Common as muck, though. Black jags every where.

Ironic really, given that a black jaguar sized beast should be called a puma

[STEMO]

Common as muck, though. Black jags every where.

Ironic really, given that a black jaguar sized beast should be called a puma

Saw one on Dearne Valley Parkway this aft that had shunted a brand new golf from behind. This is a NSL single carriageway that slows down for a roundabout at the top. Obviously Mr tampon bag owner was not paying attention.

[TheBoy]

Touch wood, I've never (unintentionally*) given one up the arse...


* All the times of ramming a colleagues' van in front of me was always intentional.

[Kevin Wood]

Touch wood, I've never (unintentionally*) given one up the arse...


* All the times of ramming a colleagues' van in front of me was always intentional.

Just call me "little spoon".

[aaronjb]

Just call me "little spoon".

  If I see you at Stoneleigh...