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[amigov6]

To wash your Mig on a "school night"? With my hours not often home at all, so Mig sits in works yard. Today, home @ 15:00hrs, sun shining, so quick wash, shammy off & wheelclean. Could've done the full bit but still looks better & usually only done @ w'ends.
    Might sound obsessive but while i thought it was mucky it was the cleanest motor in the car park.
     The irony is i bought it from a back st trader who got it as a repo & had'nt even hosed it down before sale.
    Dirty car = lazy owner.

[Vamps]

School night. Home at 15.00hrs. Arnt you a little young to be driving.
 

[JamesV6CDX]

Dirty car = lazy owner.

Guilty  

[zippo]

i had to threaten swmbo with death or cutting the credit card up so she wouldn't put the car through a car wash, it took me an age to explain what the brushes do to a cars bodywork

[Jay w]

To wash your Mig on a "school night"? With my hours not often home at all, so Mig sits in works yard. Today, home @ 15:00hrs, sun shining, so quick wash, shammy off & wheelclean. Could've done the full bit but still looks better & usually only done @ w'ends.
    Might sound obsessive but while i thought it was mucky it was the cleanest motor in the car park.
     The irony is i bought it from a back st trader who got it as a repo & had'nt even hosed it down before sale.
    Dirty car = lazy owner.

not always.....

dirty car = busy owner

mine normally gets washed on the weekends when i get hime, however this weekend i have to do the following:
Replace/repair knock sensor
rocker covers and breathers
top up diff oil
oil and filter change
look at secondary water pump
take daughter to dance class
go out with friends
set up home hub unit

sleep and spend some time with the family as well

[zippo]

To wash your Mig on a "school night"? With my hours not often home at all, so Mig sits in works yard. Today, home @ 15:00hrs, sun shining, so quick wash, shammy off & wheelclean. Could've done the full bit but still looks better & usually only done @ w'ends.
    Might sound obsessive but while i thought it was mucky it was the cleanest motor in the car park.
     The irony is i bought it from a back st trader who got it as a repo & had'nt even hosed it down before sale.
    Dirty car = lazy owner.

not always.....

dirty car = busy owner

mine normally gets washed on the weekends when i get hime, however this weekend i have to do the following:
Replace/repair knock sensor
rocker covers and breathers
top up diff oil
oil and filter change
look at secondary water pump
take daughter to dance class
go out with friends
set up home hub unit

sleep and spend some time with the family as well

and what are you doing in your spare time

[Golfbuddy]

To wash your Mig on a "school night"? With my hours not often home at all, so Mig sits in works yard. Today, home @ 15:00hrs, sun shining, so quick wash, shammy off & wheelclean. Could've done the full bit but still looks better & usually only done @ w'ends.
    Might sound obsessive but while i thought it was mucky it was the cleanest motor in the car park.
     The irony is i bought it from a back st trader who got it as a repo & had'nt even hosed it down before sale.
    Dirty car = lazy owner.

not always.....

dirty car = busy owner

mine normally gets washed on the weekends when i get hime, however this weekend i have to do the following:
Replace/repair knock sensor
rocker covers and breathers
top up diff oil
oil and filter change
look at secondary water pump
take daughter to dance class
go out with friends
set up home hub unit

sleep and spend some time with the family as well

I'm in a similar position to you Jay. I love to wash the car on the weekend, it's the only possible time at this time of year, but sometimes weekends are just too short as it normally takes about 4 hours to do it thoroughly. During the week the car is parked at work all day but I have to drive through country roads to get to and from work.

I cringe every time I have to drive through those pesky muddy puddles but there you are, until they invent a device for lifting me over them I'll have to put up with a dirty car occasionally.  

[Danny]

i dont give mine the full loving treatment some people give their cars, but i wash it if it looks dirty! if it has a few days road dust i dont bother usually, but i always have to have the wheels looking clean

my girlfriend spent all day a couple of weeks ago completely cleaning and valeting and t-cutting her little peugeot 306, she instantly went from hating her car to loving it after realising how genuinely tidy it was!!!

[cem_devecioglu]

mud on the roads are not pure water and sand..

The mixture includes many harmful chemicals from diesel cars,trucks

and others from athmosphere ending with an acidic mixture..

Result , as long as this mixture stays on your car (specially when

wet) , it will continue to damage your paint..Not visible from one day

to the other but after a few months period you will see how the paint

become..

Protector waxes are used for that purpose..

[Pitchfork]

There's a small army of Poles at Sainsburys in Basingstoke who will hand wash an Omega Estate for £6 while you wait
Why bother getting wet yourself?

[Danny]

There's a small army of Poles at Sainsburys in Basingstoke who will hand wash an Omega Estate for £6 while you wait
Why bother getting wet yourself?

i get mine het washed hand washed with shampoo, dried, tyres "dressed", interior cleaned, dusted and valeted and the glass cleaned for £9.50, and i get a new freshner included too

[Marie]

   Dirty car = lazy owner.

Hey thats not fair.........my car is rotten at the mo i keep going to clean her but it bloody rains. im not lazy its just trying to fit it in round my hetic lifstyle.

[Kevin Wood]

Last time I saw guys washing cars in a supermarket car park one of them was struggling across the car park with a trolley load of "Value" washing up liquid.

Kevin

[amigov6]

 >:(You don't want ANY brand of washing up liquid on your paintwork.
 All bird poo MUST come straight off, & when you've washed with proper wash & wax, rinse & shammy off. If you're gonna leave it wet don't bother washing it.
       All the above eat into the paintwork eventually.

[Big Fra]

Dirty car = lazy owner.

Guilty  

Guilty (just dont have a hose or a driveway, or the patience)