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kyoto49

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Do you wash your plates or cutlery after use? After all, they will only get dirty again.

Dirt and especially salt can damage the bodywork which can mean an MOT fail. Accumulated brake dust within the wheels can cause brakes to squeal and not perform to their specifications. Dirty headlamps, tail lights and number plates are also liable to see you receive a fine from the police.

Plus a clean car looks good even though you know you it will get dirty again.

Not a good analogy. There are hygiene reasons to keep everything in my house spick and span, but much like I don't wash my house roof or the brick walls, I don't wash the outside of my car. I do wash the alloys for the reason you say, but the rest must be self cleaning, never needed to clean the number plate or lights, maybe the Japanese make them self cleaning like my rear window is alleged to be?

As I sit on the inside who cares about the outside!
 

kyoto49

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Do all you external car washers wash you house roof as well then? Yeah yeah, whatever.
Keeping the inside of your car or house clean is totally different to the outside. If you can't see that I can't help you. Life has so many wonderful things to do, can I suggest finding some?!
 

Mudgie

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Not wanting to wash your car because it will only get dirty again is a bit like saying there’s no point making your bed in the morning because it’s only going to get messed up again at night.
The point of making ones bed in the morning it that it will be comfortable the next night.
 

Mudgie

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Do you wash your plates or cutlery after use? After all, they will only get dirty again.

Dirt and especially salt can damage the bodywork which can mean an MOT fail. Accumulated brake dust within the wheels can cause brakes to squeal and not perform to their specifications. Dirty headlamps, tail lights and number plates are also liable to see you receive a fine from the police.

Plus a clean car looks good even though you know you it will get dirty again.
Yes, I wash my plates and cutlery after use because I like to use clean ones for the next meal.
I accept there are good reasons for washing headlights, rear lights and number plates every now and then but an annual spring clean should deal with dirt and salt elsewhere. I don't consider whether a "car looks good" to be of any consequence.
 
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Lucy

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Everyone has different views on this and it's their choice whether or not they spend time washing their cars.

I choose to spend time playing golf. Lots of people will find that odd but it doesn't make me wrong.
 

proactive

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Everyone has different views on this and it's their choice whether or not they spend time washing their cars.

I choose to spend time playing golf. Lots of people will find that odd but it doesn't make me wrong.
That's the 'beauty' of social media. You can fall out over anything...
 

Jonah

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I’m not falling out with anyone. I’m just given the reasons why I decide it’s a good idea to keep my car clean. I couldn’t actually care less whether anybody washes the outside of their car or not.

And as to whether or not washing cutlery is a good analogy, doesn’t everybody else lick their cars?
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
PS I may have included a joke in my last post. Let’s hope people can actually recognise that fact.
 

Carole

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I’m not falling out with anyone. I’m just given the reasons why I decide it’s a good idea to keep my car clean.
I don't think you were falling out with anyone.
Like myself, you were just saying why you wanted to keep your car clean.

No, it was the other person that started arguing.
The one who gets nasty when people disagree, saying "get a life" and generally being unpleasant.

You know, the same person who a few months ago had to self isolate for 10 days and wondered why she didn't have a single friend to either do some shopping or walk her dog.
 

BobClay

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Washing the car is part of maintaining it, especially in winter. Salt is a killer. Hell you can just run it through the carwash now and again for a few quid but the jetwash gets into places where the carwash doesn't. I derive no enjoyment from doing any of these things, but maintenance is maintenance.

I don't want to argue about it, I wouldn't know which side of the argument to take !!! ...I support both views. I don't want to do it ... but the bloody car might fall apart if I don't. (I do cheat a bit and use the car wash and one of those garage bound jetwash machines rather than drag out and connect all my own kit.)

On rare occasions I'll polish it too, a job I hate. But if I ever sell on or part chop, faded paintwork could reduce the value.
 

Cue

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People saying they never wash their car and here I am buying a detailing kit (tyre brush, boar hair brushes, etc) to tidy mine up
 

kyoto49

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Washing the car is part of maintaining it, especially in winter. Salt is a killer. Hell you can just run it through the carwash now and again for a few quid but the jetwash gets into places where the carwash doesn't. I derive no enjoyment from doing any of these things, but maintenance is maintenance.

I don't want to argue about it, I wouldn't know which side of the argument to take !!! ...I support both views. I don't want to do it ... but the bloody car might fall apart if I don't. (I do cheat a bit and use the car wash and one of those garage bound jetwash machines rather than drag out and connect all my own kit.)

On rare occasions I'll polish it too, a job I hate. But if I ever sell on or part chop, faded paintwork could reduce the value.

I've done mine twice in about 7 years. It's 12 years old and the bodywork is in pristine condition bar the dents done by other drivers in public car parks! No faded paintwork here!

My driving devalues my car far more than me not washing it :)
 

kyoto49

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I don't think you were falling out with anyone.
Like myself, you were just saying why you wanted to keep your car clean.

No, it was the other person that started arguing.
The one who gets nasty when people disagree, saying "get a life" and generally being unpleasant.

You know, the same person who a few months ago had to self isolate for 10 days and wondered why she didn't have a single friend to either do some shopping or walk her dog.

Wow you can be really nasty can't you.

Having a different opinion to someone else isn't arguing and I wasn't being unpleasant. You take that crown all for yourself.

Your constant stalking of my posts and your personal condemnation is starting to freak me out.

Rule no 1 of forums. DISCUSS THE POST NOT THE POSTER. You should try it :(
 

proactive

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Wow you can be really nasty can't you.

Having a different opinion to someone else isn't arguing and I wasn't being unpleasant. You take that crown all for yourself.

Your constant stalking of my posts and your personal condemnation is starting to freak me out.

Rule no 1 of forums. DISCUSS THE POST NOT THE POSTER. You should try it :(
Now come on. You've edited out the nasty part of the post concerned and are now claiming foul.
 

littleme

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Normally the inside of mine is worse than the outside as the OH occasionally washes it. I have been much better since I got my new car, although the boot is full of grass from the golf course.
To my shame, I've never cleaned the inside of my car in the 3 years I've had it, even after buying a new hoover for it..... There's only ever me & the child/husband in it, untill today I didn't even realise there was mould on the back seat... Which I hastily had to get rid of before I took him and and child to see grandad for his birthday....

Ooops, the outside is spotless though!
 
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BobClay

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To my shame, I've never cleaned the inside of my car in the 3 years I've had it, even after buying a new hoover for it..... There's only ever me & the child/husband in it, untill today I didn't even realise there was mould on the back seat... Which I hastily had to get rid of before I took his and and child to see grandad for his birthday....

Ooops, the outside is spotless though!

I don't clean the inside much (it gets done once a year every service anyway) because I like it to have 'character.' Not sure why the 'characters' are always a bit smelly .... :P
 

Mudgie

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Washing the car is part of maintaining it, especially in winter. Salt is a killer. Hell you can just run it through the carwash now and again for a few quid but the jetwash gets into places where the carwash doesn't. I derive no enjoyment from doing any of these things, but maintenance is maintenance.

I don't want to argue about it, I wouldn't know which side of the argument to take !!! ...I support both views. I don't want to do it ... but the bloody car might fall apart if I don't. (I do cheat a bit and use the car wash and one of those garage bound jetwash machines rather than drag out and connect all my own kit.)

On rare occasions I'll polish it too, a job I hate. But if I ever sell on or part chop, faded paintwork could reduce the value.
"Salt is a killer" for slugs but I've never known it to be a problem for cars.
All cars I've known to be 'beyond economic repair' have had a major component, such as the engine, fail but if yours "fall apart" maybe they're shoddily built or you keep them on the road for decades rather than years. .
 

littleme

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I don't clean the inside much (it gets done once a year every service anyway) because I like it to have 'character.' Not sure why the 'characters' are always a bit smelly .... :P
Are they mouldy too? I do empty rubbish out, sweetie wrappers etc, but I've never hoovered it.... Poor Gavin (yes my cars, called Gavin).... No wonder no one ever wants a lift.....
 
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