Is this correct or crap. 

 

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/91321/diy-car-washing-is-another-motoring-tradition-that-s-on-its-way-out

Most definetly true in the wider world - but probably not here or on other car forums as many people will be enthusiasts, and we take the simple pleasure and gratification from cleaning / polishing your car.

However it's reflective of the wider social / moral issue of our throw away world - many people don't see their cars now as valuable assets just tools. It's the same with many things that transfer from being a luxury item like a TV or washing machine would have been years ago to being a 'conventional necessity'

Also the relative cost of getting your car cleaned by someone else or by car wash is fairly low compared to the 'value' of many peoples time nowadays - notwithstanding the quality / car of the cleaning carried out!

Most people seem to be happy taking it to the local place (will not insert name i was going to say! Haha) where they have their car blasted with brick acid and a sponge which is kept on the floor between uses.

Saying that. Not much worse than having your own sponge and smearing it over the far too dry car.

Maybe im abit OCD.

Scrap that. I defo am.

Pahahha, pay £5 for a group of 'professionals' to clean my car, if you say so! thats great if you like swirlmarks and stones rubbing into your cars paint, just as bad if not worse than the auto car washes imo!

 

its all waffle anyway, plenty of folk on my street out cleaning their cars on weekends

Sadly...Very true!!

Hardly anyone around me and around the 'Village/Town' washes their car on their drive

Never have...even before the dreaded Immigrant hand wash and paint destroying automated car washes appeared

Good grief, it's a car - a tin box on wheels worth a few grand at most, and used as a tool to do a job.

 

Life is too short to spend endless hours fiddling about cleaning it.

I let the local Polish / Romanian / Bulgarians do it, as do most of my neighbours.

 

20 minutes, inside and out, £12.

 

It's not as if spending £ 000's and hours of my life "detailing" it will make any difference at all to the P/X price I'll get for it in 4 years time when I sell it with 200,000+ miles on it.

Good grief, it's a car - a tin box on wheels worth a few grand at most, and used as a tool to do a job.

 

Life is too short to spend endless hours fiddling about cleaning it.

I let the local Polish / Romanian / Bulgarians do it, as do most of my neighbours.

 

20 minutes, inside and out, £12.

 

It's not as if spending £ 000's and hours of my life "detailing" it will make any difference at all to the P/X price I'll get for it in 4 years time when I sell it with 200,000+ miles on it.

 

Agreed, but there will be those that disagree with us!

Good grief, it's a car - a tin box on wheels worth a few grand at most, and used as a tool to do a job.

 

Life is too short to spend endless hours fiddling about cleaning it.

I let the local Polish / Romanian / Bulgarians do it, as do most of my neighbours.

 

20 minutes, inside and out, £12.

 

It's not as if spending £ 000's and hours of my life "detailing" it will make any difference at all to the P/X price I'll get for it in 4 years time when I sell it with 200,000+ miles on it.

 

I think you are missing the point here, most people on this forum that clean the car themselves do not do it simply to retain a cars value or px value, its about caring about for your posessions and enjoying walking over to a lovely shiny motor in the carpark, free of swirlmarks..

 

its seen as a hobby to most on this forum that spare the time to maticulously clean their car, look after your car and it will look after you, the majority will know what i mean when i say this.

I think you are missing the point here, most people on this forum that clean the car themselves do not do it simply to retain a cars value or px value, its about caring about for your posessions and enjoying walking over to a lovely shiny motor in the carpark, free of swirlmarks..

 

its seen as a hobby to most on this forum that spare the time to maticulously clean their car, look after your car and it will look after you, the majority will know what i mean when i say this.

The perfect reply

Well done!!

I take great pride in cleaning and taking care of my cars, I take great pride and satisfaction in knowing my cars are well looked after and turn heads everywhere they go.

People quite often including my mother say why do you waste your time cleaning your car when it'll be dirty in a couple of days, in which I reply why do you clean your house it'll be dirty in a couple of days.

Each unto their own.

Good grief, it's a car - a tin box on wheels worth a few grand at most, and used as a tool to do a job.

 

Life is too short to spend endless hours fiddling about cleaning it.

I let the local Polish / Romanian / Bulgarians do it, as do most of my neighbours.

 

20 minutes, inside and out, £12.

 

It's not as if spending £ 000's and hours of my life "detailing" it will make any difference at all to the P/X price I'll get for it in 4 years time when I sell it with 200,000+ miles on it.

 

There are some days when I agree with this, especially because I own two black cars.  Neither is worth that much or is that special to most other people.  Having said that I do enjoy spending time cleaning a car because it's dirty at the beginning and clean at the end of the process.  It's a simple pleasure with relatively instant results that contrast with my daily work life where results can sometimes take years to become obvious.

 

Also, I cut the grass, clean my windows and dust the living room from time to time.  I guess I could not bother and pay someone to do those jobs but again, I get a certain amount of enjoyment from these simple tasks.  Add this to the fact that I am somewhere on the spectrum, I prefer to do these myself as most people wouldn't do it my way - which would niggle me.

 

Plus, having the pleasure of three young children to care for, an hour or so on the drive on my own is such a rare treat that it is far more significant that simply cleaning the car......

I think you are missing the point here, most people on this forum that clean the car themselves do not do it simply to retain a cars value or px value, its about caring about for your posessions and enjoying walking over to a lovely shiny motor in the carpark, free of swirlmarks..

its seen as a hobby to most on this forum that spare the time to maticulously clean their car, look after your car and it will look after you, the majority will know what i mean when i say this.

Bang on point!

Makes me feel a little ill when i see a nice M3 or whatever looking clean, but with loads of swirl marks. Looks horrendous.

I saw a black 15 reg BMW X6 going through the local Automated Car Wash today...God only knows what the new paintwork looks like now

I didnt have my Business cards with me..I would have offered to correct it for him...doubt he would be interested though!!

I saw a black 15 reg BMW X6 going through the local Automated Car Wash today...God only knows what the new paintwork looks like now

I didnt have my Business cards with me..I would have offered to correct it for him...doubt he would be interested though!!

 

 

Only been to halfrauds earlier and bought the three step megs bundle on the 3 for 2 offer, just snowfoamed the car and rinsed, awaiting drying :p

 

all this talk about cleaning cars tempted me out of the pc cave

Too wet here

Too wet here

 

Think i gotta be quick myself if i am honest, just the right temp and wind but can see dark skies looming :wonder:  just as i get my kit out as well!

The article may be focussed only on car washing, but there's lots of other aspects to taking care of your car.  Servicing, maintenance, repairs, choice of parts and repairers etc.

Rain doesn't stop me.  I promised my mate I would go over his Cooper S whilst in my possession and the mongrel is in his....

 

Raining in Devon but I was still out there in full waterproofs doing the decontamination stages.    One neighbour accused me of being mad.

 

Fallout remover doing its thing on the white roof - mixed with a little natural moisture as it happens.   Also de-tarred the car and a full clay - needed no lube as mother nature was providing it.

 

In regards to this article, I am clearly not one of those people....

 

Good grief, it's a car - a tin box on wheels worth a few grand at most, and used as a tool to do a job.

 

Life is too short to spend endless hours fiddling about cleaning it.

I let the local Polish / Romanian / Bulgarians do it, as do most of my neighbours.

 

20 minutes, inside and out, £12.

 

It's not as if spending £ 000's and hours of my life "detailing" it will make any difference at all to the P/X price I'll get for it in 4 years time when I sell it with 200,000+ miles on it.

 

This is one of my pet hates... just because you see a car as just a tool to do a job, other people do not and they actually take a bit of pride in what they have spent their hard earned on.

I get the same reaction at work when forklift drivers hit the truck... ‘it’s only a truck mate’   ... actually it’s a hundred grands worth of truck that I actually have pride in its appearance, just because it is bought to do a job there is no need not to take pride in it.

 

 

I think you are missing the point here, most people on this forum that clean the car themselves do not do it simply to retain a cars value or px value, its about caring about for your posessions and enjoying walking over to a lovely shiny motor in the carpark, free of swirlmarks..

 

its seen as a hobby to most on this forum that spare the time to maticulously clean their car, look after your car and it will look after you, the majority will know what i mean when i say this.

 

Here here

The article may be focussed only on car washing, but there's lots of other aspects to taking care of your car.  Servicing, maintenance, repairs, choice of parts and repairers etc.

 

 

Rain doesn't stop me.  I promised my mate I would go over his Cooper S whilst in my possession and the mongrel is in his....

 

Raining in Devon but I was still out there in full waterproofs doing the decontamination stages.    One neighbour accused me of being mad.

 

Fallout remover doing its thing on the white roof - mixed with a little natural moisture as it happens.   Also de-tarred the car and a full clay - needed no lube as mother nature was providing it.

 

In regards to this article, I am clearly not one of those people....

 

 

 

This is one of my pet hates... just because you see a car as just a tool to do a job, other people do not and they actually take a bit of pride in what they have spent their hard earned on.

I get the same reaction at work when forklift drivers hit the truck... ‘it’s only a truck mate’   ... actually it’s a hundred grands worth of truck that I actually have pride in its appearance, just because it is bought to do a job there is no need not to take pride in it.

 

 

 

Here here

Must be a Mods get together- away day!

Edited 2 May, 201511 yr by vrskeith

 

 

 

 

Must be a Mods get together- away day!

They must get lonely sitting there on their own waiting for 'offnote' to try and get in again...

Been trying to spend a day on my car for a few weeks now. Needs cleansing, polishing, waxing etc etc.

Got up early this morning to do it, Bloody rain though :(

I spent an hour and a half outside prepping the mini, in the rain,.  No excuse!  

Clearly couldn't do any polishing but I've done the donkey work so can crack on with machine polishing once its dry.

I washed my car in the rain last week, saved me having to dry it off and it's still quite shiny.  I washed my other one today and had to dry it off and still haven't got round to giving it a proper clean and I've had it for 6 months.

 

A lot of it depends on what facilities that you have access to, I'm lucky in that I can use the equipment at work, pressure washer, ramp and a host of other stuff that a garage has, even down to the convenience of picking up the phone and having parts delivered.

So why wash the bath, loo, dishes, or hoover the carpet then?.................Slobby/cluttered car/house etc is the sign of an equally slobby/cluttered mind & attitude..................

 

one of my pet hates...............

 

as for PX values....................sold my 2001 "X" plate 1.4 16v Fabia elegance with 60k miles for £1,500..............new owner said it was the best car he had seen, looked as good as new & drove & handled better than new......

 

but hey ho its a 14yr old tool ...................

 

I suppose those same people just trash their tools, don't oil spades etc & leave them outside to rust so get new every few years, so what it's a disposable society

 

Aren't we supposed to be more "eco"..so look after the stuff you bought & you save raw materials...also you don't have to then earn more money to replace your items because you can't be bothered to look after them in the first place.............