How often do you...

[Ethicsgradient]

Wash your car?

I confess not much of a washer.. Maybe once or twice a year whether it needs it or not and will just chuck it through a car wash if it's needed to be cleanish for some reason . Always take a bit of kitchen roll out with me to the car as the door handles be so filthy that opening them results in dirty hands....i think when that becomes automatic habit then your probably not much of a clean car person. Haha

 

[Buckz]

every 2 weeks or so.. sometimes once a week

 

[PinkPineapple44]

Once or twice a year?! How dirty is your car :lol:

I usually stick to monthly washes and make a day of it so I can go to town. Polish and sealant every 6 months with a dose of aqua wax during the inbewteens

 

[Ethicsgradient]

I see my neighbour cleaning his car weekly, I think I have seen him do it twice a week sometimes .. I think he must not have call of duty WW2

 

[Ethicsgradient]

Once or twice a year?! How dirty is your car :lol:

I usually stick to monthly washes and make a day of it so I can go to town. Polish and sealant every 6 months with a dose of aqua wax during the inbewteens

Right now its not toooo bad, I ran it through the tiger wash at the petrol station as I had to pick up my father from the home on Xmas day for dinner and he would have got very dirty trying to get into it. You had to kinda open the door then jump in to avoid any actual contact with the exterior. It looked a bit like it had been in a wind tunnel while someone threw buckets of mud into the fans.

 

[buzyg]

I clean mine when it's dirty. So if I go out Sunday for a drive. Then it's washed before I drive it again. Usually before it goes back in the garage that evening.

Dirty at the moment as it was dark when I got back Sunday. Will probably get washed tomorrow, as I should be home before dark. :wub: :wink:

 

[Angelus666]

I've been on both sides of the detailing fence. From 2000 to 2009 I was really into weekly washing of the car, then (for one reason or another) I got bored and thought what a waste of time, so let the Romanians clean my cars up until a year ago. I'm now back into it more than ever and clean the Z once every other week and the same for the TT.

 

[Nictrix]

I hate driving around in a dirty car and try to wash them every weekend.
At this time of year it is quite difficult as I dont want to ice up the pavement outside my house and have anybody slip on it.
The neighbours must think I am mental anyway as I have washed them in the rain before and also in the dark.

 

[1000rr]

Every week.

 

[jabber]

Just before I sell it

 

[Bing]

I used to wash mine every week, full polish and wax every 6 weeks or so... but I have slacked off in recent years, and certainly in the winter it can go 3 weeks without a wash. But eventually I can’t bear driving it dirty... and in the summer I get back to nearly weekly, ish. For 3 and a half years I haven’t needed to polish and wax it as it had a paint protection coating on it... but that’s wearing out now. I have to say, getting back in the swing of doing a full clay/polish/wax takes some serious pre-motivation now as it’s fecking hard work.

 

[Bing]

Once or twice a year?! How dirty is your car :lol:

I usually stick to monthly washes and make a day of it so I can go to town. Polish and sealant every 6 months with a dose of aqua wax during the inbewteens

Right now its not toooo bad, I ran it through the tiger wash at the petrol station as I had to pick up my father from the home on Xmas day for dinner and he would have got very dirty trying to get into it. You had to kinda open the door then jump in to avoid any actual contact with the exterior. It looked a bit like it had been in a wind tunnel while someone threw buckets of mud into the fans.

When they get REALLY dirty the pattern of the dirt on the car from the airflow is actually pretty cool 8)

 

[Machine monkey]

About 16 months ago for me!!
I haven’t driven it for that long either. It’s covered in dust and sh1t from being in the workshop though.

 

[Zoomer]

I sort of washed mine over christmas as someone got me some waterless wash and wax , but it was already clean and was in the garage with a fitted cover on it since October, so I guess that might not count. Otherwise it gets washed about every other week in summer as its a garage queen. My DD tends to get washed bi weekly or when it's really dirty in winter.

 

[TitanTim]

Always weekly but confess of late I've left it 2 weeks and just before x-mass left it 3 weeks as using the i10 over the M140i during winter and see it more of an A to B car. Must admit I'm quite enjoying not washing it and frees up a bit more time at weekends. I get ribbed at work at times, have you nothing better to do comments but I just see it from the point of view that a motor is most likely the second most expensive thing you'll own so why treat it like $hit

Tim.

 

[RickRob]

All three of mine (Zed, Discovery and Mini, all black) get washed and vacuumed on average twice every three weeks. Like others I really hate driving dirty cars. Living in the sticks the Discovery and Mini, being daily drives, get pretty grubby inside of a week. Last weekend all three were washed and vacuumed.

I wouldn't dream of taking any of them to a car wash.

I try to polish a few panels at a time on a rotating basis, which in theory means that they each get fully cleaned about 3-4 times per year. Last weekend the Mini got its bonnet and passenger door clay-mitted, scratch-removed, black holed and natty waxed.

 

[Ethicsgradient]

I think maybe I omit the washing without guilt as I do twice as many mechanical services as recommended. Being a former owner of some very high strung motorcycles with 10 hour or 1500 mile services, two filters, oil in frame, dry sump nightmares, I do oil changes as habit and other service items far more often than most... I just don't wipe off the oily fingerprints once I finish. Can't see the outside when I driving fast

 

[Silverzedtom]

Every 2/3 weeks. I reset the mileage and it never normally gets to 1000 miles. At the moment Ive got a filthy zed and it’s done 1300 miles since a wash in mid December

 

[Paulr]

I use mine to go and see clients, and they judge me on things like this because I am a vehicle broker, leasing cars and vans etc. I wash it when it needs it, which could be twice a week in the winter or once a month in the summer.