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28-03-2005, 13:55
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#1 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Wales Drives: Corsa B
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| How often do you wash your car?
Was just wondering how often do you wash your car? I was out earlier coming back from a friends house, saw a pretty nice corsa, was originally silver but the back of it is black with dirt and people write ammusing little messages in it like "if you think im dirty you should have seen your wife last night" lol you would have thought they would have washed it?
I wash mine pretty much when ever the weather is nice, if not i'll pay my younger sister 25p to wash it  . Does a pretty good job aswell. She's washing it now actually so i can polish out a few scratch's. | 
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28-03-2005, 13:57
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#2 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 46
| in da summer every sunday if i get up when its light
in da winta not very much | |
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28-03-2005, 13:59
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#3 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Leicester Drives: Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo
Posts: 5,632
| washed it about a week ago, last time it was polished was at billing last year | |
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28-03-2005, 14:00
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#4 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Bristol Drives: 300ZX TT & Seat Leon
Posts: 38,693
| A full wash usually once a week. Give the wheels, every other day I guess if the rest of the car is still clean, otherwise a full wash.
If the weather is bad I'll try and keep it clean as much as possible, every other day maybe. | |
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28-03-2005, 14:15
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#5 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Plymouth Drives: Astra G SRi 16v
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| grrr its dark blue so shows up all kinds of dirt...prob once a week at least! | |
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28-03-2005, 15:32
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#6 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Wales Drives: Corsa B
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Originally Posted by SRimon grrr its dark blue so shows up all kinds of dirt...prob once a week at least! | mines kind of like that, its a dark blue/ purple kind of colour lol although gave it a polish earlier and now looks like a dark metalic blue  not really sure on the colour any more lol | |
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28-03-2005, 15:49
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#7 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Jul 2004 Drives: GTE turbo in bits
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| once a week without fail, if there is an extra meet/cruise, then it gets washed twice. gets a proper polish (usually by me) every other wash, weather permitting of course
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28-03-2005, 15:50
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: N W London Drives: 2.0 8v Cav SRi
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Originally Posted by mental mel once a week without fail, if there is an extra meet/cruise, then it gets washed twice. gets a proper polish (usually by me) every other wash, weather permitting of course | Same here  Once a week without fail........even when it was -2 degrees lately  | |
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28-03-2005, 15:56
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#9 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: May 2002 Location: Chesham, Bucks Drives: Prelude & a S14
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| The kit car once every two months.
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28-03-2005, 15:56
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#10 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Warrington Drives: Red MK4 Astra
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| once a week if its dirty
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28-03-2005, 16:47
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#11 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: North London Drives: Astra TD/Astra Sport
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| whenever i have nothing better to do
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28-03-2005, 16:55
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| Normally at least once a week. It's white so dirt is criminal. I last washed it 10 mins ago, got a polish and wax, last time before that was Thursday. | |
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28-03-2005, 16:56
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#13 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Glasgow Area-ish Drives: EVO VI & GTE 16v
Posts: 8,882
| Are you meant to wash them??
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28-03-2005, 17:10
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#14 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Blyth,N/land Drives: a 10 ton truck
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| i repaint mine when it comes to wash time.... | |
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28-03-2005, 18:54
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#15 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: surrey Drives: A chavalier
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Originally Posted by garth i repaint mine when it comes to wash time.... | Really over the dirt n everything? pretty cool i might try that. | |
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28-03-2005, 18:56
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#16 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: surrey Drives: A chavalier
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| Right question: how many times do you polish your car.......once a week.....every couple of days?
Oh i wash mine once a month | |
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28-03-2005, 19:04
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#17 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Worcestershire Drives: 1.6 MK3 Astra Saloon
Posts: 103
| i wash mine about once a week... although sometimes i leave it dirty just to hide the little imperfections... yet since i finished taking the rubbing strips off the side i have decided to keep it cleaned and polish it at least once a week... no matter how muddy it is down my lane...
just means i'll have to drive slow...
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28-03-2005, 19:09
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#18 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: surrey Drives: A chavalier
Posts: 8,434
| Try polishing then waxing & not having to do it for another 4 or 6months just soap it wash down then rinse & finally warm water & chammi it down job done until that time again.
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28-03-2005, 19:20
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#19 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Aug 2001 Drives: XE'd mk2 Astra
Posts: 8,868
| can't even remember the last time it was done...possibly last year ! | |
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28-03-2005, 20:48
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#20 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2005 Drives: PH2 AstraGTETurbo
Posts: 610
| mines black so at least once a week, white wheels so they get done every other day and a polish with meguires tech wax twice monthly (swear by it)
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28-03-2005, 20:51
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Originally Posted by SRimon grrr its dark blue so shows up all kinds of dirt...prob once a week at least! | dont u mean once a day, everytime i come round ur washing it :P | |
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28-03-2005, 20:54
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#22 | | MIGWeb User
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Originally Posted by Prowler polish with meguires tech wax twice monthly (swear by it) | Very very good stuff the tech wax, try to use it every couple of weeks or so. Leaves such a good shine on it!! 
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28-03-2005, 21:35
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#23 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Fife Drives: BMW E46 Coupe/R6
Posts: 217
| during the winter, my corsa probably gets washed at least once a week. but during the summer, i wash the nova probably 3 times a week. i usually wax the nova every sunday, and wax the corsa once a month. use autoglym.....
canny stand a dirty car..................... | |
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28-03-2005, 21:38
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#24 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Hampshire Drives: Astra Mk4/Mitso FTO
Posts: 2,510
| Every week without fail 
even clean her in the snow, the schamie stuck to the roof | |
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28-03-2005, 22:14
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#25 | | MIGWeb User
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow Drives: Impreza type RA
Posts: 808
| can't polish a turd so why bother with mine?
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