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    How Often Do You Clean Your Car?

    Just wondering how much everyone else cleans their cars,
    I clean mine like mad once a week, i mean wash, dry, wax, all the details like bump strips and rubbers get treated, tyre shine, clean wheels inside and out, clean glass inside and out, leather cream, hoover it, clean inside. Theres probably more things that i clean but i cant think of them off the top of my head.

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    Clean the 300 whenever I get it out of the garage. I never take it out in the wet/salt/grit, so it tends to stay clean.

    The Astra I'll try and do once a week, but I drive about 600 miles a week in it so sometimes, it's just not worth it.

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    for me it depends on the weather. If its warm then one a week or so but weather like now when its freezimg maybe once a month.

    Too cold to wash a car

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    Mine aint been washed for weeks,soon as it is washed,its dirty again,mays well stay dirty.

    I clean the lights/plates and rear window though.

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    Well since im driving my old cav, it hasn;t been cleaned since August lmao
    Cant be arsed, its not my baby

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    washed and waxed after being used sum times it goes back in the work shop dirty but as a rule its cleaned b4 being put away sum times it not possable tho but its not used as a day to day car so its easy to keep clean !!
    its all good

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    I clean it properly once a month myself, and every week i get the local hand washers to do it inside and out for a tenner.

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    If the car gets dirty it gets cleaned. I don't like my car seen dirty! Sometimes I wash the car twice a week if I get the time.

    I always use Autoglym, I find the products very good and easy to use. I use the occasional other products, for example I like Harly Wax which is 100% carnabau wax and I get that from someone who imports it from the US as i've not seen it in the shops.

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    Every saturday at about 12. I drive 20 miles motorway everyday, and my place of work is surrounded by miles of farm land. It's absolutely filthy by Monday.
    But there's something about getting it totally dirty and then cleaning it all off.
    One dog goes one way and the other goes the other.
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    nearly every day in winter or summer!!!prefer cleaning it 2 driving it 2 b honest!!!

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    When it's proper nice weather I'll wash mine 2 and on occasion 3 times a week, shoddy weather like this and it's once every week or two. Like to give it a damn good cleaning though, it's so satisfying when your car is spotless and bone dry from all the hard work with the chamois! lmao

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    I feeel bad my lil nova aint been cleaned for a year but it has been stuck under carport for ages, now the new shell sparkles!!!! but thats all it is for now

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    I wish I had the time to claen my wash and wax my car every week!! I tend to do it about every month in the winter!

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    im sad i wash wax and vac everyday
    Thank you for your concern. I'll be sure to file it away under "L" for "Long-winded diatribes from drunken whores I couldn't care less about".

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    the van is still awaiting its first wash only had it 9 month
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    Once a week, as the owners handbook advises lmao
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    the astra gets cleaned at least once a week in the summer and every time she comes out to play in the winter, i make sure she is clean before she gets tucked up again, mind you, im a wotsit for not hoovering her out though.

    the nova gets done when i can be bothered. i havent hoovered that out since i bought it (sept)
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    If you're too pissed to walk, or call a cab, you've no option but to drive surely?

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    Quote Originally Posted by casper2k5
    im sad i wash wax and vac everyday
    Your either unemployed or a valeter by trade with no other cars to clean
    How do you have time to do that?
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