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01-13-2017, 08:02 AM | #1 |
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how often do you wash your car this time of the year
Hi guys, as the title says..how often? Im asking this coz I feel guilty of not washing once a week like normally. Im just thinking, whats the point, wash it today and then its heavy rain on sunday forecast. And almost every time I feel it deserves a wash the forecast stops me from doing so.
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01-13-2017, 08:14 AM | #2 |
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I'm the same, my car hasn't been washed for a couple of weeks and is filthy, but every time I summon the time and inclination to wash it, either the heavens open or it freezes. I don't like using drive through washes or wash monkeys, bit I'm seriously thinking about biting the bullet and letting someone else loose on it with a sponge
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01-13-2017, 09:12 AM | #4 |
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I still wash mine once a week regardless of the weather. Gives me an excuse to disappear into the garage for a couple of hours & get a bit of man time
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01-13-2017, 10:09 AM | #5 |
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If you have a good level of protection on your paint work it wont matter too much, however the more regular you wash it the longer that protection will last. I gave mine a wax top last week whilst the weather was milder.
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01-13-2017, 01:16 PM | #9 |
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01-13-2017, 03:52 PM | #10 |
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Agreed, I had a winter application applied on mine a while ago and makes washing the car so much easier in these conditions.
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01-22-2017, 02:52 AM | #11 |
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I was mine every week if I can, however, it can be tricky. Had to defrost the hose yesterday!
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01-23-2017, 03:24 AM | #12 |
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Normally once every two weeks. Did it yesterday and froze my balls off.
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01-23-2017, 04:24 AM | #13 |
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Not often in Winter. Gets waxed up before it gets too cold then not really touched. Did it this weekend as wheels were filthy and I wanted to get started on wet sanding.
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01-23-2017, 06:59 AM | #14 |
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Hasn't been washed since October.
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01-25-2017, 04:59 AM | #15 |
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I think mine needs a clean now....
Filthy E91 by Chris Reeves, on Flickr That was mostly from a 400 mile journey yesterday. |
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01-25-2017, 07:49 AM | #16 | |
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01-27-2017, 02:35 AM | #17 |
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At the moment twice a week, washed on Saturday then washed on Tuesday afternoon, and this is today all dirty looking "Again" it's crap having a white car in this weather, getting washed again on Saturday....
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01-29-2017, 08:39 AM | #18 |
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Gave it a snow foam and power wash today. Got rid of about 80% of the winter grime.
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01-30-2017, 03:03 PM | #19 | |
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01-31-2017, 02:59 AM | #20 |
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I've fixed it now!
2 x snowfoam and pressure washer, 6 bucket wash (rinse bucket changed 5 times!) using a gtechniq wash mitt, and dried using BH QD as a drying aid with a super soft microfibre drying waffle towel thing. Cleaned E91 by Chris Reeves, on Flickr Cleaned E91 by Chris Reeves, on Flickr |
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02-01-2017, 04:06 PM | #21 |
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In this weather and with working in a rural location so the lanes resembling more of a mud bath my touring ends up a crispy brown salty mess by the time Friday comes about so it's been weekly snow foams and rinses and then a foam, rinse and multiple bucket in the two bucket method stylee on every other week or if it's really wet and muddy I will just get the pressure washer out and rinse it off so it doesn't crust and build.
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