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Perhaps he has nothing better to do. Besides, it seems to be a national hobby to clean your car on a sunday morning, he's just doing it properly. It's not just about the economics, more about the love between man and machine, especially when you've saved for a nice motor.
 
So just because of that it's not worth keeping your own car clean?

That's the most pathetic excuse to not clean your car I have ever heard :p

I'm sorry but my cars will always be looking like new inside and out, I've been in too many people's cars that just have not been looked after properly and vowed never to have my cars treated the same. 3~ hours on a Sunday cleaning the car is nothing and well worth the effort regardless of anything else.

Plus the compliments your passengers give each time...

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And yeah, as Alex says, Sunday is carwash day for the majority of men out there, my view is you should clean your own car and do it properly too, not pay some Eastern European to do it cheap or go to a drive through. Of course if your car is just an A>B machine then fine but otherwise there's no excuse other than being lazy!
 
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Did i say its an excuse not to keep it clean? my car gets cleaned, just not religiously on a sunday like yourself.
Having better things to do is lazy?
3 hours on a sunday!! waste of time. you are looking at what, 2 working weeks in total spent leaning (based on a 35 hour week). cleaning a car like you do, for value purposes when it comes to resale time, wouldn't be worth my time :p

paying someone else to clean it is wrong?
do you pay someone to service your car?
 
Ah but what isn't worth your time is worth mine and I have plenty of the stuff to burn on a Sunday morning ;)

Plenty of people out there that will pay a higher price and are less likely to haggle knowing what they're getting is absolutely mint (I hate saying mint like that, look what you made me do :O).

Anyway, hour figures mean nothing much to me, spending time doing something properly is more important especially my own car which I drive everywhere including client sites for work and hobby!
 
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mrk said:
I'm sorry but my cars will always be looking like new inside and out, I've been in too many people's cars that just have not been looked after properly and vowed never to have my cars treated the same. 3~ hours on a Sunday cleaning the car is nothing and well worth the effort regardless of anything else.
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3 hours every Sunday...dude :(

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Plus the compliments your passengers give each time...
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I get that but I've cleaned it once in the past 3 months, no I'm not trying to be "cool" I clean it when it's dirty and only really hoover inside once every few weeks. Yours seems more of an obsession than a hobby if I'm honest :/.
 
3 hours is nothing! I spent 7 hours on mine last Sunday and still didn't get round to giving the inside a proper clean! :) .
 
i have never vacuumed my car, and i bought it july 2008 :p

i took it to an 'american' automatic car wash in july i think and it hasn't been washed since.
waiting for the weather to cool and not rain so i can give it a proper wash.

it lives outside though, and the pain is shot anyway and there's paint missing around the arches, so i can't really be arsed to clean it properly..
 
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The vx220 replacement :(

Cheap and cheerful!! Cost me £1100 2 weeks ago. Please ignore the stupid wing mirrors!! :rolleyes:
 
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i have never vacuumed my car, and i bought it july 2008 :p

i took it to an 'american' automatic car wash in july i think and it hasn't been washed since.
waiting for the weather to cool and not rain so i can give it a proper wash.

it lives outside though, and the pain is shot anyway and there's paint missing around the arches, so i can't really be arsed to clean it properly..
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That's the thing, people just can't be arsed. I actually want my stuff to look like new for as long as possible and 3 hours on a Sunday is absolutely nothing. I prioritise my time so that I have those 3 hours just for this purpose.



Sort yourselves out you lazy bums!
 
mrk, where do you buy your cleaning products from?

- Collinite 476s wax seal: £15
- Autoglym Super Resin Polish: £8
- Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection: £8
- Bilberry alloy cleaner (mix with water and spray on): £9
- Snow foam: £15
- Chemical guys trim gel: £10
 
cleanyourcar.co.uk or elitecarecare - or halfords if I need something quick (usually interior foam spray or autoglym stuff as they're priced no diff to anywhere else).
 
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Yeah its their GT model, ive not driven many cars to be honest so it does feel like it has a kick to me. I'm only going by what others say on this forum that it is a bit tamer than vtec. You do really notice it still though.
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Nice GT :) It does have a kick but it is definately a lot tamer than Vtec. It is still however a hoot to drive. I sold my GT a few months back and replaced it with an MR2 (mrk3) which only lasted a couple of months really before getting ditched for an ST220.

Have you had any issues with speed bumps etc? The lip kept catching on some around where I live and wore a small hole in to the bottom and crack the bottom corner of it too. Was one of the reasons I got rid of it as I was constantly worried about taking it to certain places and just doing more damage.

I have a c-one style scoop sprayed in Thunder Grey which you can have for cheap if you want (never got round to fitting it) Let me know if you're interested. :)

Will try and get some pics of the ST at some point. I do <3 Performance Blue.
 
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