[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
The two are pretty similar do you not think? Both are areas of personal space where you spend time. I doubt you'd want to be sat inside a filthy hovel whilst at home so why do some people do it when driving? It's just pretty disgusting really isnt it?
If you drive in a filthy hovel, which I don't. Your drawing a mad example across all of this.
It isn't 'pretty disgusting really' unless your a ******* freak.
There are some leaves on my carpet, and whatever muck is on the car gets rained off presently.
That is not
disgusting by any stretch of anyones imagination. (bar you?)
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
Then there is the practical side of it. If you dont keep your car in a decent state of cleaniless you end up covered in crud when you open the boot, get into the car, open the bonnet to check fluid levels, take dust caps off to check tyre pressures etc etc. Mind you I suspect the sort of person with the mindset that a car never should be cleaned inside or out probably flings stuff onto the back seat rather than the boot and doesnt check pressures and fluids from one year to the next so I guess thats probably why they dont find that a problem
So, you don't clean your car means you don't maintain it?
I and others may have stopped cleaning and hoovering for the winter, but in reality that means bugger all Fox.
I want to drive a safe and maintained car, its cleanleness at this time of year is of little concern in my daily life - or anything to do with the aforementioned.
I can open the bonnet without rubbing my self all over it in some animalistic fashion (finger under the lip normally does), my door handles aren't caked in mud or anything like it and I can also open my boot without touching paintwork.
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
Lets just have a bit of clarfication here. Nobody is wondering why people dont share some peoples love for spending ages cleaning cars. Some people hate it, end of. I hate cleaning bathrooms, for example. It drives me up the wall. But it's gotta be done, right?
I like cleaning my bathroom and the rest of my house. I done all the work, so it make sense to look after it and clean it. It's also tiled floor and walls, so it doesn't take much for the tiles to become dirty.
I also like getting naked and washing etc in nice clean surroundings, not grotty ones.
The level of dirt on the outside of which ever vehicle I pick to drive in that day has absolutely nothing to do in a comparison like this. Neither do dried leaves crumpled underfoot turn me into some walking talking tramp that you seem to imply.
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
If you don't want to waste your time cleaning your car you can simply pay a few quid every month and get someone else to do it, use a car wash, use a jetwash, there are numerous ways of not driving around in a filthy shed without having to spend an hour of your time cleaning your car.
Why is a dirty car automatically a shed?
You just seemed to have ingrained snobbery to blame for these opinions.
Do you look at a dirty car at a set of lights then start presuming you know the rest of that persons habbits?
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
That filthy Accord pictured looks to have a personal plate on it. Whats the point in that if you care so little about how presentable your car is that you never wash it?
So you can't appreciate the use of a private plate unless you happen to polish it once a day?
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
The bit that confuses me the most is that some of you have nice cars - cars you've chosen because you like the way it looks. To then allow it to fall into a state of complete shabbyness because you cant be bothered to spend 4 minutes with a jetwash is as much of a shame as it is confusing. Brake dust ruins alloys.
Complete shabbyness from a thin layer of dirt/soot?
I think we have quite wildly differing opinions on what to label these sorts of 'scummy car users'.
Shabbyness isn't one word that comes to mind personally.
Dirty would be more appropriate. Don't let that get in the way of some good old snobbery though why don't you.
[TW]Fox;17667488 said:
Surely keeping stuff in your life clean and hygenic is just basic standards?
Yes, it is basic standards however your comparisons aren't really quite apt for me anyway.
It is also weather dependent, time dependent and location dependent.
Come up to Scotland mid winter and see how often you want to be outside freezing your nuts off for the benefit of having a shiney car until it lashes filthy rain for hours/days afterwards, and the winds whip up the flowerbeds and spray the lower half of your car.
If you want to be a pedantic fanboy out with the reflector guage every day, day in day out, more power to you.
If other people don't, leave it at that otherwise you take the risk of looking like a ticket.
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