I never washed my fox body Mustang. The windows were kept clean & I'd vacuum it maybe once a month. The only time I washed it was a day or 2 before an HPDE track weekend. It was nicknamed 'the pile' & is still called that by the current ownerI am impressed how many here clean on weekly basis. I clean maybe twice or thrice a year. My cars get very “dumpy”. I look at a messy car as a security measure.
Although I have been cleaning my wife’s car by necessity more often though. She gets twitchy if I let her car get too dirty.
Also, I have a coworker who is an absolute car care negligent. Whenever employees go out to lunch, he has to explain to us that we cannot use his car because it is filled with trash. NONE of his passenger seats are useable. They are covered by food wrappers, bags, cups, and all the other garbage associated with eating out. It’s miserable to look at but also kind of entertaining. And he is single, unsurprisingly.
yeah those filters are good at saving paint jobs. the worse thing a person can do is to wash and rinse a car with "city" water full of chemicals if you do not plan to dry it off ASAP. the water will start to stain + spot / etch the paint pretty quickly.I gave up a few years ago, both my vehicles sit outside and it's impossible to keep the outside looking nice. Now I run them thru the car wash now and then and vacuum them a couple times a year.
I had a nice setup at home using a soft-water attachment for my hose. Had a filter you took out and let soak in salt water.
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We used to have one of those guys too.... He had a Ranger truck he bought new and soon it was piled as high as the windowsill with junk on the passenger's side. He'd drive with a coffee cup on the dashboard, and invariably some would splash out and it would get all over the dash, never to be cleaned of course. Occasionally he'd leave an old donut on the dash long enough it would get moldy and melt away into a blob. A real rolling biohazard.Also, I have a coworker who is an absolute car care negligent. Whenever employees go out to lunch, he has to explain to us that we cannot use his car because it is filled with trash. NONE of his passenger seats are useable. They are covered by food wrappers, bags, cups, and all the other garbage associated with eating out. It’s miserable to look at but also kind of entertaining. And he is single, unsurprisingly.
Years ago I had a neighbor that let his sprinkler system hit his car parked in the street all the time, I didn't notice any damage to the paint other than the build up of hard water stains but it etched little pits all over his windshield.yeah those filters are good at saving paint jobs. the worse thing a person can do is to wash and rinse a car with "city" water full of chemicals if you do not plan to dry it off ASAP. the water will start to stain + spot / etch the paint pretty quickly.