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Your car cleaning day?

  • 28-02-2014 11:17pm
    #1
    Colash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭


    Mine was always a Saturday morning or a Sunday if I was hungover :)


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  • #2
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,301 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Saturday evening or sunday morning


  • #3
    nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭nd


    When I can't stand how dirty it looks and the weather obliges.


  • #4
    Zoney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Zoney


    Sunday morning or afternoon would be most common for me.


  • #5
    trabpc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭trabpc


    Once every 2 or 3 years. Usually when i put up on donedeal........


  • #6
    tomdempsey200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭tomdempsey200


    maybe once a year or so

    the rain washes it for me


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  • #7
    robtri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    on a day that it doesnt rain!!!!!!


  • #8
    vinnie13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭vinnie13


    trabpc wrote: »
    Once every 2 or 3 years. Usually when i put up on donedeal........

    me to,its due a wash any day now


  • #9
    Kaiser D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Kaiser D


    I prefer to pay someone to do it for me tbh, once a month or so.

    I'll quickly hoover the inside every so often if it needs doing.


  • #10
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    Fridays used to be cleaning day for me and then once a month I'd give up Sunday pints for a deep clean day which usually involved removing parts of the car to clean them.

    Sadly now I'm starting a business I've not had a chance to even wash the car. I think I had it washed for my brothers wedding...back in October.


  • #11
    tomdempsey200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭tomdempsey200


    it's the English people that wash the car every week

    I don't know many that do it here


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  • #12
    tomdempsey200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭tomdempsey200


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    Fridays used to be cleaning day for me and then once a month I'd give up Sunday pints for a deep clean day which usually involved removing parts of the car to clean them.

    Sadly now I'm starting a business I've not had a chance to even wash the car. I think I had it washed for my brothers wedding...back in October.

    what parts lol..


  • #13
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Saturday seems to be my day. Don't get a chance during the week. Thank God the evenings are stretching, more cleany time :cool:


  • #14
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Saturday afternoon for me, all dependent on weather obviously. This weekend is looking so good...


  • #15
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,478 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Tomorrow, weather permitting. Its proppah manky.


  • #16
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    tomdempsey200 wrote: »
    what parts lol..

    You name them I've removed them to clean them. I often enough pull seats out to shampoo carpets, even on customer cars. You can't say a car is truly clean till you start removing parts to get in the crevices.

    Old car but thought I'd include one of my proudest cleaning accomplishments done about 3 years ago. No pre pictures but trust me the paint was a mess.


  • #17
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Every Friday evening. 25 minutes has the car washed and dried and tyres dressed. Might give the wheels a wipe down mid week.


  • #18
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    keithsfleet wrote: »
    You name them I've removed them to clean them. I often enough pull seats out to shampoo carpets, even on customer cars. You can't say a car is truly clean till you start removing parts to get in the crevices.

    Old car but thought I'd include one of my proudest cleaning accomplishments done about 3 years ago. No pre pictures but trust me the paint was a mess.

    wow, that's nice. Please can you come to my house and clean my oven ? ;)


  • #19
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    Boardsies affected by any of the issues raised in this thread can seek professional help by contacting the Car Detailing sub forum.


  • #20
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    I have to clear the back of the car today as I have passengers going to a match. Very excited that I might discover what that curious smell is


  • #21
    sogood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    I usually wash mine shortly before it rains. Not intentionally, it just seems to work out that way! I enjoy having it clean and fresh looking, but I tend to get anal about it then. Normally, in whatever weather, I'll drive happily about without a care in the world, but after a wash, I'm strenuously avoiding puddles, mud on the road, mucky entrances etc. And of course, in time, I finish up back at square one, mucky again.

    But it's an enjoyable exercise, therapeutic even. The downside is the fact that it tends to show up all the blemishes and imperfections!


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  • #22
    trabpc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭trabpc


    Can't believe people have that much spare time to wash and hoover weekly. Would there be anything to hoover after a week. Usually when the pebbles start to gather in the foot well its time to shovel them out, maybe hoover.


  • #23
    Stella Virgo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 478 ✭✭Stella Virgo


    Colash wrote: »
    Mine was always a Saturday morning or a Sunday if I was hungover :)

    29 February........;)


  • #24
    lollsangel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 473 ✭✭lollsangel


    Usually fri evening, some part of sat or sun. Once I have the school runs done. Just the inside in winter though, kibda pointless washing the muck off to drive 10 ft up the road and to have it covered in muck


  • #25
    garclo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭garclo


    I spent 2 hours on mine today, great weather for it. done inside and out, looking immaculate now! i'd love to post a few pics but it's a company van and has sign writing all over so I can't.:(


  • #26
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,478 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Spent a few hours on the car today, took the wheels off and cleaned the inside bits. Makes more of a difference than I'd have thought.


  • #27
    garclo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭garclo


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Spent a few hours on the car today, took the wheels off and cleaned the inside bits. Makes more of a difference than I'd have thought.

    i'd be afraid to start taking stuff off or i'd end up with calipers and brake pads all over the garden and no idea how to put them back on.......but they'd be gleaming though!:p


  • #28
    born2bwild
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭born2bwild


    A cold day in Hell.


  • #29
    Satanta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭Satanta


    I used to wash the car once a week on Sunday with wax shampoo and a microfiber mit. A thorough interior clean once a month. De tar and polish and wax twice a year.

    I have two kids now. I now wash myself when time permits and take the car to the car wash on a Sunday after my weekend run if the house isn't like the riots in Kiev.


  • #30
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    Mine gets a wash the morning of a wedding or some other such event and on a very odd Sat or Sun in between when I cant stand the look of it any more!


    One of those Saturdays happened to be today. It took 3 hours to get the flipping tar off. What the feck are they using to fill those potholes nowadays!!! I have about a bucket of it to return!!


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  • #31
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    I normally clean the car on a Saturday. I try to clean it every second weekend that doesn't always happen but at the same time its almost never left anymore than a month without a clean. If I was really busy I might just clean the inside I can't deal with the whole dirty car interior thing it's much nicer to drive around and sit in something that's clean.


  • #32
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Every Friday evening. 25 minutes has the car washed and dried and tyres dressed. Might give the wheels a wipe down mid week.

    25 mins for the whole car?! I'd spend that on the wheels/tyres/arches alone :o


  • #33
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Do frig all miles and the car is always clean. I know you guys like to go to town with snowfoam and power washers, two bucket wash for me gets 90% results in 20% of the time. ;)


  • #34
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


    Saturday is usually my day. At this time of the year it's whenever there is a Sat I can do it, other than that the cars get a wash, hoover and trim polish every week. The more often you do it the less time and easier it is is my motto.


  • #35
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    I usually do mine on the 29th February :D


  • #36
    vinnie13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭vinnie13


    tomdempsey200 wrote: »
    it's the English people that wash the car every week

    I don't know many that do it here
    That is unbelievabley true it's Luke ritual in the UK,just look at the difference of a 10year old car on donedeal then try eBay UK the difference is huge.
    They maintain cars better too.


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  • #37
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,934 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Got her washed, waxed, and dried over lunch today - not a bad job for €15

    Seems to be a bit of a posh spot though (just down from Sandyford/Dundrum in a former petrol station) - there was 2 new-ish Range Rovers, a Bentley, SL350, CL500, vintage Rover and a new white A4 all in the queue as well.

    Need to hoover her out now too but I will do that tomorrow afternoon if the weather holds and I get home a little earlier.


  • #38
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    Kaiser2000 wrote: »
    Got her washed, waxed, and dried over lunch today - not a bad job for €15

    Seems to be a bit of a posh spot though (just down from Sandyford/Dundrum in a former petrol station) - there was 2 new-ish Range Rovers, a Bentley, SL350, CL500, vintage Rover and a new white A4 all in the queue as well.

    Need to hoover her out now too but I will do that tomorrow afternoon if the weather holds and I get home a little earlier.

    Where abouts - the one in clonskeagh or nutgrove ave?


  • #39
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Every second day, sometimes every day depending on road conditions.

    I drive for a living, I wouldn't live in squalor and I damn sure wouldn't work in it.


  • #40
    keithsfleet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭keithsfleet


    Theboinkmaster wrote: »
    Where abouts - the one in clonskeagh or nutgrove ave?

    Think he could be talking about the one in Churchtown on the road from Mcgowans to the river dodder.
    There's an old petrol station (jet I think) that often has rare or old cars parked up outside.

    Saw a Countach (most likely the replica that I've seen floating around on the odd occasion) and a Corniche last Sunday.


  • #41
    Greyfoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Greyfoot


    24/7 cleaning fer me due to job lol


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  • #42
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    June or July usually.


  • #43
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,934 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Theboinkmaster wrote: »
    Where abouts - the one in clonskeagh or nutgrove ave?
    keithsfleet wrote: »
    Think he could be talking about the one in Churchtown on the road from Mcgowans to the river dodder.
    There's an old petrol station (jet I think) that often has rare or old cars parked up outside.

    Roebuck Rd - just up from Clonskeagh


  • #44
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Usually when i can bribe someone to wash it for me :D


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