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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
During my first year on ownership once a week, nowadays with the water restrictions,once a month (at the CARWASH).
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8/Feb/2005, 12:57 pm
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
I wash it at the "car lovers" type place - costs me $5 since they give $2 extra time at present if you put at least $5 in. David.
--- David M (X095)
 ST Auto (series 1) 165,000 kms
Nissan nudge, fog lights, towbar, floor mats, K&N filter, Dunlop RV501's did 85,000 kms, now on Cooper CS4s |
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8/Apr/2005, 3:30 pm
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
Sorry - didn't answer the actual question. About once a fortnight - but then I am able to keep it in the garage most of the time.
Found that the foam brush at car lovers is useless apart from putting on the foam, so then I take a sponge and go over it; and you need to dry it after anyway.
So more recently I have gone back to the old bucket of warm water, unless its particularly dirty in which case the high pressure spray seems like a good idea.
About every second time seems to keep the wax up to it.
David M.
--- David M (X095)
ST Auto (series 1) 165,000 kms
Nissan nudge, fog lights, towbar, floor mats, K&N filter, Dunlop RV501's did 85,000 kms, now on Cooper CS4s |
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15/Aug/2005, 1:50 pm
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Panfa
Date Registered: 08-2005
TOTAL POSTS: 122
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
Before the water restrictions I used to wash my Jeep every couple of weeks - hose followed by a couple of buckets of water each containing one egg cup of kero (to help prevent rust).
When I traded in on the X-Trail 2 weeks ago I got the full paint and rust protection package so I plan to give it a wash every month.
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9/Sep/2005, 10:41 pm
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
Hmm washing the Exy ... let's see she's 7 years old and has had plenty of "baths" during the Wet Seasons and during the Dry Seasons I'd have to say around 7 or 8 baths total.
Had to bath it this weekend however to make a clean spot to attach the new membership stickers turning up next week sometime. 
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AkaZulu
2003 Ti-L T30, Polar White
Bling: Chrome factory Nudgebar, Spotties, Sunroof, Bonnet Protector, Towbar, X-Trail Brake Decal, HiTech Full Exhaust System, K&N Air filter, DVD/MP3/GPS/Bluetooth/TV/USB/iPod/Touchscreen TFT
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13/Jul/2009, 7:28 pm
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
I get to drive my exy 1 day a week, normally on Saturday. So it barely gets a wash each month. It gets parked under the house when not in use.
But somehow I have manged to get 3 small (well 200mm long) scratches in the polish. Looks like someone has dragged their jacket zip past it. Best chance it happened in a shopping centre while buying more goodies for it.
Now just to work out how to get those out of the polish. They don't feel or look deep enough, to be into the paint.
May just leave them as I will get a dozen extra on my holiday soon. Then get the car detailed when I get back.
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Scareyann
Central Qld
2008 TS - Flint
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14/Jul/2009, 1:19 am
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Re: How often do you guys wash you car?
Rarely..... But then, they start as work hacks on lease..... and if they are good enough after 3-4 years I might buy it off the leasing co.
The MPS got ditched after 2.5 years, typical Mazda paint chipped whenever a rock touched it. In 62K of road work it had heaps of chips, quite a few back to bare metal, even on the roof...... In fact I think only the hatch didn't have stone chips  Took the dealership that took it about 3 weeks to get onto the used lot  They wouldn't have seen half of it as it was a horrid wet day when they appraised it and it was covered in dirt, mud, road slush..... from the last 5 months.
The Patrol is probably the classiest - it has bush pinstriping..... courtesy of the Simpson Desert, nothing like the dead dry bushes to really mark clearcoat and the paint underneath. Worse even than driving through Lantana bushes (done that too)
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Ian X-1289(c)
2009 Platinum TL Xtrail - Scanguage2, Mio Moov360 GPS, Fridge, 100AH AGM 2nd battery, cargo barrier.
1998 GU Patrol 4.5 Petrol, lifted locked, barred...... so much there.
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29/Jul/2009, 12:20 am
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