scooby_99turbo

What is it with people or am I just weird ive seen loads of scoobs recently and they have been mingin dirty WHY ???

I have a 99 clasic turbo in Green..

I wash the thing off twice a week every week.And talking to a valeter guy he advised me to do the following which I do

1/ wash the thing off with Mer shampoo
2/ rince it off then clean and polish the wheels.
3/ Take a bucket 2 Pints of warm water and put in 3 caps of mer polish sponge this over the car and rince it off shammy off.
4/ Hoover seats and carpets fabreeze the seats clean all plastics off..

Yes i do this twice a week every week is this NORMAL ???

Sayin that the car looks MINT..

So why do people leave there scoob and leave it mingin.....

stuart148

iTrader: (12)

thats a bit ott,,,do you rent the car out

DaveR

No, this is not normal.
I have to park my scoob on a busy london road, and can't reach it with a hose.
If you're lucky enough to have a driveway or a garage, then it would make life easier I guess ....

scooby_99turbo

No just love the thing!! And when I cant do it the girl friend does it..

Its had more visits to chips away than i can count..any little thing it needs to be sorted.....

GrollySTI

I haven't heard of this before - does putting polish in warm water and sponging onto the car work? - (obviously shammying off after)

catmeat

I dont understand people that take there cars to a show so everyone can look at them but not clean them first?mine gets cleaned every wk even if i havnt used it,its kept in a garage but still gets cleaned

mgcvk

I give her a thorough wash,wax and hoover every couple of weeks, but there is no point in twice a week surely? I like to enjoy my car and have a thorough blatt around the countryside. If car is immaculate you don't want to get any dirt on it, never mind let it get rained on. Twice a week is bizarre.

G_Sleigh_STi

All cars should be kept clean at all times.


People who keep their cars proper dirty, probably keep their houses that way to. (unlesss work on building sites or have pretty good excusses for their cars seeing extreme dirt every day) Well from experience i have noticed that.

Its best to keep both property and cars clean and spanking at all times

I have 4 cars and my missus has 1, thats 5 cars and i clean them all every weekend so that they are always stunning. lol.

It takes some time mind cleaning 5 cars inside and out and waxing, and some weekend mornings it does feel a chore. But its worth it when driving a car with a nice tidy clean interior and no litter or dirt anywhere. Feels better

finnie

I live on the third floor so washing really isn't that convenient. If I had a drive I'd wash at least once a week

SCOOBYD00

Washed @ Least twice per week.. shammy if I can be @rsed
Interior hoovered & dash once over once per week
Wax .. depends on time but FULL autoglym treatment taking 3 hours easiliy...

Daily car that treats me well so I look after her.

Not a trailer queen and driven hard...

mgcvk

What a bunch of girls. Do you all keep a duster and a can of Mr. Sheen in the glove box too?

Smurf2k

iTrader: (6)

Gave my car a wash a week after I got it.
Then 2 weeks(last week) later I gave the full meguires treatmeant.
That took 5 hrs and 2 hrs later I buggered off to Aberdeen for the week to work.
Came home to a dusty car. Washed it off and went over it with a shammy today and looks every bit as good as it did last weekend
I plan on probably washing once a fortnight or maybe weekly depending on work schedule as I work away from home 99% of the time.
Will probably give the full meguires once every 2 months

scooby_99turbo

Yep and you dont get white residue on your black bits give it a go it works

speedy1

Wash mine every other weekend, dont shammy it though. Wait for it to dry then wax it with meguires. Inside gets hoovered to within an inch of its life, having said that it doesn't get dirty, as i only do around 100 miles a week.

JackClark

I haven't washed mine for at least 2 years. Still runs just fine.

scooby_99turbo

BOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOO

TonyG

Um, mine gets cleaned every so often. Then again, I bought it to drive it, not clean it

555-Shaggy

That's my excuse Tony.. I'm a driver, not a cleaner

jbryant

Both mine and the wife's cars are, as you say, "mingin dirty."

I have both cars on the driveway, and a hosepipe I could use. I also have a box full of car cleaning fluids in the garage (most of items in there have been there for at least 5 years). The car looks great after it's serviced as they give them a cleanup, but I simply

1. Don't have the time to do it properly (wife and two young kids, though I was just as bad with previous sporty cars before any of them arrived). Badly washed cars look worse than dirty ones IMHO.
2. Cannot be arsed - have far more fun or pressing things to do
3. Dirt covers the imperfections. Every time the car is ever cleaned I get upset about some other scratch or ding that some tosser has put into the vehicle at some point.

The cars work just fine and I treat them to a jetwash every 6 months or so if there's no service coming up. I probably clean the wheels every 3 months. In the same vein, my garden lawn is mostly weeds and I don't really care enough to spend the time sorting it properly, and it is mown occasionally with me grumbling to myself. It's still (mostly) green and the kids wreck it anyway .

Oh - GSleigh's analogy about my house being dirty because I don't clean my car is complete ballcocks (and that's as a desk jockey with no excuse of working on a building site). My house is clean and tidy .

Enjoy your buffing, boys
Joolz

wilkoca

Stuff cleaning it'll only get dirty again, i would rather be out driving than cleaning.

tip - get dark grey car = hides the dirt (not sure about the mud tho )
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...a/IMG_0629.jpg

Actually i do wash it now and again but thats only when i want it to rain (so i dont have to water the garden)

No word of a lie last 4 times i washed (flash thingy really good btw) it rained!

Robbie T

iTrader: (8)

CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS, thats what they tell me.

If you love it you will keep it clean, if you're not bothered about it lookin sh*t buy a sh*t car. In my humble but godly opinion!

richiewong

My old scoob after just being driven to work and back following a wash the day before

Dirtier then Christina

scooby_99turbo

To be fair nice car mate but needs a clean

GarethE

iTrader: (1)

Mine gets washed at each service, (if I have the time to wait for it) and when it rains hard.

Ray_li

where can I get a girlfriend like that from?
does she cook aswell?

555wrx

Strange, I wash my car once a month. Everytime the bucket and sponge goes away its ' Hey Presto' ands its piddling down.

BTW I only wash the car once a month as my works car park is like a bloody dust bowl in summer and like a swamp in winter, so it seems pretty pointless. Besides, I cant see the outside of the car when Im driving it, so it dosent realy bother me!
If ,however, anyone should be too worried about this, please PM me and you can come round and wash my car whenever you like, I'll even make you a cup of Tea!

SCOOBYD00

As it happens... no but I do have some dash wipes / window wipes. lol!

SCOOBYD00

Post a pic...

wilkoca

i keep window wipes in the glovebox, hate a dirty front and rear

guess its good to see where you're going

flat4_ire

i say the same thing only i say it about green scoobs worst scooby colour EVER