Am I abnormal? How long to wash and polish your car?
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So I may well be heading for a divorce due to my OCD in cleaning my car!! My process is hoover inside, clean and polish interior, rinse exterior, snow foam, rinse, shampoo, dry, polish, wax, treat tyres, take many many photos haha
This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
t off straight away.Keepersball said:
So I may well be heading for a divorce due to my OCD in cleaning my car!! My process is hoover inside, clean and polish interior, rinse exterior, snow foam, rinse, shampoo, dry, polish, wax, treat tyres, take many many photos haha
This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
Man, I wish I could do all that in 3 hours! I usually take half that time on the wheels alone This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
Keepersball said:
So I may well be heading for a divorce due to my OCD in cleaning my car!! My process is hoover inside, clean and polish interior, rinse exterior, snow foam, rinse, shampoo, dry, polish, wax, treat tyres, take many many photos haha
This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
I would say that’s good timing. Once I get everything ready to start cleaning I’ve already spent 10 mins. Then a 10 mins tea break. I’m looking at 2 hours just wetting and two bucket and drying then hoovering. I wouldn’t personally polish and wax that frequently. In fact from September to March definitely not. Maybe a polish in April then once in June/ July and that’s it This is usually a 3 hour process twice a month
How long do you spend and what excuses do you give the other half? Hahah
Normally an hour for a wash, with wheels and spray wax, and an hour to hoover. I tend to do different cleanings at different times, though. Once a month I do both, and check all of the fluid levels, too.
ETA once a year I do a big clean, which is to take all of the wax off, tar remover, polish, and then a couple of coats of hard wax. That's a whole day (10 hours) to do.
ETA once a year I do a big clean, which is to take all of the wax off, tar remover, polish, and then a couple of coats of hard wax. That's a whole day (10 hours) to do.
Edited by JakeT on Sunday 6th June 22:58
LamedonM said:
Good to know there are people worse than my weekly snow foam washing of my car. I am probably the only person that does this on our street.
Weekly snowfoam? How dirty is your car getting in a week at this time of year?I'll spend a day on ours twice a year (Autumn and Spring) giving it a proper going over, then just a quick wash and top up every couple of weeks for an hour or so Interior gets done once a month as find it a hateful job.
I’ve been there and I’ve come out the other side.
Life is too short.
Maybe once a year I’ll do a full-house job on each car with paint correction if necessary.
The rest of the time I’ll be doing the minimum with high quality products. That means not faffing with snow foam and pressure washers. And doing the interior much less often than the exterior.
Life is too short.
Maybe once a year I’ll do a full-house job on each car with paint correction if necessary.
The rest of the time I’ll be doing the minimum with high quality products. That means not faffing with snow foam and pressure washers. And doing the interior much less often than the exterior.
I used to be like this, wash at least once a week then monthly full polish/was jobs but now I just can’t be arsed I’d rather spend the time driving the car or walking my dogs. My routine now is buy car, get it professionally detailed with machine polishing, ceramic coated then the same place for a maintenance wash whenever it’s filthy enough that I start to feel bad 
Three hours is fine. I can do 2 cars in that time.
Each of my cars are washed once or twice a week. Vacuuming is very quick because the cars are clean, have rubber mats and vacc'ed regularly, windows sprayed and wiped down, snow foam only if the car is really muddy/dirty/dusty, and the big difference now is the 15 min job of Turtle Wax Ceramic Spray. It takes a tiny amount per panel, goes on paint, plastic, wheels & glass, and is spray onto cloth and a quick buff afterwards. It's £14.40 a bottle and after about 20 cars I still have 20% left. Sometimes I'd put on Sonax BSD afterwards. £20 is about the limit I'm prepared to spend on products and I'm not interested in £100+ products, although someone did gift me a tub of Turtle Wax Ceramic/Graphene paste which I'll use.
Each of my cars are washed once or twice a week. Vacuuming is very quick because the cars are clean, have rubber mats and vacc'ed regularly, windows sprayed and wiped down, snow foam only if the car is really muddy/dirty/dusty, and the big difference now is the 15 min job of Turtle Wax Ceramic Spray. It takes a tiny amount per panel, goes on paint, plastic, wheels & glass, and is spray onto cloth and a quick buff afterwards. It's £14.40 a bottle and after about 20 cars I still have 20% left. Sometimes I'd put on Sonax BSD afterwards. £20 is about the limit I'm prepared to spend on products and I'm not interested in £100+ products, although someone did gift me a tub of Turtle Wax Ceramic/Graphene paste which I'll use.
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