People who treat cars like Sh*t !

[Expatloon]

Krikkit said:

You can assume they're reckless enough to throw thousands away by abusing what is generally their 2nd-most expensive asset.

You don't have to baby them, but carelessly abusing them and then moaning about the expense of having to repair/replace them gets old!

More assumptions.

Not everyone spends xx thousand for their cars - the most I've ever paid for any car is £7000 and that's for the one I have now which is a 2003 I bought over 5 years ago.

Not everyone cares about depreciation - I run my cars to near end of life then replace them, typically I expect to get 8-10 years out them so even if they are worth only scrap value at the end I've had my moneys worth out of them.

A dirty car does not automatically mean neglected maintenance - I do all my own maintenance and repairs and every one of my cars of the past 30+ years or so has gone go well into 200k territory and all were sold on or PX'd as cheap usable road legal runners.

You cannot judge others by your own ideas and standards and I wouldn't mind betting that most of the shining pristine cars you see on peoples drives cost them far more in depreciation than my dirty skips do !

Edited by Expatloon on Monday 6th May 08:22

[stewjohnst]

I get emotionally attached to my cars but not to the point I'd be terrified or unable to be seen in public with a scruffy car.

The same way I love my missus but wouldn't dream of spitting on a hankie and buffing her up every time we were out and got a bit of food round her mouth or having take her for a one hour makeover before nipping to the garage for £10 of petrol.

The company car gets less respect than my own metal. I still drive with mechanical sympathy and never bk the cars from cold but the body I care less. Have I on occassion used the front to open my gates when it's pissing down outside? Yes. Has it marked the bumper? Yes. Did I flagellate myself as penance for my sins? No.

[martin mrt]

I have no time for a dirty car, the whole excuse of it being a tool to use just doesn't wash with me, excuse the crap pun.

Even if its a snotter there is no harm in nipping it to the local polish/Romanian/delete as appropriate, car wash for a £20 mini valet once a month, I have been in some friends cars that dont wash/clean them, and when they are in mine they call me a freak for keeping it spotless both inside and out.

Ironically my house is kept in the same way as my car, I also do 95% of the cleaning as SWMBO doesn't do it properly, she openly admits that she does not do it as thoroughly as me.

[jones325i]

J4CKO said:

Silver said:

jones325i said:

Some people just don't get it. I was at a shopping centre today and Jaguar had a stand outside. Lovely black F-Type on display, locked but with the roof down. Suddenly this bint plonks her child in it, allowing it to stand on the seat (in its shoes!) while she took a photo. I was having palpitations!

Why on earth would you care if a 'bint' took a picture of her child in her own car?

Seriously, I am astonished by some of the posts on here. Have some of you got nothing better to worry about than how other people use their own property? Really?

He said it was a dealers car, a bit rude to do that to a pristine, brand new car, I doubt it would do any damage but I would be very careful around something like that, would she want the Jag salesman stood on her new Sofa in his size tens ?

That's right, it wasn't her car.

[JDMDrifter]

There's a guy near me who owns an older rx8 , it never ever gets a wash and he thrashes it from cold every time he drives it. When we had the really deep snow and ice he would get in it start it and pin the throttle until it moved. Guarantee when it breaks he'll be one if those that moans about rx8's being crap and unreliable...

[Silver]

jones325i said:

J4CKO said:

Silver said:

jones325i said:

Some people just don't get it. I was at a shopping centre today and Jaguar had a stand outside. Lovely black F-Type on display, locked but with the roof down. Suddenly this bint plonks her child in it, allowing it to stand on the seat (in its shoes!) while she took a photo. I was having palpitations!

Why on earth would you care if a 'bint' took a picture of her child in her own car?

Seriously, I am astonished by some of the posts on here. Have some of you got nothing better to worry about than how other people use their own property? Really?

He said it was a dealers car, a bit rude to do that to a pristine, brand new car, I doubt it would do any damage but I would be very careful around something like that, would she want the Jag salesman stood on her new Sofa in his size tens ?

That's right, it wasn't her car.

My mistake, I misread it. But leaving aside the Jag, the point still stands. I wouldn't spend my free time fretting about how other people treat their cars.

[Colonial]

You probably wouldn't like to see my car then.

This is pretty standard (lots of dirt roads). If it's not like this, then it has motorway grime on it.

Interior is good, no damage and the engine is excellent.

[Disastrous]

martin mrt said:

I have no time for a dirty car, the whole excuse of it being a tool to use just doesn't wash with me, excuse the crap pun.

Even if its a snotter there is no harm in nipping it to the local polish/Romanian/delete as appropriate, car wash for a £20 mini valet once a month, I have been in some friends cars that dont wash/clean them, and when they are in mine they call me a freak for keeping it spotless both inside and out.

Ironically my house is kept in the same way as my car, I also do 95% of the cleaning as SWMBO doesn't do it properly, she openly admits that she does not do it as thoroughly as me.

That's fine, but you don't expect everyone else to see it the same way, do you?

My 'work' car is irrelevant to me, gets cleaned once a year, driven by the gf and thus kerbed, scratched etc. I can't get upset about it any more to be honest. It's just a car.

[g3org3y]

Disastrous said:

It's just a car.

Burn him!!

[g3org3y]

Jasandjules said:

Some people do not treat anything well. These are people whom you lend a book and it comes back bent/creased etc..

That gives me the rage. Genuinely.

I had (another) housemate who used to do that. I simply stopped lending him books.

[Pothole]

ClassicMotorNut said:

People saying that to some people a car is just a means of getting from A to B - fair point, but why would you have an Audi, then? Get a second-hand Fiesta.

Because it's a nicer place to sit? D'uh!