HOW Often do you wash?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 1,159
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From: Florida
I clean my wheels every time I drive it and wash the entire car every other time I drive it. Every couple of months I remove the wheels and clean them inside and out. While the wheels are off, I clean the suspension and wheel wells. My daily driver is a turbo regal with 120,000 miles and it still looks like new, except for a few rock chips. I wash it about twice a week and every day it gets rained on. All my cars are garaged so, they are usually clean. My wife says I have OCD, I can live with that! 
Race Director
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 15,323
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From: Guelph, Ontario
Mine is a daily driver, and it's black, so I do a lot of washing and dusting! 
In the winter time I've got a weekly appointment every Saturday morning at a local detail shop to get a handwash. Then I usually go to the coin wash once or twice in between to wash off the road salt.
In the summer, I dust the car twice a day and as soon as it gets dirty from the rain, I'll do a full wash as soon as possible. I don't like leaving my car dirty for any length of time.
I also make sure it gets a fresh coat of wax every 6 weeks through the winter (at the detail shop) and once it's warm enough for me to start waxing it myself again I do it about every 3 weeks. I find that after 3 weeks the fine scratches start showing up, so that's why I wax it so often. The combination of NXT and an 8" random orbital buffer helps get rid of 95% of the scratches.
In the winter time I've got a weekly appointment every Saturday morning at a local detail shop to get a handwash. Then I usually go to the coin wash once or twice in between to wash off the road salt.
In the summer, I dust the car twice a day and as soon as it gets dirty from the rain, I'll do a full wash as soon as possible. I don't like leaving my car dirty for any length of time.
I also make sure it gets a fresh coat of wax every 6 weeks through the winter (at the detail shop) and once it's warm enough for me to start waxing it myself again I do it about every 3 weeks. I find that after 3 weeks the fine scratches start showing up, so that's why I wax it so often. The combination of NXT and an 8" random orbital buffer helps get rid of 95% of the scratches.
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Racer
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 334
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From: Honolulu Hawaii
I wash my Vette almost daily... At least one major cleaning a week and a few quick wash/wipe downs as well. Lucky for me there's a great DIY car wash on both Hickam & Pearl Harbor so a quick stop after work usual does the trick. Once at home a quick dusting with a Cali-Duster and the cover goes on.
My Z's a DD so it gets dirty quick. It's also MY which hides grime but seems to attract every insect on the island. A couple of hours outside & uncovered yields waxy bee droppings from nose to tail. Of course that's probably better than the unburned JP-8 it gets exposed to at work from parking so close to our ramp (read jet exhaust), hence the daily "fresh water rinse"
That Zaino sure protects nicely though 
A'hui hou
Mark
One last thing... Anyone else with an MY car attract bugs like a giant field of flowers???
My Z's a DD so it gets dirty quick. It's also MY which hides grime but seems to attract every insect on the island. A couple of hours outside & uncovered yields waxy bee droppings from nose to tail. Of course that's probably better than the unburned JP-8 it gets exposed to at work from parking so close to our ramp (read jet exhaust), hence the daily "fresh water rinse"
That Zaino sure protects nicely though A'hui hou
Mark
One last thing... Anyone else with an MY car attract bugs like a giant field of flowers???
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,474
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From: Tracy CA
Originally Posted by edensknight
O.K. You guys really crack me up! Anyways, back on track here: My Millenium Yellow C5, although dirty as hell right now, still gleams, and, even attracts multitudinous insectiae from within a twentyfive mile radius. I mean there are some suckers that land on my C5 that I could swear that I don't even recognize to be from this freaking planet. ****! 
