Specialist cleaning v 'other methods'...

[Mark V]

In this cold spell (well most of winter really these days) I find it difficult to get energised to give the car a good wash and often the conditions are freezing and dont allow it. Now the problem is this - since owning my last car (Golf mk.6) I have trained myself to only wash it the proper way - 2 buckets etc. And all thats great but the opportunity to wash the car properly in this weather is far less frequent than in summer.

The, rather irrirtating, net result of this policy is that my neighbours cars (presumably done every weekend by the local hand car wash) are clean most of the time but mine (as the hand car wash is now out of bounds) is usually filithy. The irony of this being that I am supposed to be the enthusiast and have the filthy Roc and the neighbous cars are nice and clean. OK they are probably full of swirls but whats worse - a filthy swirl free car or a gleamimg clean swirly one... discuss...

[ayeaye]

I use the excuse that it's only going to get filthy again the moment you move the car in this weather, so wait until it's got a bit better - I thought black was bad, but white in this weather is a disaster. A quick blast with pressure washer then snow foam to get rid of the worse of it every week, but a proper wash will need to wait.

Then again, despite never having used a petrol station / supermarket car wash in the past 10 years I'm tempted as the car's going in a few weeks' time so I'm not too fussed about swirls at the moment

[whiteDevil_170]

I would rather have a filthy swirl free car. I try to keep mine as clean as possible but with this weather it seems the day after its cleaned its back to how it was. So untill the weather gets better it won't be cleaned very often.
Still looks great even when dirty

Plus I would never use a car wash again after my previous experience. My old clio was scratch and mark free. One day I felt lazy and stopped to fill up and thought ill just use the car wash. All seemed good untill I got home and noticed it was then coverd in light scratches and marks. I was extremely pi$$ed.