Just hoovered and cleaned both cars today (firtst time in 3 months) and it made me think, how often do you clean yours ?
I must be the only person in our street that cleans the car.
I don't see anyone else clean theirs.
Do people just not bother these days ?
edit: Typo in subject line fixed.
Last edited by: Pugugly on Sun 1 Aug 10 at 20:45
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>> I must be the only person in our street that cleans the car.
>> I don't see anyone else clean theirs.
Perhaps they use the one on the garage forecourt?
I do mine once or twice a month with a rechargeable dustbuster type thingy I got from LIDL a few years ago to pick up day to day stones and gravel that fall out of the tread of my shoes, and then probably once or twice a year with the electric vacuum cleaner.
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local Eastern European set up, about once every 6-8 weeks (only £10 a go)...alternate both our cars. In the mean time i'll occasionally bung them through the car wash for the outside.
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When it needs it, usually about every couple of weeks, even used pay and display tickets and any other rubbish are binned at the end of a journey. I will not drive a car the interior of which resembles the load area of a council bin lorry. Anyone who does have no standards whatsoever. :-)
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3 or 4 times a year, even if it needs it or not
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Anyone who does have no standards whatsoever. :-)
Nor no proper grammar neever.
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I should admit here
(a) that I misread the verb in the title as 'hover' and wondered what new trick I was missing now; and
(b) that my car hasn't been vacuumed for months and is in pressing need of it.
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Remarkably, I did mine yesterday....probably the first time in 2 years / 40k miles. Only did it becuase we are going on holiday in it next week, and the boot was an inch deep in rubbish that didn't make it out of the car to the tip. My F-I-L was so disgusted by the state of SWMBOs car when we down there a few weeks ago he did it for us - probably the second time it's been done in 2 years!
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>> Anyone who does have no standards whatsoever. :-)
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>> Nor no proper grammar neever.
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I must admit I am knackered having driven 300 miles trying to stay alive amongst Sunday drivers and holidaymakers who once on a motorway have't got a clue what to do with it. Would you believe I was overtaken by a car towing a trailer tent at 80+ in lane 3.
Thats the excuse, and of course I am an ignorant pillock.
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Once a week for the Octy, once every 3 weeks for the BMW and never for the wee Golf (but it never seems to get past slightly manky anyways...)
On top of that the cars are alternately snow-foamed (midweek) and hand washed (weekend) on the same schedule as hoovering. Every 2 months (just before it needs it) they get their LSP coats topped up.
Why on earth would i do all that?! Breaks a sweat sometimes too depending on how hard i go at it.
- Menial tasks can be therapeutic, and i enjoy that feeling
- It contributes to my bum-in-office-chair-footprint offsetting
- I like the look of a clean car
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>> On top of that the cars are alternately snow-foamed (midweek) and hand washed (weekend) on
How is the OCD?
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>> How is the OCD?
OCB, it's a behaviour not a disorder, Or CDO, letters arranged in order like they should be ;-)
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...breaks a sweat...can be therapeutic..
Good on yer, Craig.
You might as well expend energy achieving something instead of wasting it taking traditional exercise.
Wish I had your motivation.
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Did mine this afternoon for the first time in a few weeks.
Henry's lead will reach from the caravan, across the deck, to the car.
Of course, convertible dirt is much more interesting than the dirt in an ordinary tin top.
Roof down motoring seems to suck bits in to the boot and the interior of the CC3.
There was also a fine layer of earth. presumably from the fields around here, settled on the plastic panelling behind the rear seats, and on the seats themselves.
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>> Only did it because we are going on holiday in it next week
That's the only time I *don't* clean mine! Why start out with a spotless car only to fill it up with the detritus of long-distance family travel and pepper the outside with flies / rain grime / mud and leave it for a week?
At other times (all the time right now, can't afford to go away this year) I hoover and then wash/wax the old shed every week, with an all-over wax polish / back-to-black every 12 weeks or so. Hoover before wash, don't want to park the hoover on wet ground.
It stems from my taxi days, when I'd thoroughly clean the car inside and out daily. 400+ miles and 20+ passengers every day soon made their mark, and the real possibility of getting taken off the road for having a day's grime on it meant it often got washed twice a day in winter.
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toenails
i hate toenails
:-(
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>Of course, convertible dirt is much more interesting than the dirt in an ordinary tin top.
Reminds me of the time a non-regular failed to notice the rather obvious space left vacant in our local pub carpark.
He/She had reversed their M3 convertible under a tree and left the roof down.
Roosting pigeons have no respect for black leather.
Kevin...
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Oh dear...I'm going to have to admit to our aging mariner that I must have a complete lack of standards.
I just let the rubbish build up until a plastic bag appears amongst it. Then I pick up all the receipts, crisp packets, wrappers, plastic bottles and other detritus. I just put it all in the bag and dump it in the wheely bin. Then I start filling the car again.
At the moment, she's full of contiboard, MDF and dismantled wardrobes waiting for a tip run in the morning. There's just enough room for me to sit in and work the twiddly bits.
The spinning brushes at the local car wash take care of the outsides at £1.99 a throw.
Anyone else a Contiboard hoarder ? All those bits that you thought would be useful about 5 years ago but never got around to. made a big chunk of space in the workshop........of course, I've kept some.....well. you never know !
SWMBO likes her car to be neat and tidy but does it herself. I'm afraid I don't really know how the most recent vac works. We have 6 now, is this a record ? An upstairs vac, a downstairs vac, An old Dyson, a Henry and a cylinder vac, unused, in the garage and a Dust Devil in the caravan that comes away with us !
Ted.
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I occasionally vacuum mine with a Miele, but not having any wing mirrors I have to do the door mirrors. Fortunately I don't need a PIN security code.
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I only vacuum mine once in a blue moon, because it's difficult to get our upright Dyson into the car. However, I take out the old straw and put a fresh layer of straw onto the floor once a month without fail.
Last edited by: L'escargot on Mon 2 Aug 10 at 07:08
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Normally towards month-end.
All those coins found round and about as i clean up can be collected to buy bread/milk/smokes/beers etc etc etc!
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When I change it over from being the "works van" to being a luxury people-carrier, mobile bike-rack and towcar. It varies but say 6 times a year.
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Oh dear - confession time !
I do mine every week when I wash the car, my wife's car will probably only need doing every other week.
I use the Dyson - but I also have a hand held rechargable vac mounted in the garage and often give the car an "interim " clean up midweek.
At the end of every journey - long or short - I collect up any parking receipts or sweet wrappers etc. Nobody is allowed to eat any food in the car - ever.
If I have to move my son's car off the drive to get one of the others out and his interior is a tip (fag ash, takeaways, coke cans) or, if I'm honest, even slightly messy ! then it gets an immediate clean out. This can be 3 or 4 times a week.
I really hate a dirty interior......
Jacks
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>> Oh dear - confession time !
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>> I really hate a dirty interior......
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Excellent, someone with standards !
Don't apologise to the rubbish tip drivers, I wonder what their houses are like.
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Well as befits my profession, I do have to keep my car looking a bit smart and whiel I use it for work, I put down rubber matting in the boot area so the old banger is pretty easy to keep clean.
I usually hoover it every two weeks as it rarely needs any more than that, I just dont seem to make much of a mess, just a few stones in drivers footwell and some dust and bits that blow in when I have the boot open at peoples houses.
I wash it about every 10 days, have to really given my job.
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>> Don't apologise to the rubbish tip drivers, I wonder what their houses are like.
Our house is fairly immaculate. In fact, you could eat your dinner off the plates in our kitchen.
I don't like untidiness in the house or workshop.......that's probably why I don't bother with the car.
It's a small matter in the great scheme of things.........as when a tiny cloudlet briefly dulls the fiery highway of the Sun.
Ted
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>> Nobody is allowed to eat any food in the car - ever.
You are James May, and I claim my £5.
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>> >> Nobody is allowed to eat any food in the car - ever.
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>> You are James May, and I claim my £5.
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His tip about keeping a paint brush in the glovebox to dust off the air vents is spot on,
- and (like Stu) I have a rubber boot liner (in the boot naturally) to keep the boot carpet in pristine condition - That gets a wash after every trip to the Recycling Centre!
J
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I don't think I've ever vacuumed the S80's interior since I bought it in 2003, though I do shake the mats out once a year or so.
On the plus side, it's been treated to about three Morrisons cheapest car washes in that time. The rain does a decent enough job normally.
I wish I was joking, but sadly I'm not.
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Like Jacks I do my C5 weekly... with a powerful Dyson too. Main reason is the blackest of black interiors on this new C5 attracts bits and fluff like no other car I've had before.
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Both my cars are Black - with black /charcoal interiors, which
doesn't help.
Jacks
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When the coinage changes, and the hoard of old 10p and 50p pieces are no longer legal tender.
I found some genuine Mars bar wrappers the other day - remember before these horible white ones came in?
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I can't abide a dirty car interior and have to vacuum regurlarly. Should we need to have elevenses or afternoon tea in the car a table cloth is spread across the two front seats(over our laps) to collect any biscuit crumbs etc.
So far my Golf's interior looks like the day it was bought almost exactly 12 months ago.
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Once a month it gets the hoover usually at work on nights & then it gets a good power wash under arches and every 4 months polish wax etc.
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>However, I take out the old straw and put a fresh layer of straw onto the floor once a month without fail. <
Ford still not fitting carpets except in the Ghia then Mr Snail? ;-))
I vacuum about once every three months, use a dustpan and brush every week and shake out the overmats more often. Don't get a lot of problems these days, now I've taught SWMBO how to eat a sandwich without dropping crumbs...
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I tend to do it once a year, in the summer - though I have not done it this year, and may not get around to it, since it doesn't look too bad.
Until I read this thread, I thought I was fussy about having a clean car. My parents got a new car a few months ago, and it's already a tip.
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My car gets hoovered by the dealer when it goes in for servicing. So once a year more or less. I'll take the mats out periodically and give them a good bashing to remove the worst of the sandwich crumbs, dropped gummi bears and general crud. Other than that, there are too many far more pleasant ways of spending my time than hoovering.
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Other than that, there are too many far more pleasant ways of spending my
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I doubt that :-)
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Roughly once a fortnight for our cars. The Galaxy gets a full vac being the family wagon. My Vectra only ever needs the driver's footwell doing. Only takes 10 mins with the Henry so well worth doing.
A wash however is a once a month task.
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"I can't abide a dirty car interior and have to vacuum regurlarly. Should we need to have elevenses or afternoon tea in the car a table cloth is spread across the two front seats(over our laps) to collect any biscuit crumbs etc. "
Try something outrageous Oldgit, Have a big cake without a tablecloth just whenever you fancy it and let the crumbs go everywhere. You will find it very liberating.
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2/3 times a year or maybe when I have been to the garden centre /tip and the rubber tray in the boot has not caught all the debris. I will admit to shaking the mats every so often - chunky rubber mats in winter and carpet mats in summer.
Unlike most people, it seems, I do not eat/drink in the car and anyway if there are sweet papers etc they are collected at that time and stuffed in a small box/bag kept for the purpose.
30+ years ago the 3 x children were trained not to mess up the car and Grandchildren are now "being educated".
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I vacuum mine about as often as I wash it.
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When it smells or I feel the need to apologise to passengers. Which it currently does, and I currently do, respectively. :-(
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I'd love to be able to buy a good, small cordless car vacuum cleaner that, after a full charg,e gave at least 20 mins. of good suck. Alas all mine have been pathetic and I was lucky if I got 10 mins (in fact very lucky).
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I'd love to be able to buy a good, small cordless car vacuum cleaner.....
I think the problem is that a decent vacuum cleaner need a quite powerful motor and a cordless cleaner would need a large and heavy battery pack making the whole thing too heavy and unwieldy.
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Nowhere near often enough.
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>> I'd love to be able to buy a good, small cordless car vacuum cleaner that, after a full charge gave at least 20 mins. of good suck.
The one I got from LIDL has a 6volt 4.5 amp sealed lead acid battery on board. After approx 20 mins it still has 1 or 2 of the 4 battery status LEDs lit.
Haven't seen them in there for quite a while now though.
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I have a similar one branded as a "VAX", got it in TK MAX for about a tenner.
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Well, I'm going to have to admit that today, I vacuumed the Vitara out for the first time.
Don't think too harshly of me, going against all my own principles as a car vac denier, I had to do it !
Foolish me ! I should have known better than to lend the car to my SIL for a couple of days while his Berlingo van was in for a couple of jobs,,,,,,namely, the gear linkage had dropped off ! Why foolish ? He's a plasterer !...He must be the messiest plasterer around. I've no gripe with the work he does......first class. He tripped on the stairs carrying a massive bucket of skim . Non spilt....phew ! Later there was a fairly robust expletive from the hall. he hadn't seen that the plaster had splashed about 9 feet up the emulsioned wall and the white curtains. It took him some time to mop it all up.
Anyway, getting the Vit back, It seems he can't actually keep the plaster confined to it's sack.
It was all over the boot floor, up the side trims and the back of the seats, which had been folded flat. The rear footwells had a liberal dose as had the centre console and dash.
There were plastery fingermarks everywhere. You'd think he'd been plastering the car, not the bedroom ! I didn't shout at him.......bless him !
So, today it was dig out old Henry from his under-bench slumber and crank him up. A bucket of hot water with Fairy liquid, 'cos it's mild to my hands ' dealt with the plastic areas followed by a good Mr Sheening.
Kids....who'd 'ave 'em ?
Ted
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>>how often do you hoover your car?
About once every Preston Guild!
I should do it more but I only ever think about hoovering my car when I've washed it. At which point, of course, it is too late to hoover it as the drive is wet and I don't fancy trailing a power cord through a puddle!
Of course, I *could* use the nifty little handheld jobbie that we got free when we bought the upright cleaner but that would just be far too sensible...
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>> I only ever think about hoovering my car when I've washed it
I'm the other way around... I hoover the child-related detritus out of the car and then decide I should wash it while I'm in the mood.
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I do mine about once a month. It's something to look forward to when you live in a small town. Quite exciting really. Lawn mowing can be fervently anticipated weekly at this tme of year so there's almost too much to do...........
I might start a gnome collection.
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>> I might start a gnome collection.
I thought that was the high point of sophistication in Humpwich !
Ted
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I expect you are right Ted. Might be seen as art in these parts. Even the straw model of a meerkat at Snugburys ice cream place draws an awestruck crowd round here.............
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Never - we don't own a hoover.
We have a vacuum cleaner made by Panasonic.
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...Never - we don't own a hoover...
Never one to miss a pedantry opportunity.
The word 'hoover' has entered the lexicon as a generic term for a vacuum cleaner.
The proper noun 'Hoover' remains the name of a company which makes vacuum cleaners.
Strictly speaking, you do own a hoover, but you don't own a Hoover.
There's a similar situation with the word 'biro'.
The company BIC make a ballpoint pen called a Biro - their trade name.
A ballpoint pen made by anyone can be called a biro.
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Can be called a biro . .
Should be called a ball point pen.
It is like calling a car a Ford or a back haul excavator a JCB.
My wife still calls it a hoover and I occasionally wind her up over it!
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My SWMBO can't see the humpur in that sort of wind-up, although I frequently do it.
Having to test my blood sugar all the time gives me an opportunity for a virtual slap !
' Have you done your blood ? '
' Yes, dear .'
' What is it today ? '
' It's a red liquid thath flows round your body.' ............slap
No sense of humour, some folk !
Ted
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...It is like calling a car a Ford or a back haul excavator a JCB...
With respect, it is not.
The point of 'hoover' and 'biro' is the original words have acquired an extra meaning, Ford and JCB have not, although some would argue JCB is on the way.
You might wind up the wife over using the word 'hoover', but she could point you in the direction of a respected dictionary, such as the Concise Oxford, in which the word is listed for the use she is giving it.
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Funny story about hoovers.
We had a storm a week last Friday that blew down a mini pylon on the street although it didn't actually break the cables. Saturday morning they came to repair it and turned the power off - about two hours before we were due to drive to the lakes for a week. I was well miffed - it meant taking my computer and printer on holiday to print out a book I'd just finished designing so I could get it in the post.
Before we left I had to guess what had been switched on to make sure it was switched off. Most of the lights have two switches so it was down to guesswork as the switches could have been up or down. I thought I'd covered everything and was dismayed to find my daughter's bedside light on when we returned. But I was more puzzled by the noise coming from our bedroom, I rushed upstairs and voila! The hoover was on, sounding slightly sick and the temperature in the room was like a sauna. I like to come home to a clean bedroom after a holiday so had been giving it a quick shake down when the power went off and had completely forgotten about it. Eight days, non-stop.
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...Funny story about hoovers...
A paramedic friend of mine tells me they have been called several times to people who have become, one could say delicately, 'entwined', in their vacuum cleaners.
They often have few clothes on (the people, that is), and it's usually the crevice tool that has somehow become wedged in, er, a crevice.
"Slipped as I was doing the stairs," is the usual feeble excuse.
If any of you are still baffled, think MPs and oranges.
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how often do you hoover your car ? - VxFan
