Jamescorsa97
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Registered: 19th Aug 04
Location: Middlesbrough Drives: Cliosport 182
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Just about to pop out and get the meguiars clay kit.
What do you guys do for a weekly car wash?
Today I think wash, dry clay wax.
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Edd
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Registered: 8th Nov 04
Location: Glasgow
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weekly
foam the car with super snow foam, let it dwell
rinse
wash with megs shampoo plus with washmitt
rinse
clean wheels with muc off
dry car with poorboys spray and gloss
then poorboys bold and bright tyre shine
job done
then probably clay,polish and wax every two months or so
interior gets cleaned every week also
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Rob B
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Registered: 8th Jan 04
Location: Area Motorsport Drives: Race EP3
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weekly..
Rinse, wash with wool mit and autoglym shampoo, rinse, dry using chamois, polish with super resin every fortnight
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Rinse, wash, rinse, dry, wheels
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Ricky352
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Registered: 6th Apr 07
Location: Northern Ireland
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Well i used to just wash and polish with super resin, but now i wash, dry, use autoglym deepshine, then wax. Its a bastard having a red car lol
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Adam_B
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Registered: 13th Dec 00
Location: Lancashire
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weekly car wash 
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Ian W
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Registered: 8th Nov 03
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
weekly car wash
I was thinking that, monthly would be more like it
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waters
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Registered: 28th Jan 08
Location: Todmorden, West Yorkshire
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a good wash with car shampoo (cheap supermarket stuff)....rinse and leave to dry......wax with simoniz caranuba wax......looks awesome!
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Nick-S
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Registered: 3rd Mar 04
Location: Leigh. Drives: RS Megane 230 F1 Team R26
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wash and dry 
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little_duke
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Registered: 21st Aug 06
Location: Tamworth,staffordshire Drives: rover coupe
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sunday wash for me
£1 jet wash at vaux(sills/wheels and arches)
get it home and rinse
soapy water
rinse
dry
job done
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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Rinse at jetwash to get rid of the grit, clean arches and underneath sills.
Then wash it using a couple of Megs wash mitts - 1 for roof down to rubstrips/bumper level, other one for lower halfs of doors and bumpers. Change water half way through.
Then another wash mitt and water change for wheels and tyres.
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mantamark
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Northumberland
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Weekly wash - pray for rain.
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Mike
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Registered: 20th May 06
Location: nr. Skipton, North Yorkshire
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Wash? Weekly? You having a laugh? 
Mine sometimes gets bits cleaned when I turn upto a meet, other than that it's just generally when I'm really bored and can't be bothered paying for petrol to go for a drive. At those times it gets:
rinse
Wash with Auto Glym bodywork shampoo
rinse
Wheels
Dry
Usually get bored half way through the drying part tho and lose motivation
It's usually planned if I'm gonna do more than that, ie. clay, polish, wax, although the three of them have only been done once together in the 2 and a bit years I've had my car.
Cars are for driving, aslong as I can see out of the windows I fail to see a problem, tbh half the time I can't see much out of the back window if I get the sun on it but I can see enough
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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Mine varies,
Ussually it gets a soap and rinse weekly or every other week,
Then a polish and wax maybe once every 2 months
And then clay it twice a year
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Ryk
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Registered: 27th Mar 06
Location: Whalley, Lancs!
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The corsa in my Avatar used to get rinsed, washed, rinsed and chamoised everyday and polished profesionally once a month. Dedication isn't the same now....
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karisma_corsa
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Registered: 19th Nov 06
Location: sleaford, lincs
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Rinse
wash (autoglym shampoo)
dry off
polish (autoglym super resin polish)
wax (simoniz max wax)
polish and clean wheels
blacken bumpers (mer bumper gel)
tyres (supaguard tyre shine)
stand back and smile< mind you i did all this a few weeks ago, go from my house into town?(2 minute drive) and it got egged
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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My black car is now white Really need to wash it but too busy tonight.
Might get done tomorrow.
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
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basicly
booooortt
booort
booooooooorrrrt
booooortttt
wash one please mr car wash man thanks
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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quote:
Originally posted by Ryk
The corsa in my Avatar used to get rinsed, washed, rinsed and chamoised everyday and polished profesionally once a month. Dedication isn't the same now....
seems a bit excessive, don'ty ya think? surely there won't be enough dirt to warrant a wash EVERY DAY
my weekly routine is:
-hose down the car to get rid of any dirt/grit etc
-use 2 bucket method with sonus wash mitt and megs gold class to wash the car
-clean wheels using megs hot rims wheel cleaner
-hose the car down
-dry with either a chamois or a microfibre
-megs endurance tyre gel on the tyres
-autoglym fast glass for the glass/lights
-autoglym bumper care on any unpainted plastic
-polish and sealant once a month + wax
-clay once every 2-3 months
[Edited on 03-03-2008 by Ben G]
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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wash the latest layer of dirt off at work with the most powerfull pressure washer ive ever seen, and leave to dry
will do it properly this week, even tommrow possibly
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Drive to petrol station
Park car
Walk to door
Open door
Walk up to counter
Hand over £2.99
Walk back to car
Get in car
Drive to car wash entrance
Wind window down
Put code in
Wind window up
Pull forward
Stop
Wait
Drive home
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Drive to petrol station
Park car
Walk to door
Open door
Walk up to counter
Hand over £2.99
Walk back to car
Get in car
Drive to car wash entrance
Wind window down
Put code in
Wind window up
Pull forward
Stop
Wait
Drive home
inspect new swirl marks
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scottyp1989
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Registered: 29th Jul 07
Location: Warley, West Midlands
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian W
quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
weekly car wash
I was thinking that, monthly would be more like it
once a month, lol whenever it rains for me or some one else in the family washes it
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Yep, swirl marks rock
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LukeD
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Registered: 23rd Jan 07
Location: Shropshire
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quote:
The corsa in my Avatar used to get rinsed, washed, rinsed and chamoised everyday and polished profesionally once a month. Dedication isn't the same now....
 everyday! How? (I dunno how you found available time etc) + Why? dedication i guess.
Anyway every 4 weeks is perfect for me.
Clean Wheels Using wheel Cleaner
Take car to Jet Wash + Polish Facility
Dry car with Microfibre/chamois
Make sure Wheels are totally Clean
Polish Wheels
Tyre Shine
Polish Car
Dodo juice Wax Car
Then little things like polish exhaust, windows, back to black on splitter etc.
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