Saw this today & agree completely.

I am always surprised at so many Range Rover buyers that spend 90k on a new Range and then never clean it, allowing the Alloys to get "Ingrained" with brake dust, Leather to get stained beyond cleaning, Carpets get sticky, loadspace covers get stained, roof linings with grease markes etc, Dash & Consule sticky with coffeee and crumbs, hairs and more....

Make your car happy and get it cleaned (or clean it) once a week.

I agree Gary. I think the original owners, who can afford to splash the necessary amount of wonga really don't have any concept of "keeping things good". Either that, or it's bought purely as a workhorse for its intended purpose and they see no need to keep it clean? Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Totally agree. I HATE being in a dirty filthy car. Even our rental cars, I try to keep the clean and tidy and those of you who have young kids know how hard that is during a road trip !!! I also try to return a rental car in clean and tidy condition, especially the interior, just out of common decency/courtesy.

In Nigeria it is dead easy as our drivers do the cleaning and even though I drive the FFRR myself, our driver still washes it and cleans the inside every week. He also does waxing and Gliptoneing the leather. I make sure it is tidy, no unnecessary crap lying around including the boot. Normal is for our drivers to wash the car every morning, clean the interior (mats, seats etc.) before they start driving us around. I like that a lot even though I don't mind doing my own washing/cleaning once a week. It just presents well, when you drive up in a clean looking car.

I also try to instil on the girls to keep the cars clean (with a 3 year old that is NOT easy) and tidy and tell them to tidy up after themselves (of course the youngest I help a bit but she is usually quite willing to do the tidying). Our oldest is actually very good, she helps around the house/car without (a lot) of grumbling and generally does a (very) good job.

I like to drive in a neat, tidy, clean car, I like my office to be the same, my house and my workshop. I generally like my environment to be like that. It just feels nicer to me and makes your environment safer as well (that is a habit that is drilled into people in the Oil and Gas industry so I have been drilled quite well over the past 26 years I guess). MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Do you like everything in the office to be "squared off" and symmetrical too....


Like me!

I can feel an OCD thread coimg on!

My brother in law wont buy anything in odd numbers!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Two cars at a time then as "1" is odd

Seriously though I just feel so much more relaxed when the house/office is clean/tidy and all the cars are sparkling clean.

I have always maintained that clean cars are more reliable and my wife's shed of a T5 is starting to prove that . If you clean a car regally you notice stuff and get them sorted .
The Volvo has recently had , dual mass fly wheel + clutch , stability control issues , ABS issues , stuffed tracking , broken fuel flap and untold car park rash all because she doesn't care .
Mine , nothing . 2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

alanm_3 wrote:

I can feel an OCD thread coimg on!

I have CDO. It's like OCD but arranged in the correct alphabetical order.

Seriously, this is way too anthropamorphic. Cars aren't happy, they're machines!

If you have a new one - fair enough look after it. Mine, I almost never clean it, although I like the interior to be tidy and usually empty. The car's coming up to 11 years old. The alloys are old crappy 18's (in winter) that I don't really care about.

It is looked after. I do spend on maintenance, and preventive maintenance, but its cosmetic appearance I'm not so fussed over - after all it is a Range Rover. I did hear about spray on mud years ago for city types to look like they did a bit of off roading - what's happened to that spirit?

It takes all sorts and if people want filthy cars, fine. Mine looks filthy even when I have cleaned it. 2014 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography & 2015 3.0SDV6 HSE Lux Discovery 4
2005 4.2 Supercharged Vogue SE & 2011 3.0SDV6 HSE Discovery 4
2002 4.4 Vogue
2000 4.6 Vogue
2010 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE
2009 Freelander 2 TD4.e 2009
1992 Mercedes 300D
1986 Renault 2.1 Turbo D
1976 Morris Marina 1.8

I live 4 miles up a single track that passes through 5 farms so impossible to keep the outside clean, a tad anal about the interior though. Wife changed the heater setting the other day and I nearly passed out, she wont do that again  2013 L405 Autobiography Baltic Blue
2007 L322 Vogue Buckingham Blue

I don't like all the wires all over the place either. With phones/laptops/tablets etc. there are wires everywhere. I always try to tidy that up as well. Now waiting for my All-in-one Dell to arrive where the power brick is even built in, so only a single wire.

Love wireless equipment, especially out of sight, in the car I prefer either fully power car kit or at least a spiral cord charger cable.

OCD or not, that's the way I like. That is not that I have everything supertidy all the time, when I'm working it certainly isn't but I do keep things generally tidy and tidy up after the job.

I do believe if you spend time in keeping a car tidy and clean you pick up more potential problems before they become a problem hence said car seeming to have fewer problems.

My dad used to wash his car once a week and do a general check of the technical side of the car. Needless to say he rarely had an issue and has never been left stranded despite the fact he drove Triumph, Rover and Alfa for many years. His current Rover 412 is still in top condition, over 10 years old, over 100k kms and looking like it is almost new. Never failed him sofar

So it is genetic OCD, not my fault  MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
Have the Faultmate MSV2 Extreme to be tinkering with the settings etc. !!

Completely agree.

Anyone else have a brush they have in their desk drawer for keeping their computer keyboard clean?

Just off out to clean the S/C and E55. Si. <This is my name.

I eat rat poison.

A man ain't truly been insulted until he stands buck naked in front of a woman and she didn't even notice. Or care.

I get an enormous amount of pleasure just looking at my well kept shining cars. Personal choice of course but if they are always dirty what's the point in a nice paint job or carefully choosing the colour scheme.

This is going back a bit. In the 60's my uncle (who was a car nut, had old 1940's Rollers etc) bought a brand new Morris 1100. He never washed it. 3 years later it was due for sale, so got washed. Brand new car underneath. Just lucky I guess.

Me, FFRR gets a really good clean about once a quarter, the quick washdown every few weeks depending onhow mucky it is. The inside again @ quarterly, but nothing is allowed inside the car, no food, no drink, no animals, no sweets (and most of the time no people! Boot is kept empty, although stuff is stashed underneath the tyre cover.

Wife & daughter treat cars like waste bins, I despair and present them with bagsfuls on a monthly basis. Ugh! .
Experience is the only genuine knowledge, but as time passes, I have forgotten more than I can remember
Volvo V70 P2 2006 2.4 Petrol 170bhp Estate SE
MG Midget Mk1 1962

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