Over 2 months since the car had a clean inside our out... Beyond a joke now but time and energy - as yet - have the beating of me, nor can I bring myself to use a car wash!

Still, whilst it's bereft of mitts and cloths agitating the paint surfaces, it can't be getting scratched and the wheels will be fine under that black brake dust... right?

Or just send it to the MD for a service and it will come back clean..... There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Like a preemptive strike !

I like your thinking. Car can only be dirty once.....


 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

No. Stop. never send your car to an MD for clean. it will come back looking like a brillo pad.. cleaning your car is important because its a FF not a jeep or x5 or q7. its a work or art that needs to be shown as such.  405 AB exec seats Baltic and Cirrus
93 RR Classic efi

Remember it's easier to get forgiveness than permission!

Gone in order:
4.4 TDV8 SE - gone to a good home
93 Classic hard dash Plymouth Blue
03 L322 Oslo Blue
2000 Disco TD5 ES Epsom Green
98 P38 Rioja Red
89 Classic Cairngorm Brown

Over here in Abu Dhabi (FF at home with the wife and kids being used in rotation with the other cars), I see little Indian chaps early in the morning 'washing' cars with just a dirty damp cloth and no bucket.

It makes me shudder, but I suppose the hapless and clueless owners who give permission for this know no better and are merely grateful for the sandy dust to be removed.

There was a picture I saw a few days ago from a friend of mine living in Dubai where the Police had stuck a notice on some filthy car parked on the street. The notice was to inform the owner to get the car cleaned or it faces removal as a dirty car isn't appropriate for the Dubai image.

Can you imagine that happening in London or Edinburgh?  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.

It was Quentin Crisp who never cleaned his house/flat - ever, on the premise that it could only get so dirty and would then never get any worse. Tend to agree.

However, if you have OCD, then once clean, doesn't take much to keep it clean

I only have to do the interior of the FFRR a couple of times a year becuase I do not allow anything/anyone in it!  .
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There was a picture I saw a few days ago from a friend of mine living in Dubai where the Police had stuck a notice on some filthy car parked on the street. The notice was to inform the owner to get the car cleaned or it faces removal as a dirty car isn't appropriate for the Dubai image.

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Back in 2002 I was in Abu Dhabi and bought a Honda Legend off a guy at work. When it came for its annual 'test' I had to get the car resprayed in its original silver colour because the paint on the roof, bonnet and boot had faded in the sun and didnt match the colour on the side panels so it would have failed its annual test!!

Mind you, a full respray only cost about 100Dhs (about £20 at the time!!)

100Dhs is still £20.

My 110 hasn't been cleaned in 18 months (previously highly polished) and I agree they just reach a certain level and don't seem to get any dirtier. 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.

Managed to create 50 mins to take the top cost of dirt off... It's a start