Cleaning a vehicle is quite simply a part of it's maintainance, like polishing shoes, or scraping the grass out of the blade cover of your lawn mower. You can get away without doing it, but your car will die early. You will have more electrical problems, your hinges will sag sooner, your engine will leak much sooner and in more volume. If you don't clean your car, you quite simply must not want to keep it for too long, and you must have never had to rely on it.
When an engine is clean, you can spot problems before they become serious. It is also much easier to service it. Just think, those of you out there with piles of mud and grease you call an engine, think when you last changed your oil, or your air filter, or cleaned your spark plugs... think back to the last time you gave a damn.
Someone who expects me to believe they have had to really rely on a vehicle to keep them alive in the outdoors, thus justifying all the unneccessary shit many off roaders carry simply to go to the local log road, had better produce a vehicle that isn't rotting in it's own filth, and has been maintainanced properly.
Calling someone a poseur simply because he/she washes their car just means you have neither brains nor balls. I wash and detail mine once a week, even going so far as to use a claybar once a month and pick mud out of the undercarraige with a toothbrush when I have nothing better to do. And you know what? I have a 2001 with about 60,000 miles on her and not a single piece of dry rotted or hard rubber, and the black on the frame still shines like new.
Cheers,
Kennith
When an engine is clean, you can spot problems before they become serious. It is also much easier to service it. Just think, those of you out there with piles of mud and grease you call an engine, think when you last changed your oil, or your air filter, or cleaned your spark plugs... think back to the last time you gave a damn.
Someone who expects me to believe they have had to really rely on a vehicle to keep them alive in the outdoors, thus justifying all the unneccessary shit many off roaders carry simply to go to the local log road, had better produce a vehicle that isn't rotting in it's own filth, and has been maintainanced properly.
Calling someone a poseur simply because he/she washes their car just means you have neither brains nor balls. I wash and detail mine once a week, even going so far as to use a claybar once a month and pick mud out of the undercarraige with a toothbrush when I have nothing better to do. And you know what? I have a 2001 with about 60,000 miles on her and not a single piece of dry rotted or hard rubber, and the black on the frame still shines like new.
Cheers,
Kennith
