[Jennanik]

In the summer, I don't usually bother. I drive on dirt roads almost every weekend, so what's the point? I will make an exception if I'm going somewhere nice, or family/friends will see it, or if I get an oil change and a car wash comes with it. My poor little black car is currently best described as dark grey with brown streaks.

[silly_traveler]

once, maybe twice a year? it looks good with dirt all over it

[shiznit75]

My jeep got 1 washing since I've had it. It looks better dirty. Now if it was only topless. The inside gets cleaned when I get an odor I can't place or I'm driving company around. I have banned canned pop being left in it after 3 pepsi cans exploded during the heat wave! Sprayed all over the headliner I had replaced myself

[sten]

Ah, this question has been occupying my mind since I bought my 'new' (2004) car. To wash or not to wash that is the question. It is a particularly vexing question since I grew up in the never-never land of California during the era of floods and droughts, and one had to decide what things one spent water on (particularly true when your father is the groundwater guru for the state). So, whatever shall I do with my less than 2 week-owned rig with the distressing dust overlying the effervescent cayenne red pearl paint (did I mention that one of my co-workers was just dissing red for his ever-so-not-macho red nissan pickup in which he can haul nothing??? he seemed to think that red was a demeaning color, on top of a few other issues he had with it) But luckily, my car is not red. It is cayenne red pearl! But that doesn't address the dust. The oh-so distressing dust that obscures the true, not-red, pigmentation of my car. Should I wash it to bring it all back to life. There is no oil from a freshly-oiled road, no mud sticking to it, no one to impress. Screw it, nothing that a good rain won't wash away.

[tofu on toast hiker]

[MCaver]

I wash my car by driving through water-filled potholes on FS roads.

[Spotly]

Every time I wash my cat.

[MtnGoat]

How do you get the fur out from between your teeth?

[Allison]

Seems like a cat would make a good car-scrubber. Cats like water and soap so much that it's a natural pairing!

[Quark]

I never wash my cat. Hey, waitaminute.....you're saying you never wash your car, aren't you?

[Spotly]

[Stefan]

The real question for this topic should be: How often do you remove gorp with a vaccuum from that slit where the seat cushion meets the back cushion at the base of your lower back? I swear I have found gummy bears two years old in that slit, and they are still as good tasting two years later.

[Allison]

[jenjen]

[Quark]

I'm always snacking on stuff I find in my truck. Red licorice (twizzlers), beef jerky, 'Nilla wafers, Good & Plenty. Late at night when I'm hanging around and I get hungry, I just go out & forage. But I came to tell you that I'm tempted to wash my truck. He got new tires today, and boy are they ever good-lookin' tires. Damn, they're good lookin' tires. Plus windshield wipers. I've had that truck since 2000 (or 01?) and it ain't never had new wipers, but needed them within a year after I bought the truck. I kept fergittin'. I'd be driving Stevens Pass in the rain, thinking, "damn," but soon as I get home, "pouf!" (not "poof"), the memory of the driving rain killing my view was gone. Until the next time.... So today, August whatever, 2006, my memory finally collided with the open store, and I got wipers. Almsot forgot again; I had to call the shop right before I left work & have 'em slap on some blades for me. So anyway, I might wash the truck, but it'll have to be Wednesday, 'cause that's the first free evening I have so far.