Regular Cleaning Contracts?

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:31 pm

Oh. My. God.

I like my car to be clean and shiny but there's no way in hell I'd fork out £2k per year for someone to clean it!

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:33 pm

You could get the illegal immigrants I use to wash it every day of the year and save £700

EliseR · Post by **EliseR** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:38 pm

jj wrote:You could get the illegal immigrants I use to wash it every day of the year and save £700

Web site?

Gary.

jj · Post by jj » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:40 pm

I would post it but its in Turkish.

EliseR · Post by **EliseR** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:41 pm

dezzy wrote:Oh. My. God. I like my car to be clean and shiny but there's no way in hell I'd fork out £2k per year for someone to clean it!

I know a chap who spends thousands per year adding and removing various bits and bob's to his Impretza, to the point where it now resembles some whacky transformer esq super mobile. People spend their hard earned money on different things. Not trying to justify the unjustifiable (to some folks), however I feel like if someone is doing a good service, and a required service (I haven't the time to clean), then fair do's on the payment front.

G.

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:46 pm

Asda foam brush in dunfermline. £2 every 4 months. Works a treat

Rag_It · Post by **Rag_It** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:48 pm

Clearly from TT we saw that it Asda foam brush doesn't do the job very well, maybe just the eejit operating it!!!!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:51 pm

Its a fair cop guv.

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:01 pm

jj's attitude to car detailing is just not on, so just ordered myself one of them there £1800 tubs of Zymol Queen Bee excrement, sounds like expensive sh*t to me, but have been assured that it will have N1 TUT looking like new.

tut

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:24 pm

tut wrote:jj's attitude to car detailing is just not on, so just ordered myself one of them there £1800 tubs of Zymol Queen Bee excrement, sounds like expensive sh*t to me, but have been assured that it will have N1 TUT looking like new.

tut

Looks just fine to me Tut

Stevoraith · Post by **Stevoraith** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:03 am

Anyone else find it strange that someone can not be fussed about driving until they're 27 and then spend £30k+ on a Lotus to learn in and £2k a year for someone to wash it!?

Thats some pretty serious dedication to your car!

Not in anyway having a go at you mate, just find it kinda strange. What you're paying per month isn't far off the finance payments for mine

I get satisfaction keeping my cars clean myself but if you don't have the time and you do have the money then why not keep it in tip top condition?

Someone wil get a peach of a used car when you eventually decide to sell!

EliseR · Post by **EliseR** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:12 am

Stevoraith wrote: Someone wil get a peach of a used car when you eventually decide to sell!

I hope so, although not sure if I would part with it.

With regards to your other comments, its tricky to justify the costs at times, especially to my other half!!!. I don't need a car, I live on a great bus route and my Wife has always been more than happy to drive me places which made the thought of learning, buying, and having all those outgoings which you associate with a car too much hassle...

But something snapped, I for whatever reason (Go Karting for the first time ever, and a friend saying if you like Go Karts - you should test drive a Lotus), for whatever reason I visited MMC and bought the car (I have always loved Elise's too which helped). I was already planning to pass my test and had been practising for a few months in the 307, but I decided I wanted a fun car so I could enjoy driving, otherwise there was no point in doing it (as I didn't need to). I bought the car with a view to having passed my test before delivery, but that didnt work out as I was an hour late due to Forth Bridge road works.

Not to sound arrogant, but it will anyway

The money is not an issue at this moment in my life. It might be in the future, and has been in the past, but things are going really well just now and for the next 5 or 6 years at least I can enjoy these things without being totally stressed. I would not be spending the money if I didn't have it to spend is what im trying to say without sounding like a d1ck.

Gary (sounding like a d1ck

).

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:48 am

GWhittle wrote:
tenkfeet wrote:Dare I ask how much they charge ?
Its just over £2K per year.

G.

(spits out coffee)

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:52 am

tut wrote:jj's attitude to car detailing is just not on, so just ordered myself one of them there £1800 tubs of Zymol Queen Bee excrement, sounds like expensive sh*t to me, but have been assured that it will have N1 TUT looking like new.

tut

Quality post!

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:59 am

GWhittle wrote:
Stevoraith wrote: Someone wil get a peach of a used car when you eventually decide to sell!

I hope so, although not sure if I would part with it.

With regards to your other comments, its tricky to justify the costs at times, especially to my other half!!!. I don't need a car, I live on a great bus route and my Wife has always been more than happy to drive me places which made the thought of learning, buying, and having all those outgoings which you associate with a car too much hassle...

But something snapped, I for whatever reason (Go Karting for the first time ever, and a friend saying if you like Go Karts - you should test drive a Lotus), for whatever reason I visited MMC and bought the car (I have always loved Elise's too which helped). I was already planning to pass my test and had been practising for a few months in the 307, but I decided I wanted a fun car so I could enjoy driving, otherwise there was no point in doing it (as I didn't need to). I bought the car with a view to having passed my test before delivery, but that didnt work out as I was an hour late due to Forth Bridge road works.

Not to sound arrogant, but it will anyway The money is not an issue at this moment in my life. It might be in the future, and has been in the past, but things are going really well just now and for the next 5 or 6 years at least I can enjoy these things without being totally stressed. I would not be spending the money if I didn't have it to spend is what im trying to say without sounding like a d1ck.

Gary (sounding like a d1ck ).

Gary - you're not sounding like a d1ck - but my two main cars in the house Caterham R400 & Audi RS6 have a fair value, and if I told my missus that I was gonna shell out £4k p.a. on keeping them both clean, she'd kick my nuts so hard they'd be safer spending the rest of their days in a fecking jar

I very much subscribe to the theory that cars (interesting ones anyway) are for driving & enjoying, and that worrying too much about dirt or the odd stonechip detracts from that enjoyment IMHO.

I have been known to appear at trackdays and/or runs with a less than gleaming car, but so what?

(non-g.j.o.b. faction)

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