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Mrs ws is off to filey for the week with the kids and being the kind caring husband I said I'd pack the car for her etc.
What a ****ing shit tip!!! More litter and crap in the footwells than I thought possible!!!
Yep. My wife's car is an absolute skip.
My wife has the only car and it’s used to take the kids everywhere. Therefore, yes, it’s an utter shit tip. To be fair though when I had a car it was probably worse. It was used for transporting filthy bikes and a Newfoundland.
Yup, although I keep it under control once every month or two. I reckon it takes 15 mins and very little effort. Considering how much time she spends in it, I'd have though she'd want it cleaner. Weird.
Feet on the mats and dont touch the paint was always my Dads instruction with us. It worked a treat, his car was always immaculate. We do however all have PTSD as a result.
Yes, absolute bin of a thing. It has the smell of old bananas
Motorised wheelie bin for mine
Yes, but only because I use it.
Yep, I check the tyres and fluids every 5 weeks when I do mine, I pay for the SO's car, servicing and MOT on condition that it's cleaned inside and out once a month, if it's not, I don't pay.
Missus car is used for dog walking and horse riding kit. A bit of a tip and certainly “fragrant”
Yup, skip on wheels, make a point of removing fistfulls of rubbish every time I use it.
Nope I clean her car out regularly. Happy to do it.
Just do it often. Easier. At the same time as my own.
Mrs stus's car is immaculate.
However every time we go away in my car she turns the passenger side into a proper shit tip.
Bucking the trend, but no, absolutely nothing in it when she's not driving it, it's spotless. We don't have Kids, dogs or horses mind.
Yes, filthy. Full of rubbish and dried mud. Boot full of, well I'm not sure really, horse riding gear and school stuff probably, certainly never any room for shopping bags!
Nope. Her car is cleaner than mine. Both have rubber mats, both get litter cleaned every journey. Mine does feature more mud, damp and stuff as it gets used at weekend for riding etc and work is wet/muddy bootful of kit as well.
My partner’s partner’s car is a real shit tip, boot full of mud, assorted broken bits of bike and broken patch leads, back seats are currently full of old GPUs and kids toys, plus thanks to a week of cold mornings and warm afternoons every coat, jacket and hoodie he owns. Passenger footwell is just a sea of empty Diet Pepsi bootles and ‘stuff’.
We have 2 labradors and 3 children. The beach is 3 miles away.
Luckily its an 06 plate Octavia estate.
Its a mobile sand pit / bin.
Yep, absolutely disgusting inside. I cleaned it and had an agreement that I would do it every two weeks unless she let it get in a shit state again. That lasted no more than 6 weeks and now it hasn't been cleaned in nearly a year. I refuse to drive it at all now.
The big issue is that she lets the kids have food and drinks in the car. The longest journey with the kids where her car is used is no more than 30 minutes so there is no need to feed or water them in that time. It is full of crumbs, lumps of food, food wrappers and any other shite that gets in there. It was so bad the rear seat under the child's seat had started to go moldy last time I did clean it out.
She's notorious for it. In the past things have been found to be growing in there.
Not quite so bad anymore as I know what to expect when I want to use the car. So to avoid embarrassment I take several sacks to the car before use for all the rubbish/clothing/toddler clothes & other related items/vegetables/glasses/footwear/plants.
Not so much these days since the brats have grown up ..thats my son & his same aged female cousin who grew up more like brother & sister and were hardly ever apart ..saying that she never would think of cleaning it either inside or out so it's probably just as well that I "enjoy" doing this ..
MrsMC effectively works and eats out of the car - her diet appears to consist of multipacks of crisps and chocolate bars washed down with Pepsi
Mrs stus’s car is immaculate.
However every time we go away in my car she turns the passenger side into a proper shit tip.
This!! x10!
I think she must bring stuff specifically to leave it in my car, no-one uses that many tissues in the time she's in it.
Actual reason - she has a fabric 'bin' in her car so all the tissues and sweet wrappers go in it. She then bought me one AS A GIFT!! which I refused to use - why do I want a bin in my car, just take your shit with you! Hence I am sure she deliberately leaves stuff in side pockets and grab handles specifically so she can say when I protest 'Well if you'd used that bin I bought you.....'
Nope. Rubbish leaves with the occupants .
Her rule.
My wife's car is always a notorious sh*t tip but that's nothing compared to her side of the bedroom.
Since I posted the initial thread we've had a "conversation" about the car, somehow it turned out to be my fault as there was to quote "still a ****ing hole in the dining room floor 2 years later". The hole is a building issue and I'm very busy, the 2800 plastic empty water bottles or whatever it was in the footwell are a different issue. I tho k I've just lost the argument!
Yep its a bloody disgrace if you ask me. Trouble is she knows it annoys me more than her and therefor i will clean it out long before she would. And she keeps saying she hates her car and wants a new one.....well bloody learn look after the one you have before you think about throwing good money into another one.
My wife uses her car as a skip.. she does use it for her business though, so it’s always rammed with plaster/paint/brushes/tarps/all manner of screws and fixings and drills and spare batteries..
She has bin bags on the seats “to keep them clean” which is a joke beyond laughter...
When she gets in mine I have a rule.. bring a towel to sit on and take her shoes off.
It grates like eating sandpaper when she gets in and a cloud of dust comes off her like..
Mine’s full of CDs all in the wrong cases, and mud, grass, leaves etc from having an MTB in there sometimes. Mr Pea’s van is an utter tip though- knee deep in empty coke cans, tools, litter from take aways, old jumpers, chewed pens, the lot!
No, clean car camp. Sometimes it gets cleaned and it's not been off the drive since it's previous wash. And I get shouted at for putting my 'dirty' shoes on the mats!
Same when the child was small.
Hers is 3 years old and is in almost showroom condition.
I’ve owned mine for nine months and it is always full of crap, filthy and is beginning to get that outdoors/slept-in smell. Whenever she gets into it I have to move all sorts of stuff from the passenger seat and footwell.....tool kit, bike lights, shoes, helmets and general biking detritus.
To be fair I have probably done more miles in nine months than she has in three years, I sleep in mine occasionally and I really couldn’t care less.
Lol at Andypaul.... our car is a pit and it’s mostly my doing tbh. The child crumb thing has distressed me too.
I had to wince at a lady in local park,bellowing at her kids ,t’other day,”don’t get your effing muddy boots on the car seats. The lease ends next effing week you twits” except she didn’t say twit. 🙁
To be fair the drivers side and the boot of my car are a little dirty too.
Though in my defence my car is my office and I don't exactly wear a suit and tie for my job.
35000 miles a year between customers and getting dirty working shows it's marks on the car...
Half toy box, half dustbin.
I cleaned it out last week in preparation for going biking and filled two Ikea bags. And that was just the stuff to be kept; I could have filled another with everything that went straight in the bin.
Basically, it's a black hole; anything she puts in it stays there until I take it out.
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STW would have a fit at ours. But you know what? I don't care.It's not an investment, a status symbol, whatever its job is to get us and our kit to wherever we want.
Why are people cleaning their ‘other half’s’ cars?
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Sherlock.
My wife's car is pretty new so she wants to keep it fairly spotless despite having 4 kids to ferry around. I've an old Discovery I paid £1500 for that we use as the work horse for camping, bikes and general muddy stuff but even that gets a regular clean inside. (Mud is good anyway)
My wife's daughters new car on the other hand is already an absolute shit tip. Wasn't cheap either.
Nope the inside and outside of my van is spotless and if I met someone whose car was a sh!t tip I think I'd immediately eliminate them from my dating investigations!! Can't abide peoples cars being filthy, I've been know to clean them if people give me a lift in fact.
Neither me or the wife have nice cars, but we don't keep crap in them the same way we wouldn't leave rubbish about the house. Cars get plenty of abuse with kids, bikes, outdoor kit etc. but all the snapped off bits of trim and vomit get cleaned up.
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Wheelie bin.
Hairy scary- did you read the Op?
the wife AND kids are off for the week!!!
All back to Wrighyson’s for coke& hookers etc etc. 😉
All this lot sounds like a great many of the Motability cars I used to pick up, most of those with an odd, undefinable odour, sort of wet dog/fags/something it’s best not to enquire too closely about.
My car is usually a bit grubby, it’s a 51-plate, and it now smells very damp; it’s got a leak somewhere which results in the rear offside footwell filling with water, about a centimetre deep last time. Baling it out, (literally), still means a wet carpet and underlay. I’ve sealed the sunroof with clear all-weather tape, hoping that’s going to stop the leak. And it dries out eventually.
No. She doesn't drive. Thus does not have a car.
What she does though is leave her sh*t in my car whenever we go anywhere! I'm talking empty bottles, wrappers, make-up, hair bands, newspapers and magazines etc!!
Must be some kind of "nesting" activity or something...
Nope, because I clean it. It would be if I didnt.
Hairy scary- did you read the Op?
Yes I did. If you read through the discussion, several people are cleaning their other half’s cars!
My car is a 51 plate with a pale interior. Still looks and smells like new. I did question the beige interior when I got the car 16 years ago, having 2 young kids, but the alcantara type fabric just wipes clean with a baby wipe. So bike mud, oil, and kids, just havent messed it up.
Wifes car is all black ibside and shows up the slightest dust.
No. She's pretty good at keeping it tidy.. Infact very good at keeping it tidy. She even washes it reasonably regularly. It doesn't get hoovered as much as it should and sometimes the dash needs a wipe but it's not ever full of junk.
Mine's the same, my boot gets full of muck but it's got a rubber mat that gets tipped out and sometimes the floor is a bit muddy/sandy.
Why are people cleaning their ‘other half’s’ cars?
Because we both drive each car (they're both ours despite me driving "mine" most the time and she drives "hers"). I don't really like cleaning cars but I do like to look after things and like a clean car. Sometimes she cleans mine.
Completely. I've considered trying to add an apex predator just to try and even out the ecosystem that's developed inside it.
And yet I get stick if I don't empty the dishwasher when I get in from work...
I don’t think I have ever had a girlfriend whose car hasn’t been an absolute rubbish dump.
Ok so anyone in the Derbyshire area in general or anyone willing to travel I have a few friends who can "supply", the dirty sex pool is on 38 degrees, quick ride, few beers and it's on, what night we thinking?
Yep, mobile handbag. WTF is that all about, it drives me nuts !
My partner’s partner’s car is a real shit tip, boot full of mud......
...... every coat, jacket and hoodie he owns.
Typo or threeway?
Why are people cleaning their ‘other half’s’ cars?
Because she does other things like folding, cleaning and washing my smelly under-crackers. So i do things like hoovering and washing her car... That's how it works in a relationship....
I don't just wash my own plate after eating tea and leave hers on the side
We have three muddy kids and a dog. However, neither are allowed near Mrs S's car. The dog has never been in it, kids are only allowed in if cleaned and polished. As a result her car is near showroom condition.
My car however is very much a working vehicle, full of mud, outdoor kit, sand, paw prints, dog smells. No rubbish, just very well used. I love it that way. I'll never feel bad about my kids being muddy or dog being well walked. The car facilitates that, it is the adventuremobile.
Ha, Mrsbits feeds her Horse Habit through Microbits. Her car (the 'good' one) is now full of mud & horse poo and stinks of wet riding gear the whole time. She's also gone nose blind and says she can't notice the smell (it bloody stinks!) it's also got a cream leather interior which nanobits smears with what I can only assume is ectoplasm. Utterly disgusting. I won't go in it any more, I stick to my truck!
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If you think this is down to pride then you have no idea. The one my wife uses to take the kids to school, it is fetid. There's mouldy stale food in every crevice, sometimes even plates with toast crusts on (wtf?) and the kids tread on a layer of food wrappers, toys, clothing and general rubbish to get in and out. And it stinks.
My wife’s husband’s car is permanently covered in mud from mountain biking.
And there’s half a bikeshop’s worth of spares stashed in it too.
Yes but then so is mine. Last time I cleaned her car out I collected enough kindling (interesting sticks, pine cones etc collected by the kids) to last three weeks. On the other hand my car was no better there was sand in it from a holiday two years ago.
I just don't get filthy cars. I wouldn't toss food onto the floor at home, why would I in a car? Yes, of course the outside gets mucky and I couldn't care less about that but sitting in a stinking environment for 2 hours a day? No thanks!
I wouldn’t toss food onto the floor at home, why would I in a car?
I don't. It's the bloody kids.
Why cars don't have bins built into them I have no idea.
Mines the same (shit tip) I tried to suggest i wash it for her on the way out yesterday and got a bollocking for suggesting so.
Cant win
@geetee 1972 how long has this been going on with my wife?? ia am sorry i have tried and failed to train her to PICK UP THE crap out OF HER CAR. there is always a 'good 'reason for it ... I try not to drive it as i hate the tidal wave of wrappers and assorted crap sliding across the footwell/dash /storage bins etc. Is mine spotless? NO but i DO have good reasons 🙂
Yep, my wife's car is like a landfill on wheels. It only looks clean when I tidy it out of sheer embarrassment before it goes for a service/MOT.
I don’t. It’s the bloody kids
But at home, you pick it up, I mean, I have a 7 & 4 year old, they create muck and filth everywhere they go. At home, I tend to wipe the table when they've finished spreading food on it. Why would I sit on a car seat after that's happened just because it's only a car? It's not being car proud or a car snob, it's just basic hygiene!
For the record, my truck is absolutely covered with mud after driving across a few fields the middle of last week. It'll probably wait until it rains to get the worst off, then it'll be replaced with general road grime instead. The inside however is clean, because I sit there and I'd rather not be sitting in crap!
"Ok so anyone in the Derbyshire area in general or anyone willing to travel ..........."
Ha. 🙂
Probably best do it thursday ,gives you time to clean up before they're back! 🙂
Nope she bought it new, it's immaculate and smells of soap
My wife’s husband’s car is permanently covered in mud from mountain biking.
And there’s half a bikeshop’s worth of spares stashed in it too.
Funnily, my wife also complains about her husband. I wonder if they know each other? In her case, his car is used to move kids to and from various CX races and looks like it's been sluiced out by a non-too-considerate farmer...
So, do people with trash-filled cars live in trash-filled houses, too?
My OH's car is still full of the crap Mrs AndyBrad left in it when we bought it off them 😉
One thing I have noticed that the level of crap appears to be inversely proportional to the fuel level 🙂
If it hasn't been said already, this thread is useless without pitchers!
Pictures of cars or partners? 🙂
I generally do the washing and cleaning the cars as it's a bit of fresh air, and tinkering in the garage with the bikes time. Can't stand a dirty car, especially inside, as I 'now' spend a good two hours a day sat in it (snapped spine has meant more car washing as I don't cycle to work now).
It's easier to do a quick 5 minute vacuum once every two weeks than leave it longer.
Having been in a mates car that was complete with god knows how many month's of discarded Maccy's cups and burger cartons, blurgh.
Absolutele hole. Her speciality is leaving apple cores and chewing gum in it which then stick to everything, go moldy and generally are a health hazard. There’s also really random stuff in there (pair of snow boots anyone?) and stuff we’ve picked up but never removed.
It gets cleaned once every couple of months by the friendly Eastern European fellas down the road. £15 for a mini valet and polish is money well spend IMO.
My mrs is THE car destroyer. She has a 911, which sounds all fine and dandy except it's so chuffin uncomfortable she refuses to drive it and uses mine instead to ferry her kids about. Now in fairness this is only a recent thing, prior to me lending her mine (giving in) she'd use hers. Even now, the inside of the Porsche looks like a bomb has gone off and the outside isn't much better. She point blank refuses to park anywhere other than the nearest space to the door at the supermarket which means every single panel has scratches and marks. Inside it's all broken trim and mankiness, hairbands (what is it with hairbands - I'm sure she does it on purpose to poke fun at me losing my hair) and just general grottiness.
She's been using mine for a few months now to take the youngest to football in north London - it got so bad recently I caved in and took the company car just so she doesn't wreck mine. Two weeks in, the company car has a broken glove box door, various foodstuffs strewn about and marks on the trim that'll never come out. I went to use it the other day to drive to Bedgebury, opened the boot and realized there wasn't a chance I'd get my bike in so just rode there instead. At least it's improving my fitness...
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She’s made my car a shit tip 🙁
I thought that my wife's car was a tip until I read this thread. Now I think it's close to immaculate.
As for mine, the van is a work horse and remains relatively tidy. The car is never untidy.