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Well lwb transit van wash actually.
Until yesterday I had never paid anyone to do it as I'm a tight bastard. DCIV lwb transit but he also cleaned/wiped down/hoovered all of the inside which is as big as a Chelsea tractor type thing.
20 quid all in.
Would have taken me 2/3 hours I reckon and resulted in a bollocking from mrsws for using the Hoover for non indoors procedures.
wash + hoover, wipe, etc "mini-valet" is around £10 here iirc (for a car)
£15 for my c-max, included waxing (the spray on, wipe off stuff).
Still (quickly) wash my car myself, but only because I'm generally skint. I used to just take it to the hand wash place once a fortnight, £15 and as above saves 2-3 hours of work!
[Awaits 'detailers' bemoaning TFR chemicals stripping wax, swirling, etc and missing the point that unless you own a 19 plate german car in metallic black no one who doesn't make a hobby of photographing water droplets on car bonnets under fluorescent lights cares that the wax used will wash off next time before being squirted back on]
Zero pennies. I either don't wash it, or do it myself in half an hour with a bucket and sponge.
The dirtier it is the better really, cos the bloke next door but one from me washes his Focus [i]every day[/i].. Every single day. Even in the rain. And I'm sure a dirty car in the street makes him twitch 😀
I bung one of the kids a couple of quid to guddle about with a sponge and a bucket of lukewarm soapy water. I quite enjoy the random dirt patterns they leave when they're finished.
For a fiver they'll give it a half arsed wipe inside with a duster and leave the hoover running for five minutes whilst sitting in the drivers seat texting and eating my stash of sweeties from the door pocket.
I clean my car every couple of weeks as it gets generally minging with kids/dog/bike mess. Luckily I have access to a permanently plumbed in pressure washer and not having to faff around getting cleaning paraphernalia together helps a lot. I can now do a relatively decent clean, inside and out, in the 30mins I have spare whilst kids are at tennis lessons.
Answer to OP question, local place to me is £5 for good external clean.
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Dunno, never washed the car.
+2 for CFH.
I'm not MI5 but it doesn't take a genius to see what goes on in a lot of these places so I do it myself. I'm sure there's also plenty of legit places too.
there's a bloke who does the rounds of the business parks here. Comes once a month to MrsDoris' workplace, £20 for a wash and brief inside spruce up. She doesn't need to leave her seat. Seems fair, and it would never get washed otherwise
I'll make sure Tom the English lad who did it has got his national insurance number to hand 👍
It's £10 round our way, plus the warm feeling you get from supporting organised crime, modern slavery and money laundering. Amazing that a business that had all but disappeared 20 years ago has managed to make a come back.
Most of the time £nothing as I drop it at the dealer I use and they have it cleaned inside and out while I get dragged around the shops by MrsSB.
£6 for an external clean at our local car wash shop [that takes card payments and has a website so hopefully legit] on the other odd occasions though.
Are they ISO 14001:2015 accredited? Complying with environmental legislation? Got all their consents from EA/SEPA/Water companies etc? Pay their staff an actual wage?
No? Then they are part of the problem, stop enabling them.
sharkbait getting such a bad deal on his motors at his local car dealer they're making him feel better with a free carwash when he's passing...
£15 for my saloon
£20 for Mrs Sims bin on wheels
modern slavery
There's nothing modern about it.
Are they ISO 14001:2015 accredited? Complying with environmental legislation? Got all their consents from EA/SEPA/Water companies etc? Pay their staff an actual wage?
More and more questions for Tom the English lad who's business it is. I'll be sure to ask and get back to you asap.
On the plus side at least he's got the get up and go to advertise and run a business in this day and age rather than sit round moaning the government gives him nothing.
£3, maybe £3.50 at the local jetwash. Sometimes I can do the bike at the same time - unload it from the boot, then give it 30seconds a side at the end of the car wash.
My car gets washed once every couple of months at most and I'd certainly never take it to a hand car wash place for them to drop a bucket on it.
I’ve got a Jag. It’s under warranty. It gets cleaned and hoovered every time it’s in the workshop. It stays pretty clean...
It gets cleaned and hoovered every time it’s in the workshop. It stays pretty clean…
reliability issues ? 😉
It’s £10 round our way, plus the warm feeling you get from supporting organised crime, modern slavery and money laundering. Amazing that a business that had all but disappeared 20 years ago has managed to make a come back.
Are they ISO 14001:2015 accredited? Complying with environmental legislation? Got all their consents from EA/SEPA/Water companies etc? Pay their staff an actual wage?
No? Then they are part of the problem, stop enabling them.
I agree but that can equally apply to domestic cleaners, au pairs, nursery staff, childminders, gardeners etc. The UK likes to outsource, how many users simply hand over the money without a backward glance?
I wash both cars (and enjoy doing so ) at least once a week ..they also get cleaned inside each week ..apart from the fact that it makes driving them a nicer experience ..why would you spend thousands of pounds on something and not want them to look good ?
As for the price of a car hand wash ..the nearest one to me is about 30 miles away ..so I never bother ..however I did enquire a short while ago at the H2o site within the multi storey car park at the Metrocentre,Gateshead how much it would be just for a basic wash ..and was quoted £20.00..I laughed and walked away ..
Nothing less than £10 in my bit of Scotlandshire.
Horwich must be the worlds capital for cheap hand car washes/organised crime/slavery though.
£4 for the base version - for £15 you can get the full mini valet experience and if you choose the right one, you can fill your face with Greenalgh's baked products whilst waiting.
@scaredypants yep but to be fair its been much better since the original warranty expired and I paid for the extended warranty!
I wouldn't use a hand carwash because no matter which one I use they always seem to leave my car a scratched up, smeared mess!
I wash both cars (and enjoy doing so ) at least once a week ..they also get cleaned inside each week ..apart from the fact that it makes driving them a nicer experience ..why would you spend thousands of pounds on something and not want them to look good ?
I bought my car brand new just under a year ago. I have washed it twice in that time. Within a day or two of washing it it looks dirty again (I live in a rural location) and I have better uses of my time that washing a car every week and better uses of my money than paying someone else to do it.
I spent thousands on a new car to give me many years of low cost and trouble free motoring (less likely to go wrong and 5 year warranty) not because I want it to look good.
Your choice Kerley old son ..If you are happy in a scruffy looking car then good for you ..
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I wash both cars (and enjoy doing so ) at least once a week ..they also get cleaned inside each week ..apart from the fact that it makes driving them a nicer experience ..
Bugger - didn't realise my F-i-L was on here. Better stop swearing...
Your choice Kerley old son ..If you are happy in a scruffy looking car then good for you ..
Wouldn't say happy and wouldn't say scruffy, it is just not important to me whereas as to you it seems almost obsessive. Just providing a view of why some people may not be as bothered as you about it since you didn't seem to understand (and still don't I would guess)
I hoovered my car out last week, do it at least every 5 years. As for washing I tend to just park it under a cloud.
Oh..thanks Kerley ..I hadn't realised by cleaning them once a week I was obsessive..😁
Still ..it's good to know that if I need any advice on how to live my life you are always there..🤣
£4.00 here in Radcliffe, Gtr Manchester but I gave up using them when I learned more about modern slavery and when I realised that the polymer they use to make the water run off actually sticks to the glass where it runs down and dries leaving dribbles, that you can see when the sun is shining on the glass. Only car polish seems to remove it, with a lot of effort, to leave the glass properly clean again.
£5 at the valet place in Ardrossan - run by locals, use them now and again when the kids start drawing in the dust on the paint.
...but I gave up using them when I learned more about modern slavery and when I realised that the polymer they use to make the water run off actually sticks to the glass where it runs down and dries leaving dribbles, that you can see when the sun is shining on the glass.
Nice juxtaposition of world problems and first world problems there... 😉
I jet wash it when the moss around the window seals leaves a mark when i drop the windows at drive thrus
Oh..thanks Kerley ..I hadn’t realised by cleaning them once a week I was obsessive..😁
Still ..it’s good to know that if I need any advice on how to live my life you are always there..
Yes, cleaning a car every week is obsessive. I haven't given you advice by the way, just pointing out that it is obsessive. You can clean it every 10 minutes for all I care.
Guessing you still don't understand why someone would spend money on a car but not want to clean it every week?
my swb partner van gets treated to a ten quid wash and hoover out maybe quarterly? when i can barely see through the wing mirrors! im not a mucky tradesman type, office worker (just like to always have my bike ready to go at every opportunity...) but i have never washed any vehicle ive owned by hand.
Kerley..
There's no need for you to guess ..based on what you have written so far I have already formed an opinion as to the type of person you are ..but that's best kept to myself.
Kerley..
There’s no need for you to guess ..based on what you have written so far I have already formed an opinion as to the type of person you are ..but that’s best kept to myself.
Yes, I am the type of person who has better things to do than wash a car every single week
I was pleased with 3 month's worth of rain last week as it finally got all the guano off. First proper wash for a year, when I paid about £7.
we didn't know the name of one of our neighbours for the first few years we moved into our street....he was simply known as 'car wash'. constantly out tinkering with his little car virtually polishing the paint off! there used to be some Kurdish guys that did a great job, inside and out for about £15. Does make you wonder what money is being laundered through these businesses though.
I generally pay £10 for my SWB T6 Kombi for Wash, dry, tyre dressing and door / sill wipe down and a free air freshener. Seems good value to me as I'd have to get the ladders out to wash the roof and frankly I CBA'd.
I do wax it myself and that takes a good 3 hours.
I've heard you can get it done by hand for a tenner at this health club in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester:
Had to google tyre dressing. Really?
I do mine myself. Enjoy doing it. I watched a programme about car washers and modern slavery, unfit living conditions and crime. No thanks.
Commendable that a lot of comments relate to “modern slavery/no thanks”