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MUST be very shiney
else there is no "pose" factor
;-)
Gives me more time and money to spend on bike and leathers......
BTW Womble, my house is clean and shiny....trying to sell it! Ha ha!
Frankly people who don't check these things are stupid. I'm sorry to be blunt but it's true.
Once a week is overkill. Every 2-4 is fine.
Mate, what you like???
Position car over drain and remove sump plug. Nice and easy
So, if someone parks near you, do you knock on their door and ask them to move?
Put up some details and a pic. Come on, I wont bite.
Oh alright, I will bite- gently :-)
My fiance's car, on the other hand, is usually spotless, inside and out. It's an Audi, so as someone else said, it doesn't do dirty! Except when we use it to tow trailer and horse to a show, then I take great delight in getting in it with muddy boots and watching how agitated it makes him, he he!!! Can't do it too much though otherwise he would refuse to tow trailer to shows for me.
The other entertaining factor about fiance being at horse shows is that it gets him dirty too, and he is anal about having clean hands (unless dirt on hands comes from car or aeroplane, then that's ok). I found it very amusing when we were about to set off one day, I walked horse into trailer and he put breeching bar up behind horsey, and was so focussed on getting the bar up quickly that he didn't look at it before he picked it up, and managed to grab hold of the one bit of it that had horse poo on it! Oh, I did larf! Poor bloke!
When I used to drive, I checked the pressure on my tyres, oil and windscreen wash once a week. Religiously.
I'd say approx 90% of cars (if not more) have the wrong pressure tyres. And it's so easy to check IF you can find a garage (I used to use my local Safeway) which has good facilities.
And I'm not a dim blonde silly woman, I know how to do a basic service on my car. But I pretend that I don't know how to change the oil as I don't like that job, it's messy, so I get t'other half to do that.
Do my own spark plugs and air filter though.
...although maybe they were preoccupied with my tyre fire in the back garden?
Was a mechanic many moons ago. Agree that 90% of tyre pressures are wrong (always underinflated). Also, 1/2 of spares on 3+ year old cars are either illegal or flat. 1 in 5 cars has a nail in at least one tyre (bet you didn't know that one) and about the same for having at least one bulb not working.
If you use a foot pump, overinflate, then check with a pencil type gauge. The ones on the footpump are innacurate. Garage ones are VERY innacurate.
Serves you right for liking bikes, you should have a horse instead. They just need feeding and routine maintenance like shoeing and the dentist, which other people get paid to do for you!
..with a nice side salad
Only kidding
I love bikes, but I hate the hassle of fixing them, etc. Would pay double for a bike which never needed any work doing to it. Suppose I could live with putting fuel in.
Not much point spending too much money on cosmetic imrovemments when I have blokes drive into me then drive off, drive over plastic bags which write off the whole car, I've given up on the perfect motor and just want one that goes. Which mine doesn't at present as the fuse box has burnt out, arse.
In any case the back windscreen wash that gives you a shower inside the car is one of those idiosynchratic things that are endearing in a car.