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Thread: Petrol stations are campaigning for a ban on drivers washing their own cars

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    hold on, dont we pay the water company loads, to remove these so called chemicals?

    i dont use water to wash my car anyway, the faster i go the more friction on the body work, thus cleaner

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    Lmfao, still mad as a box of frogs then eh Nicky

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    the problem is this... their spokesman actually doesn't understand the basic workings of a drain gulley..it has a water trap... oil funnily enough, floats, so gets caught in a water trap... domestic use detergent is so watered down, that it is less than toxic... trade places actually have massive oil traps to catch all the oily crap, but the detergents they use go straight down the drains... the concentration of which is more poisonous than domestic ones...

    domestic drains on driveways run into combined sewers(with the poo) so don't go anywhere else except the sewage works.. or they usually run into soakaways.. very rarely do they actually get into a watercourse..

    so yet another bit of cobblers by the car wash industry.... and everyone will still go to the wash & polish(or luthuanian)...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mowgli View Post
    and everyone will still go to the wash & polish(or luthuanian)...



    Wont in my family, washed and auto-glym'd my dads 04 reg Jazz this aft, doing my 62 reg work van tomorrow, then prob the astra, and the nova too

    Fook taking mine, or indeed my rents cars anywhere other than my hose pipe, and my valeting skills!

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    you must be really cheap then spud.......

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    I am the only person that cleans mine or the missus' cars. No fcuker else will touch it including any Polish or other Eastern European and definately will not go anywhere near the rotary sanders/wire wheels the fuel stations describe as a car wash!

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    at least if i clean my cars myself, they wont get scratched!if i put the truck through a carwash there would be a right fight between landy and machine.id have no lights or aerials left !!its all ballcorks if you ask me

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    sod them i still wash my car and mums

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    just what part of your mum do you wash???

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    totaly pathetic , same as a recent thread of banning modifications to cars , again so many buissnes's will more than likely go under,losing hundreds if not thousands of jobs putting people back on the dole, which i dont the think the goverment can "afford" to do.


    anyway they dont even wash the car thoroughly , plus frequent use of industrial car wash machines seriously fcuk your paint work up !!!
    therefore ill continue to spend a good 2-3 hours on a sunday morning washing/cleaning my car

    mowgli you crack me up at times

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