Uncategorized RoadWhinge on 19 Jan 2007 11:09 am
Car Wash. Easier to Do It Myself…
…If I wasn’t so lazy, that is.
I shoved the car through a car was yesterday. I had to, the dirt was so thick that all the extra weight was costing me a fortune in fuel…
Why do I do it? Every time I have the same list of gripes. It’s bloody expensive, it bends my radio aerial if I forget to put it down beforehand and, most annoying, it doesn’t clean the back of my car properly. The car is a small, Japanese 4×4 with the spare wheel mounted on the rear tailgate. These car wash thingies, for some reason, cannot get their electronic brains around the contours of a vehicle with a rear mounted spare. All goes ok until the wash brushes get to the top of the spare tyre, then the machine loses it altogether. When I get it outside and take a look, most of the back of the car, including the number plate, hasn’t been washed, and is still covered in crap.
The most annoying thing is that other 4×4 owners know the signs of someone who can’t be bothered to clean his own car by hand. Oh, the humiliation of it. Yes, I know I could clean it myself, but that just ain’t gonna happen… at least not more than a couple of times a year.