can you clean too much?

[Tontsy]

as the title says...can you CLEAN too much?

ive had the R6 for a month now!
and yes im still loving every minute of it ;)

but to the point, i clean it everyday! sometimes even twice if i have nothing else to do! and as i dont clean the sax, just keep painting it! id like to start making the bike shine!
even if its just a rinse with a hose / jet wash / bucket and sponge, just to get general shit off it, such as bugs and dirt from the building work in my street!

now im not a detailing whore nor do i know my stuff, you say to me dodo juice, i say there extinct right?...
but would cleaning it to more than a rinse, such as muc-off stuff,shampoo, polish too often cause any damage or dull it in anyway?

[Barry123]

you can clean too much. And it's officially recognised as a condition

nolifesyndrome - it's a shortened version of noonewillactuallynoticeyourcleancarontheroadsyndro me

[Tontsy]

you can clean too much. And it's officially recognised as a condition

nolifesyndrome - it's a shortened version of noonewillactuallynoticeyourcleancarontheroadsyndro me

:homme: oh ads, behave!

and its not so much for others to notice, but for myself taking pride in it.
i clean my tools after i use them everyday too! and if a work mate uses them and gets them dirty then :wall::wall: lol.

look after your possessions and they will look after you imo!

[Barry123]

no no no it's fine to take pride in your car/motorbike etc, I do, I just do it once a month, or if I know if the weather is particularly good for the week ahead.

but no wayyyyyyy am I doing it daily or weekly, I have things to do and as I say, at the end of the day no one really notices how clean a car is other than the person who has cleaned it.

[Barry123]

look after your possessions and they will look after you imo!

this is true, but my reasons for being so anti-clean is because of such a statement. A good reflection bares no indication of the mechanical working, so is this instance, look after your possessions (cleaning), doesn't mean, the brakes have been checked or the engine oil topped up.

Yet for some reason people wet themselves with sexual excitement when they see a clean saxo on here and half the time the owners have left the mechanics to rot to pieces or there is chassis rust all over the place.

[James106]

this is true, but my reasons for being so anti-clean is because of such a statement. A good reflection bares no indication of the mechanical working, so is this instance, look after your possessions (cleaning), doesn't mean, the brakes have been checked or the engine oil topped up.

Yet for some reason people wet themselves with sexual excitement when they see a clean saxo on here and half the time the owners have left the mechanics to rot to pieces or there is chassis rust all over the place.

Pictures of said Sexy saxo's or GTFO

[Barry123]

would they ever show underside pics of their clean cars with chassis rust everywhere? I think not.

[Tontsy]

this is true, but my reasons for being so anti-clean is because of such a statement. A good reflection bares no indication of the mechanical working, so is this instance, look after your possessions (cleaning), doesn't mean, the brakes have been checked or the engine oil topped up.

Yet for some reason people wet themselves with sexual excitement when they see a clean saxo on here and half the time the owners have left the mechanics to rot to pieces or there is chassis rust all over the place.

i completely agree with what your saying.
im not the one to get moist over a clean vehicle, just keeping it in tip top condition, as much as i can, appearance and mechanical.
as the R6 is only 5 weeks old! id like to think that there is nothing mechanically wrong with it! and as for the saxo, being matte black it may look like a shed, but mechanically its sound! if it ever needs anything or a part replacing, i get it sorted asap!

[adamm]

this is true, but my reasons for being so anti-clean is because of such a statement. A good reflection bares no indication of the mechanical working, so is this instance, look after your possessions (cleaning), doesn't mean, the brakes have been checked or the engine oil topped up.

Yet for some reason people wet themselves with sexual excitement when they see a clean saxo on here and half the time the owners have left the mechanics to rot to pieces or there is chassis rust all over the place.

i have rust underneath.. dont alot of saxos nowadays? and also alot of other ten year old cars have.. doesnt mean they cant look nice and run well mines fine other than some rust underneath. infact i quite often check engine oil water so on before i give the car a wash... just dont see how rust underneath means it should be unliked by others?

[Krys_23]

It would benefit from a basic wax and then top up every 7-10 days then it would make washing process easier.

[Mattymcn]

dude muc off is an acid based solution. it will deffinately eventually dull the paintwork.

go halfords and get some auto glymm shampoo and micro fibre's get some maguires carnuba wax and you'll be good as new mate! also auto glymm bug and tar remover.
much safer than muc off

[Stissy]

this is true, but my reasons for being so anti-clean is because of such a statement. A good reflection bares no indication of the mechanical working, so is this instance, look after your possessions (cleaning), doesn't mean, the brakes have been checked or the engine oil topped up.

Yet for some reason people wet themselves with sexual excitement when they see a clean saxo on here and half the time the owners have left the mechanics to rot to pieces or there is chassis rust all over the place.

can't agree more.
but i still clean my car every other weekend or so

[MikeyW]

dude muc off is an acid based solution. it will deffinately eventually dull the paintwork.

go halfords and get some auto glymm shampoo and micro fibre's get some maguires carnuba wax and you'll be good as new mate! also auto glymm bug and tar remover.
much safer than muc off

Or he could just get me to do it for him ;)

[Mattymcn]

or that mikey lol!

[Tontsy]

Or he could just get me to do it for him ;)

i think this is going to be the main plan of action... possibly weekly at this rate lol.

[H-Unwin]

car wash at work!!! JOB DONE :)

[classicvin]

as a kid i was so obsessed with polishing my school shoes i even used black polish on the bottom of them ! yes thats right, black footprints everywhere ! Then i would be like "IT WASNT ME, THERE NOT MY FOOTSTEPS!" haha

[CHIP]

car wash at work!!! JOB DONE :)

You wanting to get banned or something? Lol.

[P90PTS]

I wash my car at my work...

[CHIP]

I wash my car at my work...

I was taking it as a machine car wash in his case...?

[P90PTS]

Ah right haha

But still I use brushes, sponges, shit shampoo the lot in work!

[H-Unwin]

I was taking it as a machine car wash in his case...?

yeah mate its one of the roller ones, looks like its gona mess your car up with them big brushes :panic: , and i just do it after work at about 5 the spooks dont like it but i just ask em wheres their passport and they soon jump back in line :y: