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Our county has been on a water restriction for months now, so I have not been able to wash it at all! Just keep it in the garage and wait patiently...

I go to Water Works car wash myself. They do a wash and vac and are really good at doing it. It's brushless,cheap and very consistent and doing a great job.
I only go there because my apt complex doesn't have anywhere to wash my car. No hose hookup's or anything.

i try to wash mine w/ the bucket method every week. my SVT never saw the inside of an automated car wash while i had it - though i did have to use the quarter-operated ones for a while b/c of water restrictions at my apt. complex. even then, though, i took the bucket and only used their water for rinsing it off....

now that i've got a house (and now that i'm no longer served by the one reservoir in my area that gets low in prolonged droughts), i can wash the car whenever i want to - no chores from a wife to come first, no water restrictions, etc.

Me. Actually I guess I am not, since I never do wash or have it washed. :p

Hi there...that would be me. Washed it -once- myself, wife washed it one time too, hosed it down a few times and had a car wash run this spring. That's about it since the dealer cleaned it off when I bought it years ago. Interior is kept clean of course, and the wheels/tires need monthly cleaning also, but the Ford silver metallic sure beats the gloss black/white/candyapple red cars I had in terms of always looking clean. Washed/hosed once or twice a year, it always looks nice and shiny. Nothing beats this finish, IMHO. My black cars were obviously dirty on a weekly basis (even in storage!), although they did look better when washed/waxed it was a senseless hassle, mostly. I wash it just to keep salt and abrasives off...otherwise it always looks shiny. Added bonus is a clean silver sedan is the most nondescript car around...........

OH god no! don't use those "quarter" car washes , or at least not to brush the paint. Those brushes are soooo dirty and leave swirl marks/scratches all over, or least roud here - the owners never clean the washes enough and when any dirty pick-up pulls up , well you might as well go home. :p

Wash it every week with bucket and soap, go over it with a damp rag and buff it with a dry rag every few days. Polish wheels, etc. every week as well. I would at least wipe it down everyday if I could (damn weather).

I don't exactly qualify.

We've got great self-serve cash washes all over Waco. The place I go to you put $4 worth of quarters in and are able to use high pressure rinse, high pressure wash, high pressure wax, tire cleaner, foaming brush, and spot-free rinse for an entire hour. That's what I call getting your money's worth. Then I dry my car, Black Magic my tires, and shine up my stainless steel exhaust.

I always seem to put it off because of rain. The seven day forcast said we have a chance of rain five days this week. The rain season will be over soon. I promise my car will be sparkling for the National Meet.

Lazy car washer? My wife because she never does it. She used to, but I wouldn't let her go through any 'soft cloth' washes. No touch or hand wash only since she got her new truck over 3 years ago. Now, she just let's me do it which I cannot claim to be lazy about.