Whovian:

I'm not sure you're not obsessed with having a clean car, cos someone just sent me this picture of you:

:)
Nir Ofek, May 24, 2009 @ 10:23

mmmm could be because the % of fancy car vs standard cars (fancy = BMW, Mercedes, Audi A3 and above, you get it, anything more then your standard city car), is actually higher here? I noticed that men are more obsessed with cleaning the cars, and the fancier the car the shinier they want it to be :)

Or another idea could be the price of the cars. The one I bought was at least few thousends CHF more expensive here then in France, Germany or Italy. For what I paid for it, I want to be able to not only liking it, but litterally LOVING it. Which means that I want to keep it clean and nice looking for as much as I can.

3rd options. Lots of cars are Leased (in Italy is not possible to get a leasing as a private citizen, which on the contrary is the standard here) .... and when leasing a car towant to give it back after few years to get a nicer one car mainteinance becomes more important. Including washing, as I heard here several times that bird poo, dust and pollins are not good for the brilliance of the colours and corrode the 'metallic' paint.

V
Hoiling, May 25, 2009 @ 17:23

Hi



It seems like there is always an exception to the rule:

1. My car is the dirtiest ever. At least outside.

2. And it is a BMW.

3. And it's always parked outside.

4. And it was not cheap.



So:

1. If you leave you're car outside every day, you don't give a (bird)shit :P

2. If you're social life is your car, it will be clean... :rolleyes:



A

and70, May 25, 2009 @ 17:53

I'm not Swiss but I always keep my car clean. Then again I love cars :)

And Ando, would you stop bragging allover the forum? Chat requests, BMW, what next?!? :p

catalin
catalin, May 25, 2009 @ 18:31

Good point to and70: next you're start 'complaining' that girls pick guys up too much in GVA!
Nir Ofek, May 25, 2009 @ 18:47

I'm using the principal that the car will clean itself if let it go long enough , as I'd heard this applied to washing hair , if you let your hair go beyond the dirty stage it will start to clean itself with natural oils (No , I've not tried this with my hair, but will try with my car)
britabroad, May 25, 2009 @ 18:57

I was about to say that I am Swiss and I don't have any obsession with clean cars... probably because I don't have a car ;)

But I have realized that I've spent half an hour today to clean my scooter :D

Maybe we do have obsession with cleaning every kind of vehicles...

I have to go now, as I still have to clean my rollerblades for tonight's Monday Night Skate Tour ;)
Fab75, May 25, 2009 @ 19:17

@Nir

Hmhh, I would have noticed that:ermm:



@Catalin:

1. an estate 1998 BMW is nothing you want to brag with :D

2. are you stalking me :w00t:

3. wanna go for a drink?
and70, May 25, 2009 @ 19:47

Contrary to most people's impressions, I own a car. But I would like to flag a possible error in the following (and possibly raise a challenge):



[quote][b]

and70 (25/05/2009)[/b]



It seems like there is always an exception to the rule:

1. My car is the dirtiest ever. At least outside.

[/quote]



I sincerely doubt that. My car is categorically the dirtiest ever. 1. because I keep it outside and 2 because I never wash it. 3 because I don't care. But reason 4 is far more important. Reason 4 is that I work at the end of a small road out in the countryside between Versoix and Sauverny. The road is used by two groups of traffic: people that work in my building coming in and out in their cars and on their bikes; and people from the stables behind my workplace coming in and out on their fucking horses. Honestly, there are tonnes of the stuff. Year by year, there must be enough horseshit dumped on Chemin des Maillettes to spread over several thousand square km of strawberry fields. One of the interesting things about arriving in the morning is to find out just exactly where the courteous horse-women have been considerate enough to let their horses dump a load. One of the main challenges of my job is to carve a route down the 400m between Route de Sauverney and the car park without splattering fresh layers of horseshit up the wings. Between the horses on that road and the SUV driving moms at the international school in Versoix, my morning commute is nothing but cursing (at least when I do it in a car).



So your car is the dirtiest? Pics or STFU! ;)



(It's not a BMW)
hayes, May 25, 2009 @ 19:57

Good point:)



But man, you don't don't know how dirty mine is. The challenge is tough, horseshit is nothing you want to joke with.



I am in. Mine is dirtier! I'll try to take a picture of it tonight (how embarassing to stand in the streets and take pictures of muddy cars....). But in one point I am the leader in the maillot jaune: Mine has the ugliest color ever.
and70, May 25, 2009 @ 20:03

This sounds like a challenge.. Mine is only cleaned when my wife decides to swap cars with me and I get it back nice and shiny. At the moment it's suffering from having been filled with garden waste and several trips to the dump..
britabroad, May 25, 2009 @ 20:12

Mine only gets the engine block cleaned for the inspection. For this I just pick a sunny day and drive it in circles over Place des Nations while the jumpy fountains are on. It's pretty effective. If you're going to try this, I suggest you place a prank emergency call to the police first; try and ensure that any passing piggies have other things occupying their single collective brain cell.
hayes, May 25, 2009 @ 20:33

I've heard of bragging about who's got the better, nicer car, but is this is unheard of in public forum of challenging each other who's got the dirtiest ;)

may need to use mashable for people to cast their votes. i know with cars that are leased, at least for my boss he always got his car cleaned everytime he got it back from the garage aftergetting it fixed/serviced. then again i think that was the only times he ever had it washed.  and no he's not swiss but of english decent.

now the Japanese are on average more fanatics about keeping their cars clean.  i think more to do with a shame factor driving a dirty car.

andy, isn't it tougher to get the inside cleaned? afterall, you just need to go though a car wash and it's done on the outside.  my car will go through the car wash (especially during winters after a snow storm to get rid of the salt) but cleaning the inside... that takes effort with vacuum cleaner and dusting and....

you know in London, some department store car park areas have guys coming around to clean your car. you just pay them and while you're shopping, they wash your car. you com back from shopping and car's cleaned. it was pretty neat and great business concept.
YouMeCo, May 25, 2009 @ 21:42

[quote][b]

YouMeCo (25/05/2009)[/b]

I've heard of bragging about who's got the better, nicer car, but is this is unheard of in public forum of challenging each other who's got the dirtiest ;)

[/quote]



It's all changed since you were at school YouMeCo. These days 8 year-old boys aren't concerned about who can piss the farthest, but the least far.
hayes, May 25, 2009 @ 23:28

I like a challenge as much as the next guy, so here goes:

Below is my car (ok, a proxy to my car). Let's see you top that!!!

Nir Ofek, May 25, 2009 @ 23:33

so the dirtiness of the car is somehow correlated to dirtiness of the mind? ;)
Rasputin, May 26, 2009 @ 15:40

Rasputin: I doubt it. If it were true, my car would look like this:

Nir Ofek, May 26, 2009 @ 15:52

The guys need to have a picture of their car on their profile so it will be easier to know when to accept chat requests.. :P
Jay_T, May 26, 2009 @ 17:01

Forget the dirty one... :cool:
and70, May 26, 2009 @ 17:21

<The guys need to have a picture of their car on their profile so it will be easier to know when to accept chat requests.. :P>

Madam is served!

catalin, May 26, 2009 @ 17:23

and70, May 26, 2009 @ 17:24

speachless.



seems like I can't upload pictures.... :blush:







and70, May 26, 2009 @ 17:29

I just know not to accept chat requests from Nir with the state of his car.  :D . So Catalin you have a clean mind ;)
Jay_T, May 26, 2009 @ 18:08

as far as I know, Catalin is as innocent as a bird
Rasputin, May 26, 2009 @ 18:11