Do You Wash Your Car In Your Driveway?

most of the local car washes are shit and most ppl like to wash it there selfs i think

screw that. i’ll wash my car anyway.

I don’t wash my cars as much as I used to.
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On my RoadMonster and my daily driver Miata,
I use my California Duster on them after every use.
Yes, that’s every day on the Miata
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Also, there are a lot of products out there for cleaning
your car without water, and some of them are excellent.
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I am VERY picky about my cars, and wouldn’t use anything
that would hurt the paint, remove my wax, or not have excellent
results.
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I have had EXCELLENT results with Griot’s Garage Products.
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http://www.griotsgarage.com
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Check them out. Their Speed Shine, Best of Show Wax, and Waterless Car Wash are some of, if not THE BEST products I have ever used.
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Plus, they are good for the environment.
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No, I’m not a tree hugger, but this also saves me time…
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I don’t always want to use water to wash with, especially in
the winter, when it’s freezing out.
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Just my .02
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Stewart

Just park on your lawn and wash it. Then your lawn gets watered at the same time and it doesn’t run down the drain.

Just read how that shit works, that’s retarded, as if they don’t have a treatment system for sewers, and they just let that shit dump into a stream. I’m never going swimming in any body of water ever again. (in-door swimming pools)

Please explain how sewage (which, I thought, goes to a water treatment plant, and has many worse things in it from all the stuff we pour down our drains in our homes) is affecting fish and going right into the water?

I’ve got a small gravel lot in front of the garage, so it just soaks into the ground. And yes I live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by people.

Not buying this one… test was conducted with the help of a party who stands to benefit from the results, and the lowest effluent concentration was 6.25%, which Id guess is incredibly high considering the path of a typical drive way car wash residue, move that decimal at least three places to the left, and maybe that might remotely be in the ball park…
There are plenty bigger fish to fry, industrial pollutants, manufacturing by products, consumer waste, etc, etc, that have a much larger impact than a bit of car wash soap.

I go to a hand car wash and do it myself! i don’t see the point of using cheap soap when i can use better soap.

Give me a break! Some people will find the most dumbass things to bitch about. millons of cars washed and still somehow there still fish in the world. LAME.

I don’t have a hose…. I do it at work.

I wash my truck in the driveway. And it drains pretty much straight into the canal behind my house. Of course there’s a lot worse things going in there too. And i still catch fish in it. I wonder if i shouldn’t have eaten them…

But seriously, car washes cost more and don’t get it as clean. It sucks being in the city all week for school, because i can only wash it on the weekends at home, so by the time i get back its covered in bugs again. Oh well, hunting seasons almost here, so i won’t have to worry about washes until the spring hehehe.

Sorry for the off-topic rant, I’m bored at work.

no wonder the my fish spot went out of business…

This has been law here in the San Francisco Bay Area for years.

I don’t think it’s the soap, but the oil I pour into the storm drains

I always wash my car in my driveway.

I have always enjoyed washing my cars in the comfort of my own driveway, but the standing GA water restrictions (still in place) do not allow it. Professional car washes are required to recycle their water. I like to take my own bucket and soap to the self service bays and use the high pressure only for rinse.

GA water restrictions are still in place and may vary by county. Gwinnett county still prohibits any residential washing of cars or driveways. Outdoor water use is restricted by time of day and address number and only to be used for plants, gardens, or landscaping.

GA residents should check county websites for information before openly watering anything on residential property to avoid fines and/or angry neighbors.

i always wash my car in the driveway. easier and cheaper than going to a car wash full-service or do-it-yourself. and charles, the guy from GA, the water ban has been lifted for a while. you can wash your car in your driveway. lol

For anyone that is in the Seattle area I have to recommend Brown Bear Car Wash.

I live in Floyd County Georgia. I can’t believe we put a study out on anything. We aren’t even aloud to wash our cars right now because of a state wide watering ban from our lake levels being to low.

My driveway washing dosen’t have a significant effect, based on the amount of soap I use being too miniscule, dilution, distance to the storm drain and evaporation being factored in.
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Makes me suspicious of lobbying from the U-Wash and car wash businesses, gas stations… oil companies?.
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Most people (at least around me) don’t wash theirs in the driveways. They go to car washes or whatever else. I prefer to actually have mine clean, and there’s no substitute.
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Someone ever tries to stop me from washing my car? I’ll squirt ‘em with the damn hose and’ll say “You wake up yet?”… “get the hell outa here!”…

Actually, I don’t. I wash my cars in my yard.

I do, but my driveway is miles away from any storm drains.