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i spend $3 at the carwash, rinse soap rinse. but then i take it home and take the time to polish and/or wax it. as washing it with the car wash strips the wax off it.

Anyway with the counsil worker, as he was walking away i woulda turned the hose on him :laugh: i woulda laughed :D

LOL

spraying him would have been worth 1000 smackaroos!

yeah, with my $4-$5 wash I use the wax, for sure! just depends how quick ya can do it (Stagea's arnt small! LOL)

i reckon waxing it yourself the car looks heaps better. i used the meguirs quick wax, just spray it on, made the come up awesome :laugh: the wax at the carwash doesnt look even half as good. tho i did go over my car with meguirs scratch x first to get rid of the light swirl marks. i got pics if you like :D

Anyway on the topic, didnt ACA do a test a while back showing you use less water using a hose than using buckets? and where does the water go from car washes anyway? same shit except we pay more at the carwash... but i think the local carwash directs it water to the local treatment plant. not sure tho.

^ Yeah ACA did a "study" and apparently it takes 13 full buckets to wash a car.

I agree though, it would shit me having to fill a bucket and throw it at the car - using a hose is so much more efficient i find.

Meh i live in a quiet street, even if we go back to water restrictions saying we need to use a bucket im still gonna use a hose on the lawn - i doubt i'll be that unlucky that a council dude is around when i do it. Ive actually never seen a council dude in my suburb in the 18 years ive been here come to think of it.

and where does the water go from car washes anyway? same shit except we pay more at the carwash... but i think the local carwash directs it water to the local treatment plant. not sure tho.

They're meant to recycle it. Except I don't see any massive filtration / reclamation units at Carlovers etc.

13 buckets? wtf?

takes me 2, at most 3.. Depends on how you wash it I guess, but I've never needed more than about 2. One for shampooing on, another of water for washing off the detergent and chamoising.

"Throwing" a bucket of water at a car isn't going to do shit to clean it if that's what they meant.. lol

Washing your car in SA on your own driveway is allowed if its on a 'special' car wash mat. I'm 99% sure your not allowed to wash the car simply on your driveway, according to the link below.

A hand held trigger nozzel is allowed.

http://www.sawater.com.au/NR/rdonlyres/71C...low_theFlow.pdf

well here in west aus its only legal to wash your car on the lawn >> common sense reallyisnt it only an isiot would wash their caron the road and waste water.. wash it on the lawn and then ya dont have to water ya lawn for a week or 2

There's this main in Artarmon's industrial area that regularly bursts and dumps torrents of water onto the road.

When I go visit a mate for lunch and see it, I just get tempted to bring a hose and my car washing gear. Its not like they can bitch at me for using a hose on my car if the water is otherwise just going to wet bitumen on its way to a stormwater drain.

We're on tank water on a property just outside of Brisbane. We're adjacent to a creek so when the tank gets empty, we can just fill it back up.

Sure, the creek will run out eventually as it's stopped flowing but at the moment, water in our house is a non issue. Long showers, regular car washes (when I'm not lazy). It's pretty good for us.

Gonna make things interesting if we all run out of water though. Time to wash your car AT THE BEACH :)

I recently read that Sydney Water wastes 145 (yes one hundred and forty five) Olympic swimming pool-equivalents of water each day due to leaking pipes. That is actually more than Sydney consumes for the same period.

Melbourne is the same.

Our roads (along with the cars and the people in them) get sucked into big holes on a regular basis.

Most of the pipes running under the ground leak, and because they're so old, there's no way that they can test them to find out where the leaks are, so it's mostly a matter of waiting for a big hole to open up in the ground before anything gets done.

New pipes which get laid are installed with technology which can apparently report leakages.

...dunno how that would work, but if it does, they should look at ripping up the thousands of kilometres of existing water main and replace the lot.

It would fix lots of problems.... we'd have lots more water, lots more employment, and lots less smelly people. :(

well here in west aus its only legal to wash your car on the lawn >> common sense reallyisnt it only an isiot would wash their caron the road and waste water.. wash it on the lawn and then ya dont have to water ya lawn for a week or 2

I concur! :(

They're meant to recycle it. Except I don't see any massive filtration / reclamation units at Carlovers etc.

ive seen the inside of a carlovers once they have a brick room where you get your change in qld and they had the door open and there was all this weird pumps and filter systems in there

Yeah Adelaide is crap for water... I know that Vic and NSW is worse off.

The other day i was watering my lawn, 7:30 at night, thought lovely time to do it... I dont wanna pay a fist full of cash for a house and not have good green lawns.

A cop knocked in my door about an hour later wanting to issue me with a fine for watering my lawn on a day that was not allocated to my house number.

Not sure if many of you know about here in adelaide, in some suburbs we have set days of the week where we can water our lawns, normally determined by odd and even house numbers and odd and even days of the month.

But anyway, I live up top of the hills at Greenwith/One Tree Hill, and 99% of my water i use is bore water for watering my lawns.. and I ended up in a full on argument with this coppa about wather or not i should use my own Bore water to water my own lawn.

Then my GF came out of the house and said, up here under this council we do not have the Set days for watering the lawn.. hahaha damn cops.

Yeah Adelaide is crap for water...

Literally... Apparently you guys get the water that passes through our sewage works here hahaha. I think thats how it goes, i remember the older kids in high school paying out a kid that just moved here from Adelaide because he had been drinking our toilet water his whole life.

I know i know, its naturally filtered on its way so big deal, i know. Just poking fun.

well i heard a rumor that there is only 2 shipping ports in the world that big ships will not take water from, one of them is adelaide, thank god i am not from this shitty city. I just live here till i can get the cash and time to move. but while i am here waiting, wouldnt mind driving a weapon around the roads for a while.

Might head back up to Alice. Nothing but open roads, and no open speed limit. haha, will let you guys know what my line will do once i get it up there. (once i get it)

i washed my car in the driveway... an insurance salesman saw everything :P

if i couldve got my big arse commodore round and onto the lawn i would of... tho i did only wash it there once. i usually would wash it at the carwash and come back and dry it propwrly then do whatever...

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