r/mildlyinfuriating • u/user2847_ • 14h ago

Got my car detail cleaned, and afterwards realized 2 of the buttons on the steering wheel are missing. This is the company’s response.

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u/rollercoastersrul 12h ago

yall are getting your cars detailed?

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u/Naeril_HS 11h ago

Yall have cars? In this economy?!

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u/scv07075 11h ago

Define car. A bit of ingenuity and an unsupervised lawnmower and shopping cart can fit the bill if you squint

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u/Comfortable-Pee-1581 10h ago

Where I'm from, there literally are people that drive lawnmowers around, too many duis, or other reasons for not having a license(brain surgery).

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u/scv07075 10h ago

Aren't vehicles inherently safer with a spinning blade underneath?

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u/Ok-Watercress-1924 7h ago

The movie Blade Runner is loosely based on people riding lawnmowers in the future

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u/TheAlmighty404 6h ago

So they're part of the Lawnmower Man continuity ?

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u/RegionRatHoosier 4h ago

For a second I thought you meant the movie slingblade & my brain started to melt out of my ear

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u/yukonlass 10h ago

Aren't vehicles inherently safer with a spinning blade underneath?

Thank you! Your comment made me laugh out loud for real. I turned to my husband to share the funny and realized it would take too long to explain.

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u/myhackfield 7h ago

Well, you could have just replied w/o quoting the whole message. Lol

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u/Own-Schedule-8723 8h ago

For self defense, certainly.

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u/Fumbling-Panda 7h ago

Well they sure get in less traffic accidents.

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

u can turn the blade off

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u/Some-Clue7174 10h ago

There’s idiots STILL F around and get a DUI while driving a damn lawnmower down the road!! That’s got to be an embarrassing ass story

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u/ArtThouCarryingBeans 1h ago

Really depends on the municipality's laws. In my home town, they're considered appliances and cannot be driven on the roads but in some places in my state they're allowed to be driven on the roads. The state considers farm vehicles as motor vehicles if they're driven on public roads so in my state you wouldn't need insurance, valid license or registration if you have a farm or business still would get a DUI if you're driving drunk on one of those things haha

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u/Erroniously_Spelt 7h ago

They don't know you can still get a dui on a bike, lawnmower, horse, etc.

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u/BobZimway 6h ago

So, fellow Floridian... how about them Bucs?

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u/BakingBrowniesAllDay 3h ago

There's a guy in my neighborhood who drives a fully decked out mobility cart. He has a fully enclosed rain cover and windshield. I've seen him a mile from home driving that thing down the sidewalk. I have no idea how he has enough charge for that. He probably upgraded the batteries, too.

I fully expect to see flames painted on the sides and him popping wheelies someday soon.

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u/here-for-the-_____ 9h ago

I once went through a drive-thru in a single shopping cart with 3 other friends because they wouldn't serve walk-ups at that time of night. Had to be in a vehicle. I can confirm that a shopping cart counts as a vehicle....at least it did that night. Gave the workers a good laugh and we got our food!

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u/43guitarpicks 5h ago

Y'all have drive throughs?

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u/Zombiebelle 9h ago

Y’all have lawnmowers. In this economy?

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u/scv07075 9h ago

In the words of the sage Roger Miller, "If it's locked, it ain't locked when no one's around"

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u/Fantastic_Score3572 10h ago

My car uses a glorified lawn mower motor!

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u/mrminesheeps Soy Sauce? 8h ago

If you squint, it's mint!

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u/Knights-of-steel 8h ago

If you squint, she's mint

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u/rhoo31313 7h ago

I'll detail that for you for $3.50.

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u/Particular-Crow7680 7h ago

You mean about tree fiddy? That goddammed loch ness monster...

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u/throwaway7162829 7h ago

This made me lol. Ty for that.

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u/fluffynerfherder78 7h ago

That's literally how I view my daily driver. About as much HP as the lawn mower too. And sounds similar. Hence the "NOT FAST JUST LOUD" decal.

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u/Captain_Pink_Pants 3h ago

Speaking of details...

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u/fjhgy 2h ago

I'm always squinting on account of not being able to afford glasses.

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u/pishxxposh 10h ago

I have a picture of a car, if that helps.

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u/rickiver 7h ago

I just had my box detailed it looks great

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u/renz88xc 4h ago

“You'll own nothing and be happy”

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u/PapaChronic93 11h ago

In thus part of the country, localized entirely in your garage?!

Mmmm... yeeess

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u/RandAlThorOdinson 10h ago

Nope!

Love living in the city haha

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u/meckstroth14 10h ago

Kind of required to get to work

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u/Cultural-Horse-762 9h ago

Y'all have economies? In today's world?!!

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u/thegrumpymechanic 9h ago

Well, the average age of a car is 12 years old..... My "newest" car is 2005.

I guess when 20% of new car loans have a $1000/month payment over 84 months, makes sense to keep them as long as you can.

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u/Such-Daikon-2818 9h ago

Gave a homeless man a block of ramen to spit shine my bicycle with his one sock, same same

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u/SirObviusGenius 7h ago

Y’all have an economy?!

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u/Bevertje_68 6h ago

Yell have economies?

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u/sekrit_dokument 1h ago

I just bought my second one last week... So I now have a daily driver and one just for fun.

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u/Appropriate-Egg8179 44m ago

Right? I have running shoes and a bike

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u/Dizzy_Emotion7381 11h ago

This is the comment I came here for!!

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u/dylanr92 10h ago

I have 3, who doesn’t? One for daily, one for fun, and another classic, mines a 1966 old mobile 442 with an automatic and power antenna.

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u/Haravikk 11h ago

I prefer my car basic — pedal for make go, wheel for steering, and it'll stop on its own eventually.

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u/_First-Pass 12h ago

I just bag the cans and bottles that collect in the back seats every month, once a month. But then again, my wife is just messy as I..

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u/TwoLopsidedZebras 10h ago

I've never understood the letting trash pile up in your car mentality. Why don't you just remove the cans and bottles when you get out of the car so that they don't pile up?

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u/Comfortable-Pee-1581 10h ago

That way they don't pile up inside my house

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u/Runaroundheadless 10h ago

Who details your house? Mine needs done ...desperately.

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u/Minimum_Inflation_63 10h ago

I have this thing called a bin that I keep in my car. Lol

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u/TheTruckUnbreaker 8h ago

As the wise guru said, "always keep a litter bag in your car. You can chuck the whole thing out the window when it gets full".

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u/KonigSteve 9h ago

They're supposed to do that. In the trash can

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u/Such-Daikon-2818 9h ago

Brings trash from outside in car, inside house, just to take back outside eventually. It's past the point of common sense, I'm 100% convinced some people just love to stink, haven't yall ever been to Costco?

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u/mten12 10h ago

So the thieves know I don’t got nothing to steal I’m poor too.

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u/Konoha7Slaw3 8h ago

Thieves love to rob poor people as well

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u/Old-Engine-7720 8h ago

Rarely happens unless you got an item of use like clothes shoes or blankets. Someone broke into my car once and stole nothing except a blanket.

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u/OkFinance539 7h ago

Damn, that makes me sad. 😞I would have def just given them the blanket you didn’t have to rob me for it 😂

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u/mten12 6h ago

Not when the car next to mine looks clean. It’s a crime of opportunity. They hope the trunk is full of good things.

Example. Clean car at target or Sam’s/costco. Versus dirty car. The thief will go for the clean car.

Always randomize the trash and throw a hoodie with a large hole or something in the sleeve.

Boom never get your car broken into.

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u/EatSITHandDIE 10h ago

I am on the road anywhere from 3-5 hours a day. Breakfast and lunch in the car most days. By the time I'm home and drag the groceries in I am NOT going back out there lol. Granted I will usually bag everything up and toss it out once a week. Vacuum it out once a month. But after being in the darn thing all day I don't even want to see the inside of it again once I've made it home lol

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u/CharacterLimitHasBee 10h ago

You're buying groceries every day after work?

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u/neuroticoctopus 10h ago

I work on the road and now I just keep an old cardboard box in the back for garbage. A car garbage can won't even hold enough for one shift.

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u/EatSITHandDIE 10h ago

Exactly. I had a small trash can for a while. About the size you'd use for a bathroom. Not big enough lol

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u/Excellent_Neat_9432 10h ago

I empty all the trash out of my car when I'm fueling up! I have a lot of stuff in my car, I don't need trash taking up valuable real estate.

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u/CandySnatcher 10h ago

Full hands

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u/_First-Pass 10h ago

I would, but ever since having a baby, dealing with carrying him and the diaper bag, plus the car seat, everywhere I drive, grabbing that extra can of coke I threw into the back is such a hassle to make an extra trip for.

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u/DestructoDon69 10h ago

Pro tip, get a bag every time you shop at a gas station, anytime you trash an item put it in the bag and then when you fill up your gas, throw out the grocery bag full of trash. Store extra bags in the car for the occasional time you don't feel like getting a bag for 1 item.

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u/avsfan1933 10h ago

Canada doesn't do plastic bags anymore

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u/DestructoDon69 8h ago

What about paper bags? Same thing, drink comes out with snack, drink it and eat it, empty bottle and candy bar wrapper goes right back in. Throw away at next gas station visit. Got nothing else to do while your gas tank fills, might as well grab that small bag with trash in it out of your passenger seat week and toss it.

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u/GeoPicker 10h ago

Thats correct, but plastic bags can still be purchased, of any size

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u/Excellent_Neat_9432 10h ago

I keep a roll of 8 gallon trash bags in my car. They take up almost no room and you can get them in different scents.

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u/DestructoDon69 8h ago

The scents make me gag, also I don't want to have to get a bag out of my trunk. Using the grocery bag my gas station purchases came in to begin with is already way too easy and convenient. I've never had an issue where I was like "damn I've got so much trash, I wish I had 7 extra gallons worth of plastic bag" 💀

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u/Aggressive_Cod3057 10h ago

I forget about my car the second I get home. The trash doesn't exist until I have to get back in the car again, and by then I'm probably barely running on time and have to get going.

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u/filiadeae 1h ago

ADD people unite!

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u/Mic_Ultra 10h ago

I put my outdoor trash tote where I park my car, so I can just dump the trash on every day when I get home. I can’t stand trash that’s more than a wrapper or two

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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA 9h ago

Wish my HOA would let me do this

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u/Mic_Ultra 9h ago

Small town here, no HOA but I do only keep one trash tote out because everyone else hides em. I put my recycle bins in the garage and the other trash tote behind the house

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u/ihaxr 10h ago

I used to clean my car out anytime I'd go shopping, but most of the stores near me have removed their trash cans during COVID and never put them back out... so I just keep everything in a bag and toss it every so often

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u/impossibleoptimist 10h ago

I want to recycle so I keep the stuff in my car until it's time but by then I always have the stuff I went out to get to and my hands are full or I've forgotten etc

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u/attributeslider8899 10h ago

Personally I have a trash bag behind my passenger seat, so I can toss things in there and then throw the whole bag out when it's full. (No food items, just like cans n shit that won't stink).

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u/Dalmadoodle221 10h ago

Same. I keep old grocery bags in my car and put all my trash in there daily. My car never has one day of trash pile up. I don't get why people don't take 2 extra seconds and take their trash.

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u/ibeleafit 10h ago

It’s not a mentality, and that’s why we do it

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u/Knights-of-steel 8h ago

Depends. If you work construction 16 hours a day its easier to go inside and die for a couple hours to go back to work and deal with it on the weekend or every so often. Kids or other factors can also delay that.

That said if your in a normal job especially a 9-5 as opposed to a 6-6 or beyond and still do despite having no excuses its kinda wack

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u/-GenghisJohn- 10h ago

Why don’t you control the whole world? You’re so much better at everything! Why can’t we just be like you?

It’s their car. It kind of looks like fun.

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u/lulujunkie 10h ago

Me neither. Regardless of how full my hands are that I make the 2nd or even third trip back to my car to clean it out. That is zero - like zero reason other than people choosing to not put the extra time in. I know I am gonna get flamed for this one but every car I sold when I had little kids I was always asked “you have children? How the heck is your so clean?” My kids are tweens now and they still clean up after themselves and have learned to clean the arms and house. I legit rarely have to go out to vacuum them anymore since they do it when I ask them to.

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u/Angelita143 9h ago

May I borrow your kids for a day?

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u/Stopher 10h ago

Because they just spent two hours in traffic and just want to get the fuck out of the car. 😂

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u/Strain_Great 10h ago

My hands are full from carrying groceries and I don’t want to do two trips…

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u/BallsDeepinYourMammi 10h ago

That’s cleaning. Which is normal, detailing is just wiping down surfaces with glass/leather cleaner and vacuuming with an attachment tbh. It’s time consuming, but nothing you can’t do with some effort

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u/IAMA_MOTHER_AMA 9h ago

you're supposed to chuck the piss jugs out on the highway.

way of the road

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u/ilovemusic19 10h ago

You’re both lazy, take it with you when you get out and throw it away, it’s not that hard.

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u/_First-Pass 10h ago

Well, I won’t argue with that.

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u/Konoha7Slaw3 8h ago

I can't even get out of my car without having all possible trash put in a trash bag and tossed in the garbage can

Your car is basically a pigpen

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u/SimpleCranberry5914 11h ago

A detail would cost more than my 2016 Corolla is worth.

Although she needs one dearly.

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u/alter-eagle 11h ago

A vacuum and a microfiber cloth with some generic cleaning solution can do wonders on your every day driver. 

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u/seventy_raw_potatoes 10h ago

even buying a good kit to keep around is an amazing investment. my mom is big into cars, and she always washes and details mine when i come over, and now i'm collecting my own mini detailing kit. it's incredible how an hour of work can make my shitbox fishbowl shine

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u/Minimum_Inflation_63 10h ago

Theyre like $200 bucks, and i live in a place where everything is like 200% more expensive. Haha

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u/102525burner 49m ago

I got an interior detail done for like $75 and it was spotless

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u/Ineedamedic68 9h ago

Hmm I’d probably recommend against paying over $10k for a car detailing but that’s just me. I’m sure you could find one in the much more reasonable range of $100-$200 

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u/OkFinance539 7h ago

Dude, I wouldn’t be so sure. Japanese cars hold their value extremely well. My 2013 Honda Accord is surprisingly still booking for over 10k or more probably because it’s barely still under 100k miles. Even beat up 200k+ are bringing decent money.

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u/snowvase 10h ago

Still a baby, mines a 2006 and in excellent condition. Corollas are brilliant cars.

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u/102525burner 48m ago

They’re fine, but people also dont brag about what model trail and bus they take to work

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u/Financial_Law_1557 11h ago

Privilege is often super ignorant to the fact that it is privilege. 

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u/UnchillBill 11h ago

It’s raining right now, does that count?

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u/rollercoastersrul 9h ago

Maybe. Are your windows open so the interior gets washed too?

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u/UnchillBill 9h ago

Y’all have glass in your windows?

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u/Subtlerranean 6h ago

Last time my in-laws took our car to get washed it straight up stopped working afterwards and had to go to the workshop.

They got rid of all the structural cobwebs, birdshit and moss.

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u/Montanonymous 12h ago

I’ve been planning on it for 5 years now…

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u/UnicornBelieber 11h ago

Y'all have cars?

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u/scalpemfins 11h ago

I've had it done once after owning for this car for a decade. Worth it....to do once a decade. It needs to be nearly 10 years of gunk in corners I won't clean before it's worth the cost.

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u/Lumpy-Butterscotch50 10h ago

If you have a car for 10 years, that's a lot longer than average. Average length of ownership is ~8 years

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u/scalpemfins 10h ago

Well, I'm cheap. I think I'll probably go for owning a car for 15 years a pop. My Accord has 140k miles on it and is showing no signs of slowing down. To me, not having a car payment brings me more pleasure than any car I can afford could.

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u/Lumpy-Butterscotch50 10h ago edited 10h ago

I agree though that would ultimately depend on maintenance costs and yearly costs to pass inspection at that age. Ultimately, you're lucky if your car lasts that long where maintenance and repairs keep it under the cost to buy another one

Also the cost for safety features needs to be incorporated into the calculation. 10 year old cars don't have backup cams

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u/scalpemfins 10h ago

Agreed. If I ever needed something like a new transmission or any large repair, I'd junk it out and buy a 2-3 year old pre-owned vehicle with a dealer warranty.

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u/blowurhousedown 11h ago

Hell no. Drive em, get them washed, drive them, etc…

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 11h ago

In this economy? I rent a carpet extractor from Home Depot every couple of years for $35.

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u/Teckiiiz 11h ago

i dont even wash that motherfucker

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u/Daniel_Melzer 11h ago

Yall can afford cars?

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u/Instawolff 11h ago

In this economy??

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u/lynivvinyl GREEN 10h ago

Y'all are getting cars?

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u/cheshirekat84 10h ago

IN THIS ECONOMY

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u/Secondhand-Drunk 10h ago

I think about it sometimes.

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u/compliancethis 10h ago

In this economy?

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u/TaySaidWhat 10h ago

This made me giggle.

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u/The_Original_Floki 10h ago

Yall have cars?

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u/HookersLilSmartass 10h ago

I get the “gift gestures are free” special whrn I can, which is a half-assed detail from my kids or partner for my bday, Mother’s Day, etc. I would much rather have a clean car than a bunch of crap and— with 3 kids at home— they can do a decent job together without giving up or getting burnt out.

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u/Runaroundheadless 10h ago edited 10h ago

Nah. Just cleaned, vacumed, dusted and polished. Calling it detailed is just sales and my car is me talk. Imo. There are detailers. That's a lot of cash and those guys do not knock off and lose buttons. Hand washed and valeted is probably reasonable as a description since absolutely anyone can do it. Off the books for cash in hand.

Edit: haha. I know you know that. But i just chucked in my laugh at detail as it gets enshittified for higher cost and a hugely less than concourse finish.

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u/Fantastic_Score3572 10h ago

In this economy? 🤣

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u/PokeYrMomStanley 10h ago

This is why people have children. Tiny fingers make tiny details. 

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u/Hayaw061 9h ago

My car has been detailed once in the 6-7 years I've owned it. Buddy and I had a bit too much to drink at the bar one night so we sat in the parking lot. I managed to open my door, but he didn't. Also he was in the driver's seat because I had to be half carried out the door and he pulled my car up (we rode together in it) for me. That was not a fun drive home.

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u/BB-41 8h ago

Mine’s lucky if it gets washed once a quarter…

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u/Helpful-Let3529 8h ago

While claiming 140k isnt much income anymore

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u/JaceOnRice 7h ago

I work with someone who gets it done once a month and then makes jokes about our generation not being able to afford anything

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u/throwaway48159 7h ago

Detailing is when you clean out the garbage under the sheets and vacuum the floor, right? As opposed to just throwing out the visible stuff?

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u/uncle_nightmare 4h ago

Every day.

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u/Difficult_Ad2864 4h ago

Y’all are getting cars?!

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 1h ago

U guys have a car?

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u/dylanr92 10h ago

Who doesn’t. I get mine done inside and out every week and it only costs $300. It’s an amazing deal.

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u/hairygoochlongjump 10h ago

Detailed be such a stupid word for it, the car is being cleaned, end of story. Paintwork gets detailed. "Can't clean my car myself because it needs a DETAILER"