German car wash £35 !!!

[gingerjedi]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

[Mich the Tester]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

You can instruct your driver to use a self service car wash, which is much cheaper.

[shaunbhoy]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

Used to get my car washed regularly at the local car washes in Germany back in the eighties. Fairly high-tech machines they used, but don't recall them being any more pricey than the equivalent ones over here. Sounds like scaremongering to me.

[MaryPoppins]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

Nah. The poles do a nice job on mine for a tenner.

[Sysman]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

Apple and oranges. What price is a car valet in Blighty?

As Mitch says, a self service jobby is far less, though I stopped using those after one dumped a thick layer of wax on my windscreen. I now use a place which has the appropriate brushes, sprays and driers to do the job myself. It's kinder on the paintwork and costs less than a pint in the local pub.

[PRC1964]

I just don't wash my car.

[BlasterBates]

I pay 5 EUR for the local car wash, the most expensive one would be about 16 EUR.

It could be that the 35 EUR means you get washed and polished personally by a car cleaning "professional", not in an automatic car wash. Though I suspect the report is just completely wrong.

[shaunbhoy]

I pay 5 EUR for the local car wash, the most expensive one would be about 16 EUR.

It could be that the 35 EUR means you get washed and polished personally by a car cleaning "professional", not in an automatic car wash. Though I suspect the report is just completely wrong.

I suspect there exists, somewhere, a hockeystick graph detailing the relative costs of Teutonic Car Washing.

[swamp]

Why can't you wash your car in Germany?

[Doggy Styles]

They said on the BBC news this morning that it's illegal to clean your own car due to environmental impact and a pro with the correct license and facilities charges £35.

How far off the mark is this? Can't be true can it?

I heard an interview with someone on the radio this morning pushing for regulating people-powered car washes. He was going on about minimum wages and the cost of disposing billions of litres of effluent.

It didn't sound as if the standards were actually in operation, and he sounded like he was p*ssing in the wind, but I wasn't paying 100% attention.

If he wanted a load of new regulations against cleaning your own car he must be a Labour politician - they love tying everyone up in red tape - so it's just as well he's not in power to implement it.