re: When did you stop caring about a clean vehicle?

I’ve never cared much about the exterior. I’ve always been a farm boy. Didn’t see much reason to clean it just for it to be dirty an hour later.

I kept the interior clean as hell until I had a toddler. There’s no keeping up with that one. I’ll clean it when she’s 10.

I don’t stress over my car being “clean”, but I don’t let junk or trash accumulate on the inside. It’s nothing to grab a handful of whatever every time you get out.

Never.

And I have two boys that love making messes.

Clean cars and a clean home is good for one’s mental health.

Now does shite get messy (absolutely), but I never let it go beyond several days

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I’ve never cared much about the exterior. I’ve always been a farm boy. Didn’t see much reason to clean it just for it to be dirty an hour later. I kept the interior clean as hell until I had a toddler. There’s no keeping up with that one. I’ll clean it when she’s 10

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I can’t say it any better than Cotton just did.

When I started driving a Wrangler. Would leave the mud slung all over it from the weekend. Park with the top down next to the sparking clean luxury cars at whatever Fortune 100 company I worked for at the time.

Never, can't stand having a dirty car.

I kept my little Mazda pickup immaculate inside and out till about 150,000 miles. Then I unavoidably ran into a road south of El Dorado (ugh( that had just been tarred. Forget that. Kept kinda clean till traded in at 405,000.

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But its an obsession for him almost. It takes him about 3 hours every time he washes his truck, then if he washes his wife's car that's another 3 hours. He cleans the rims with a toothbrush. He doesn't miss a spot on the inside and he drives slow because he is worried about getting his truck dirty.

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I'm not at this level. I do wash my car weekly inside/out though. Don't allow food or drinks inside.

I stopped caring for a few reasons. The first was because I got married and only use my vehicles for a utility, vs. pleasure. I don't hop in them anymore to just go take a ride. The second, when I realized how much a dealership's "trade-in value" does not care how good you took care of it, as it's only numbers to them. The third, when it became easy to just go buy another one. I now use my time to do other things that I enjoy more at this stage in my life.

I will, however, hire someone to clean them from time to time. One vehicle is a nice SUV and this one is cleaned more often. On the other hand, my truck was probably washed about three times over the course of the last 12 months.