The cost of cleaning your cab

slowlane:

nightline:

slowlane:
I’m not really sure how much I spend, but I treat the lorry as if it is my own. It makes for a depressing first shift each week when I come back and find that it’s a state inside and out, but the rest of the week is fine.

Pledge does the glass inside and out.
Rubbing alcohol cleans the dash/doors/floor.
Baby wipes are good for cleaning the steering wheel during the day, and for dealing with smudges of fifth wheel grease kindly deposited at random by the relief driver.
I have a can of febreeze but only use it at the end of the week when I leave.
A cheapo paintbrush dusts the nooks and crannnies of the dash and vents.
Handbrush for the floor.

Microfibres for floor, dash, inside glass, outside glass and one as a doormat for my boots.

Outside, its washing up liquid to clean and I have a telescopic wash brush I bought. Plus a different handbrush for the wheels, and a longer handle brush to reach as much of the frame as I can. And a sponge for wiggling into the air deflectors.
Chrome Ultra Tyre Shine for the tyres and plastics.
Chrome Fast Wax occasionally on the outside.

Someone badly needs to get a life
I love the part where you only spray fabreaze at end of week when leaving cab Why

Because since I live in it during the week, what’s the point - it doesn’t smell of anything to me as I’m immersed in it, but giving it a bit of a spray down to sort out the smell of cooking etc makes sure it’s a nice environment for the relief driver to get into when I’m off.

As for getting a life, I keep my lorry in a condition that makes me happy. What’s it to you whether I put in more or less effort than anyone else?

Washing up liquid is about the worst thing to wash a vehicle in, it is full of salt and also dissolves anti corrosion wax that protects the thing from rust.

Alright on a truck I guess but not on your car…

Anti corrosion wax that protects it from rust…

The paint protects it from rust. Pretty sure fairy liquid doesn’t melt paint.

A.

Adonis.:
Anti corrosion wax that protects it from rust…

The paint protects it from rust. Pretty sure fairy liquid doesn’t melt paint.

A.

It will take any polish off the paint, and eat into the lacquer. Repeated use will fade paint as it eats into it.

telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/ … -your-car/

I AM NOT A TELEGRAPH READER…

Darkside:

Adonis.:
Anti corrosion wax that protects it from rust…

The paint protects it from rust. Pretty sure fairy liquid doesn’t melt paint.

A.

It will take any polish off the paint, and eat into the lacquer. Repeated use will fade paint as it eats into it.

telegraph.co.uk/cars/advice/ … -your-car/

I AM NOT A TELEGRAPH READER…

Yep, very commonly used to strip protection from paint, does a good job of it. The rest about it eating into paint and eating into lacquer is utter dog toffee.

If that was the case youd have almost half the cars on the road with ruined clear coat and faded paint.

A.