{"id":2996,"date":"2012-10-24T20:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2014-08-24T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T17:08:48","slug":"how-clean-is-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/how-clean-is-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clean is Your Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/washing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2997\" title=\"washing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/washing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/washing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/washing-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Here at www.wheelsforwomen.ie we carried out a survey to assess our readers\u2019 attitudes to car cleanliness we look \u00a0at the results of our survey. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems that our readers are not obsessed with car cleanliness but the majority of you do retain some standards when it comes to keeping the chrome shiny and the bodywork clean!<\/p>\n<p>How important is car cleanliness to you? Is your car sparkling or does the inside of it resemble a rubbish tip? Maybe you have followed Suzanne\u2019s car wash guide and given your car that \u201cshowroom shine\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Keeping a car clean may not be at the top of everyone\u2019s priority list. It might come at the end of a long list of more important things that need to be kept clean (the kitchen, house, family dog, children etc.!).<\/p>\n<p>In our survey, we asked if you had ever washed your own car. It might seem like a crazy question but I do know one or two people who up to recently had never washed their own car! Only 5% of our survey respondents said that they had never washed their own car so it seems that most of you have no problem pulling on the Marigolds and getting down to the business of car washing.<\/p>\n<p>A small proportion of you, just 5%, wash your car weekly. The majority of you (35%) wash your car occasionally but 30% of you wash your car monthly which is perfectly acceptable.\u00a0 20% of you wash your car every two weeks. Just 10% of you say that your car is rarely washed. Of course our survey cannot measure how dirty your car was before it gets washed. By the nature of where we live or the roads our cars spend most of their time driving on, some cars will be more in need of a wash than others!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2999\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart2.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2999\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2999\" title=\"pic_chart2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart2.gif 581w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart2-300x176.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How important is the interior of your car?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We also assessed our readers\u2019 attitudes to keeping the exterior and interior of their car clean. The majority of respondents, at 35%, said that it was \u201csomewhat important\u201d to keep the exterior of their car clean. By contrast the majority of respondents (35%) rated keeping the interior of their car clean as \u201cimportant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems you are a practical bunch and rate interior car cleanliness higher than keeping the bodywork clean.<\/p>\n<p>If the results of our survey have reminded you that your car might be in need of a little TLC why not check out Suzanne\u2019s Car Wash Guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/car-wash-guide\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2998\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart1.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2998\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2998\" title=\"pic_chart1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart1.gif 581w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pic_chart1-300x176.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How important is the exterior of your car?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Full Results<\/strong><strong>\u00a0of our survey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How\u00a0often\u00a0do you wash your car?<br \/>\n<\/strong>5%, wash your car weekly<br \/>\n20% wash your car every two weeks<br \/>\n30% wash your car monthly<br \/>\n35% wash your car occasionally<br \/>\n10% rarely wash your car<\/p>\n<p><strong>How important is it to you to keep the interior of your car clean?<br \/>\n<\/strong>35% \u00a0rated keeping the interior of their car clean as \u201cimportant\u201d.<br \/>\n25%\u00a0rated keeping the interior of their car clean as \u201csomewhat important\u201d.<br \/>\n17% rated\u00a0keeping the interior of their car clean as \u201cnot important at all\u201d.<br \/>\n23% rated\u00a0keeping the interior of their car clean as \u201cvery important\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How important is it to you to keep the exterior of your car clean<\/strong><br \/>\n28% rated\u00a0keeping the exterior of their car clean as \u201cimportant\u201d.<br \/>\n35% rated\u00a0keeping the exterior of their car clean as \u201csomewhat important\u201d.<br \/>\n16% rated\u00a0keeping the exterior of their car clean as \u201cNot important at all\u201d.<br \/>\n21%\u00a0 rated\u00a0keeping the exterior of their car clean as \u201cvery important\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>25<sup>th<\/sup> October, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at www.wheelsforwomen.ie we carried out a survey to assess our readers\u2019 attitudes to car cleanliness we look \u00a0at the results of our survey. 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