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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Makarov
Nothing wrong with taking care of your ride. I try to keep mine in good shape, between daily driving, hunting and camping out of it. I stay outta the mud as much as I can. It's too much trouble to clean it all out of the undercarriage. Mud + Poor maintainance= Rust, and rust does not play well with unibody vehicles. I also cant stand a gross interior. There is no reason for moldy/smelly carpet and stained up seats. Ugh.
That's what leather and bedliner is for!
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 07:19 PM
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Clean but with lots of dog hair all over the interior
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 08:07 PM
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I Wash and wax every couple of weeks. The cycle usually goes like this:

1. John washes and waxes his Jeep.
2. John forces himself to stay on the pavement for about a week.
3. Saturday Night rolls around and John breaks down and takes his Jeep above the lake. Contact with tree branches ensues.
4. John leaves his Jeep muddy for about a week, every once in a while noticing a scratch through the mud and cringing.
5. John guilts himself into spending 4 hours washing and painstakingly waxing and buffing every singe scratch out of the Jeep.
Repeat.
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 08:50 PM
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I normally wash it as per dirt, but once a year i take a few days and do everything. Wash, wax, lubricate vinyl/rubber/plastics, polish chrome, touch up paint, clean every crease inside and out. All so i can take it to a car show. Here's a pic from said car show.
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 11:44 PM
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I was mine more in the winter then the summer. Mainly to get all that damn rocksalt off the body, trying to save my almost rust free jeep from rusting away. I clean my interior alot though. The outside can be dirty but the inside must be clean! Thats the only thing I would really clean after I go offroading.
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Old Oct 13, 2011 | 11:59 PM
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it looks like this when no rain

how do u like your jeep (pictures)-imag0438.jpg

and like this after the rain

how do u like your jeep (pictures)-imag0075.jpg
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:04 AM
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have had it for over a year and never washed it...but its a beater so rainshed will
do and i dont do any hard core mudding...a splash here and there....did spray it off once when it was dusty from pollen

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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 02:45 AM
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i wheel it, leave the dirt and mud on for a few days, (4 or 5) get annoyed of my *** turning brown so i do a thorough clean inside and hose down the outside.. its still pretty dirty but it started raining so i didn't wanna clean it
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 06:41 AM
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"How do you like your rig?"... cover in blondes
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 07:57 AM
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Only mall crawlers and attention ****** like to drive around/through town with a dirty Jeep.
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:06 PM
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nice nice i try to keep my as clean as possible ive already shampooed the interior twice this summer and wash the exterior at least 3xs a month. Although it does look pretty cool with mud for a day or two. Once winter comes I am gonna be washing it weekly because Chicago puts insane amounts of salt.
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:11 PM
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A clean XJ shows off trail damage much beter than when it's covered in mud.
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by lynskynbnd
A clean XJ shows off trail damage much beter than when it's covered in mud.
Yep.
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Old Oct 14, 2011 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by lynskynbnd
A clean XJ shows off trail damage much beter than when it's covered in mud.
Trail damgage is for people... Ill stop myself.
It looks awful, worse so than mud.

I wash mine in the summer probably once a week. During the fall it gets neglected. And The winter I wash it as much as I can. Calcium chloride rots stuff faster than rock salt.
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