How many times a Month do you figure you wash your truck?

[2024RAM0wner]

I wash it about 6-8 times a year, and wax it in Fall and again in Spring.

 

[RAM DRVR]

Summertime about once a week.
Wintertime about once a month. Even in the rain

 

[Power247]

Like a lot on here, twice a month spring to fall and maybe once in winter.

 

[relbus]

Daily for the most part. Truck is always clean.. I have a membership for unlimited washes at the car wash chain near us.
I literally just got home from washing it.

 

[russ2588]

My truck gets filthy everyday at work and not just mud and dirt , so i wash it at the end of my work week and after work if i have any running to do in it.

 

[justpassinthru]

Less than once a month. Seldom in the winter, unless it's been on salted roads. If it gets really muddy after some fun, definitely. If it gets really dusty from long road trips, okay. But most of the time it just collects a small bit of road dust. Washing that off is just asking for more.

 

[Pasta4lnch]

I shut my water off in the late fall for the winter so, unfortunately, I dont wash in the winter. I think if there was a really bad snow and I could see a ton of salt I'd take it to be washed. During the summer about every week or every other week I'll wash it...usually when I mow the lawn.

 

[RAM DRVR]

Hand wash 6-8 times in summer, 2-3 times winter.

 

[motorhead426]

I used to be a "once a week" guy. But once I learned the nitty-gritty or auto detailing I stopped washing as much. I'm once a month in the summer and a couple times in the winter. Here in Michigan winter washing can be tricky. If it's too cold you can get water in the wheels, then it freezes causing an imbalance (learned that the hard way). Also have to worry about doors/locks freezing shut. Mainly winter time is just a spray off at the quarter wash for the salt build up, then it's dirty by the time you get home. I have hot water hookups in the driveway, but I have to worry about ice in the driveway.
Summer time hand washing I've cut back on. I've learned that the more you wipe things across the paint (soapy mitts & drying towels) the more scratching you get. Even with the best methods the chance for clear coat scratches is there.
I haven't taken any of mine or wifes vehicles through an autowash in probably 15 years... No swirls for us!
I might be a bit OCD about it, but my wife drives the cleanest 8 year old Grand Caravan you've ever seen in a salt belt state. Both cars have been rubberized undercoated. Seems to be working pretty good... Now if I could just get her to park away from other cars LOL.

 

[unclelala]

Summer time hand washing I've cut back on. I've learned that the more you wipe things across the paint (soapy mitts & drying towels) the more scratching you get. Even with the best methods the chance for clear coat scratches is there.

I'm in Ontario I get similar weather. A good quality ceramic coating protects the clear coat so washing is OK as long as its rinsed well because you have that slippery soap in your
favor but drying is bad, its a direct contact with the clear coat especially without ceramic coating.
I use my car electric blow dryer and if I don't dry it I park in the shade to dry off.
I never use a towel or a chamois.

I haven't taken any of mine or wifes vehicles through an autowash in probably 15 years... No swirls for us!

Not only is the swirl brushes a disaster for paint and clear coats but even the touch less car wash places change their soap in the winter to a
much stronger formula. A car wash manager told me that the winter soap is much stronger so its able to clean all the
salt and sand from the car. So even though there are no brushes the harm is being done by the stronger soap.
In the winter I don't really wash it at all. I will take it to a detailer maybe once a winter.
I find with the ceramic coating the snow and the rain seem to keep it clean enough.

 

[Rockcrawlindude]

Once or twice a year whether it needs it or not

 

[Trooper]

once in the last two years, still looks clean
I am in SoCal however so now bad weather

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

Im at about once in the last 2 years. Its black you cant leave the driveway without it getting dirty. I do spray the salt off once or twice in the winter but thats just a quick pressure wash no soap

 

[jetrinka]

You guys wash your trucks?

 

[Units]

I usually wash about every other month. It rains quite a bit here in south Ms. so it stays fairly clean. It is a truck, so……