# Would you spend money to keep your car looking good cosmetically?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/would-you-spend-money-to-keep-your-car-looking-good-cosmetically/195117>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [June 11, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/would-you-spend-money-to-keep-your-car-looking-good-cosmetically/195117 "2024-06-11T01:05:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sheridanpaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@sheridanpaul](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sheridanpaul)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/would-you-spend-money-to-keep-your-car-looking-good-cosmetically/195117/21 "2024-06-16T19:19:51Z")

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Car wash? Once year to get the road salt off, before lanolin Fluid-Film undercoat treatment.  
(I care more that the frame holds together in crash than how it looks…)  
Big city living, at a stoplight guy next to me offers to fix dent in door for $50. My reply? “I LIKE that dent, and the others too…it makes this less stealable!”  
Don’t ask me how I dress or “groom” !!  
Last haircut was 1970. Remember to comb if I pass a mirror. Wife trims beard since she has to look at me.  
Clothes? Let’s just say I had gotten offered quarters in the city, declined politely, I was more likely to hand out dollars since I had the ability. Not spending it on clothes…  
Car? Tool to get me safely from Point A to B. Unfortunately, a necessity in rural areas. Would sooner spend $ on best tires than a polish.  
Not judging books (people, machines…) by covers makes sense to me.

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/would-you-spend-money-to-keep-your-car-looking-good-cosmetically/195117/22 "2024-06-16T20:24:09Z")

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1970? During the lockdown I was at the barber the last day he could be open. Nothing open in Minnesota and only necessary driving. After two months I had decided to drive 90 miles across the Iowa border to a barber shop. My excuse if I was stopped was going to be a sick cousin in mason city. Heh heh, didn’t have to. The shop opened up again. I go once a month.

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**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/would-you-spend-money-to-keep-your-car-looking-good-cosmetically/195117/23 "2024-06-16T21:26:30Z")

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My hair is halfway down my back. I say let it grow. And I don’t recall any active driving restrictions.

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