Why do owners not take care of their cars?

sing tha praise for the auto gods . my belief is if you take care of the vehicle , the vehicle will take care of you, and if you have the money to buy a lexus, a jaguar, mercededs or even a bmw, or even a ford pinto take care of it and it will take care of you.

Unfortunately, people consider themselves "above" washing their own cars, call it arrogance, call it self-importance, whatever, but I see it all the time in my area. You can also tell that they never rotate their tires, since the rears are never dirty, as having been switched from the front. You see this a lot in luxury vehicle owners. "I have a Mercedes and I have so much much money, I don't even have to take care of it".

The biggest reason, though, is that people think they don't have enough time to do things - we're addicted to our cell phones, video games, forums like this and those relating to hobbies or cars, and work 40 hours a week, but still complain that they don't have enough time. Pretty ridiculous, considering there are many people out there that work full-time, take care of their families, do 10-20 hours of volunteer work a week, and still have time to take care of their vehicles.

My answers don't make the problem go away, but hopefully make it all make sense. By the way, I'm in that last group, and my OZs and Rotas are always clean, unless it's raining.

I couldn't agree more. It galls me to see a 50k car with "Wash Me" emblazoned in the dust on the vehicle. And I see it alot. I live in Vegas and alot of cash is in people's pockets here and they won't get a car wash. We do. We go once a week and get the whole thing cleaned. I refuse to ride around in a dumpy looking car like the last white trash. Hey everybody out there, when you come to Vegas you can laugh at all these rich jerkwater hillbillies with a Hummer (Hummers are very big here) that's covered in soot and some prankster has "Wash Me" written on it. It's a laugh riot to me. I could see it if it's Hillbilly Junction and people have no teeth, but this is supposed to be a classy city. It's not. If people think it is and they live here, then I know they have a crack pipe on them.

I've seen many vehicles here in the central valley that need washes. My neighbor for ie. has a Lexus ES 350. he must have it washed once every 3 weeks. I've never seen him do it. One day I had been outside watering as he came home. I asked him directly how come he takes so long in between washes and his response was it is a leased car and will turn it in as soon as he is bored and get a new one. To each his own.

Hello, I have a theory. Maybe those particular car owners are simply so busy paying for those cars that they don't have time to take care of them. Or, we could just blame the government and say what I've been thinking for a long time. The U.S. government should require a national auto test annually, just like in other countries. I've done some traveling, and I've noticed that you don't really see a lot of crap cars in places like Ireland and China. So, basically what I am saying is that people are too busy, and our governments crap. :)