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Just heard on the news that you can legally wash your car from Saturday in Sydney as water restrictions are being relaxed. You have to have a trigger nozzle though (like $5 from Big W).

Anyway I never stopped washing the car as the bucket law is just dumb (how does pouring buckets full of water everywhere use less than a quick spray from a trigger) but now you don't have to worry about the boys in yellow...

:laugh:

I dont know mate im with you 100%.. I just throw buckets all over the car and set to it.. Still wastes so much water.. I guess its aimed at the fools who use the hose and dont have a nozzle on it to stop water spewing out while your soaping/chaming.

Yes... this has changed a lot :(

Might go to washing the car with buckets now. Not as much of a thrill knowing that you're breaking the rules and there's an imminent threat of Rhonda in her "Water Restrictions Patrol" Camry coming over to bust your ass for using the hose ;)

Edited by Yidz

washed our two cars today, its nice to be able to just get the hose out and wash your car in your own driveway. But for some reason it still didnt felt right using all that water. ah heck my skylines squeaky clean now!

It has been great fun during the water restrictions because I have a water tank. I wash what ever I like when ever I like and they can all go and get stuffed.

You would not believe the looks I get when I wash down the house or the driveway - and the best thing is when the tank is gets empty you just plug the hose into it and some how it just fills up and you start all over again.

It has been great fun during the water restrictions because I have a water tank. I wash what ever I like when ever I like and they can all go and get stuffed.

You would not believe the looks I get when I wash down the house or the driveway - and the best thing is when the tank is gets empty you just plug the hose into it and some how it just fills up and you start all over again.

haha thats awesome never thought someone will do that...but somehow i dont think thats what the water tanks designed to do.

so can you hose your car in the street with a trigger nozzle? i live in an apartment and my car can't

make it down the driveway it scrapes :D

Yeah, you cant just use a normal hose end. It needs to be the one like a gun that turns off as soon as you let go of the trigger.

I have same issue as you, although I can get down fine, just scrapes on the way out. Except I look like a twat when I leave cause the only way to turn out with least scrapage is into the deadend. So I come out of the driveway and then have to do 3point turn to turn around!!!!!

I think the idea is that if people have to use buckets they just won't wash it at all. Or they'll go to a car wash. You waste more water with buckets no question, but if only 2/10 people waste buckets of water it has to be less than 10/10 with hoses.

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