Clean your steering wheels!!

[jumpingginger]

It suddenly dawned on me that I spend my life handling horses and dogs, mud, muck, poo, hay, and every disgusting thing you can think of, and then getting in my car and driving. So today I got an antibacterial wipe, and cleaned my steering wheel!
The results.... I was absolutely shocked, disgusted and appalled!! The wipe came out black, and subsequent one's after that too! I kept scubbing and scrubbing but the dirt was so engrained!! URGH!!!
No wonder I am always ill, it probably had swine flu, e-coli, MRSA, etc on it!!

So if you all have a spare minute you may want to do the same, it will probably shock you!!

 

[Fox07]

hmm i need to clean, sorry quarantine, my car!

 

[Dottie]

Thats a very good point actually!

I dread to think what is festering on mine!

 

[Louby]

Me too

Never given this much thought but yuk, I muck out before I go to work and eat my brekky in the carpark before going into work. Eeeew, I will be cleaning mine too.

 

[humblepie]

OH is a mechanic and he often comments on yukky steering wheels and always wears gloves!

 

[Ziggy_]

I actually realised this and cleaned mine last week, when I got in the car with clean hands, and got out at the other end with greasy hands which smelt like horse

The amount of dirt that came away was disgusting, there was a build up of grease from my horse's coat where I've groomed her then got in the car, it was foul!

And from now on I'm washing my hands before I drive home too!

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

that is disgusting.,,,,,, ive just read this post to me OH as car cleaning is his department lol

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

Its funny, i keep thinking about this too, i must clean my car, it is rather hideous at the moment, ans its not just the steering wheel, hate to think whats living on mine!!!

 

[*hic*]

PMSL - I drove my daughter's car today and felt my hands sticky so I made her give me a baby wipe to clean the wheel and it was GROSS! If took 10 baby wipes until it was clean.

 

[Fii]

And the door handle on the inside, filthy!!!

 

[stroppymare153]

don't worry! - constant exposure to germs and stuff only builds your immune system.

 

[Donkeymad]

I actually make a point of (trying) to ensure my hands are clean before I get in. They are not always, but I do regularly clean the steering wheel anyhow *polishes halo*

 

[Hippona]

See...if I did that it would only show up the rest of the car.....and then I'd have to clean that too......

My Disco was in having a new exhaust fitted today so OH was forced to let me use his car.....whilst weeping quietly he covered all the seats in old duvets/towels....lest any part of my body touch the interior of his car....I felt like a leper

 

[CorvusCorax]

Germs are good for you! My car is basically a mobile office/kennel/shed

 

[golddustsara]

I've never cleaned my wheel

I did used to alcohol rub my hands before driving but I am a bit intermittent with it...

 

[Mike007]

No way. It has taken me 20 years to build up the layers of spilt cofee and grease from bacon sandwiches.It is now the steeringwheel equivalent of rubber reins,with the added benefit that if I am ever trapped in a blizzard,I could probably eat it.

 

[Puppy]

I need to clean my car, but can't as a neighbour has been parked outside my house for the best part of 3 weeks,

and I can't get my hoover to where I have to park up the road... However, I don't think my steering wheel is likely to be too bad, as I tend to wash my hands before I leave the yard!

 

[dixieandfinn]

[ QUOTE ]
No way. It has taken me 20 years to build up the layers of spilt cofee and grease from bacon sandwiches.It is now the steeringwheel equivalent of rubber reins,with the added benefit that if I am ever trapped in a blizzard,I could probably eat it.

[/ QUOTE ]
hahaha just spat my coffee out laughing at this!!!

 

[Faithkat]

I did exactly the same as you some time ago - it was disgusting - so I have a good go at it about once a month now. On a similar subject, I read something somewhere about handbags. You know, in the normal course of events we all put them on the floor of wherever (car, house, shop, tack room etc) and then perhaps plonk them down onto a kitchen worktop with God knows what adhering to the bottom of it . . . .

 

[Foxford]

I keep a packet of baby wipes so when I'm done at the yard I give my hands a quick wipe before I get in the car.
Still, just thinking about the mornings I've been in a rush to get to work - errrr!!

 

[Enfys]

[ QUOTE ]
No way. It has taken me 20 years to build up the layers of spilt cofee and grease from bacon sandwiches.It is now the steeringwheel equivalent of rubber reins,with the added benefit that if I am ever trapped in a blizzard,I could probably eat it.

[/ QUOTE ]

ROFLMAO I can see the headlines now!

 

[LankyDoodle]

I am the only one in the chn's home I work in, who when cleaning the cars on a Saturday, which everyone gets a turn at as everyone does a Sat every third week, actually cleans the steering wheel. I know the men pick their noses and their bums and then touch the wheel!