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Washing your Car in the Street

Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Floreus » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:36 am

I find it amazing the number of foreigners are still washing their cars in the street.

They don't realise that they could be facing a big fine.

The recent sandy rain created many to use this illegal practice.
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Mac3blade » Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:56 am

How are people supposed to know these rules? I imagine most people washing their car on the street are using water that they are paying for.
What is the difference between people washing their car on their driveway or on the street as the water runs out, over the footpath and onto the road anyway?
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Chrisdee » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:11 am

I told a neighbour yesterday if the police see him washing the car he could get a hefty fine, I may as well have been talking to the wall, didn't give a monkeys
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby marcliff » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:20 am

Mac3blade wrote:How are people supposed to know these rules? I imagine most people washing their car on the street are using water that they are paying for.
What is the difference between people washing their car on their driveway or on the street as the water runs out, over the footpath and onto the road anyway?
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It's to stop a. The waste of water. If you take it to a car wash the water is recycled, filtered and used again.
b. To stop detergents and chemicals getting into the domestic system down the drains. Again, a car wash will clean and recycle the water.

It doesn't matter if you do it on the street or on your driveway, if the water runs into the public road and the sewer system you can be fined.

People should know the "rules". Many people come here expecting things to be the same as their home country and get a shock when rules of the road and other things are "different" and call them weird. Spain suffers quite high periods of drought because of the lack of rain so these rules are anything but weird.
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Chrisdee » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:54 am

How can you find all the rules though, similar to putting your rubbish in the bins between 8pm - 11pm, lots of the signs on the bins have worn off
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby GLASSMAN » Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:45 am

the rules are available to view at your local town hall,
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Chrisdee » Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:51 am

Didn't realise that, I shall try and find out
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby dr.doolittle » Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:28 am

The President of our urb washed his car in the street, i guess that,s ok
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Chrisdee » Wed Jul 10, 2019 11:38 am

Lots of people do things they shouldn't. Doesn't make it right. We stopped at a 'Stop' sign the other day, well, according to the car behind us, we had committed murder or worse! He was up our arse all the way up the street and going mental, but would he pay our fine if we got caught for not stopping, I think we all know the answer to that.
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Re: Washing your Car in the Street

Postby Floreus » Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:00 pm

I'm not going to get involved in a slagging match, just ask the police.
I've lived in Spain over 16 years and not only in the Quesada area and if you're not familiar with Spanish Law, go to the police station and ask.
The fines can range between 30€ to 3000€
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