An item on AOL today:
"Car steering wheels carry more than twice as many germs as the average toilet seat, according to research.
A study found the average steering wheel had 41,600 germs nestling on its surface, compared with toilet seats that have on average 17,400. "The unhygienic state of our cars was put down to drivers' leaving traces of food or dirt behind and not bothering to clean up. Five per cent of motorists admitted they had never cleaned their car and just 13 per cent cleaned them regularly. A typical response was that people's cars were rarely cleaned, an answer given by 45 per cent of those surveyed.
Daniel Kyle, a car care buyer for Tesco, which commissioned the survey of more than 1,000 drivers, said Brits needed to clean their cars more often because the steering wheel was an ideal breeding place for germs. He said: "People spend a lot of time in the car cabin and are in constant contact with the wheel, so naturally germs are passed on. If food or dirt is transmitted on to the wheel and not regularly cleaned, then the germs multiply and pretty quickly you can be left with an area more unsanitary than a toilet.""
I'm with the 87% who don't clean the car regularly, but I can't say it's affected my health. Anyone gone down with a bug whilst driving?
Chris M
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Friend of mine dabbled in aromatherapy years ago and gave me some stuff which, he said, would relieve driver stress if smeared on the steering wheel rim. Didn't work for me but it never got wiped off so who knows whom it helped in later years?
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"Daniel Kyle, a car care buyer for Tesco, which commissioned the survey of more than 1,000 drivers, said Brits needed to clean their cars more often" particularly in the run-up to Christmas - after all the guy has a mortgage to pay!
Another instance of a hidden agenda so gig you can see it!
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People love comparing things with toilet seats, but the truth is they're not really very dirty! In the bathroom, taps are the dirtiest items. Anything you touch with your hands will contain more germs than things only touched with your backside. My hands cut raw meat, put the rubbish out, and touch hundreds of potentially filthy surfaces each day. I can't say the same for my backside!
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MY car and my self are a paragon of cleanliness. Why I was only talking about it last night, just after I had kissed the dog* good night. *Fifi not Nicole before you pipe up BBD.
We need more exposure to germs. Immunity level are dropping becuase we are becoming too clean. I think the last time I cleaned a steering wheel was after it became so sticky I had trouble letting go.
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>>We need more exposure to germs. Immunity levels are dropping because we are becoming too clean>>
Absolutely spot on.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Cleaning a steering wheel with bleach is not the best of ideas.
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Tesco, which commissioned the survey of more than 1,000 drivers>>>
Cobblers, like on Family fortunes 'we asked 1000 people...'
They simply do not exist. This so called researcher almost certainly IMO made up the survey/answers.
I wonder what motive Tesco has in this? It's not rocket science.
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Well, this isn't news, it's just stupid advertising aimed at consumerist oiks.
It doesn't matter how many germs there are, it's what type they are.
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The only time I've cleaned a steering wheel was when I had bought a s/h car that had had that horrible silicone spray used in the interior by the dealer. I had to clean the wheel to stop it sliding through my hands!
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L\'escargot.
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Funny - I always had you down as a stringbacked-gloved kind of chap. Must be the hat...:-)
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I don't think old tramps wear jockstraps, HJ.
Maybe you meant the inside of a tram driver's glove?
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My kids grew up on a farm, they put their fingers in their mouths after touching revolting things, were sorrounded with all manner of bugs and diseases.
They are now 18,16 and 13, have suffered no ills and are strapping kids.
Both of my nieces from my side and my wifes side live in clean houses in a town and both have exema and asthma and food and animal allergys.
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So: soap bad.
Old tramps' jockstraps (and similar) good.
Are we agreed?
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Chris
they're my germs anyway so I don't reckon they'll do me much harm.
JH
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