I was washing mine every 3-5 days for the first few weeks. Now it's lucky if it gets bathed twice a month. The car is broken in now, it's got scratches in the paint, the front spoiler is about ready to fall off from all the driveway/speedbump abuse, there's black marks on my front bumper from running over an 18-wheeler's discard tire tread on the highway that I couldn't see in time because the ******* in front of my drove right over it too (grrrr!). As long as it doesn't look too dirty from a distance, I don't care anymore