Just wondering how many of you regularly take your cars through automatic car washes? I never do, even my old Dodge truck. Now I will on occasion use the power
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01-17-2009, 11:47 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Do you take your car though automatic car washes?
Just wondering how many of you regularly take your cars through automatic car washes? I never do, even my old Dodge truck. Now I will on occasion use the power washer to get junk out of the wheel wells etc.
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01-17-2009, 11:53 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Yikes
Only if they guaranteed no swirls.
There is something about doing the detailing myself that I find rewarding.
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01-18-2009, 11:44 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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Never.
Black car + carwash = trouble or... Sometimes. Wife's car + carwash = sometimes necessary
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01-18-2009, 12:59 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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Double bucket hand wash method primarily with a very occasional touch less car wash after a good rain to get the muck off fairly quick. But, I also have vast arsenal of detailing tools and my vehicles get the random orbital at least once every three months. No paint damage to speak of.
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01-18-2009, 01:06 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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We're talking about automatic car washes, such as those you find at gas stations? I'm assuming we're not talking about those pay-per-minute or whatever pressure wash stations that you do yourself.
Anyways, if I don't let the dealership wash my car, I sure won't let some random machine touch it. Last time the dealership washed my car (big mistake on my part), it seemed like they dried it with a dirty sock. Swirls EVERYWHERE! |
01-18-2009, 01:42 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Gang,
With today's very wide rims and tires lets not forget the guide bars that they must go through at the automated car wash. I have seen what that guide can to todays wheels and it not pretty.
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01-18-2009, 04:14 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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If your planning on taking your $30k+ car through an automatic wash be sure its 100% stock. They makes those for 1 shoe fits all.....I would never chance it.
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