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Originally Posted by maddy42 Anyone has tried the touchless washes? This is the one where the water pressure washes the car and no brushes used. Is it good or bad?
All said and done a good hand wash is better than any technology. Reaches areas a machine cant and its easier to spot something left out. |
When we lived in Kansas City I used the touchless washes frequently on all of our cars. By and large they're ok if the car is not too dirty and as longs as it is mostly dust it's ok.
I've been using the proper car washes with rotating brushes and all the other bells and whistles on all of my cars as long as I've owned cars as well. I've never noticed any negative effect on the paint whatsoever.
I do like to handwash my cars though. I just enjoy fiddling with my cars and washing them is just one of the ways I enjoy them. And I do a better job myself than all automatic car washes combined. In addition you notice little things on the car early and you can take corrective action early on. Whether its the paint, some rust, or maybe an ornament that's becoming loose, or a rubber starting to perish.
The automatic car washes are just convenient and do a decent enough job. Especially for my daily runners I used the automatic car wash at least once a week. For my classics I nearly always handwash, but even my 1982 Mercedes W123 will go through a automatic car wash with brushes on a fairly regular basis.
I really like my cars to be clean and tidy, inside and outside. So, even when I'm on a driving holiday, I will just quickly pull into a carwash every other day or so, just so it looks nice again.
My wife on the other hand couldnt care less what the outside of her car looks like. And she treats the inside as just a very large extension of her handbag. Meaning her car is full of stuff, and it's all over the place. It drives me bonkers so sometimes it just gets me and I clean it for her. You would not believe the amount of stuff I collected from the inside.
I found three pair of sunglasses, two pair of reading glasses, six hairbrushes and combs, a large assortement of make up, two nail files, various keys (which I thought were lost), a mobile phone (which was lost as well), a huge collection of books, magazine and brochures, a watch, a bracelet, endless number of paper and plastic bags from various shopping expeditions, a huge stack of receipts from the various shopping expedtiions and endless bits and pieces of paper that under no circumstance I was allowed to thow away.
She says she does appreciate when I clean the car for her, but I'm not sure I believe her.
Jeroen