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    Auto Car Washs

    I live in east coast in winter cars will get covered with road salt mist that builds up on car for days. I would like to avoid getting scratch n swirls . Is it safer to use touchless car wash or ones with brushs.. thanks for your help...
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  • #2
    Re: Auto Car Washs

    Drive thru car washes with brushes = swirl o matic

    Stick with a touchless.
    99 Grand Prix
    02 Camaro SS

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    • #3
      Re: Auto Car Washs

      Originally posted by The Guz View Post
      Drive thru car washes with brushes = swirl o matic

      Stick with a touchless.
      Absolutely!

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      • #4
        Re: Auto Car Washs

        Another snow/salt driver here...TOUCHLESS!!!

        Go thru the touch-less, and (if you have a garage area to work in) use "Ultimate Wash and Wax Anywhere."

        Bill

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        • #5
          Re: Auto Car Washs

          I never wash my cars in the winter. My black vehicles look white for the three months driven in the winter salt. My old 06 daily driver still has almost flawless black paint. Dry salt on the clear coat will not hurt it but a car wash might. I tried it once and pushed the "touchless' button and the bloody machine gave me a regular wash with those filthy scrubbers. Not going to happen again.

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          • #6
            Re: Auto Car Washs

            @Blueline. The reaction on your face while being forced to sit inside your car during that tunnel wash would've made for a funny youtube videolol.

            I can only imagine how upsetting that must've been.

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            • #7
              Re: Auto Car Washs

              I think youtube would have banned that video. But you did make me smile today.

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              • #8
                Re: Auto Car Washs

                Touchless...
                Originally posted by Blueline
                I own a silver vehicle and a black vehicle owns me. The black one demands attention, washing, detailing, waxing and an occasional dinner out at a nice restaurant. The silver one demands nothing and it looks just fine. I think the black vehicle is taking advantage of me, and the silver car is more my style. We can go out for a drive without her makeup and she looks fine. If I want to take the black one out, it is three or four hours in the "bathroom" to get ready.

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                • #9
                  Re: Auto Car Washs

                  Hand-held wand stalls are probably the best, IMO, if you have those available. You can more or less just "rinse" the big stuff off for a $1.25 or whatever it costs, hitting and avoiding areas as you see fit (not as the machine is programmed), then just pull out and do some WW and/or QW with some way of drying - some of them have blowers. I don't like the so-called touchless washes or their automated tracking gear. Avoid brush contact at all costs.
                  Non-Garaged Daily Driver, DAMF System + M101, Carnauba Finish Enthusiast
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