nice cars & bad car washes

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BigAl3

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so i'm driving around today and i pass by a car wash with a few nice cars (lexus, expedition, etc..) and noticed how the workers were all using the same dirty wash/drying (swirl city) towels/rags on different cars. how can people (sometimes people just amaze me) not know that those places do more harm then good (and i thought dealerships were bad)? i mean come on... a car is the second biggest investment, other than a house. i dunno... i guess it makes me feel good that us autopians take pride in our vehicles to make them look better then new. ;)
 
I was taking a walk while my truck was getting some mods done to it, and I witnessed something so atrocious it should of been a crime. Not a felony or anything like that but maybe at least a misdemeanor. Every single car in a used dealer car lot had hologramming and hazing. I swear the cars would have looked better if they just left the swirls there. I think your car washers and dealers like the one I saw should have to go to swirl school. Kind of like traffic school but much much more serious.
 
There used to be a car wash outfit in my local supermarket car park that rinsed the car down, then washed the car (usually from the bottom up) with a chamois leather! When they'd finished they just rinsed the chamois and then used the same one to dry.



What's worse, my business partner then told me he'd had his 911 Turbo washed by a similar outfit at his local supermarket. Needless to say I felt a strange urge to slap him!:D



Ben
 
Hey, it's not just the used car dealers with the bad cleaning procedures. I picked up my car with FREE dealer installed swirls. First car, live and learn I guess. next time I'm gonna tell them to leave it in the wrapper.



another sad point is that I bought from this particular dealer because they had free washes every saturday, but after coming to this site, I won't even let them wash after a service.
 
It really hurts to see a beutifuel car get abused like that. I saw some lady that had Mercedes c500 and the thing looked like ***, it must still have salt on it from the winter.
 
Anyone have 'Bum Washes' in their downtown area? :D





Homeless guys have offered to wash my vehicles. Usually in the trendy/club areas while parking near the door. One bucket of water (they probably get from the harbor) and a rag or two.



Some tools think it is pretty cool to have their ride washed. Have seen some nice care getting the bum-treatment. I just don't get it.





If I'm not parked in a safe area, I'll give them a buck or two so I don't get the angry bum footprint treatment.
 
Its a terrible thing. I try to educate the important people in my life NOT to bring their vehicle to the local car wash for that reason...Its really sad.
 
Bluto said:
Anyone have 'Bum Washes' in their downtown area? :D







If I'm not parked in a safe area, I'll give them a buck or two so I don't get the angry bum footprint treatment.
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For the less educated, ie me, what is a bum footprint treatment?





I can imagine, but......:think:
 
The one I hate is the kids/charitable swirl for a fee wash that High School / Church groups offer. You know , the cute little chererleader beckons you in for a wash? Last one , I saw a pile of wash rags on the ground, next to a bucket of (soapy?) black wash water. Drying towel was wet too... meaning the kids had completely wiped several cars fron the top to the TIRES and MUD FLAPS with them before my turn came up... I got the weirdest look from a young lady when I asked her how much for the wash, and consider it a donation, but I dont have time for a wash. (diplomacy at work) I saw a Mercedes with wet new swirls that will emerge when the owner takes a critical look at his paint (and the cheerleaders arent around as eye candy):rofl
 
ive seen a similar thing, kind of a double no-no. after the drive through carwash they had employees standing on the outside hand drying the car with towels or something.

oh, and thanks to this site, i will no longer enjoy going to the fundrasing carwash with the 16 year old chickies. :( but im 17 so dont rip on me, hahaa.
 
There is a local car wash that offers a $99 hand wax detail. After the automatic wash and dirty towel gang dry, they take it to an area with a sun shade set up. Dirty towels or more correctly rags laying on the ground or pieces of cardboard and a buffer with a large dirty pad . Place is always busy. I shake my head as I drive past.
 
The place we take our work cars HIRES the street bums to wash the cars. I've seen the same ones in there working for a while and they don't even have a set pattern for washing the car so they don't miss anything.



They drop the wash mitts then pick them up and use them right away, they "scrub" muddy rocker panels then drag the mitt over the rest of the car. The drying towels wipe down the door jambs (which ARE NOT washed), then drag them over the rest of the car etc...



When I get out, there are usually at least 6 - 1' x 1' areas they completely missed. If someone did my car like that, I'd have to go medieval on their behinds.



As for the Cheerleader/Eye candy washes, I'm STILL ticked off because they sure as hell didn't grow them like that when *I* was in school. :(
 
how can people (sometimes people just amaze me) not know that those places do more harm then good (and i thought dealerships were bad)? i mean come on... a car is the second biggest investment, other than a house. i dunno... i guess it makes me feel good that us autopians take pride in our vehicles to make them look better then new.
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You don't know what Bad is untill you experience Good.



~Soarer
 
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