Do you wash your Vette at a car wash?
04-10-2012, 04:11 PM
#41
Melting Slicks
Personally? I hand wash only. I even hand wash my DD Silverado to keep the clearcoat from swirling. Car washing is a hobby of sorts for me, I really enjoy it. I don't see anything wrong with driving a Vette through, so long as the car has clearance and the driver is ok with it. To each their own. Congrats on the carwash business though, that is a market that will never die.
04-10-2012, 04:16 PM
#43
Personally? I hand wash only. I even hand wash my DD Silverado to keep the clearcoat from swirling. Car washing is a hobby of sorts for me, I really enjoy it. I don't see anything wrong with driving a Vette through, so long as the car has clearance and the driver is ok with it. To each their own. Congrats on the carwash business though, that is a market that will never die.
04-10-2012, 04:30 PM
#46
Team Owner
I have gone to one of those car washes where you just drive in and a robot goes around the car. Completely touchless and no conveyors. Only did this once I was a little nervous with the dryer as it really is forceful.
So I now wash it by hand.
So I now wash it by hand.
04-10-2012, 04:45 PM
#48
Safety Car
I wasn't trying to cause an uproar, just a curious question. A simple yes or no would do. Anyways the my car washes pay the bills and our customers are very happy. We wash 300k+ vehicles annually. I have customers with Bentleys, Ferraris, Rolls Royce, etc. I wash my wife's Escalade ESV weekly as well.
It was a daily driver, and I never clay barred it. Under the flourescent garage lights, very slight wax swirls were the only noticable "marks", but you had to get the light angle exactly correct to even see them.
Meaning, the car wash did not create any more paint issues than spattering the bugs on the highway. Florida has a lot of bugs at times, but the car wash removed them fine, with no noticable scratching.
04-10-2012, 04:52 PM
#51
Le Mans Master
I have ran both out vettes thru the car wash for the last four years, not a scratch on either. You old people in the north probally have the old school car washes.
04-10-2012, 05:14 PM
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I drove my 2008 atomic orange vette thru the "$5 car wash" all the time, and it did not have a single "scratch or chip" on it when I traded it in. 3 years later.
It was a daily driver, and I never clay barred it. Under the flourescent garage lights, very slight wax swirls were the only noticable "marks", but you had to get the light angle exactly correct to even see them.
It was a daily driver, and I never clay barred it. Under the flourescent garage lights, very slight wax swirls were the only noticable "marks", but you had to get the light angle exactly correct to even see them.
04-10-2012, 06:48 PM
#59
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