Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[clan chieftain]

I dont normally use them but my wee Suzuki was filthy and I couldnt be bothered to wash it. So on my way to buy my wiper refills I thought I would save a bit of time. I would have been better doing it myself as they had missed half of it. What a waste of a fiver. I should have taken it back but I just washed it myself.
Do you use carwashes.?
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The Clan Chieftain

[Riley Blue]

Sometimes though I go at 8am on Monday when my local Shiny Wash opens fo the week and everything is clean and fresh i.e. no wash cloths or leathers dropped on the ground. I only take our two 'moderns' but at a tenner inside and out it's good value once or twice a year.

[ukdave2002]

At our local Sainsburys there are a a bunch who hand wash the car as you shop, its only £5 for a wash or £7 for a wash and wax , they do a good job and work dam hard, I do feel sorry for them washing cars in this weather, so I tend to give them my business.

Dave

[Keith D]

After driving through the south of Britain last year in what passed for your summer, my hire car was filthy. A mate suggested that I took it to some East German/Polish immigrants working in the forecourt of a deceased garage.
Three of them decended onto the car and within a couple of minutes the car was washed, polished(with polish) all the windows sparkling and even the tyres blacked. All for a fiver! I couldn't believe it! To say I was impressed would be an understatement. If I lived in the UK, I would never wash my own car again!
Keith

[Keith D]

After driving through the south of Britain last year in what passed for your summer, my hire car was filthy. A mate suggested that I took it to some East German/Polish immigrants working in the forecourt of a deceased garage.
Three of them decended onto the car and within a couple of minutes the car was washed, polished(with polish) all the windows sparkling and even the tyres blacked. All for a fiver! I couldn't believe it! To say I was impressed would be an understatement. If I lived in the UK, I would never wash my own car again!
Keith

[ukdave2002]

[Rick]

[Riley Blue]

[clan chieftain]

I guess I picked the wrong one.
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[Scotty]

I use one in Kirkintilloch and first they spray the wheels with alloy wheel cleaner, next a thorough wetting of the car using their jet wash, then use a high capacity foam gun followed by same two young local lads who sponge wash it from the top down and finally a jet wash rinse - all for £4.00, but I give them £5.00 as I've always been pleased with their service and work.

[Jason]

I avoid car washes as they tend to scratch the paint (swirl marks) but speaking of car washes reminds me of a funny true story for you....

a couple of years ago my brothers mate who is a milkman by trade, decided to take his car through a car wash, so he drives in, puts the token in the machine and sits there waiting for the machine to start washing his car.
The top horizontal roller starts rotating and moves towards his front bumper, it cleans the bumper, headlights, then starts to move along the bonnet, cleaning the car as it goes. As the roller got to the windscreen, his windscreen shattered and he was showered with glass and of course water, he reached for the door handle but he couldn't open the door because of the verticle rollers cleaning the sides of the car.

a few days after, when he was telling us this story, his face was 'cut to ribbons', the cuts weren't from the glass but from the top roller, after he realized he couldn't get out of the car, he just sat there and let the roller wash his face

we asked why he didn't dive behind the dashboard, to which he replied 'I never thought of that'

I always have a chuckle about it when I see him delivering the milk
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[ukdave2002]

Must have been an old screen? Laminated screens can be hit with a sledge hammer and still only bend!