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The one I use is careful, and state of the art. It has an assembly line belt for cars' tires instead of groove things you drive your rims into.
All the Bentleys etc high ends in town use it.
Originally Posted by AJT123
It's just like yard work, don't have time or desire to hand wash our cars the than the SL, which takes 2 seconds. I'm too old for that ****.
I’m not surprised by that. I would think high end car owners could care less about swirls and/or they are leased vehicles and they will have a new paint job in 2-3yrs
I can wash our smaller cars rather quickly but the LX and our truck takes some time. I may do 1 per day. This is when I get a good visual if something is out of place.
I think a lot of it depends on your life. I work 10 hours a day, and I have a young family, I just don’t have the energy to wash cars myself. I spend an hour in the garage in the evening wiping them down and cleaning the interiors and all which I enjoy. Dragging out hoses and pressure washers and getting all wet, not fun.
Really hard to see any of that on silver. Harder than on white.
Paint still looks fabulous after almost 3 years of frequent use at that wash.
LX has a really, really high end and tough paint job however.
Car washes are also absolute cash cows, and money laundering vessels.
Lexus cars have softer paint I've found, at least the ones I've had and corrected don't need much aggression at al to lift all the swirls out. Very easy to deal with if you ever get too many for your tastes, I have very powerful garage lights and I always go crazy seeing every little thing....
I am working on allowing myself one scratch or swirl per 5x5 inch area.
Here’s an example. This is right behind the rear wheel on the driver side, this is 3 years in, washed at least once a week, so it’s been through like 160 car wash trips. It’s ceramic coated, really needs to be re coated. You can see the wear along that character line and the random scratches from the carwash. Now if this really bothered me I would get the buffer out and it would be gone. You never see it unless you get right up on top of it.
If I do buy the car out of the lease I will have the PPF in the front redone and the whole car polished out and re-coated and it will be like brand new.
You have more control than me! I would have gotten the detail buffer out the second I saw that.
Lexus cars have softer paint I've found, at least the ones I've had and corrected don't need much aggression at al to lift all the swirls out. Very easy to deal with if you ever get too many for your tastes, I have very powerful garage lights and I always go crazy seeing every little thing....
This is for sure true, the paint on the Mercedes is much harder.
Originally Posted by Striker223
You have more control than me! I would have gotten the detail buffer out the second I saw that.
I would have too when I was your age and had no kids lol
Originally Posted by patgilm
I always hand wash my cars at home and never go to a car wash. I’m just too picky. Even at the dealer I always tell them not to wash my cars.
I tell the dealer not to wash them too, they really screw them up.
Originally Posted by TangoRed
I have someone come to my house to hand wash my cars. It's been working well so far.
I would do that, but I want a clean car on demand. So if its a nice day, I want the car clean. I dont want to have to wait for an appointment.
Its not easy lol. I pop on the forum while I'm working. I'm self employed so its not like I'm chained to a desk.
Right. Lol. Just with my ADD I could never pull that off I don't think, or even if I didn't have it.
Back when I used to work sort of a lot, forums were just how to relax and unwind at the end of the day if I'd get to them. Now I'm here 24/7. It is therapeutic though, takes my mind off of my stiff leg and/or sore back, etc. etc. from everything.
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