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Originally Posted by SSOOCH
You're doing more damage by not washing it. You need to get contaminants off of the paint that are in the environment. Go hand wash it right now.
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I don't know about that. What happens when you take a wash mitt to your car? You rub dirt around to loosen it, sure the soap is supposed to act like a lubricant but damage still does occur however minutely. Wash your car every other day and you're going to spend more time washing waxing polishing than enjoying the car and only damaging it.
Personally I wash my cars infrequently as possible. Reason being first of all it's a car it will get dirty. Secondly the less I touch the paint with anything but water and a soap spray I feel the better. It's not important to me to keep the car showroom clean, as long as it looks decent that's good enough for me. Then the rare times I do actually use a wash mitt it looks like brand new because the paint hasn't been subjected to many rubbings with a wash mitt, no swirls, no streaks, just new looking paint.
Touchless car washes aren't a bad thing, good ones anyway that filter the water and soften it. They just spray on soapy water then rinse it off without ever touching the paint with anything else. Does pretty good for a quickie clean up. The ones that kill paint are the ones that use the brushes or the plastic things that whip around.
Ever wonder why there is soooo many car wash products? Because they sell! People have been led to belive the car's paint will somehow fall apart if not washed frequently. Pretty good sales scheme really. I said this in another thread about our 2003 Tahoe. I think I've only washed it like 5 times by hand in all those years. The paint still shines like new without ever waxing it and just spraying it off. Not a swirl mark or scratch anywhere.
Personal choice I suppose, I got better things to do than wash and wax my cars every other month.