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09-26-2010, 12:04 AM
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Don't Like it? Suggit.
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09-26-2010, 12:05 AM
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Never! Dam thing either always cleans the car half ass or marks up or scratches my rims.
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09-26-2010, 12:16 AM
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Drives: 2010 Camaro 2LT/RS ABM Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Sugar Land, TX
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09-26-2010, 12:28 AM
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One hot mess
Drives: 2011 Camaro 1LT/RS Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Charlotte
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I did it ONCE when I went through road construction and they were paving the roads. I had the gravel and tar shooting everywhere. I about ran over women and children just to get to the carwash to make it home to REWASH it.
I still have nightmares about the sounds of all the gravel under my car clanging around the wheel well. Ugh. |
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09-27-2010, 03:33 PM
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Drives: Camaros................ Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Seven Fields, PA (Pittsburgh)
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Did not have a chance to read thru the thread, but Thor and Thor V 2.0 as well as Magni (Mom Settlemire's Camaro) all have gone thru SELECT car washes.
I will not run them thru just ANY carwash - but Mr. C's wash in Grosse Pointe Farms does a first rate job - I've run black cars thru and then had the paint examined - no scratches whatsoever. (......Thor, Thor V 2.0, and Magni all claim that "that tickles" when going thru the wash....) (.......just sayin.......) 
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09-27-2010, 03:43 PM
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Drives: 2012 2SS Black on Black Join Date: May 2010
Location: New York
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I had mine washed twice in a car wash and already I found a few scratches. My car used to be immaculate when I was hand washing it.
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09-27-2010, 03:51 PM
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Drives: '08 Mustang GT, '01 Isuzu VehiCROSS Join Date: Jun 2009
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09-27-2010, 03:53 PM
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ride the pain train
Drives: 2011 1LT RS, 1998 fxstc HD Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Daytona Beach
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my car actually gets dirty in one of those although i only ran my last car through one but it was worse coming out than going in.... waste of time IMO
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09-27-2010, 04:12 PM
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Drives: 1969 SS, 1998 RS, 2010 VR 2SS/RS Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Gallitzin PA
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NEVERRRRR! My baby deserves the personal touch.
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09-27-2010, 04:21 PM
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Drives: 2011 V6 Cope Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Pompano Beach Fl.
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Well for all of you that are scare of a car wash. I own one and I put thru my 2011 Camaro about 3 times a week. I belive in my wash and it is safer ans faster than a hand wash.
Cloth brushes and a 100 feet conveyor 
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09-27-2010, 04:51 PM
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Blowin the doors off!
Drives: A 2013 SS RS 6M SR Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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09-27-2010, 05:03 PM
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Older Than Dirt
Drives: 2010 & 2013 Camaros Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Aiken, SC
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Depends on how you use the car wash. When in Oshawa, I found a nearby car wash, I had my own soap, mitt and bucket, so just used rinse water to fill bucket, hand washed it inside the bay, then rinsed it with regular pressure without the power trigger. Pulled it out and dried it off. No problems, no issues. Essentially hand washed at the car wash.
But I don't trust the automated car washes. I just don't.
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09-27-2010, 05:19 PM
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Drives: 2011 V6 Cope Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Pompano Beach Fl.
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No swirls marks o anything I own a 100 foot tunnel Full Service Car Wash I put thru many expense cars. No problems at all.
Bentley, Phantom, Benz, etc. I trust my wash |
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09-27-2010, 06:10 PM
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Drives: 2010 Camaro Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Northern Ontario
Posts: 1,181
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Hand wash only for me, no exceptions. (I don't drive it in the winter though). I wouldn't use a touchless either because I think the pressure is way too much. I would think that it could actually do more damage to the paint.
As for using a touchless and then drying it with a towel later, it's probably scratching the paint because those washes aren't perfect.
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