"DO NOT WASH" Dealer Warning Sign
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We all know the horrors that await your paint job when its in for any kind of service at a dealer or shop.
You can ask the service manager to make sure the porters don't wash your car and screw up all your hard work, but sometimes that message doesn't make it all the way to the right people.
These FREE printable hangers can be placed on your rear view mirror, gear shift, or anywhere else to get the attention of any potential washer to make sure they know not to bother with whatever swirl inducing rag and sponge combo they have in mind.
INSTRUCTIONS:
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You can ask the service manager to make sure the porters don't wash your car and screw up all your hard work, but sometimes that message doesn't make it all the way to the right people.
These FREE printable hangers can be placed on your rear view mirror, gear shift, or anywhere else to get the attention of any potential washer to make sure they know not to bother with whatever swirl inducing rag and sponge combo they have in mind.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Click your preferred hanger image below
- Download to your computer (right click, save as)
- Print the hanger on a heavy card stock
- Cut out along the dotted line
- OPTIONAL - print 2 copies and glue back to back for a 2 sided hanger.
- Store in your glovebox
- Hang the notice from your rear view or gearshift
- Sleep easy knowing you your ride won't come back with swirls!
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I don't get it...well, I've never had my car washed by a dealer, but who wouldn't want a free wash? Will they be as detailed as I am when I wash it? No way, but I'd still take it.
Nevertheless, this is cool
Nevertheless, this is cool
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You spend hours fully detailing your ride getting the paint as close to perfect as you can and everything. Fast forward a week and it gets a little dirty but not filthy, you have to take it to the deal for some reason and they give you a free wash. You pick the car up and realize your paint has swirls in it that you just spent a day getting rid of the week before and now you have to take another day getting the swirls removed for a second time.
Keep coming with the new products guys! Love Adams stuff!
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You might think since you have any F-body, it will get treated better then the cavaliers, astro vans, and malibus in the shop, but honestly, it's just a car to a guy that gets paid $9 an hour to stand in water all day, and the only thing they are worried about at that point is burning the carbon off the valves on the way to the lot out back.
Sorry to be a Debby downer, but after I started working in my shop, I've warned everyone I know to just spend the extra $5-$10 to get it washed and an automatic car wash.
Sorry for the thread rob, thanks for the templates Dylan!!
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I work at a dealership and TRUST ME, you do NOT want a porter to wash your car. The materials they use have been used over and over. This includes bristled brushes (Whoa, hello scratches), wash mitts that have washed hundreds of nasty cars before yours (seriously, they don't wash them out except for what the bucket cleans off that they are thrown in), and shammys (chamois) that have dirt/rocks/grass etc stuck in it (seriously, the porters in my shop only clean them out when they are gray in color from dirt).
You might think since you have any F-body, it will get treated better then the cavaliers, astro vans, and malibus in the shop, but honestly, it's just a car to a guy that gets paid $9 an hour to stand in water all day, and the only thing they are worried about at that point is burning the carbon off the valves on the way to the lot out back.
Sorry to be a Debby downer, but after I started working in my shop, I've warned everyone I know to just spend the extra $5-$10 to get it washed and an automatic car wash.
Sorry for the thread rob, thanks for the templates Dylan!!![Grin](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_grin.gif)
You might think since you have any F-body, it will get treated better then the cavaliers, astro vans, and malibus in the shop, but honestly, it's just a car to a guy that gets paid $9 an hour to stand in water all day, and the only thing they are worried about at that point is burning the carbon off the valves on the way to the lot out back.
Sorry to be a Debby downer, but after I started working in my shop, I've warned everyone I know to just spend the extra $5-$10 to get it washed and an automatic car wash.
Sorry for the thread rob, thanks for the templates Dylan!!
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Thanks
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Thanks, great idea!
I agree with everything EXCEPT the automatic car wash part.
I work at a dealership and TRUST ME, you do NOT want a porter to wash your car. The materials they use have been used over and over. This includes bristled brushes (Whoa, hello scratches), wash mitts that have washed hundreds of nasty cars before yours (seriously, they don't wash them out except for what the bucket cleans off that they are thrown in), and shammys (chamois) that have dirt/rocks/grass etc stuck in it (seriously, the porters in my shop only clean them out when they are gray in color from dirt).
You might think since you have any F-body, it will get treated better then the cavaliers, astro vans, and malibus in the shop, but honestly, it's just a car to a guy that gets paid $9 an hour to stand in water all day, and the only thing they are worried about at that point is burning the carbon off the valves on the way to the lot out back.
Sorry to be a Debby downer, but after I started working in my shop, I've warned everyone I know to just spend the extra $5-$10 to get it washed and an automatic car wash.
Sorry for the thread rob, thanks for the templates Dylan!!![Grin](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_grin.gif)
You might think since you have any F-body, it will get treated better then the cavaliers, astro vans, and malibus in the shop, but honestly, it's just a car to a guy that gets paid $9 an hour to stand in water all day, and the only thing they are worried about at that point is burning the carbon off the valves on the way to the lot out back.
Sorry to be a Debby downer, but after I started working in my shop, I've warned everyone I know to just spend the extra $5-$10 to get it washed and an automatic car wash.
Sorry for the thread rob, thanks for the templates Dylan!!
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