SFCs & drive thru car washes
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10-05-2008, 08:29 PM
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X 3, If you do that your hurting your car more then cleaning it. Half the times it doesn't clean your car as well as it would by using your hand and all it does is give you a 10hr job of taking swirl marks off your car with the porter cable.. so you decide what you would rather.
10-05-2008, 09:26 PM
#10
Interesting responses but after thinking about it, the hand washing is the better choice. I asked that because I went through a drive thru car wash this afternoon. I dont normally do it but I wanted to get a quick wash on it. It sounded like something hit my SFCs. I also noticed one side of the car was clean, but the drivers side was terrible looking. You could see it didnt even clean that side at all. The passenger side did get clean, wheels sparkled as opposed to the drivers side, dull & untouched. I have been to a lot of drive thru car washes but this particular one is the worst one. I demanded a refund but they would only give a rewash. I was pretty furious about how how the car looked after going through it. I refused to go back through though because I know it wasnt gonna get clean that way. BTW, theres a drive thru in the city that does a killer job, its always spotless if I go there.
10-06-2008, 02:34 PM
#11
Use two buckets, one with your soapy water and the other is a rinse bucket for your mitt. Once you wash one panel of your car you don't want to put all the dirt back into your clean soapy wash water. Rinse off the mitt in the plain bucket of water, then dip your mitt back into the soapy water. Using only one bucket have you noticed your water is really dirty by the end of your wash? All you're doing is scrubing those little particles back into your paint if you keep dunking your mitt in dirty water.
10-06-2008, 08:04 PM
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I use the do it yourself car wash at least three times per week and have for years on all of my cars but only if they use hog hair brushes, because they do not scratch the paint. But you always need to rinse the brush off before you use it. I hate running up our water bill at the house beside the car wash that I use has reverse osmosis rinse, no water spots! 
Besides even if I wanted to use a drive thru I could not because the tires are too wide and the car is lowered and then those SFC's would catch on something.
Besides even if I wanted to use a drive thru I could not because the tires are too wide and the car is lowered and then those SFC's would catch on something. 
10-06-2008, 10:11 PM
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i was pressed on time before goin to the track a couple weeks ago so i took mine throught the auto wash. And my 2pt sfc definatly scraped a lil. But my car is lowered a lil. No isolater with stock springs in rear and strange coilovers in front with a lil rake to it. Way i see it is sfc's have many purposes skid plates, lifting points, and they keep the car straight.