Carwashes [WAS: RE: Help me! Advice needed. Close to buying a S6]

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> side seats always get worn on S4/S6's. Swirl marks do show, the previous
> owner
> probably drove it through carwashes instead of washing by hand, Use 3M
> hand
> 
... Mercedes-Benz (do we call it D-C now ? :) did a study that showed that a
good quality carwash was less damaging to an automotive finish than the
typical home hand wash ... as I recall it had something to do with the
amount of water that was used to flow the small grit off the surface ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

... who still washes his cars by hand ... well, most of the time ... :-)