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

[Henrik Danford-Klein <danfordklein@yahoo.com>]

Maybe keywords here are "quality car wash" and "typical home hand wash".

I would NEVER take my car though a "cloth" wash.  When living in Green
Bay, WI, I used a touchless wash (PQ) all the time in the winter for
my 911 - too cold for hand washes.  I now live in Chicago, but
surprisingly I don't see any good touchless washes here.  I like the
touchless wash especially to get the bottom of the car clean, but it
certainly didn't clean the car as well as a good handwash.

As far as a home wash goes, I use lots of water (2-3 buckets w/car
shampoo), I don't "scrub", and I rinse the very thick cotton mitten
I'm using again and again.   Yes - you can still scratch the surface,
but there is no way it can be as bad as those atomated cloth washes
(ergh...)

Henrik

A6Q
Soon to own '95 S6   YES!!!
Just sold '88 911 (going through separation anxiety)





>
> > 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 ...
:-)
> 

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