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

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In a mesage dated 12/3/98 Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com writes:

<< ... 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 ... >>

Autoweek had a cover story article years ago on this very subject. The cover
photo was a Ferrari (Testarosa I believe) exiting this very crude looking
carwash. (Horrors for the tifosi who are adement about hand washing ya know.)
Turns out this picture was at the Ferrari factory where *every* car built
passes through this contraption to get cleaned as part of prep for delivery.

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

I will on occasion get lazy and go through a cloth carwash as well but there
is something about hand-washing that just seems right. I can see how you may
run out of time with your fleet ;-) Also the "typical home hand wash" as done
by my significant other (I hope she never reads this in the archives) leaves
uh...less to be desired so I can see the point of the study. Of course I don't
need to explain to anyone here how to hand-wash a car I'm sure ;-)

Mike Veglia
87 5kcstq (hand-washed only be me thanks...)