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In today's Wall Street Journal - "Personal Journal" section there is an article about car washes with comparison washes done by the author. You may find it interesting in terms of attitudes towards cleaning cars.
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Art Layton
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Re: Review of Car Washes
Review of Car Washes In Search of a Clean Machine: Testing Four Car-Wash Chains
Don't know if you forgot the link, but I googled a search and found the article.
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Re: Review of Car Washes
Scary. And the reason why I avoid automated car washes altogether!The wash was mostly automated, but technicians did some work manually. Before the car entered, an employee did a quick prescrub of the front and back fender, bumper and grill areas with a large mop. After that we got a "presoak" spray before being whisked through machines with swishing vertical mops and spinning horizontal brushes. Next came swinging blue sponges and a deluge of berry-scented cleaner. As we sat inside our car during the roughly five-minute process, we couldn't help but think a Mini Cooper or tiny Smart Car might not withstand the considerable pounding and swishing.
Drying jets pounded our car dry as the wipers shook eerily. As a coda, a Brown Bear staffer emerged and did a bit more of the work manually, using towels to wipe down both sides of the front fender and much of the hood.
We were pleased that the car's exterior and wheel wells were clean. But streaks remained on the windows, and the car's interior was wholly our responsibility.
Brown Bear had DIY vacuums that cost $1 for four minutes, and we spent $3 giving our seats and dirty floors a good vacuuming. The vacuum power, however, wasn't as strong as we'd have liked.Comment
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