Heard a few times not to take your car through car washes cause it puts little scratches on ur paint job? But I've also heard other people say they do it and never got any scratches. It's a new car so don't wanna take the risk..

What's the go? Any examples of safe ones in Brisbane?

Look for a place that does it by hand, a few service stations around town have them. Gotta watch it though, had a friend who took it to one, was sitting reading a magazine while they did a full interior/exterior clean and they stole several cd's and his spare tyre from the boot (replaced it with a crappy one).

That certainly isn't a good recommendation for getting it done by hand :)

There's one near the whorehouse at Albion, they do it all by hand.. you should know where the whorehouse is there Gimpy.

LOL

Don't be lazy Gimpy; get a bucket of warm water, a cloth and some car wash stuff and clean ur car yourself!

i would never ever go to one with my car

I thought that was a water restrictions no-no?

captive, it doesn't apply to businesses (i.e. the sector who uses the most water) Clever huh?

This is my suprised face :|

Wash it buy hand with a bucket of water at home, and then if you can't rinse it all off easily (doing that with a bucket is f***ing lame) find a LaserWash, spend $1 and rinse off the soap. I'm just glad theres one 2 mins down the road at Stafford.

So what happens if I use a hose? Will police come around and take me off to jail?

in the rare chance you are caught, council fines if anything. I've got a neighbour who works in the Council and is a dick, so with that combination, he would probably dob us in :)

I would dob :)

I don't mind washing the car by bucket anyway :)

Maybe I'll just wait for it to rain.. hahaha I so can't be f***ed washing my car with a bucket.

How long does it take for bird crap to ruin ur paint job?

captive, it doesn't apply to businesses (i.e. the sector who uses the most water) Clever huh?

So the higher prices for water aswell as incentives to use recycled water in industry isn't an application of the water restrictions??


In terms of dobbing it doesn't even take photographic evidence or some other form of concrete evidence, just a simple phone call can land you with a sweet-as-f*** $170 fine... Props to neighbours for trying that s*** on me... Re buckets, there is nothing stopping you from rigging a hose up to say a wheely bin and leaving that above your car (say you've got a carport or deck or something...) and using gravity to feed the hose (thats how i beat the $170 fine :p)

I noticed the do it yourself places with those high-pressure hoses are still in operation. Take it to one of them perhaps?

I don't mind washing the bucket anyway :)

Drive to a friends over the border. No restrictions in far north coast NSW.
I still havent washed my car in weeks.

im not sure i understand your wheely bin above car trick boxhead
please explain in greater detail

sparkles at shopping centres?

just take it to car lovers. you get to play with super high pressure hoses and it's way easier than washing it by hand and cheaper than paying other people to do it.

Why not just take your Car for a Bath?

http://www.clanoxygen.com/Scooter/4WD/CarBath.JPG

CarLovers sounds like fun, I'll give that a go

just take it to car lovers. you get to play with super high pressure hoses and it's way easier than washing it by hand and cheaper than paying other people to do it.

just never do it on a weekend, that place is f***ing packed.

Why not just take your Car for a Bath?

unless it has a air intake snorkle, things are going to get pretty funny pretty quickly.

havent had any problems with BP car wash. avoid the wheelscrub if you have chrome wheels (as ive heard that it can scratch the chrome, which in turn can lift off)

but i take the cars there for a normal wash and its fine

alternatively drive up to noosa, 105% dam capacity, no water restrictions whatsoever! :p

Hand carwash at Albion + get a root while you wait next door.

haven't read half the s*** there but ^^

those machines wouldn't scrach it, but it would be leaving swirls on the paint job.

look at it on the right angle and you'll see it.

just hand the wash the s*** nigga.

I just washed the car yesterday, fuxin soap still all over it. as ifyou can get that s*** off with a bucket

existence's car wash used to be the s***

asif get a real job pete

good call scooter

http://jason.qgl.org/images/random/DSCF0177_0001.jpg

word of advice though - wind up your windows first, I found that if the water comes up to the open windows, it flows over inside the window and into the car itself

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you must be new to 4wding or something :)

4wding, he is just driving through some excess water!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkmZveqyU5E&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b


get that guy to do it...

costs 10 grand a wash

i used to work at a carwash "formula 1 car wash"

corner of wynnum and manly rd, tingalpa

its a really good service, when i left over a year ago it was 14dollars for a sedan standard wash, and 16 for a 4wd. that includes a high pressure guery spray under your wheel arches + super hot suds over your car, then 2 ppl hand sponge down either side of your car , including your rims. you go through the tunnel and the under carriage shoots your under body with more high pressure jets.

then u go thru another hot foam bath, then more high pressure water jets wash all the suds off your car

you then get a water based wax applied thru more jets, then you go thru 2 massive high RPM turbines that blast 95% of the water off your car, then, 2 ppl will towel off your car after its been blown off, then u drive off

u can get vaccums, and other details. vaccuums and basic half hour max interiors stop off at around $50 dollars i think. they buff / polish your car as well. full interior/exterior details including removing over spray.. it goes up to aorund $600

once this guy paid us 1500 to remove every spec of overspray off his new porsche.. took 2 guys working on it all day 4 days.

as for if it damages your car. the only way your car can be damaged is if the idiot using the guerny at the start puts the nozzel less then 1cm from your paint when its on high pressure mode. Even most new cars it wont affect, but some, it will lift paint. nothing else really touches your car until you get towelled off, so it cant get wrecked

wow what a huge post ;p



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Do you wash arab schlongs? cause they definately need high pressure power.

anyone else notice that booyah and kat are acting alot alike? very attention whoreing sort of attitude.(i don't dislike you kat, but you do tend to attention whore abit)

There's a difference between attention seeking and spamming. I am practicing the later but no one gives a damn anyway you f***ing dyke.

And I have said what in this thread that constitutes "attention whoring" WhiteWolf?

pete is there a formula 1 anywhere on the nthside that you know of?
i do not frequent the likes of 'tingalpa'

i work in tingalpa, what are you trying to say strex :(

and petey, can i pay someone to wear a bikini while getting said wash

Do you wash arab schlongs? cause they definately need high pressure power.

because they're so dirty?

Yeah you'd know ya knobflop.

im not arab

Ya me neither (1/4 kurd, 1/4 aussie)

so your only a 1/2 man then?

he is 1/2 man, 1/2 MACHINE!~#%#! he is an arab cyborg sent back in time to rid the world of infidels. or something like that.

I just scratched my car pulling out of a tightrope corner in a f***ed up underground car park and I want to cry...

i scratched my car last weekend after having 0 hours sleep from working 8 hours and having to get straight on a plane, i wanted to cry also :(

I can't f***ing deal with it, I f***ing hate life

Just scratch it on the other side to even it out.

speed scratch?

There's one near the whorehouse at Albion, they do it all by hand.. you should know where the whorehouse is there Gimpy.

i actually worked at that place for like 5 months, they do an OK job at best, it's mainly a wanky place for people to take their expensive euro pos cars and look upper class sipping coffee while they watch their car get washed by plebs

i actually lost my job after an RE night with people from this forum and others, stayed out till 5 with maxe, nf and boxhead. i rung the guy asking for a day off and he said i'd be out of a job if i didn't turn up i was like 'ok' and hung up the phone and went to sleep

ps. he hires alot of these south american exchanged students that will work for peanuts


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last edited by paveway at 08:30:40 12/Jul/06

i actually worked at that place for like 5 months, they do an OK job at best, it's mainly a wanky place

The whorehouse?

yes

I just spent $4 at carlovers cleaning the outside of the car, if you are paying more then that, you are doing it wrong (or have a bus).

If you care about the paint job on your car (eg new car) then wash the car yourself. Most automated carwashes will leave swirl marks or really fine scratches on your paint whilst most manual car washes are done by people who don't give a toss (eg using the same sponge to do rims/wheels as they use for the rest of the car).

Sent my first car through a BP carwash years ago and it came out with heaps and heaps of tiny little scratches to which BP denied and said they must have been already there.

Ive washed by hand ever since but who knows, maybe maybe the carwash technology has advanced.

I used the Touch Free car washes for both my personal car and my company car. My company car has stickers on it. They are the ones without those big brushes. I have heard the ones with the brushes do leave marks on your car.

I used to use the one at Richlands Mobile but they seem to have taken that out now, I would assume because of water restrictions.

There are a few around not too sure where some others are though.

alternatively drive up to noosa, 105% dam capacity, no water restrictions whatsoever! :p

How can you have 105% capacity? :|

The amount of overflow water running out of the dam is 5% that of its total capacity?

And btw, if you want something done right, do it yourself. If you buy a sponge, a bucket, some autowash and a chamois it'll probably not only be cheaper than going to Sparkles etc but everytime after that you'll already have the gear to do it. And keep the sponge in good nick and use an old sponge/cloth for the wheels and it won't scratch.

Re the water problem, you're allowed to wet it with a bucket first, then use a bucket of warm water + autowash to clean it. Then if you're sneaky enough use a hose for a final rinse but be quick about it. Then chamois it dry. If your neighbours are ghey enough to dob you in for that I'm sure you can come up with something to smear on their front door.

Edit: yeah, I just wanted to say

That's impossible. No one can give more than 100%. By definition, that is the most anyone can give.

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i think they have overflow catches when the dam is full