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car wash / hand wash
12-06-2004, 04:34 PM
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My Ride: (Expecting Oct. 2004) 2005 530i Sport package, premium sound package,premium package, xenon's, HUD, sat radio, cold weather package, navagation
Since using a car wash I noticed swirl marks, Rims scratchs, and lint over my car, I guess I am a little on the lazy side. The car washes I use are hand wash but they run through the tunnel.
12-06-2004, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by roost' date='Dec 6 2004, 08:34 PM
Since using a car wash I noticed swirl marks, Rims scratchs, and lint over my car, I guess I am a little on the lazy side. The car washes I use are hand wash but they run through the tunnel.
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thats the price for me living in a climate that gets cold, i love to hand wash, but for 5 months a year its too cold
12-06-2004, 05:08 PM
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My Ride: '06 530i -6speed - Comfort Seats - Premium Package - Premium Sound Package - Cold Weather Package - Ventilated Seats - Xenon -HUD - PDC - Nav
ehh ... takes too much time to handwash - a year long pass to the car wash did me just fine. and silvergrey is a somewhat carefree color... don't see those scratches/swirls much
12-06-2004, 05:11 PM
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My Ride: F02 LCI Individual
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I take it to a car wash, what uses textile stripes only. The car actually looks better than when I wash it by hand. It doesn't harm the paint at all. But I am in the lucky situation, that we have one of the modernest car washes in the world here in Frankfurt. They just bought new machines for the cost of 800,000.-?.
12-06-2004, 05:19 PM
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My Ride: 2004 525i Jet Black on Grey Interior---
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Originally Posted by m630' date='Dec 6 2004, 08:55 PM
thats the price for me living in a climate that gets cold, i love to hand wash, but for 5 months a year its too cold
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I wish I knew a way to get rid of them... sigh... Oooo well..
12-06-2004, 05:19 PM
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My Ride: 2004 545i 6 spd Sports Package | NAV | PDC | Logic 7 | BT retrofit | SW V13.3
I take it to a "Hand" Car wash. These are common in Los Angeles, the car capital of the world. No brush ever touches my paint.
12-06-2004, 05:26 PM
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I do hand washes until it's too cold to keep the hose outdoors so it won't freeze and crack (about now). Then I go to a car wash that just uses high pressure water and no cloth or other contact to the paint. Then after it blow dries, I use a towel to finish the surface. I do it once a week.
But where we are, this time of year, it rarely goes for 1 day without raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I am always doing the wash and seeing rain the very next day!!! Why is that?
I grew up in Miami, and it was never like this, but now I live mid-continent and get gray dreary rain and snow
:'( 
But where we are, this time of year, it rarely goes for 1 day without raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I am always doing the wash and seeing rain the very next day!!! Why is that?
I grew up in Miami, and it was never like this, but now I live mid-continent and get gray dreary rain and snow
:'(
12-06-2004, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by m630' date='Dec 6 2004, 09:55 PM
[quote name='roost' date='Dec 6 2004, 08:34 PM']Since using a car wash I noticed swirl marks, Rims scratchs, and lint over my car, I guess I am a little on the lazy side. The car washes I use are hand wash but they run through the tunnel.
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thats the price for me living in a climate that gets cold, i love to hand wash, but for 5 months a year its too cold
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[/quote]Hand washed as long as the hands can take it.... Yesterday at a high of 40F. Of course snow, rain and sleet today
12-06-2004, 05:43 PM
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My Ride: 2005 Sapphire Black 545i, Auburn interior, PDC, Fold-down rear seats, Nav, Premium sound
hand washing all the way! at least until i give up the fight against swirl marks :-p
12-06-2004, 05:48 PM
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My Ride: 525i - titanium silver - sport package - premium package - bi-xeon -
hand wash if you have a dark color... if you have a carefree color...take it somewhere and let them worry about it... but i like to wax it myself