View Poll Results: Do you take your car to the Car Wash, or Hand wash yourself.
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Car wash (Business) or Hand wash (Yourself)
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mobile service comes to my work every 2 wks, unless I request sooner....california duster and low dust brake pads help in the interim
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I prefer to hand wash. The only vendor wash I go through are the automated ones that use jet water. No guide rails for the tires to hit. No hard rotating brushes on the rims. Only water, soap then air; and I only do this maybe 15% of the time. I normally wash her myself cause I love looking her over afterwards and taking pride in my work.
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95% of the time I hand wash my own cars, whether it's 30F outside or 90F outside. Lol.. I don't trust car wash places BUT if it's really to cold or too hot and my cars need a wash, only one car wash place is acceptable where they hand wash the car..
