Silver2000TL

I know that most of you don't approve of auto car washes...but what other options are there since it is too cold for me to be washing it by hand at home. Also I don't know of any place that hand washes in my area. Any suggestions on how to clean my car? Thanks for reading.

fsttyms1

find a brushless car wash.

njtls

try to find a clean one....you dont want the dirt form other peopls cars rubbed into your paint

Mr Hyde

This is the ONLY place to ever wash my car, it is a real deal 100% hand car wash.

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...light=car+wash

muffaburn

Whenever i'm in NY visiting my hometown and family there is a hand wash place on Merrick Blvd. & 220th street in Queens that I goto. No machine's no brushes, they charge like 8 or 9 buxs just for the outside inside and out runs about 12 buxs. Figured Queens is close enough to you since your in BK. Good luck in your search....

fsttyms1

hence a brushless car wash! nothing to rub dirt on the car with. we dont have that problem around here since ALL the carwashes are brushless

Silver2000TL

Also, I've never taken my car to get washed before...how does the tipping work?

Ianbiz3

i do that every week

dla208

anyone knows a good car wash in Brooklyn? My car looks like a freaking snowwhile with all the solt on it.

Thanks!

Tom Blasing

I found a great one near my house that does an excellent job when I doon't have time or an O'Neil wet suit nearby. I give the guy(s) two bucks after they dry it off. They wash still has the high velocity air-blowers but these guys get most of the little stuff left over. The wax they use is realy nice too. For those of you in Cincinnati it's called Johnny's Car Wash on Beechmont Avenue. The "eveything wash is about $18 so with the tip you can say good-bye to a twenty. Well worth it though.

badazzTL

do what i do: suck it up and wash it in ur driveway no matter how cold it is. wear rubber gloves to protect from frost bite. repeat once weekly or more if needed.

NYDesi80

HYDE... how long does the wait take before they get your car into the place? I know the wash itself is 45mts, but what about prior waiting? This looks like it would be a 2 1/2 hour ordeal?

But its great!!

larryr20

I use one of those places that you drive your car into the bay and you throw a whole lot of quarters in and you spray the car your self. You get wet yourself from the overspray but at least you dont have brushes against your car (not to mention the guy with the bad body odor who has to drive your car out of the autowash)

goldendragon576

larryr20, I use that too, but lately I've been going to the ones where you drive into a little garage thing and they wet the car with high pressure hoses and then soap it and then hose it off, all this is done without touching the car, just a machine that goes around your car. I think that's called touchless car washes? Works well if you just want to get the salt and mud off. Nothing beats a handwashed car!

shimbo519

ive resorted to doing this as well....i normally go to a touchless car wash, but with the amount of snow we're getting up here, its pointless.....so i just go rinse all that crap off once a week....plus im on a college budget so those 1.50 rinse and wash places are alot cheaper compared to the $6 touchless...

larryr20

sounds like were all trying to deal with the Northern NJ snow and crap they are putting on the roads. You are all right, nothing beats a handwashed car but anything to get the corrosive s*&t off the car is worth it.

fsttyms1

45 min:wow: our touch free car washes only take like 15 min.
(they dry the car by hand also)

Mr Hyde

Depends on when you go, I'm sure some weekends when its suddenly nice out all of a sudden are murder. I have usually gone on weekdays when I was off. Typically in and out in about 1-1.5 hours.

They wash the car like I would, separate buckets, and mits for the top and bottom of the car, tey get all the door jams, clean the trunk, etc, etc., there are no rails to drive through.

The extra time and $$ are worth it to me, and to my friends who know me, its a big deal that I actually let someone else wash my car.

I suck it up to wash my car with the best of them, but when its in the -20, -30 range with windchill, I'm not stupid. At those temps, water pipes burst, and driveways become scating rinks after a wash. In the last 2 weeks, I know at least 4 people who have had their water pipes which are inside the house, but against the outer, inner wall burst. I turned off my outside water faucets a long time ago.