Has anyone had any problems with automatic car washes for the 19" wheel coupe as far a scraping the wheel?

 

AAAAHHG.

You should never use an automatic car wash on the whole car. Automatic car washes use harsh detergents that are not good for your paint.

I would suggest a hand wash with Zaino Bros. and any other Zaino product.

I use the car washes, but only the wand to fill up my bucket and rinse the car.

 

Yeah....I would never use a carwash either. Theres too big of a chance of damaging some part of your car. You'll get better results and you don't have to worry about something happening to your car if you just do it yourself. Like Realgone said, I would use some Zaino products...you should get some good results with them.

 

Wheels will almost 100% of the time scrape if there is a track. Better to take it to a handwash place if you don't have time to do it yourself.

 

a handwash place is 10x better than an automatic carwash (brushless or brushes). The paint will look awful and you will have swirls, spider webs, and hazy patches all over the car. Don't do it man!

But even the handwash places usually use a track to move the vehicle through, so there is potential for wheel scrapes.

 

A good hand wash place....NEVER take it to a drive thru auto wash, your wheels are at risk and you don't know what **** detergent they use

 

I use the Brushless type of car wash like I did today... No probs, though I only have 18"

 

Swirl king.

Have fun with that

 

I would never let anyone else wash my car. Half the fun of owning a car like this is taking care of it, washing it, waxing it, and detailing it. If you don't have the facilities to wash your own car, go to a wand wash coin-op place late at night and bucket wash the car yourself.

 

Most low-profile tires nowadays have a rubber lip that runs the length of the wheels diameter that should protect the wheel from minor scraps and 'curb rash' from situations when you barely rub the curb, much like what would happen at an automated car wash.

On a side note, NEVER AS LONG AS YOU LIVE RUN YOUR CAR THROUG HAN AUTOMATED CAR WASH!!!!!!!

 

when you hand wash your car and go over all the contours, you will realize just how sexy your car is.

 

automatic car wash.. oh boy, my car is never going in one of those..
the worst ive ever done is a hand car wash, after which i got swirls.. now im doing everything myself which is better quality and probably cheaper

 

I use the auto carwash....for my civic.
the G35 I hand wash

 

How is the Mr.Clean autodry kit, i just bought it but cant clean my car until the rain stops... ive heard some good things and some bad things