I have OB, whenever I take my car for oil change to the dealer I try to remember to tell them no wash. Even those microfiber towels can swirl OB paint on my G if I use too much force.

I don't care how cheap the car wash is, I won't let people wash my car.

 

Depends if you are doing synthetic or not. My dealer charges $30 for a regular oil change. Similar at a jiffy lube was $55.
Good idea.


What color is your car? Our black 08 had the SOFTEST paint and after one winter of washing at an auto wash, it looked like absolute ****. I could see swirls and **** when their wasn't a dot of sun in the sky. It was BAD.

 

Dont let dealers do it either unless its touch free. They dont clean their cloths and most of the time end up putting small scratches in.

 

That not a bad idea. Free food for them for taking car of my car.

 

I have the lakeshore blue. I was being pressure about the blueslate and the lakeshore and i just went w/ it.

 

I use the touch less car wash at the local Chevron station then do a good hand wash every couple months and wax it.

 

I use touchless winter time and handwash ever other season.

 

I used to be a noob and take my car to get washed every friday. Until i realized they were messing it up more than what they were cleaning it. Some of those guy and girls, are drying the cars with jewelery on and stuff like bracelets or rings. They dont even realize the dam jewelery is scratching the **** out of the cars when they are drying them. Never again.

 

I just tried Optimum No Rinse Wash out on my Honda Fit. With that, you just fill up two buckets with warm water from your sink, and you can wash your car in your garage. It seemed to work pretty good, so I'll be doing that during the winter on my OB G35 Sedan.

 

OMG!!! I think i should go and check my car when i get the chance. There better not be any scratches on my car.

 

The problem with "checking" for scratches, is you need direct sunlight. And even then, if they used a wax with lot's of fillers, it will fill in all those scratches, and they'll reappear in a couple weeks as they wear off.

What's done is done, I would just be careful in the future.

I saw a video comparing different types of car washes and how they affected the finish of the paint. The gas station car wash actually messed the paint up the least... The car wash that was done by hand was all good, until they used a squeege to dry the car and dragged dirt across it.

 

I go to Cactus Car Wash in Atlanta regularly. To my knowledge, there's never been a problem...except for the wait.

 

I was going to Katy's car wash last year with my wifes Toyota 4Runner. I washed it by hand for a year, then the second year I got lazy, and it got cold. So I started bringing it to Katy's car wash. They supposedly have all the newest equipment and all that, all machine wash, nobody touching your car. Anyway, After a year of that, the shadow mica paint was all swirled, and there was a paint at the top where all the paint was actually rubbed off somehow...

 

Well if you found something that works for you, keep going for it! I'm not too familiar with that color, so I'm not too sure how scratch sensitive it is anyway.

You can come by my house and I'll use my $70 LED flashlight to reveal the truth if you want.

But if you're happy with how it looks, I'd just leave it alone... otherwise you'll have to spend a lot of time/money to get it as perfect as possible!

 

That is horrible!!! I am just going to take a friend out to eat as someone suggested. I am not going to be walking for awhile so, I am going to talk to my parents to see if i can get the garage on a rainy day.