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Touchless may be safer than traditional car washes, but can still damage your paint: Here's one particular article: https://drivedetailed.com/touchless-car-washes/ (But almost all criticism center around the same thing: high pressure, water quality, harsher chemicals). |
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08-29-2020, 05:43 PM | #3 |
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It's good enough for a quick rinse so that the car looks relatively clean but there's no way for it to be completely clean.
Not harmful to paint obviously but it may strip waxes if you have any on. |
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08-29-2020, 06:07 PM | #4 |
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I've heard the following argument from multiple sources -- quoting my link above:
"To make up for lack of friction, touchless car washes operate with a much higher force of pressure than your typical automated wash with brushes. This excessive force from the jets can send debris from a heavily soiled vehicle across the paintwork and end up leaving scratches on the paintwork." Perhaps tough to prove - I guess you could take a perfect paint corrected and polished car into frequent touchless car washes and perform proper inspections of the paint. |
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12-21-2020, 06:16 AM | #6 |
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Interesting. I take my cars through the touchless during winter months to get the salt and grime off.
I wouldn't consider leaving all the winter crud on until I could handwash. |
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12-23-2020, 03:15 PM | #7 |
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Find a self serve to use their pressure washer. Most seem to offer deionized water so you after you pressure wash the car you can use the deionized water and drive off. This is better than a touchless car wash as the chemicals they use are might more damaging to your lsp, but for a ceramic it probably can't do too much harm with how little people claim to be using them.
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04-03-2021, 11:22 AM | #11 |
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Count me in the votes for no visits to the car wash. My M was at the dealer for service and I insisted that they don't do a detail or wash. I don't care if I sound anal or being THAT guy. I would rather have a slightly dirty but swirl and scratch free BMW.
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