drove by a dealership today and the guy was washing the vehicles with a small push broom type brush

 

The way most people take care of their new vehicles around here he could have washed them with a rock and they would not notice.

 

are guys wash with one bucket, and use the same mitt for weeks at a time, 100+ cars a week. (Land Rover)

 

It amazes me when I see people with expensive cars and trucks at the self serve wash, using the foaming brush. They grind their own dirt, plus whatever has accumulated in the brush, into the paint.

 

Didn't you mean to say Our?

I shouldn't even talk

 

Like my neighbor using a real small bucket and starts with the wheels and then with the same mitt and water washes from the bottom up.

 

He lives in Central Texas now, that's just his Central Texas (also known as the Hill Country) drawl.

 

 

ya ya ya ya ya darren you finally got me after over 7,000 posts

 

Doesn't bother me that much. It's what helps keep me in business.

 

If I go to the self washing places I always hit that foam brush with the pressure washer first for about 30 sec. or so.


I do agree most folks will just wash their vehicals with whatever.

 

That's totally unacceptable here. That's one of the worst things you can do to your finish. Not trying to pick on you, but this forum is for talking about how to take CARE of your truck, not scratch the crap out of it.

I'll use the self serve, but only with the pressure wash set to Rinse to knock off the big chunks. Even the soap there has questionable chemistry.

EDIT: I may have misread what you said - if you are saying you are blasting the crap out of the brush first, that's not quite as bad and I apologize. However, you still have the inherent scratchiness of any brush and the caustic soap to consider.

 

I am a lot attendent at a local ford dealer, so my main job is to wash cars on the lot, and we use brush's, but after about every 5 cars we spray them off and then get new soap about every 10 cars, and we never wash our shelbys or anything like that with brush's only the finest microfiber mitts and chamois for them. But when you have 200 plus cars to wash you have to use brushs and a pressure washer to get them done as easily and efficient as possible.

 

And that is the exact reason why I didn't have the dealer wash my truck when it arrived.

 

or when you take it in to get serviced. when i had to replace the engine i told my dad to tell them not to wash it. well he didnt, so when we got there it was covered in water spots and still wet. I even found that they used a greasy shop rag to go over it really quick! when my trannie went out, i went up to the lady on my own time (i knew my dad would again not tell them to not wash it) and had her write it in big red letters on the shop form: "DO NOT WASH!!!"