Has Touchless High Press Car wash ever hurt your Paintjob??
Coming from a detailing background..
There are alot of ways to completely avoid swirls. My personal car is an 07 Honda Accord Coupe with 32k on it. I drive it alot, I'm **** about how it looks, and I wash it all the time.
I run through the car through the touchless all the time. It doesn't get the car perfectly clean, but it's a silver car so it never looks too bad.
If the car is really dirty, I usually go to a coin-op and try to rinse the car as best I can (much higher pressure than my home hose), and then go home and hand wash it.
To date, I've never buffed the car. It has ZERO swirls on it. I did wetsand it this past weekend from 3 scratches over the winter, so those 3 spots did need buffed out. I usually just claybar and wax it several times a year. When you buff 2-3 cars a week on average, finding the motivation to do your own car is pretty much non-existant. I'm very **** with how I wash my car, using two buckets, two wash mitts, and several microfiber towels for drying.
If you don't know what you're doing while handwashing, you can really mess a finish up quickly.
To answer the OP's question..
No the touchless didn't do that. It was probably done by the dealer.
There are alot of ways to completely avoid swirls. My personal car is an 07 Honda Accord Coupe with 32k on it. I drive it alot, I'm **** about how it looks, and I wash it all the time.
I run through the car through the touchless all the time. It doesn't get the car perfectly clean, but it's a silver car so it never looks too bad.
If the car is really dirty, I usually go to a coin-op and try to rinse the car as best I can (much higher pressure than my home hose), and then go home and hand wash it.
To date, I've never buffed the car. It has ZERO swirls on it. I did wetsand it this past weekend from 3 scratches over the winter, so those 3 spots did need buffed out. I usually just claybar and wax it several times a year. When you buff 2-3 cars a week on average, finding the motivation to do your own car is pretty much non-existant. I'm very **** with how I wash my car, using two buckets, two wash mitts, and several microfiber towels for drying.
If you don't know what you're doing while handwashing, you can really mess a finish up quickly.
To answer the OP's question..
No the touchless didn't do that. It was probably done by the dealer.
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Coming from a detailing background..
There are alot of ways to completely avoid swirls. My personal car is an 07 Honda Accord Coupe with 32k on it. I drive it alot, I'm **** about how it looks, and I wash it all the time.
I run through the car through the touchless all the time. It doesn't get the car perfectly clean, but it's a silver car so it never looks too bad.
If the car is really dirty, I usually go to a coin-op and try to rinse the car as best I can (much higher pressure than my home hose), and then go home and hand wash it.
To date, I've never buffed the car. It has ZERO swirls on it.
If you don't know what you're doing while handwashing, you can really mess a finish up quickly.
To answer the OP's question..
No the touchless didn't do that. It was probably done by the dealer.
There are alot of ways to completely avoid swirls. My personal car is an 07 Honda Accord Coupe with 32k on it. I drive it alot, I'm **** about how it looks, and I wash it all the time.
I run through the car through the touchless all the time. It doesn't get the car perfectly clean, but it's a silver car so it never looks too bad.
If the car is really dirty, I usually go to a coin-op and try to rinse the car as best I can (much higher pressure than my home hose), and then go home and hand wash it.
To date, I've never buffed the car. It has ZERO swirls on it.
If you don't know what you're doing while handwashing, you can really mess a finish up quickly.
To answer the OP's question..
No the touchless didn't do that. It was probably done by the dealer.
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