| Car Wash - not that trivial | | Posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:47:57 PM by Alex Molin | Keeping your car clean is not only a maintenance issue; it also shows a lot about you. If you care about how your car looks, you probably also care about its performance level and therefore don’t neglect taking care of other maintenance issues. Car wash is a simple action. You can either wash it manually or with high pressure car washes. How ever, hand washing is always better for your car, but most of us don't have the time for that.
Although it supposed to be simple, here are some useful and interesting tips for both manually and mechanic car washing:
Hand washing
- Don’t just wash with water, add soap to it. Due to the water surface tension, they tend to bead on shiny cars and the cleaning is minimal. If you are using a good soap, the soapy water doesn’t bead and will break down the water’s surface tension.
- If you want your soap to remove grease and dirt, make sure it is a detergent, otherwise the only thing that will remove the dirt will be your wash cloth.
- A good washing soap should make your paint feel slippery, so that the dirt will flow off your car.
- Any product claiming to do both clean and wax your car is a compromise or worse.
- Every time you wash your car, you strip off wax. It's going to happen no matter what you use since wax is supposed to slowly wear off to keep dirt from embedding in your paint.
- Any wash product that doesn't make lots of lasting bubbles is not good for your car. The bubbles are essential to get the dirt off your paint without scratching.
- The washing operation should be from top to down.
- Use two wash cloths - one from the top to the middle (the beltline) and the second from the beltline down.
- Wash one section at a time and use lots of water at low pressure to rinse.
- Water alone are not the causes of rust, it is water combined with dirt. There are areas that accumulate dirt and get wet anyway as it rains so it is better to power wash them often
High pressure car washes
- This option is good especially on non-freezing days, when you can't wash by hand or in other occasion when hand wash is not an option.
- High pressure car washes often damage your car paint. Search for the newer washes or those that are maintained well.
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| | | Mountain Vista Elementary will hold car wash on Jan. 27 | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 2:50:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mountain Vista Elementary School instrumental music department students will be out in force washing cars from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the school's parking lot. The car wash is a fundraiser for the students' trip to Disneyland in June, where the musicians will perform. The group will also have the opportunity to record their music, band director Jeff Wilder said. Car wash prices: Regular wash: $8 Super wash: $10 Extreme wash: $12 Mountain Vista Elementary is located at 49-750 Hjorth Street in Indio. For more information, contact Jeff Wilder at 909 435-8207. .... | |
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| | | Car Crashes Into Car Wash In Uptown | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:49:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | (STNG) CHICAGO One person was pinned Monday morning when a car crashed into a car wash on the North Side. The vehicle ran into a car wash at 4900 N. Broadway about 11:57 a.m., according to Fire Media Affairs Assistant Director Eve Rodriguez. The accident occurred inside Uptown Car Wash and Service Station, according to an Uptown employee. One person was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical to serious condition and another person was taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital in good condition, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Richard Rosado said, correcting initial reports.Unconfirmed reports said one of the victims was on a bike at the time of the crash and was knocked through the buildings wall. Rodriguez had no further details on the circumstances of the crash. .... | |
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| | | END OF ROAD FOR OLD CAR WASH | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:49:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | The old pull chains were still hanging in some places, relics of a time Mike Sobieski remembered when they'd hook up customers' cars to a slow-geared motor and wash the vehicles by hand. The nostalgic chain barrier has been supplanted by a chain-link fence, and a wrecking crew was already tearing down a nearby diner Wednesday to make way for a planned Commerce Bank branch. By next week, the Lakewood Car Wash believed by the Sobieski family to be the oldest continuously operated car wash in Ocean County could be just a pile of bricks. "My dad, Ted Sobieski, purchased it in 1974. It dates back to the late 1950s, probably about 1959," Sobieski, 41, recalled. "The closest one was in Freehold. That's when Route 9 was a two-lane highway." Over the years, the car wash has handled up to 600 vehicles a day on busy Saturdays, and probably 1 million cars in all, Sobieski calculates.... | |
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| | | Body Of Woman Found In Trunk Of Stolen Car In Everett | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:50:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | EVERETT, Wash. -- A report of illegal parking led to the discovery of a dead woman in the trunk of a stolen car, police said. The car was towed from a private lot in the south part of town to an impound lot Sunday, and a subsequent call to authorities revealed that the vehicle was stolen, police Sgt. Boyd Bryant said. Officers found the body in the trunk while checking the vehicle and conducting a damage inventory, Bryant said. An autopsy was conducted Monday but the results were not disclosed. Bryant said investigators were trying to determine the identity of the woman and how long she had been dead. State Patrol investigators also were assisting in the probe. .... | |
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| | | Wash Depot Holdings, Inc. Offers Free Car Washes for Veterans on Veterans' Day, November 11, 2006 | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:01:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Malden, MA (PRWEB) November 2, 2006 -- For the second year in a row in recognition of all the Veterans who have served our country, Wash Depot Holdings, Inc., is offering free car washes to all war-and-peacetime Veterans (and active military personnel) on Veterans' Day, Saturday November 11, 2006. .... | |
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| | | Problems with car tag decals to be fixed | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:52:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Complaints about 2007 car tag stickers, including that they wouldn't stick on license plates or faded in the sun or car wash, will be solved next year, a tax commission official said. Patsy Holeman, director of the motor vehicle bureau at the state Tax Commission, said the Tax Commission will be printing all of the 2008 stickers in-house. .... | |
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| | | Suspect Damages Car Wash | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:37:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | STOKESDALE - A suspect did some car maintenance at B&G Car Wash in Stokesdale, and in the process nearly damaged the whole operation. The Guilford County Sheriff's Department says that someone went to the car wash at 7709 Athens Road sometime between 9 p.m. on Oct. 18 and 9 a.m. the following morning. While there, they changed their oil and cleaned out their engine, despite the fact that there are signs on the primises saying oil changes and cleaning of engines and mowing equipment are not permitted. The following morning, owner Bob Casey reported finding grease all over the car wash bay and oil in the pit. At least $1,000 of damage would have been done had the oil not reached the filter. Casey told officers that he would review the security tapes and let them know information on the suspect and the vehicle.... | |
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| | | Teen Car Prowl Suspect Critically Hurt In Crash | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:49:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | PUYALLUP, Wash. -- A teenage boy suspected of trying to break into a car was critically hurt when he and an alleged accomplice fled police and crashed into a utility pole Monday night, Puyallup police said. Police said officers responding to a report of a vehicle break-in in progress found two 16-year-olds in a car outside Mervyn's at South Hill Mall. When police tried to stop them, they drove away. After about 15 blocks, their car hit a utility pole in the 1700 block of 39th Avenue Southwest and landed on its top, police said. The driver, a 16-year-old Tacoma boy, was taken to a hospital with what police described as life-threatening injuries. The 16-year-old passenger was treated for minor injuries, police said. Police said they found items believed to be taken from several vehicles at South Hill Mall inside the suspects' car.... | |
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| | | D-Block Opens Car Wash/Detail Center In Yonkers | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:48:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | D-Block has teamed up with New York-based record label, Sasso Records, to open a car wash/detail center in Yonkers, New York, the first of many, according to the label's CEO. Sasso, founder of Sasso Records, came to D-Block with the idea, being they have a great working relationship, and felt that opening their flagship center in D-Block's community would be the best start. "I've developed a relationship with the D-Block family and respect them both as artists and people," said Sasso via a statement. "We all thought it was important for them to have a business which gives money back to their own community in Yonkers." The D-Block Shell Car Wash/Detail Center will hold its grand opening on Saturday (October 21) at 364 Nephehan Avenue, Yonkers, New York.... | |
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| | | Car wash firms innovate | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:48:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | BALLARAT car wash businesses facing the prospect of stage four water restrictions are looking to alternative water sources. Under stage four restrictions which have been flagged to be introduced in November, water must not be used to wash any part of a vehicle other than its windows, mirrors and lights, and for spot-removing corrosive substances. Even then, the cleaning can take place only with a bucket filled directly from the tap. Under current stage three water restrictions commercial car washes are allowed to operate if less than 70 litres of water is used per vehicle. Water tanks have recently been installed at Neale Goad Auto Detailing in Wendouree in preparation for further water restrictions. Owner Neale Goad said the business had started looking at alternative water sources about six weeks ago.... | |
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