zmz3
01-17-2011, 11:21 PM
Hello everyone,
I have seen some people ask about car washes and which to go to and which to avoid. While I do hand wash my cars in summer, I certainly cannot do that with -15 outside and salt has to stay off the paint. And so, for the past several years, I have been using both the Canadian Tire 'touchless' express car wash and I have recently tried the Pioneer Express Car Wash.
The Pioneer Express Car Wash is not touchless, however, like many other generic car wash places, they have massive cloths that go back and forth and clean, and eventually ones that dry your car before the blow dryer. Having said that, many other generic car wash places with these cloths still don't clean nearly as good as this, at least in the Hamilton area.
Well today, I gave my Mazda 3 a basic express wash, which I thought was expensive, coming to $9.59, partially due to no gas purchase. It sucks because at the Canadian tire touchless wash, the people are used to me so I usually get ultimate with gas, even though I never buy any gas from there.
Anyways, the process took about 3 mintues and the car came out decently clean, definately cleaner than Canadian tire touchless which I have been using for years.
The only down side to this, is that since its generic, it's not exactly designed for cars with long antennas, and while it might not break it off, it certainly doesn't help that those massive washing and drying cloths put a decent amount of stress on it. I assume people with the stubby shark fin atenna will have no issues and I do recommend it for people.
With touchless, I notice that most of the time, the sides of the car has some white areas, where as today, I found none of that, and the car looked great!
Will definately go there more often once I get the stubby shark fin attena installed ;)
For now, I will keep that salt of the car every 2 weeks :)
Hope this helps!
I have seen some people ask about car washes and which to go to and which to avoid. While I do hand wash my cars in summer, I certainly cannot do that with -15 outside and salt has to stay off the paint. And so, for the past several years, I have been using both the Canadian Tire 'touchless' express car wash and I have recently tried the Pioneer Express Car Wash.
The Pioneer Express Car Wash is not touchless, however, like many other generic car wash places, they have massive cloths that go back and forth and clean, and eventually ones that dry your car before the blow dryer. Having said that, many other generic car wash places with these cloths still don't clean nearly as good as this, at least in the Hamilton area.
Well today, I gave my Mazda 3 a basic express wash, which I thought was expensive, coming to $9.59, partially due to no gas purchase. It sucks because at the Canadian tire touchless wash, the people are used to me so I usually get ultimate with gas, even though I never buy any gas from there.
Anyways, the process took about 3 mintues and the car came out decently clean, definately cleaner than Canadian tire touchless which I have been using for years.
The only down side to this, is that since its generic, it's not exactly designed for cars with long antennas, and while it might not break it off, it certainly doesn't help that those massive washing and drying cloths put a decent amount of stress on it. I assume people with the stubby shark fin atenna will have no issues and I do recommend it for people.
With touchless, I notice that most of the time, the sides of the car has some white areas, where as today, I found none of that, and the car looked great!
Will definately go there more often once I get the stubby shark fin attena installed ;)
For now, I will keep that salt of the car every 2 weeks :)
Hope this helps!