1999Porsche911

Tony: What does it cost for a hand job in Maryland?

tgcrun

It was about 15 this afternoon when I washed my car. We have a very good completely brushless, automatic spray wash here in State College. Drive up, stick your credit or debit card into the machine, the door opens, drive in, get sprayed by a zillion jets of water, drive out. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done. Also, instead of tracks it just has outer guide rails that can accomodate a car much wider than my C2. Alternatively, I use the self spray wash, but I find it doesn't get the car clean enough. When they're not busy they will let you bring a bucket and mitt, and hand wash the car using their spray equipment as a soap and water source. I generally take the attitude that if I'm gonna drive in the winter, the car's gonna be dirty most of the time. I didn't buy it to turn it into a garage queen.

Moogle

holminator

Saw that joke coming from a million, ba-jillion miles away, Beavis.

1999Porsche911

It was just too easy to pass up.

SrfCity

Another, take it to the airport and see if they'll deice it in between jets

JS

Tool Pants

alin2

At least the paint is protected...

OH997

I spent $600 and put a radiant heater in my garage. Never too cold now. I already had hot and cold water and a drain.

I have also used the high presure spray car wash units. There are no tracks so the size of the wheels won't matter.

The_Phantom

That is almost exactly what I do. Works great and only takes two minutes at the self serve car wash and ten to fifteen minutes washing with mitt and bucket and drying with a chamois at home.

TT Surgeon

Last week it was 12 degrees, my car was covered in salt/mud, I had to get it off. None of the local CW places wanted to do it, so I did it! (BTW a hand job runs about 35$ on LI...the car type).
I had my son relay buckets of hot water to me in the driveway while I hand washed it, It nearly froze as I poured it on. Then I pulled it inside the garage to finish it off. My wife, neighbors think I'm a maniac!
I couldn't take it anymore!

epbrown01

Hey, I don't have a garage, so my neighbors see me out on the street with a bucket of hot water and some bright yellow rubber gloves. I wait for those few nanoseconds when it's 32F or more and do all 3 cars as quickly as possible; I rinse off the salt and dirt with the water, then go over the cars with Meguiars Quick Detailer (with constant passers-by saying "Hey, can you do mine next?"). Then again, each car has a 32 oz. spray bottle and clean towel in it for a spritz and wipe whenever. When people asks how I keep them looking so nice, my gf always jumps in and says "Simple - he's insane."

Emanuel

JS

Why didnt they want to do it?

TT Surgeon

They said it was too much work and too cold. I used to go to a place near my house, but it changed hands, new guys an ahole.