Automated car washes may be quick and convenient, but at what cost to you and your vehicle? 

Do you love a scratch free paint job? If so, an automated brush and roller car wash is not for you. These car washes clean vehicles with the same brushes and rollers. All of the dirt and rocks from the vehicles before yours gets embedded in the brushes and soft cloths and becomes hard to remove 100% of them. So essentially, it is like washing your ride with very fine grit sand paper. The end results of using these car washes are swirl marks all over your clear coat that can be costly to remove or permanent. 

You would think touchless car washes would be better, but they're not. To get the dirt and grime off a vehicle without touching it requires very high water pressure with harsher chemicals. Too high of water pressure can remove paint, and using harsh chemicals all over your vehicle that are not specific to what you're washing can lead to damage in certain areas.

Both of these types of car washes usually have high pressure blow dryers. Hardly ever do these dryers fully dry your vehicle. You either move too slow and miss the back of your vehicle or move to quick to beat the timer and are left with a wet car. Not fully drying your vehicle will leave it covered in unsightly water spots that can become very difficult to remove and requires specialized products.

Automated Car Washes Are Expensive

Not only are these automated car washes hard on your vehicle lets discuss how hard they are on your wallet. A basic car wash can run you $10 at most places. This seems like a good deal, but normally a basic wash is only a bit of soap, a quick rinse and maybe high pressure blow dryers. Anything more and you'll be spending anywhere between $15 to $25 per wash with no lasting products applied!

If you're using touchless washes you're paying to have your car sprayed with soap and water. Since there are no materials touching your vehicle to force off the stuck on grime, it is to be expected your car will still appear somewhat dirty. If you go through a brush and roller car wash you're paying to have your vehicles clear coat ruined. In the end, the value these car washes appear to bring are heavily outweighed by the end results they give you.

For the best chore free results getting your vehicle professionally cleaned by a detailer is the best option. A detailer is going to use gentle clean materials that wont scratch the surface of your ride. Has specialized products for all of the different types of surfaces, that will outlast anything you can buy at an automated car wash. Last but definitely not least, a detailer will care for your car like it was their own.