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Old 03-18-11, 12:16 AM
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Dont take your car though the Scratch O' Matic! Hand wash it!!!
Old 03-18-11, 04:14 AM
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Why would you want them to wash your car
Old 03-18-11, 04:28 AM
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at my dealership, if you have thier license plate on they will wash your car for free, they dont check if u bought the car from them but their wash sucks anyways
Old 03-18-11, 05:15 AM
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ONly person to wash my car is me, no offense to anyone but I wouldn't trust the people there to not put swirl marks all over it.
Old 03-18-11, 05:37 AM
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Lexus of Pembroke Pines in Florida gives you free car washes. Ive heard horror stories on here though so I dont suggest using it
Old 03-18-11, 05:54 AM
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Sewell here in Dallas will come and pick my car up and wash it for me. I LOVE SEWELL!!!
Old 03-18-11, 06:08 AM
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At my dealer we have a sticker in our window that shows we bought the car from them and we can go use the courtesy wash whenever its open (weather permitting) HOWEVER, they NEVER have any soap in the damn thing so it's just a plain water rinse off. I don't even use it. Now when they do my oil changes ect. they use a different wash that has soap
Old 03-18-11, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by MashinA
Never wash ur car at the dealer... I know from experience
Agreed, its just not that great...
Old 03-18-11, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Kdash106
I drove by a Nissan service couple days ago and I saw a service guy washing a car.... With one of them brushes, and he was going at it. I think I'll be washing my own car.
I've seen the Lexus "free car washers" drop their wash rags on the ground, pick them up, and continue scrubbing the paint. Why not just use steel wool and sand paper!?!!
Old 03-18-11, 09:39 AM
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The idiots at my dealership always make swirl marks on my black side pillars whenever I receive a "courtesy" car wash. I mean seriously who does that? It seems like a simple enough job to not screw up.
Old 03-18-11, 10:39 AM
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I stopped letting them wash the car after they kept knocking my custom emblems off with the pressure washer or whatever they used.
Old 03-18-11, 12:16 PM
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Never let the dealer wash your car, I forgot to tell them to not wash it once and I could already see swirl marks.
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