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View Poll Results: Where do you wash your car?
At home
83.33%
At a local self service car wash
14.49%
Full service car wash
0.72%
Automated car wash (not recommended)
1.45%
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Do you wash your car at home or at a car wash

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Old 06-07-2013, 12:30 AM
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I've been seeing a lot of my friends and car related video's on Youtube of people washing their cars at a self service car washes. Now I've always washed at home and prefer to wash it there. Please share.
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Weekly washes at home, and every, or every other day i drive it i usually take it to the local car wash to get the bugs/road dirt off. That's inbetween quick detailing while im out and about too.

OCD at its finest, lol.
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At home with Maguiar's car wash, two buckets and a microfiber sponge. Then I dry it with some microfiber towels. Once completely dry I wipe the whole car down with fresh microfiber towels and Maguiar's detail spray
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Car wash.
I like the high pressure water for hard to clean road tar, bird poop and brake dust.
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Carwash. Just don't let them jetwash the soft top.
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ya left one poll out..... I do not wash this car... rain might...
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I wash all my cars at home, about monthly. On warmer winter days, I run a hose from the utility sink just inside the door from the garage and use warm water. I make sure I run my DDs through one automatic car wash with underbody flush every spring after salt season.
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Primarily at home (bucket, garden hose, & microfiber towels). Once in a while when my car is REALLY dirty I will take it to the (self service) car wash w/ soap & bucket in tow. *Never use their soap or brushes*
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Live downtown so home washing isn't an option. I just head to the local self serve with a bucket, sponge and some Meg. soap. The only annoying part about this is that you can't get the water to come out in a stream like on a hose so it beads off
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None of the above. I wash mine at work. Why use my cleaning stuff when I can use their's!


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