Never made it that far. But I been to harrisville plenty of times. I think thats near clarion. I drove through clarion in the past.

 

Yeah, it's just north of Clarion. It's a nice little get away thats not far away if ya know what I mean... Lol

 

Of course I use the touchless, you can't wash a truck with a bucket of ice. Its been below feeezing for the past month here, I have no choice. Handwashing isn't even an option. Plus I got a nice laser touchless car wash that does a nice job. Good enough until the spring when the polished wheels come back on.

 

Do you know the name of the laser touchless wash? Curious if there are any around here.

 

I go through Harrisville about everyday. I live in Portersville. Not sure if you know where that's at but it's about 35 mins south of Harrisville.

 

Just my 2 cents, but I've used touchless to get a quick rinse of heavy dust and dirt, but I'm yet to find one that cleans deep enough to get to dirt film off of my truck. I prefer to do it myself. I know that not everyone has time to do a bang up wash job every time their truck gets dirty, but when I stand back after I wash my truck, I can tell the difference.

Bob

 

Touchless washes are junk! Soft cloth washes or forget it.

The only time touchless washes do any good is if your truck is already clean!

 

Oh boy

Swirl city here you come!

 

Meh, it doesn't swirl up as bad as you may think, seriously. I suppose it depends on the wash, but I'll tell ya man; the wash I use even dresses the tires and it almost looks as good as what it would look like being done by hand!

I'll correct some of those swirls this spring. I haven't done that in over two winters now, but the truck doesn't look THAT bad.

 

I use the Mikes Express sometimes. They use the soft cloth towels. To be honest as long as you don't take the truck through when it has a lot of gravel road sand and such on they really don't scratch the paint very much. My boss has a black avalanche and he probably takes to mikes once a week for the last 1.5 years and his paint looks really good even in direct sun light. There is some very light swirling but nothing bad.

A couple of months ago I was debating on selling the F150 and needed a quick wash before I went to the dealer. The day prior I drove done a gravel road in the rain and with my wheels sticking out it through sand all over the truck. I didn't even think about this until after I got into the wash and sure enough it did a number on my paint. I was planning on buying a DA or Flex this year anyway.

 

I own a car wash. It's a short 85' soft cloth wash and in my opinion it does a better job than 90% of the population does at home, not to mention it's a little more enviromental since virtually all of the runoff is put through sanitary sewer instead of a storm drain. If you do wash at home, make sure it doesn't run down the storm drain.

Anyhow, I used to run our '04 black Navigator back when we had through our wash all of the time as we were building our house and so there was no place to wash it. Well after two years of that, I have to say it still looked pretty good. Yeah the paint was a little dry, but some Zaino brought it right back. In short it's the quality of the wash facility and knowledge of chemicals that make a good wash.

As for a touchless, there are many good ones out there. Dirt removal is by higher concentration of chemicals plus soak or dwell time and then pressure. Remember the longer a touchless takes the better it will be for your paint, but then who wants to wait, right? Some good touchless brands are PDQ Laser and Water Wizard by Coleman. The water wizard is my preference since it does three sides on each pass instead of just two sides like the lasers do.

Hope this helps and I am happy to answer any questions. Just a note, in our industry a touchless is referred to hamburger, where as a good conveyor wash is the steak. On average "no touch" means "no clean" but there are exceptions.

 

I go through them every once in awhile and havent had any problems.

 

I use the touchless car wash if I'm in a hurry, although I'm not too crazy about the 'spotless rinse'. However, I usually like the ol' hand wash to be sure and take off that road grime the touchless usually doesn't wash off.

 

i used a touchless ONE time and never will again. and the only reason why i went through it is because i was in a hurry and didn't have an hour to wash my truck. but i wont ever use one again just cause the touchless broke while i was getting it washed and it wouldn't rinse off the soap for some reason. so i had dried soap on my truck until the next day. it sucked.

 

Anybody had problems with the water from the jets getting inside the seals on your sunroof???