Washing Cars, here's my take on it...

- Summer/Warm weather I do it by hand
- Winter, I use only 'high end' all cloth car washes

Personally, I would NEVER use a completely 'Touch-less' car wash. They use such harsh chemicals that it will literally strip the paint off the vehicle.

I Zaino regularly, and the roof isn't all that bad, you just need to get creative with it is all.

Just my thoughts.

I live in an apartment building where there is no car wash port. It would look really odd If I fill pails of water and go to clean it in the garage.

People are saying touchless is not a good idea along with the regular or automatic.....what are my choices? I don't want swirls all over my black sapphire car.

Bucket wash it at a manual carwash. It's the same as if you were to do it at home + you have a high powered vacuum and the brush to clean the inside of the wheel wells (do not use the brush on the paint whatsoever I always see people do that--that's paint suicide).

You know, I started out the post by wondering if anyone used those car washes that auger your vehicle along while it's in neutral - thinking that it would be vehicular suicide to let the jockey try to find neutral - not find it, then yikes. No one bit on that so my take away is no, no one uses that. cool.

There's some good comments on washing and drying in various temperatures. great. I'll be looking for those blue Costo towlettes and the sham wow.

Right now, I would LOVE to have a vehicle to have to wash. If I am really lucky, maybe it will arrive this weekend. Otherwise, probably the weekend after. Fingers crossed.