Cant Wash Your Car With A Hose...

[mr_crust]

They make you pay 15 bucks for hand wash at my local car wash... f**k that.

Ill use mr crusts tips... haha! Im gonna sneak in and wash my car after 11 pm when there is no one there but Mr kebab man!

and you are allowed to use buckets at 99% of car washs so long as its on a wkday , as most dont allow it on wkends as they are busy. i always do it and never had a drama

[Liz]

Just go to the laser wash bay at Car Lovers.

$10 and you're laughing

For those of you that still wash your cars with hoses, I hope you get fined

[Modena]

and you are allowed to use buckets at 99% of car washs so long as its on a wkday , as most dont allow it on wkends as they are busy. i always do it and never had a drama

Do you go at night?

[MBS206]

For those of you who get yelled at by the people for using buckets and sponges at the car washes, point to the sign about not using them. It states it's only in affect in California...

As for desal plants. If you set it up properly, you don't need the electricity to seperate it away. Hence no power in that regard needed at all!

Plus, if the government were smart, they'd be buying electricity from places like Bluescope Steel (The amount of waste energy that goes up in the air, is MASSIVE, the only reason they don't harness it, is because they have enough to run the whole plant on there own, and no one wants to buy the excess) There's your extra power, with the same amount of gasses being released now.

As for the greenhouse gasses, it's all a crock of shit. Have a look at how the earths climate shifts over thousands of years. We're just hitting to the natural point of melting the polar ice caps (Basically, the opposite of the ice ages we get!) It's all natural, green house gasses are only SLIGHTLY adding to this affect!

As for recycled water. Do a bit of research into it, we have one of these plants at my work with your "6 star rating" and it's claimed unfit for human consumption. None of this "perfectly safe" we're told, straight out, it's unsafe and for industrial use only.

[SKY031]

I don't think anyone wants to actually drink the recycled water from the car wash... they just want to wash their cars.

Bore water is probably safer to drink than "recycled water".

Desal plants are able to power themselves these days, but the cost involved is huge, and our govt is tight, and has no vision for the future.

Otherwise we wouldn't be suffering such harsh water restrictions right now.

Environmental impact studies should have been undertaken at least 20 years ago, in an effort to get more dams/reservoirs in place to cope with standard population growth.

This hasn't been done, so now we've got the population boom combined with drought, and we're pretty well screwed.

For those of you who get yelled at by the people for using buckets and sponges at the car washes, point to the sign about not using them. It states it's only in affect in California...

Sounds like you use a car wash which has been imported from the USA and hasn't had it's signs changed?

[Patto-]

All my local car washes have signs saying no buckets.

And they say nothing about California. lol

[barnoon]

Ive worked at a carwash for over 2 years now and I still get all these heroes coming in telling me they will use their buckets here and I cant do nothing about it (well I just turn the hose off on them mid wash and make them leave with a soapy car) 99% of carwashes wont allow you to use a bucket their and will have signs up stating so, everything you need is at the carwash, bringing your own products takes away a lot of business and while ur hogging the bay sponging your car down someone who is actually going to pay to use the proper equipment could be using it.

The foam brush will NOT scratch your car if you rinse it with the hose beforehand (I agree it could scratch if you dont rinse it beforehand as the person before you could of left it clogged up with mud etc), ive used it on my cars for 2 years and havent got a single scratch, I also had my front end resprayed on my R32 and used the brush on it for months, not a single scratch again.

I think most people just hear someone else go "yeah mate i used the carwash and now me cars scratched" and it gets around like that and people talk about it like the have firsthand experience with it when they dont know sh*t.

[Modena]

Ive worked at a carwash for over 2 years now and I still get all these heroes coming in telling me they will use their buckets here and I cant do nothing about it (well I just turn the hose off on them mid wash and make them leave with a soapy car) 99% of carwashes wont allow you to use a bucket their and will have signs up stating so, everything you need is at the carwash, bringing your own products takes away a lot of business and while ur hogging the bay sponging your car down someone who is actually going to pay to use the proper equipment could be using it.

The foam brush will NOT scratch your car if you rinse it with the hose beforehand (I agree it could scratch if you dont rinse it beforehand as the person before you could of left it clogged up with mud etc), ive used it on my cars for 2 years and havent got a single scratch, I also had my front end resprayed on my R32 and used the brush on it for months, not a single scratch again.

I think most people just hear someone else go "yeah mate i used the carwash and now me cars scratched" and it gets around like that and people talk about it like the have firsthand experience with it when they dont know sh*t.

No offence but you sound like Ronald Mc Donald claiming big macs are healthy for people with zero fat content...

The bristles on the foam brush got stuck in my commodore, they got jammed between the rubber and metal bits. There is no way a foaming brush is as gentle on the paint as the sponge...

These stations will still make around 2-4 dollars even when people use their own buckets. One or two dollars to spray the car and fill up the bucket with water and then another 2 dollars to hose off the car itself. I spend 6 bucks on the car wash using the foaming brush...

[barnoon]

Lol yeah I re read my post and I did sound like a bit of a di*khead sorry fellas didnt mean to sound like a tool just trying to point out that if you hose the brush first you should be fine

[thorpe84]

correct me if im wrong but i have never seen a full self car wash there is always 1 or 2 places free

[SKY031]

The bristles on the foam brush got stuck in my commodore, they got jammed between the rubber and metal bits.

What were you doing jamming the brush in between the rubber and metal?

That sounds more like "user error" than a problem with the brush...

Common sense would stop most people sticking the brush in an area where bristles are likely to get caught.

Plenty of people have stated that they have used the brush for years with no ill effects.

correct me if im wrong but i have never seen a full self car wash there is always 1 or 2 places free

There's normally a queue in all bays and the laser wash at both my local car washes.

[Modena]

What were you doing jamming the brush in between the rubber and metal?

That sounds more like "user error" than a problem with the brush...

Common sense would stop most people sticking the brush in an area where bristles are likely to get caught.

Plenty of people have stated that they have used the brush for years with no ill effects.

There's normally a queue in all bays and the laser wash at both my local car washes.

It got stuck between the mirror and the main body... where the rubber seals are. The brush was obviously old and used. They also got stuck on top of the roof to the side of it... it wasnt fun trying to rip them out...

[SKY 34]

huum,

this rule applies to Perth? I just bought new Hose from Bunnings =(

[mr_crust]

Do you go at night?

i go after work and never had an issue, ive even been there at times when the ppl who own the joint are there and only once they asked me to move my car as someone was waiting for the bay to wash there car.

but if they question it just tell them ur using the water to rinse the car and wax it (even if its a lie) and u just prefer to wash by hand as the brush scratches ur paint, and when saying that they have let me do it.

i'll get pics of my car when i hand washed it and waxed it and how smooth the paint is....and ill post a pic of my car at a car wash with the brush and u can see freakin scratch lines really fine in the paint and its dead obvious if u look at the car in the sun... i dont car what no car wash attendent says it does scratch!

[ctjet]

yeah the brush does scratch, dont believe what they say... just take a sponge and a shamoise and do it yourself. You end up doing a better job than the brush anyways

[Modena]

Ive got two car washes next to me... im gonan raid them in the dark hours with my bucket, shampoo and chamois

Cheers guys.

[Liz]

Ive worked at a carwash for over 2 years now and I still get all these heroes coming in telling me they will use their buckets here and I cant do nothing about it (well I just turn the hose off on them mid wash and make them leave with a soapy car) 99% of carwashes wont allow you to use a bucket their and will have signs up stating so, everything you need is at the carwash, bringing your own products takes away a lot of business and while ur hogging the bay sponging your car down someone who is actually going to pay to use the proper equipment could be using it.

The foam brush will NOT scratch your car if you rinse it with the hose beforehand (I agree it could scratch if you dont rinse it beforehand as the person before you could of left it clogged up with mud etc), ive used it on my cars for 2 years and havent got a single scratch, I also had my front end resprayed on my R32 and used the brush on it for months, not a single scratch again.

I think most people just hear someone else go "yeah mate i used the carwash and now me cars scratched" and it gets around like that and people talk about it like the have firsthand experience with it when they dont know sh*t.

yup.. there is no denying that your cars are immaculate!

[SKY031]

yeah the brush does scratch

Pics?

[ob1]

i think bayside is only on level 3 water restrictitons, because we get our water from the island which i really cant remember the name of right now.

7am-7pm restriction and you only get certain days dependsing on your house number.

Lucky i guess

yes Redlands shire get water from the Stradbroke aquifers, which would otherwise flow straight into Moreton bay.

[gtst25]

What about shower restrictions???

So many people have 30+ minute showers - I reckon they use at least 4 times the amount of water I use to wash my car.