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car wash for under car

  • 26-07-2009 11:24pm
    #1
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭


    whats this i hear about a car wash that gives the underside of the car a good clean too?! i failed nct due to an oil leak, now i have that sorted, but there is still oil on the engine and i was told there's a carwash that will scrub under the car as well as the usual wash. the one in newlands cross i was told about, does anyone have any info on it, as in where in newlands cross it is and what are the opening hours????

    thanks in advance


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  • #2
    Santa Claus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Santa Claus


    Most enclosed drive through carwashes have fine jets on the ground that will spray most of the crud off the underside of the body but never heard of a place that would scrub the underside of a car !


  • #3
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    Santa Claus wrote: »
    Most enclosed drive through carwashes have fine jets on the ground that will spray most of the crud off the underside of the body but never heard of a place that would scrub the underside of a car !
    scrub would be the wrong word. i thought most car washes only done the main body of the car.


  • #4
    echosound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭echosound


    You mean you need to give the undercarriage of the car a good wash? Go for a self-serve car wash rather than a drive-in automatic carwash. You can use the wand/trigger gun to give the underneath of your car a good blast. Not sure if the detergent in these/the blast of water from it would be enough to get oil off the underside though :confused: I normally only do this if I've driven through muck and the wheelarches are particularly cruddy.


  • #5
    Santa Claus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭Santa Claus


    If you got the oil leak fixed in a garage couldn't you ask them to put it up on a lift and clean any oil off the area of the leak so the NCT will be clear that the leak is gone.
    If you did it yourself, go to local garage / mechanic explain situation and hope they'll do it for you for a few quid for the use of the lift !


  • #6
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    poindexter wrote: »
    whats this i hear about a car wash that gives the underside of the car a good clean too?! i failed nct due to an oil leak, now i have that sorted, but there is still oil on the engine and i was told there's a carwash that will scrub under the car as well as the usual wash. the one in newlands cross i was told about, does anyone have any info on it, as in where in newlands cross it is and what are the opening hours????

    thanks in advance
    In the Garage outside Grange Castle Ind Estate it says that their carwash is a "Pre NCT Carwash" I think it says on the sign it cleans the under of the car too, if you go through Lucan and turn at where Polly Hopps was, just go up about a mile, through a roundabout and it'll be on the left. Think its an Esso.

    They make great rolls too!!!


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  • #7
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Leave it there - if anything it will help protect the car and there won't be such a build up of dirt to make the NCT more difficult.


  • #8
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    kbannon wrote: »
    Leave it there - if anything it will help protect the car and there won't be such a build up of dirt to make the NCT more difficult.
    FAR better advise than mine, let them clean it off to check if its leaking!


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