Dealer washing car a big no?

DaveyDave

Hi all,

Is it really necessary to ask the dealer not to wash the car before delivery? Do they just do a half assed wash?

I wouldn't be looking to have a car show level of a clean but I would like to do the likes of prewash, iron and tar and seal or wax myself. Just learning the basics at the moment

Is the dealer washing the car really that bad? I understand cars get dirty and get lots of fallout in transit. I understand you'd do a better job cleaning it yourself but is it really that bad of a wash or is it just not up to detailer standards?

Toyotafanboi

The biggest snag I suppose is that the car could in some cases already have been washed nunerous times before it gets to the dealers.

Foxhole Norman

Yes dealer washing is atrocious. If you want the best paint you can get, keep pushing them to receive the car with plastic still attatched as I've seen dealers make ****e of taking them off and requiring multiple hours correctional work to put right. New cars will almost never be washed by transport companies from my experience, only by the dealership that is to receive them.

punisher5112

Sweeping brush clean its the only way.... So much quicker then a brillo pad but with similar results.

DaveyDave

punisher5112 wrote: »

Sweeping brush clean its the only way.... So much quicker then a brillo pad but with similar results.

Must give that a go, the Brillo pads took too long had my back in bits

Mississippi.

I called in to the back of a main dealer one day to lift a part, there was a 3 year old yock in for a service and was being washed.
It was covered in foam and a young fella was going round it with a sponge, 3 times the sponge fell on the ground and he picked it up and wiped it with his hand and carried on using it.

road_high

Every time I leave my car in for a service in Boland's Carlow they "wash" it...which seems to mainly involve wetting it and resulting in horrible streaks allover the car.

punisher5112

road_high wrote: »

Every time I leave my car in for a service in Boland's Carlow they "wash" it...which seems to mainly involve wetting it and resulting in horrible streaks allover the car.

Probably a brush wash.

DaveyDave

Mississippi. wrote: »

I called in to the back of a main dealer one day to lift a part, there was a 3 year old yock in for a service and was being washed.
It was covered in foam and a young fella was going round it with a sponge, 3 times the sponge fell on the ground and he picked it up and wiped it with his hand and carried on using it.

Wonder if they foamed it why not just power wash it off, if they're going to the effort of foaming then doing it wrong from there, they almost shouldn't bother!

Must start looking at the threads here and get a list of stuff going. I'll need to get my arse in gear researching and buying

edburg

Attached is a pic of a dealers wash gear a mate started working for this year. I will say its not so much the people in some of them its the items supplied to those people to wash that new car that's the main issue. I know couple lads that work in a dealer who be conscious of wash methods but wouldnt be allowed due to time they get with cars, sometimes only getting a 15/20 minute warning from sales staff who told customers cars ready to collect as they need there commision.

punisher5112

edburg wrote: »

Attached is a pic of a dealers wash gear a mate started working for this year. I will say its not so much the people in some of them its the items supplied to those people to wash that new car that's the main issue. I know couple lads that work in a dealer who be conscious of wash methods but wouldnt be allowed due to time they get with cars, sometimes only getting a 15/20 minute warning from sales staff who told customers cars ready to collect as they need there commision.

That's mild to stuff ive seen.


Yard brush

mikeecho

on the rare occasion, i go to a main dealer i leave post-its (over the speedo) saying DO NOT WASH.
and another one on the dash facing out, stating the same.

I dont mid if they hoover the car, but i generally prefer if they just do what the car is in there for, and nothing else.