Hello all,

The carwash near where I work in North Haven, CT offers a hand wash option rather than putting the car down the rails. They do a good job, it's quick and only costs me $20. The only issue I have is that they wash the car with a combination of high pressure hand sprayers (no issue with that) and then scrub the car using a soft brush rather than with a microfiber mitt of some sort.

My question is are those hand held soft brushes safe on the paint finish or will they scratch and swirl?

When I wash the car I use a lamb skin mitt on the upper portions of the car and a microfiber scrubber type mitt for the bumpers, wheels and lower rocker panels. The issue is I don't always have 90 minutes to do it myself and am hoping this car wash is a good alternative.

Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend!

Michael

2009 Moonlight White G37S Coupe w/6mt

 

Those brushes (no matter how soft they tell you they are) will scratch your paint finish all to hell. Please don't do it to your car.

 

Nooooo!!! Just running my finger across the car scratches the paint to ****. Our paint is sooooooo sensitive

 

Message received. I'll stick to the lamb skin mitt and microfiber

Thanks for the input.

Michael

 

I cringed when I read the title of this thread and saw car wash and brush in the same sentence