Automated Car Wash Options

12/08/08

Remember the times washing your car used to be such a tiresome chore? Well there were options, either pay your friendly neighborhood handy man or visit an automated car wash. Neither guaranteed quality service as the handy man worked to his own pace and the early car washes were, in reality, 'paint strippers' on account of using hard mechanical brushes. Since the early beginnings in the 1950s automated carwashes have come a long way. Nowadays, carwashes come in three basic forms, namely, self service type, 'In bay' type and the Tunnel type. The brushes are better and gentler on your car skins and the detergents used are not as corrosive. A Self service car wash utilizes slot machines for payment of services to be used. Then the driver had to personally use the various appliances for a time duration determined by the number of coins inserted. In the 'In bay' variety, the car remains stationery and the brushes, jets and dryers move over the car. A tunnel system incorporates a moving conveyor belt on which the car remains stationery with fixed appliances mounted on either side of the belt doing the job.

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