TIL most people in my town don't know how to properly wash a car after body work

I keep seeing fresh paint jobs from our shop in Rockford get ruined because folks go through the automatic wash with the hard brushes. It leaves micro-scratches that show up in the sun after about two weeks. I started telling every customer to hand wash only for the first 90 days, but they never listen. What's the best way you guys explain this so it actually sticks?

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wrenh793d ago

My neighbor's new truck got swirl marks in three weeks.

vera_roberts3d ago

That's brutal, @wrenh79. Read an article a while back saying a lot of those automatic car washes are the main culprit for swirls. The brushes just drag all the dirt around in circles on the paint. Makes sense if your neighbor is using one of those places every week. A hand wash with the two-bucket method is supposed to be way safer, but who has the time, lol. Three weeks on a new truck would seriously bum me out.