[quote=ocrenter][quote=UCGal][quote=flu]What I don’t understand is I read the water restrictions and nowhere did it say that car washing must be done only if you can recapture the “gray water”. I guess it’s different for auto detailing businesses..
But even if they recapture the water (which I don’t think is too difficult), I don’t understand what they would do with it.. Does the city expect each individual detailer to be able to own the equipment to recycle the water and reuse it? That technology I don’t think exists for a mobile auto detailer nor is it affordable for a small time auto detailer..[/quote]
The commercial car wash places do recycle the water onsite. I had a conversation with the owner of the south clairemont car wash, across from Keihls. They had to put that in during the drought in the 90’s.[/quote]
Another good reason not to wash your own car.[/quote]
Unfortunately,with a really dark metallic/black color car, that $15 car wash often times you get what you pay for. I won’t even want to wash it at home, since I have hard water, and on a black/dark finish, that pretty much etches into the paint, even if I am careful. The newer white car, I drop it off at a $15 wash place, simply because white is so hard to really mess up the finish, even if the person washing decides to do the Karate Kid “wax on /wax off” thing with a towel..You really can’t see the tiny swirl marks on a light/white color finish, and it buffs/polishes out…The new dark color car, I use to send to a detailer for $30 every 1.5 months is still better than $15 every two weeks…That or the stealership I go to which is pretty careful about things.
The beaters usually only get washed when it rains. I was so excited two weeks ago when it was raining. Except maybe sometimes I wash the miata to delete the cone markers and other evidence of how bad I did that day.
