I use coin operated washes during the winter. They're MUCH better. Touchless (automated) washes aren't good to use during winter. Even if temps are below freezing I'd stay away. I own and operate two, and laugh when it's -40C outside and people want a vehicle wash even though I have the CLOSED sign out front. It's the chemicals in the soaps and corrosion inhibitors that aren't good for your paint when they freeze; so when you go home and park your baby in the garage, the clumps of goo that froze to the vehicle start to melt, and can cause long term paint damage if done repeatedly. Besides, touchless washes don't get off the grime that stays on the vehicles surface. It's the equivalent to taking a shower in cold water, and not using any soap or shampoo. Would you want to be seen in public after with greasy hair? lol...didn't think so.
what do you do in winter
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I don't mean to hijack or anything here, but rather add-on...so here goes:
I had a SWEET heated garage (my old one). It was nearly 36' long and 14' wide inside with a 12' high ceiling; had a 10x10 garage doors on either end with one way glass and insulated panels. I had a commercial heater installed (similar to one's you'd see at costco, but a touch smaller), that put out 150K BTU/hr. Looked close to this one (top right in first pic, below)
The only thing was, with my old garage, you'd wash a vehicle in there just fine (wooden cabinets protected my $80K cigarette inventory), but the drain in the floor was 14' long covered over with a thick metal mesh screen (see photo), and the drain was a pipe, on the SIDE toward the top, so a lot of times the suds would run all over the ground since the water level would be 1" from the top of the grate, lol. It was OK if you used very little soap. Anyway, these photos are a few years old now and I no longer own this garage or the Dodge Spirit, but you'll get the idea of how much space I had.
After a 2' snowfall in -30C temps, the garage heater would completely dry my vehicle off in under twenty minutes!
Yea winter sux I just washed mine yesterday it was only 6 degrees but I also have a heated garage.... before that though the 6 would go almost a month with out a bath
Its definitely no myth..
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Thats what we live with..
Thats what we live with..
To answer your question here's what I'm going to start doing; take my G6 to w3ap0n-x's house and let him wash it!
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