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Do you take your DD through the car wash?

  • Yes, all the time

    Votes: 26 50%

  • Once in a blue moon

    Votes: 9 17%

  • Only in the dead of winter

    Votes: 0 0%

  • Never, hand wash only

    Votes: 17 33%

  • I don't wash her - that's what rain is for

    Votes: 0 0%
  • Total voters
    52
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#43 ·
I too am in the old man camp as previously stated. I did enough penance of bucket washing in my earlier days. We have a subscription to a chain of Shell Stations here in NE Wisconsin that allow for 1 wash per day at various locations. The fact that there are different locations throughout my area is really a plus too. Just about all of them are touchless or they have a screen to chose either brush or touchless. The big thing for me is they all have under carriage wash. Living where I do, they brine the crap out of our roads, even if it looks like the sky will sneeze in the forecast. I feel a little better knowing most of that junk is being rinsed off underneath. After that, I still towel dry the whole thing off, including door jams and liftgate area. Face it, those blowers at the end of the wash only do so much. I then break out the Turtle Wax Hybrid Graphene wax or Mequairs, twice a year. In the end it’s still a Chrysler product and will eventually find its way back to the earth. I choose to drive mine because as eloquently previously stated, I do not know how much more time I have in this world. I’d rather rip her around than put it in a trophy room to be looked at. After all, isn’t that what a Hellcat is for?
 
#44 ·

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I used to take mine in to the local car wash, but a couple of years ago I decided to do it myself. I purchased a pressure washer, foam cannon, and other detailing products. I found it to be relaxing and I love how my Durango looks once I'm done!
 
Discussion starter · #46 ·
Josh0726 said:
Hand wash only. The car wash wheel tracks guiding you through the building tend to disagree with black wheels wrapped in 35 series rubber.
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I check em after each run when i add tire dressing and they are GTG. Wash is new and state of the art, spoke to the manager and he said it's designed to safely handle Corvettes. One day I was even behind a C8 in line. Folks take AMGs and the like thru em too.
 
#47 ·
Hamsquatch said:
I check em after each run when i add tire dressing and they are GTG. Wash is new and state of the art, spoke to the manager and he said it's designed to safely handle Corvettes. One day I was even behind a C8 in line. Folks take AMGs and the like thru em too.
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You have spiked my curiosity. I will swing through to see if there have been any updates to my local wash.
 
#48 ·
Hamsquatch said:
I check em after each run when i add tire dressing and they are GTG. Wash is new and state of the art, spoke to the manager and he said it's designed to safely handle Corvettes. One day I was even behind a C8 in line. Folks take AMGs and the like thru em too.
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Sort of like the Tommy Express I go to every so often, has wide conveyor tracks for the wheels, no edge guides or roller mechanism pushing the wheels thru.
 
#49 ·
In my great naivety I thought to make a short ride to the car wash in the lunch break - but there was a pile-up until the steet.
Half Middle Europe is at the car wash now, because last weekend we got the next load of Sahara dust and crud.

I will go there tomorrow morning before my 70km ride to the office - a brilliant-shiny black Durango appears in the rearview mirror more impressive than a roadwork-transporter-like dustbag

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pic from the last time, but now it looks same
 
Discussion starter · #51 ·
So here is a pic of our KL Trailhawk. I ran her through the car wash almost every single week during the three or four years we had her. IMHO her paint looked awesome when we traded her in - heck, everything about her looked good. Now I'm NOT a "look under bright lights/paint correction" dude, so yeah, it may be that there were lots of swirls under a magnifying glass. But to me, it kept her paint looking impeccable.


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