Just wondering where you guys wash your cars. The complex I used to live at had a car wash station in the basement parking garage and that was perfect: fill up buckets and wash the car myself with my own equipment. Unfortunately I no longer have access to this ideal and so have been using automatic car washes. The ones I know of are:
Shell station on US-50/Lee Jackson Highway in Chantilly; completely touchless automatic wash. No wheel rails. However there is typically a gas station attendant guy there who will try to scrub your car out of a barrel of soapy but dirty water (often does people's wheels only but sometimes he does their entire car with the same brush and water ). He sees me often enough now that he knows not to touch the car at all though. Oh other downside ~ I think this place closes the car wash whenever it is freezing out.
Mobil 1 station on Duke St. in Alexandria; also completely touchless automatic wash with no wheel rails. The best thing here is that management has let me use a faucet attached to their car wash station to fill my own buckets and do some 'pre-cleaning', provided the water doesn't spill into the gas station area. I am kinda tempted next time to see if they'll let me just wash the entire car by hand for the same $7 I use to run the car through the automatic wash.
Any other suggestions?
Shell station on US-50/Lee Jackson Highway in Chantilly; completely touchless automatic wash. No wheel rails. However there is typically a gas station attendant guy there who will try to scrub your car out of a barrel of soapy but dirty water (often does people's wheels only but sometimes he does their entire car with the same brush and water ). He sees me often enough now that he knows not to touch the car at all though. Oh other downside ~ I think this place closes the car wash whenever it is freezing out.
Mobil 1 station on Duke St. in Alexandria; also completely touchless automatic wash with no wheel rails. The best thing here is that management has let me use a faucet attached to their car wash station to fill my own buckets and do some 'pre-cleaning', provided the water doesn't spill into the gas station area. I am kinda tempted next time to see if they'll let me just wash the entire car by hand for the same $7 I use to run the car through the automatic wash.
Any other suggestions?