The rain is free.
I get wanting a clean car and all, but my buddy gets his washed like 2 or 3 times a week. I get mine washed like 2 or 3 times a year. They are both honda pilots.
You have to subscribe to your car wash in the US? Wtf
Usually no but they heavily push it
✨️capitalism✨️
It exists but not universal. At least not in car centric California.
I used a “Mister Car Wash” in Turlock, CA that has a subscription option. That’s the only one I’ve ever noticed
It was convenient that even the single use the fee included use of parking bays where I could use a vacuum.
Down side was that I later noticed the machine had nearly torn my license plate off.
Attempted identity theft!
Subscription car washes are all over Arizona though.
Here you can get an unlimited subscription or pay per use. Birds shit on my car enough that I have a subscription.
Unless the automated car wash is touch-less, I don’t use it. Dirty brushes are a great way to get swirls in your clear coat.
soapy wash down by a foam cannon followed up by the two bucket method is far superior.
In my area, we have about 8 car washes. 6 of them you could count in a row. It’s weird.
Money laundering; like in Breaking Bad
In my area, these “subscription “ car wash places have nearly replaced all the diy car wash places. I think there’s one still in town, the rest are just empty stalls now or overflow parking for nearby businesses.
And of course, people like myself, with 10yo+ cars can’t utilize them. Memberships typically have a caveat that your car can only be so old to go through the automatic wash. Guess I gotta buy a new car if I don’t want to wash it with a bucket and hose 🤷♂️
I’m looking at all these prices, old and current, and I’m just thinking, how are these placed making money?!
It’s between 20€ and 30€ here. Everywhere.
Nothing better than just doing it myself, stops all the hassle
Last time I used one of those places, there was a pushy dude trying so hard to get me to sign up. He got very annoyed that I kept saying no. I got a single wash and never went back to that place again. Mission failed successfully, I guess?
These days, I just don’t bother with it, other than to occasionally rinse off pollen or dust with my garden hose.
Kinda yeah. If they can’t extract the amount of cash from you they want, they don’t want you clogging up the line causing people to eventually cancel.
What they really want to do is eliminate an employee entirely. Sign up online, show up, scana qr code with thier app. One person to guide you in, done.
The local place that was an automated park n wash, not drive through or tunnel style, the cheapest was $4, $5, $6, and $7. This was pre covid so 2019. I went there religiously bc it was cheap. The same exact place now charges $8, $10, $12, $14. Kind of pisses me off it doubled by 2023-2024. I haven’t gone back since.
