People watching at the car wash.

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Hi guys, first threader here. I wanted to share some humor with y'all today.

The detailing shop I work part time at has heavily tinted windows that you can't see into, but can see out of, for security obviously. There are vacuum stations lined up alongside the building that anyone can use, as the facility is primarily a touchless wash. Anyways, needless to say you see some interesting things go on out there. Be it items people remove from their cars, people in general, or ways that they clean their car. My friend and I watched a women on Saturday clean her ENTIRE INTERIOR with a whole box of Cottenelle butt wipes. How do I know it was the whole box? Well, I watched her open it, and the empty box was in the trash along with what looked like 100 used ass wipes. I wonder if Johnson&Johnson gave their butt wipes any restoring capabilities or if they offer any UV protection or sorts? Are butt wipes safe of leather and vinyl?

I look forward to seeing what this forum has to offer, and I have already read some interesting thread here. Forgive me now for being any old one's back from the dead lol. I already did on a few, product reviews mostly.

What's the craziest thing you've seen someone use to clean their car with? Let's hear em!
 
I once saw a guy wipe his entire car with a beach towel BEFORE going through the car wash. Talk about adding swirls to that car.
 
What's the craziest thing you've seen someone use to clean their car with? Let's hear em!
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I need to find that video of the woman at the quarter car wash hosing down the interior of her car with the pressure washer. That ends the thread pretty much right there.




[EDIT] Great googly moogly, there is more than one...




 
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Bob
 
I've seen 2 people on FB brag about using a whole roll of paper towel and come cleaner to detail their cars. Lol
 
PouncingPanzer said:
Are butt wipes safe of leather and vinyl?
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As I like to point out when people suggest that certain household products could be bad for your vehicle, say, Dawn (you'll dry out your paint and trim!!), that Dawn is something that millions of people stick their hands in every day while washing dishes, and that is used to remove crude oil from wildlife, who are already pretty stressed from being, well, covered in crude oil. I guess you could argue that if you've got crude oil all over you, what's a little drying and irritation from Dawn? But the dish washing kind of disputes that.

To your question, I would suggest that if a "butt wipe" is safe on one of the more sensitive areas of your body, and one known (as other mucous membranes are) to absorb chemicals/drugs/infectious agents, it will not harm your leather or vinyl.

Sheesh, I'm starting to sound like Bob.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
As I like to point out when people suggest that certain household products could be bad for your vehicle, say, Dawn (you'll dry out your paint and trim!!), that Dawn is something that millions of people stick their hands in every day while washing dishes, and that is used to remove crude oil from wildlife, who are already pretty stressed from being, well, covered in crude oil. I guess you could argue that if you've got crude oil all over you, what's a little drying and irritation from Dawn? But the dish washing kind of disputes that.

To your question, I would suggest that if a "butt wipe" is safe on one of the more sensitive areas of your body, and one known (as other mucous membranes are) to absorb chemicals/drugs/infectious agents, it will not harm your leather or vinyl.

Sheesh, I'm starting to sound like Bob.
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Acetone is safe to use on your fingernails doesnt mean its safe for your car
 
upon3 said:
I need to find that video of the woman at the quarter car wash hosing down the interior of her car with the pressure washer. That ends the thread pretty much right there.

Makes you wonder WHAT these people are trying to cover up, I mean clean out :-). Seriously did they all commit crimes and now trying to wash away the evidence? How STUPID can you really be???
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Yesterday, I watched my neighbor across the street clean out his car interior with paper towels & whole bottle of Windex.

He took the mats out, beat about 2 lbs. of sand & pebbles out of them, then whipped them up on his hood & roof while he "cleaned".

Today, he is getting the exterior done. It's raining. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
 
fightnews said:
Acetone is safe to use on your fingernails
doesnt mean its safe for your car
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Onycholysis is but one human malady,
that can often be attributed to using
nail polish removers containing acetone.


Additionally:
Modern-day car paint systems
are hella more durable than one
may think.


Bob
 
Reasons like your are all describing is why I don't buy used cars.
 
I might have been speaking sarcastically. Maybe Bob would've caught that.
 
Nothing really different here.

Just the typical geriatric fellow washing his entire muddy car with the complimentary window washer at the gas station. They common elderly woman using a kitchen broom to remove dust from her car. A man using a single microfiber to wipe all the dust off his car....

What a waste of butt wipes...
 
I too have seen someone "wash" their car with a squeegee at a gas station. Scrubbed with the sponge side, and then the squeegee side to dry it off. Then a wad of brown paper towels for touch ups!
 
I once watched 2 kid's at a dealership "scrubbing " brand new vehicles with one of those old cotton floor mops and a metal wash bucket. Watched the kid sit the mop down on the ground a couple if times (mop head and all), then pick it up and get back to work...:wow:

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