Tunnel wash rant - Free speech thread

[Eric7810]

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[Bill D]

AGH! The horror! I’ll never understand why car wash manufacturers think brushes are fine for a car’s paint!

[Optimus Grime]

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This hurts my soul.

Owner buys a 80k+ vehicle and settles for the cheapest and worst possible way to clean it. I’ll never understand.

[Bill D]

I don't understand either. I realize folks like us are anomalies when it comes to car care but yeah,why be so cheap and destructive to your vehicle? I couldn't subject an abused and tired old car that is ready to fall apart to brushes like that.

[chilly]

This hurts my soul.

Owner buys a 80k+ vehicle and settles for the cheapest and worst possible way to clean it. I’ll never understand.

Loopid (lazy + stoopid)

[chilly]

I don't understand either. I realize folks like us are anomalies when it comes to car care but yeah,why be so cheap and destructive to your vehicle? I couldn't subject an abused and tired old car that is ready to fall apart to brushes like that.

Our instant gratification society, if it can't get done in 2 minutes then they aren't gonna even try

[Karl_in_Chicago]

My granddaughter asked me if I had any spare bicycles I could give her a couple of years ago and although it made me sad to say it I told her sorry, I am riding everything I have (which actually was true)

I told her that because they get off their bikes and just drop them in the driveway and the rain and ocean air just destroys them and I wasn't going to give her a $2,000 bike to just trash

They don't have a lot of money but they act like anything and everything is disposable and someone will replace it for them

I don't get it

My first bike was somebody else's trash. My Dad saw it had been thrown away and picked it out, did some basic refurb and then spray painted it black. I was in 1st grade so it's not like I could/would have known any difference between that and a new bike anyway. $2K bikes? I have family that compete in Iron Man so I know real racebikes are expensive (and way more than that) but people actually buy $2K bikes for *children* to play with? Crazy.

[Bill D]

I gave up bicycle riding after repeatedly having issues with the spokes of my wheels. They would dislodge from the rim. I poured some money into it but became afraid they would do it again so I stopped using it. The bike is a Trek. Not high end but not junk either. I think it cost maybe about $500 at the time. It just sits unused.

[chilly]

My first bike was somebody else's trash. My Dad saw it had been thrown away and picked it out, did some basic refurb and then spray painted it black. I was in 1st grade so it's not like I could/would have known any difference between that and a new bike anyway. $2K bikes? I have family that compete in Iron Man so I know real racebikes are expensive (and way more than that) but people actually buy $2K bikes for *children* to play with? Crazy.

I watched her ruin nice Specialized and an REI bike over the years and they even had the gall to take the REI bike back and say they weren't happy with it and got another more expensive bike that I can't remember

These were $300-$400 "kids bikes" which was about 10 times what my first bike as a kid cost

My $2K+ bikes are fat tire and mountain bikes

Anyone serious about competing in Ironman level competition is looking at $7K and up to $10K for a top tier bike

[DanaDetailingPros]

Here in Cali they mostly are all touchless. But that doesn't mean the guys drying your car aren't using quality Micro's nor changing them out regularly. That's where I capitalize on our local car care microwaves as Eric dimed them.lol