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Q. Why Mt. Battie Car Wash?
A. Simple. Mt. Battie Car Wash utilizes
a Mark VII Touch-Free Rollver System Car Wash. This state of the art machine washes your vehicle without a cloth
or brush ever touching your car. The cloth used at a typical car wash along sponges and mechanical brushes may scratch
your vehicle's paint as abrasive dirt and sand may be ground into your vehicle's finish.
Q. Why is it important to keep my car clean?
A. Having
a clean car obviously keeps your car looking newer longer. But there are other more technical reasons to keep your car
clean. Dust, sand, salt in the winter -- all of these are miniscule, abrasive particles that attach themselves to your
paint and finish. If your car is not washed on a regular basis, these particles can literally scratch the finish of
your car. Some substances such as bird droppings or tree sap can even eat through your clear coat, leaving your finish
unprotected and vulnerable to additional wear and tear.
Q. How often should I wash my car?
A. Ideally, your car should be washed once a week. This will ensure
that your vehicle's surface is being cared for properly.
Q. It just rained (or snowed).
Do I still need to wash my car?
A. Yes. This is a critical
time to protect you vehicle's finish. Pollutants such as sulfuric acid and nitric acids from automobile, truck an
factory exhaust become trapped in the rain drops or snow flakes that settle on your vehicle. The sun will evaporate
the water and leave behind concentrated acid that can damage your vehicle's finish over time.
Q.
I have a protective coating on my undercarriage. Do I still need to have the undercarriage washed?
A. Yes. Our undercarriage wash helps to remove salt, sand, and other
road contaminants that are present year round. The undercarriage of your car also takes tremendous punishment from small
stones that are kicked up by your tires. These stones bombard the undercarriage and nick your undercarriage's protection
and may expose bare metal.
Q. Is washing my car at home a viable alternative?
A. No. Tests conducted at the University of Texas proved that
single car home wash can produce scratches as deep as 1/10 of a car paint's total thickness. The study also
showed that home washing produced so many marks on a car's finish that they could not even be counted.
The Technical University of Munich, Germany reached similar conclusions, finding that significant damage
was done when using home detergents, low water volume, buckets of water, sponges and towels commonly used to
wash a car at home.
Q. Which was uses more water, a Professional Car Wash or a
home wash?
A. A home wash may
use more water. Studies have shown that professional car washes on average use 35-45 gallons of water
per vehicle depending on the type of wash. Washing your car at home may use
anywhere from 70 to 145 gallons
of water depending on whether you turn the water off when not in use, water pressure, hose size, and washing time.
Q. Is a Professional Car was considered environmentally
friendly?
A.
Yes. The Clean Water Act of 1972 mandated that water from a professional car wash must be piped to treatment facilities.
Driveway car washing at home puts the soaps, road grime (oil, tar, salt, sand and dirt) into the storm drains which may
lead to ponds, streams and lakes.
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