In the modern world, there is more “service”. Too many, according to some people. But still, one cannot fail to admit that such a saturation of the environment with a wide variety of services is very convenient for a working person. Round-the-clock food delivery, dry cleaning, hairdressing salons - all this makes our life more comfortable.
Do not forget about car washing. And if before the driver himself tidied his iron horse, today others will do all the work for him. You just need to choose the type of car wash and pay for the procedure.
Self catering
This option is suitable for those who do not want to overpay, but want to drive a clean car. How it works?
The driver drives up the car, drives it into the box and pays for the time - at the cashier or through an automatic bill acceptor. Then you can start washing the body from the washing gun - the water goes under pressure and the dirt is washed off. Theoretically, the procedure should not take more than 10 minutes, and the average cost of washing will be (in Moscow) about 200 rubles.
Now about the sad. Self-service car washes are good only for their price policy, in all other respects, there are continuous disadvantages. Firstly, the driver is sure to get dirty - in any case, drops of dirt and water will fall on clothes. Secondly, it is difficult to adhere to the correct sequence of high-quality washing, namely: moistening (so that all the dirt gets wet), main washing, rinsing, waxing, shine and drying.
So this type of car wash should be used only in the summer. And with minor and fresh dirt that is easy to remove.
Manual contact
What types of car washes are still? According to their operating principle and the equipment used, they are all divided into contact and non-contact, manual and automatic.
The simplest view is a manual contact sink. It is more common in our country than all others. In fact, the procedure is not much different from the "household" water procedures for the iron horse. The only difference is that someone else will clean the car, and not with a garden hose and rags, but with the use of a special shampoo and high-pressure apparatus.
This type of washing has a lot of advantages: with a conscientious approach, the worker will remove dirt, plaque and stains from all hard-to-reach places - from the inner surface of the disks, at the junction of mirrors and handles. In this case, the owner can point out the shortcomings, and they will be corrected.
Cons are also there, and the main one is the human factor. The quality of work directly depends on the conscientious attitude of the employee, on his diligence and hard work. But often the staff is not too interested in raising standards of service. And in the summer, when they are lined up, the washers have neither the strength nor the motivation to bring every car to shine.
Manual contactless
The next type of car wash is foam or manual non-contact. It is not common in our country, but it is found in some places. The main equipment is a foam generator, which creates thick foam from special charges-tablets. Using a spray gun, foam is applied to the body, then after a few minutes it is washed off using a high-pressure apparatus. Next, the machine is dried by an industrial hairdryer.
The advantages of this procedure are that there is no manual body rubbing. This means that there is no risk of damaging the paintwork with small grains of sand that may be on the napkin.
The disadvantages are: the human factor, as a result of which the machine may not be washed clean enough or not dried, and the greed of car wash owners who save on good consumables.
Automatic contact
There are other types of car washes in car washes in which the influence of the human factor is minimized. Here the whole process is automated, and all the participation of the personnel is reduced to the work of the operator, who simply presses the buttons.
Automatic contact washing is not widespread in our country, but all of it is well represented in American films. According to their design features, they are of two types - tunnel and portal. In the tunnel machine, he drives onto the conveyor, which takes it along the cleaning complex - it is brushed, watered and finally dried with a hairdryer. In the portal car wash, the car stands on a platform along which a U-shaped frame with washing equipment moves.
Pros: lack of human factor, speed, and with good debugging of the washing complex - high quality of the procedure.
Disadvantages: poor quality of washing due to the desire of owners to save on expensive consumables - replaceable brushes and shampoos. In addition, due to the design features, such a complex is not able to wash dirt from hard-to-reach places or to clean off stubborn deposits.
Automatic contactless
The last type of car wash is an automatic non-contact method. It is generally similar to the previous one, but with one significant difference - instead of brushes, dirt is washed off by streams of water under high pressure.
Pluses in the absence of a human factor and minimizing the risk of scratching the body with grains of sand or hard bristles. In addition, owners do not need to save - there are no expensive consumables.
There are also disadvantages: a superficial “cosmetic” result, a risk of exacerbating existing problems with the paintwork (increased microcracks, an increase in the number of corrosion centers), a high likelihood of water entering the interior of cars with weak door seals.
What other types of car washing are there and what is included in the procedure? All of the above apply to body wash. What to do with the salon? For him there is a list of procedures that need to be ordered and paid separately.
Types of car interior cleaning
External cleaning of the machine is much less complicated than internal cleaning. Outside, the car has only metal, while inside there is a wide variety of materials - plastic, leather, suede, fabric, glass, rubber, etc. And everyone needs to be able to clean.
Interior cleaning may be as follows:
- Dry. With a vacuum cleaner for the car.
- Wet. Vacuum cleaner.
- Steam cleaning. Using a steam cleaner.
- Foamy cleaning. With the use of detergents.
- Dry cleaning.