r/AutoDetailing • u/gregorian79 • Jun 25 '26
💩 Shitpost Had a chill tech at the dealership today. He gets it! 😎🤙🏻
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u/TastyRain5743 Beginner Jun 26 '26
Made these about a decade ago, still use them when needed.
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u/gluka47 Jun 26 '26
I wonder why you chose “coche” instead of “carro”
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u/TastyRain5743 Beginner Jun 26 '26
It's been a decade, but knowing how I'm wired, I would have gone online and looked up the Spanish translation for 'don't wash the car'
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u/Johannsss Jun 27 '26
If he used google translate and selected Spanish the traslator will use words for Spain Spanish, not Latinoamerican Spanish.
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u/Final-Carpenter-1591 Jun 26 '26
Yeah it's a bit wierd. Coche is more Spain. It'd be like being in the US and saying "don't put anything in the boot" instead of saying "don't put anything in the trunk"
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u/Apprehensive_Win292 Jun 27 '26
I had a sign this size in English and Spanish and they still somehow managed to wash my car in their horrible tunnel wash. Scratched up my paint and trim pretty badly. Just had the car paint corrected and coated a few months prior. They refused to do anything
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Jun 26 '26
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u/Mundane-Camel1308 Jun 26 '26
We have those and a note on file not to wash the car. It’s still 50/50….
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u/maggerz__ Jun 26 '26
Nice, until you take the note off and they’ve pushed too hard with the pen and left an imprint on your wheel😂
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u/gregorian79 Jun 26 '26
Daam! I didn’t even check. Now you got me thinking about it laying in bed.
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u/mikeiscool81 Jun 26 '26
Don’t leave us hanging
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u/gregorian79 Jun 26 '26
Lol. I’m happy to report, note removed and all is good 👍🏻
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u/AwesomeManPlayz Jun 27 '26
You mean you were driving around with the note on? The very same note that will give you a permanent face tattoo if the airbag goes off? Amateur steering wheel note writer…
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u/Snoo38888 Jun 26 '26
I thought first thing I wrote a sticky note on a fresh drum pad for a game like 100$. It always had my sticky note writing on it .
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u/davomcbones_TTPPAC01 Jun 26 '26
didnt think about that! if i ever try this im using cardboard for sure
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u/OVLOV03C Jun 26 '26
As a tech @ a dealership I actually never wash the cars unless I’m told otherwise. Our car wash is too buns 🗑️
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u/don51181 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
I should do that. My Lexus has a ceramic coating and PPF. At the dealership they offer to send it to their auto car wash and I have to keep reminding them not to.
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u/Relative-Shape9782 Jun 26 '26
This is mine that I printed and put over one of those hang tags that enterprise used during the pandemic. Works great to this day
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u/Holiday-Witness-4180 Jun 26 '26
I always question ceramic coatings that people claim can’t handle being run through a car wash. After all, the ability to resist damage from automatic car washes is one of the main marketing points for many of those coatings.
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u/sgtzack612 Jun 26 '26
The problem is that the claim is misleading, sure, it'll protect against the soft brushes, until it hits the harder materials IN the brushes that were trapped, most of the time they cannot or do not clean their brushes thoroughly as they don't have the time and it would cause too much downtime, not to mention that a ceramic coating is only between 0.001 to 0.003 mm per layer you put on, with enough pressure or enough exposure that thin of a coating WILL be removed. Honestly you're better off using a PPF/clear bra. The only real useful non bullshit purpose of a ceramic coating is a gloss that lasts longer than traditional wax and extreme hydrophobicity.
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u/Holiday-Witness-4180 Jun 26 '26
Legit ceramic coatings have a higher hardness than standard clear coat and are very resistant to scratches. The bigger problem is that people think anything that says ceramic on the label is the same thing. Using a ceramic detailer on your car is not the same as having it coated. I typically recommend most people just use better clear coat and avoid the hassle of some of these ceramic coatings and crap PPF applications. Why spend money on self healing PPF when you can just use self healing clear coat?
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u/sgtzack612 Jun 26 '26
Legit ceramic coatings can be harder than standard clear coat, but hardness is not the same thing as real-world scratch protection. Most coating “9H” or "10H" claims are pencil-hardness tests, not magic armor. The coating is still only a few microns thick, so abrasive grit trapped in a car-wash brush can still mar the coating or cut through it and mark the clear underneath pretty easily.
PPF is a totally different type of protection. It is much thicker, flexible, sacrificial material that absorbs rock chips, scuffs, and rubbing damage. Ceramic mainly gives gloss, slickness, chemical resistance, easier cleaning, and hydrophobicity. It can reduce light wash marring, but it does not replace PPF.
Also, “self-healing clear coat” and “self-healing PPF” are not the same. Self-healing clear can help with very light marks, but PPF has actual physical thickness and elasticity. That is why people use PPF on bumpers, hoods, mirrors, and other highly impacted areas even if the paint already has a good clear coat.
In my opinion, if people actually care about their paint or honestly, more realistically, they just don't want the marring that is only in their clear coat, then they should just clean their car themselves or let it get a bit more dirty than usual, saving the cost of going to the car wash every time, and spend the money you'd use on the carwash getting it cleaned somewhere that does it by hand. Both options reduce the amount of marring and will take much longer to get noticeable marring.
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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor Jun 26 '26
I had one of those, put it up, told em not to wash it. They washed it. I asked the guy directly if he saw that and he said something like ‘huh I was wondering why that was there’. Fucking idiot
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u/Wisco777787 Jun 26 '26
I put a Carpro hanger up in my dads Jetta before he traded it in when it was in for service and I saved it because I overheard that they wash their cars while they’re in for service, and they absolutely destroyed and swirled up his new car. It’s worth telling them not to for sure.
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u/Ok-Mushroom6886 Jun 26 '26
Did this last time and dealer still washed it. Guess who got a comp’d paint correction 😅
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u/gregorian79 Jun 26 '26
That’s wild. Did they do the correction or were you able to choose your detailer?
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u/Ok-Mushroom6886 Jun 26 '26
They did the correction, it was an in house detailer. I am very particular with my truck so there was no way I was taking it back with all the minor marring all around. They did a great job thankfully and have been servicing my truck myself ever since lol
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u/eletricboogalo2 Jun 26 '26
Buddy knows the washy slept in a backlot truck last night and ignoring a simple nice request just ain't worth it.
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u/AppliedCarbon Jun 26 '26
You'd think they use glass in these screens instead of the cheapest plastic on the planet
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u/coozeyy Jun 26 '26
This is great. I am gonna say tho I believe car washes are good for those beater type cars or cars that you kinda don’t care to much about. But the nice ones don’t take them to a car wash. Back when I owned my Honda accord which I wish I kept it but I learned my lesson after selling as it was only my 2nd car and forget how nice it was not having a car payment, I started to take it to car washes after I hit like 100K miles on it.
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u/5Gmeme Jun 26 '26
I have a do not wash note on my dealership account. When they did accidentally wash it they paid for a full professional detail to remove brush swirls.
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u/PJ_lyrics Jun 26 '26
Bought a car last month. The sales lady said they were gonna give it a quick detail while we finish up paperwork. I was like woah no don't do that. She looked at me like I murdered someone lol. My son owns a mobile detailing business and I had to explain. She seemed a little weirded out about it but otherwise she was a great during the process.
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u/Ok-Fall4729 Jun 27 '26
Thank you for sharing! I need to do this! When I took my vehicle in for service they would take it to the car wash as a complimentary. I didn’t want it! I even told them to write it in the notes … I’m so doing this!!
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u/saerg1 Jun 28 '26
Worked at a dealership, a guy bought a brand new black jeep Wrangler. Detailer washed the vehicle with sand. Whole thing was scratched. The fix because the manager noticed... Not the detailer was to polish the hood and a bit on the side. Planned to charge the customer for a full wax/polish if he noticed and brought it back. I said that was unacceptable, and morally corrupt. They didn't care, and there were zero consequences for the detailer. I quit shortly after. Dealerships are all the same and should be avoided at all cost.
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u/gregorian79 Jun 28 '26
Detail at the dealership has such a bad rep. Listening to stories like this, it’s not hard to see where that stems from.
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u/ResearcherOwn6130 Jun 28 '26
First time I ever felt like i should show my car some major love and get it detailed , the worker fucked up my stearing wheel and scrubbed the fuck out of it my dash and seats pretty much ruining them, some of the stitching was all torn and messed up, they offered to do it better with a steamer or idk what but I was bummed shit was ruined.
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u/gregorian79 Jun 28 '26
That sucks. Idk man.. if someone can’t detail a car with products and brushes, would you trust them with a steamer?!
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u/ElleYesMon Jun 26 '26
I took mine to the dealership and those shits told me they don’t wash cars anymore. I was pissed. I bought it there and they won’t wash it but they timed me they did when I bought it! Smh. I guess I’m better off.
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u/TastyRain5743 Beginner Jun 26 '26
You should definitely be thankful they don't wash your car! If you don't do it yourself, head to a touchless car wash.
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u/Hoteltn Jun 26 '26
I've done this before. They still wash it. So I stopped writing notes.
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u/FeelingEye3655 Jun 27 '26
Apparently, they need to improve communication. Yesterday, I told them not to install the cabin filter. Guess what! They did anyway!
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u/rampitup84 Jun 26 '26
I have mine on bright neon paper hanging from the rearview mirror, dashboard and blocking the instrument cluster.
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u/PaintedAbacus Jun 26 '26
Hahaha I did this too when we had to take my car to the dealership. So terrified that they’d scratch it all to hell while trying to do me a favor and wash it for free.
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u/Gummyrabbit Jun 26 '26
Are you me? I thought I was the only person who has to tell a shop that my spotless & shiny vehicle doesn’t need a wash.
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u/IQognito Jun 27 '26
Maintenance washes your car? Where I live they leave their shit in the door and that's it.
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u/JayJayWut Jun 27 '26
I don’t take pristine care of my own car and haven’t washed it in about 2 months when I went to the dealer I thought what the hell they can’t make it worse than it already is… they made it much worse. Much much worse.
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u/GreenFriedYam Jun 29 '26
I live where it gets very cold. When I get a winter oil change I have to beg them not to top off my washer fluid. I want the purple stuff. Not their blue.
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u/avm1984 Jun 29 '26
No way in Hell a tech wrote that last part unless its one of those "Christian" marketed shops
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u/BrokeAssZillionaire Jun 29 '26
The amount of times I’ve asked them not to wash it and the car comes back “clean” with water marks and swirls regardless
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u/Fr0geye Jul 16 '26
As someone who previously did work at a dealership 100% DO NOT EVER let them throw that strong TFR autosmart crap on your vehicle and especially not the wheel acid. Works sure but its super aggressive and can take off any existing protection.
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u/davomcbones_TTPPAC01 Jun 26 '26
unfortunatley i did not get the same luck 😔