Vent and rant about the car cleaning services in car parks (and other people touting)

peter_the_piper

We have "Heros" car wash at the local Sainsburys, they never bothered me when I had my N reg Charade, I bet I get swamped now I've got a 62 plate car.

COLOURBOUNCE

pinkteapot wrote: »

We always use these hand car washes because of all the dire warnings from the parents about the damage automatic car washes do to the paintwork.

A few weeks ago we took our car to our regular hand car wash in a multi-storey in town.

Drove out afterwards and as soon as we were in daylight realised they'd scratched the windscreen and all the windows. :eek:

Fortunately the paintwork was OK. We paid our insurance company the £75 to get the windscreen replaced. Haven't bothered with the other windows as it'll cost a small fortune to replace them all and they're only fine scratches.

Wish we'd noticed while we were still with the car wash people, but I bet they'd still have said it was like that to start with.

If I have time for fun with these outfits, I ask them for a copy of their public liability insurance policy. It always does the trick.

malkyh

Barneysmom wrote: »

And the amount of side-of-the-road car washes these days!

Do we really need that many? They are almost matched by the amount of takeaways.
Cities are becoming very scruffy.

I worked for a foam wash and valet centre when I was in between jobs. Mostly used by taxi drivers and the council. Wednesdays were a nightmare when the refuse lorries used to pile in. They would stink and you'd get covered in all the !!!!! out the back when using the jetwash on them.

skivenov

peter_the_piper wrote: »

We have "Heros" car wash at the local Sainsburys, they never bothered me when I had my N reg Charade, I bet I get swamped now I've got a 62 plate car.

Hahaha - you've just reminded me of doing sainsbury's refits. They used to take one look at my van and go pale. I'd owned it three years and at no point in thar period had it ever been washed. I kept hassling them to do it :rotfl:

T_T_2

oliveoil99 wrote: »

I quite understand what your saying specially the chuggers. Learn a sentence of an obscure language then repeat it to them works wonders.

Condescension from someone who steers clear of punctuation and uses the word 'specially' in place of 'especially'. I hope that no immigrants are reading this because you are embarrassing me in front of them.

Stephb1986_2

They drive me nuts the ones in Sainsbury's carpark if I wanted my car washing I would take it to be washed, I'm never in there long enough for it to be washed and I get a filthy look for saying no!

Steph

shaun_from_Africa

maninthestreet wrote: »

At my local Sainsbury store they are all, without exception, of African descent.

robpw2 wrote: »

how do you know this ... have you asked them of their background

In general, it's not too difficult to tell.
The odds are that if someone is Negroid, then he or she will either be African or of African descent.

lammy82

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

In general, it's not too difficult to tell.
The odds are that if someone is Negroid, then he or she will either be African or of African descent.

By that token, we're all Africans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans

CKhalvashi

peter_the_piper wrote: »

We have "Heros" car wash at the local Sainsburys, they never bothered me when I had my N reg Charade, I bet I get swamped now I've got a 62 plate car.

Yes, you will!

I don't usually use the Multi-Storey, and they always left me alone when I had my '07', but the minute I got my '60' (black S-Max), they occasionally did it, when I got my '61' (white S-Max) they did it every time, and now I've got my '62' (also white, and one of the latest model Jags) they're piling in to let them do it!

I've not given in yet, as fleet wash/hoover it every few days for me. I'd rather pay my own staff to do my car, with them knowing that if they damage it, they'll probably be out the job!

CK

twofishes

Chuggers are a nightmare. Handing out financial details in the street? No thanks! Not sure how that's legal to be honest.