hand car wash problems

motorguy

photome wrote: »

As I mentioned earlier I have seen the top coat takenn off a car by a pressure washer by one of these car wash outfits. There was no damage to the car prior to that

So a fault between the top coat and the paint layer then?

neilmcl

Agree with the above, the only way a pw can take off the clear coat or damage the paint is if the underlying paint/clearcoat is itself already damaged/failing. Unless, of course you've got something like that monster that was on Top Gear, even then it looked a little contrived to me

motorguy

neilmcl wrote: »

Unless, of course you've got something like that monster that was on Top Gear, even then it looked a little contrived to me

Contrived? On Top Gear? :eek:

stator

motorguy wrote: »

That was a degradation of the paint that caused that, not the pressure washer.

It was the washer

motorguy

stator wrote: »

It was the washer

It wasnt. A correctly used pressure washer will NOT remove paint off a car with healthy bodywork. End of.

Otherwise that pressure washer could have removed the top layer of paint from EVERY car.

OR

You dont know how to use a pressure washer and it was set at too high a pressure.

OR

You had it deliberately set at too high a pressure.

stator

motorguy wrote: »

It wasnt. A correctly used pressure washer will NOT remove paint off a car with healthy bodywork. End of.

Otherwise that pressure washer could have removed the top layer of paint from EVERY car.

OR

You dont know how to use a pressure washer and it was set at too high a pressure.

OR

You had it deliberately set at too high a pressure.

Of course it wasn't correctly used, that's why it took off the lacquer. duh
That's the whole point of this thread

neilmcl

stator wrote: »

Of course it wasn't correctly used, that's why it took off the lacquer. duh
That's the whole point of this thread

By your own admission your car was banger so it's not really a leap to suggest the paintowrk wasn't in a great condition either. A new(ish) car, which is what this thread refers to shouldn't be damaged by a pw unless there was underlying damage to the paintwork already. However until (or if) the OP puts up some pictures it's pure speculation as to what caused the damage.

My personal guess is that they've applied some wash solution or maybe a strong (or neat) APC and let it dry onto the bodywork.

d0nkeyk0ng

neilmcl wrote: »

My personal guess is that they've applied some wash solution or maybe a strong (or neat) APC and let it dry onto the bodywork.

I did wonder that but you can't really say anything without photos.