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Car Wash

Washing your car will protect your investment as preventative maintenance prolonging the life, performance, and value of your car. 

It depends on the external factors that your car is exposed to. Keeping the clear-coat finish of your car, as well as the car's underbody clean and in good repair is the most important step in maintaining the appearance and value of your car.

Connecticut offers moderate to high corrosiveness for cars due to the effects of acid rain, road and airborne sea salt. Road and marine salts are estimated to cause more than $14 billion in damage each year to American cars. Connecticut experiences a wide range of weather conditions, from high heat and humidity during the summer, to prolonged cold and snow in the winter. Where there's snow and ice, there is road salt and your car should be washed within a few days to avoid the beginnings of corrosion.

Absolutely! Don't wait! Bug residue forms an acid that starts to eat at a car's finish immediately! Bugs (and bird droppings, too) should be washed off as soon as possible, especially if the car is new or does not have a fresh coat of wax.

To protect the environment.
Washing your car in the driveway is one of the most environmentally unfriendly chores you can do at home.
Soap and detergents used in home car washing pollute our ground water, streams and lakes.
Many types of corrosives and toxic substances get deposited on streets and highways and end up on your car. As a result, driveway car washing generates storm water run-off containing lead, zinc, cadmium, phosphates, motor oil, asphalt, antifreeze and other contaminants. Moreover, chemicals in soaps and detergents used in driveway car washing typically contain additional contaminants that are harmful to water quality.
Unlike household waste water that enters sewers or septic systems and undergoes treatment before it is discharged into the environment, what runs off from your car goes right into storm drains—and eventually into rivers, streams, creeks and wetlands where it poisons aquatic life and wreaks other ecosystem havoc. Never mind that it's harmful to pets who could lick it up…

To save water.
The International Carwash Association reports that professional conveyor car washes use less than half the water of even the most conservative home car washer.
According to one report, washing a car at home typically uses between 80 and 140 gallons of water, while most commercial car washes average less than 45 gallons of water.
Monroe Car Wash & Detail Center uses, on average, only 3 gallons of fresh water per car washed. Furthermore, we recycle 100% of the water we use, and dirt and road grime debris are disposed of properly. Additionally, we only use EPA Certified biodegradable soaps.

To protect your car.
The way you protect your car's appearance has a direct effect on the life and overall value of your car. That's why it is important to let a car wash professional do it. Monroe Car Wash & Detail Center has professionally trained technicians. We constantly look for better and more efficient ways to deliver you the cleanest car possible.
Professional car wash equipment is operated by sophisticated computers that map out your car and apply cleaning solutions and polishes at the right time, volume and temperature. These computers control all of the dilutions and chemistry that go into cleaning your car, so that each car is consistently properly washed.
Hand washing your car may produce scratches that dull the finish.
Two university studies (University of Texas and the Technical University of Munich, in cooperation with Mercedes-Benz) prove that a single hand wash produces scratches one-tenth as deep as the paint's thickness – too many scratches to count. This repeated abrasive scouring destroys the paint's ability to achieve or maintain a close shine, or to provide protection against rust and corrosion. Tests have shown that the average backyard hose is not able to supply enough water along with detergent action to avoid damaging the car's finish. A professional car wash is able to provide tremendous amounts of water along with appropriate mechanical action which the backyard hose is not able to supply. This important and interesting study at the University of Texas concluded that today's modern car owner is much better off washing his car in a professional car wash rather than in his own driveway.