The cloth, sponges and mechanical brushes used at typical car washes can scratch your vehicle’s paint. As they clean, these materials grind abrasive dirt and sand into your vehicle’s finish, turning seemingly harmless cleaning products into mild sandpaper. You’ll notice the cobweb-like swirls created by this repeated “sandpapering” in bright light.

Tests conducted at the University of Texas prove that a single home hand wash can produce scratches as deep as 1/10 of a car paint’s total thickness. The study showed that home washing produces so many marks on a car’s finish that they cannot even be counted and that no matter what the water temperature, home hand washing steadily reduces the reflectance reading of paint.!

Express Auto Wash & Detail is the only full service car wash in the Muscatine area that offers you touchless automatic washing.