Miata Mailing List: December 1997, Message #116
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From: 	bisonte@ix.netcom.com (Bisonte)

Subject: Fwd: Re: auto car wash / For Hank in Illinois

Date: 	Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:36:36 +0000



Hank wrote:



    Reasonable advice. But... Here near Chicago we can get weeks

    of below freezing temperatures. And it gets colder as you go

    further north. Where can you hand wash in the middle of winter?     

    <snip>



Dear Hank:



    I live in downtown Chicago and have the same problem you do.  I 

looked for a safe and convenient commercial car wash that would let me 

wash my own car.  I have been unable to find one.  I live in a condo 

and we have a hand car wash service in the building but like many on 

this List, only I get to wash my car.  I find it therapeutic.  This 

summer I even found myself suggesting frequently to my wife that we go 

visit her mother in Milwaukee just so that I could wash the car on her 

front lawn!  Sick, sick, sick... We all are.



Anyways, because my building will not allow me to use their car wash 

facility, I devised the following technique for washing my car IN my 

building, late at night when no one is around.  I bought one of those 

large plastic containers that have a pump so that you can pressurize 

the liquid inside the container.  The container has a wand from which a 

fine spray comes out.  I think these containers are used for spreading 

lawn chemicals or something like that.  I bought it at the Home Depot.  

I use this pressurized container and a bucket filled with some mild 

soap to wash and rinse my car.  It really works.  One of my neighbors 

who owns a Porsche and feels about his car the same way we feel about 

ours showed me how to do this.  The puddle left behind is quite 

minimal.  SO, if you park your car in a garage maybe this will work for 

you too.  Ciao, Jon, '97 M, Chicago.