Free car wash by Mazda dealer

[kelvincheu]

My local Mazda dealer has free car wash for its new car owners as long as they keep the Mazda. If I go wash once a week, 50 times a year at $5 per wash. Over 5 year I would have saved $1250. That us a great incentive, consider that the Mazda dealer is just next to the freeway entrance on my daily commute to work.

Is this offer only for the particular dealer only, or common to Mazda USA?

 

[SayNoToPistons]

No thank you. Most if not all dealerships halfass their car washes with dirty bristles equivalent to rubbing a broom on the paint.

I always request dealers not to wash my cars when I do take them in. I like my cars scratch/swirl free.

 

[nizzy1115]

My mazda dealer is also a bmw dealer and they do a great job with the washes. Its just out of my way to go there for a wash.

 

[xxxmonoxidechil]

This is pretty typical, at least around me. Even the Kia dealership does it.

 

[CX-SV]

No thanks, only hand washes for my CX-5.

 

[Kayger12]

No thank you. Most if not all dealerships halfass their car washes with dirty bristles equivalent to robbing a broom on the paint.

I always request dealers not to wash my cars when I do take them in. I like my cars scratch/swirl free.

This. It's a one-way ticket to swirl city.

I have to make sure any time my car goes to the dealership that they put the Don't Wash note on it.

 

[hooked]

I wouldn't do it. I suspect most dealers are not in the business of caring for your car's paint. They're using it as a value added service to distinguish themselves from the other dealers. For you it's convenient and FREE, but to them, they're going to go with the cheapest method of car washing that they can get away with because they're not making money off of it.

 

[HandA]

This. It's a one-way ticket to swirl city.

Yeah, it is amazing how many cars I see in traffic with the nice long swooping lines in the paint from the car was bristles.

The dealer kept talking up their free car washes with services when I was buying and I kept cringing. I'm going to print out a sign for the rearview mirror that says "Do not wash" if I ever have to take it in there.

I bought the car late in the evening and they kept apologizing that there was nobody there to detail it for me and I was so happy for that.

Trevor
Mazda Accessories

 

[CX-SV]

Free sand-blasting with some water added...

 

[STE92VE]

No thanks, only hand washes for my CX-5.

+1

 

[ColinX-5]

+1

And me DIY hand wash is the only way

 

[STE92VE]

I'm going to have get a step stool to get to the roof. Thinking of something like this:

 

[paris1]

I'm going to have get a step stool to get to the roof. Thinking of something like this:

Or H&R lowering springs!

 

[STE92VE]

Or H&R lowering springs!

You're spoiled driving around the roads of Cali....pot hole riddled highways and streets of Long Island need as much clearance as possible!

 

[paris1]

You're spoiled driving around the roads of Cali....pot hole riddled highways and streets of Long Island need as much clearance as possible!

Believe me, Calif roads are nothing to brag about, but clearance is not generally an issue. Especially with FWD.

 

[SayNoToPistons]

You're spoiled driving around the roads of Cali....pot hole riddled highways and streets of Long Island need as much clearance as possible!

Belt Parkway and BQE looks and feel like a battlefield after that one little storm. DOT budgeting and cost cutting fail. All our new roads are prone to early failure because cost cutting began at the first step- design. The foundations in our roads are utter crap.

Having SoCal as my "second home," its roads are by far better than Metro NY. That includes I-5 in LA.

 

[CX-SV]

I'm going to have get a step stool to get to the roof. Thinking of something like this:

It works well, I have one in my garage used mainly for SUV washing.

 

[xwedge]

It works well, I have one in my garage used mainly for SUV washing.

Just get a milk crate. I'm sure theres a bunch of em behind the grocery store.

 

[HandA]

I'm going to have get a step stool to get to the roof.

Every time I wash it I wish I'd bought a Fiat 500 instead The rest of the time I'm pretty happy but it takes a bit longer to wash. And it doesn't help that I've started doing it the way the guys on the detailing forums suggest with two buckets and a foam gun and special brushes for getting inside the wheels...

 

[hooked]

I have a folding platform that's about 4 ft long and 18 inches tall so that I don't need to move it when I go from the front to the back of the roof. Just when I go from one side to the other. Great timesaver.

I do find that it's easier/faster to wash SUVs and Minivans because there is no trunk to deal with. I guess there is one less step:

- Roof
- Front Glass
- Hood
- Back Glass
- Vertical Surfaces

versus

- Roof
- Front Glass
- Hood
- Back Glass
- Trunk
- Vertical Surfaces