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Home » Remarkable » Wash your car (or have it washed) in Thailand
Wash your car (or have it washed) in Thailand
Never been a fan of car washing myself. I've always thought it wasted energy and was happy to let someone else do it. In the past by a boy next door and when he left the parental home to study in Amsterdam, I sometimes drove my car to a car wash.
Also here in Thailand I see people who are busy with soap and water every week on Saturday or Sunday to clean their mobile shrine. If you haven't seen me, then rather go to a company in the area, where a number of boys and girls love to throw themselves into your car to clean it from the outside and inside. As an owner you are impatiently watching, because it soon takes too long.
However, at last week's Auto Salon in Bangkok, a new method of car washing was introduced. It was only a start, but if this trend continues, I might get some pleasure from having my car washed again.
See the video below:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/j7wajJUn6pc[/youtube]
A nice video. 🙂
Having a car cleaned inside and out in Chiang Mai – and I assume elsewhere in Thailand – only costs a few Euros and they do it perfectly.
This has been happening in Bangkok for over 10 years.
But the price is also 500, - Baht by image of beautiful ladies in bikini.
Isn't this misogynistic etc etc? I read something like that years ago in a Dutch newspaper when this event showed up here somewhere?
Hahaha… That's why I like to come to Thailand. There women can be women or men and men can be men or women without anyone worrying about it or complaining about it! 😉
I have that done in Pattaya and rarely have to wait because I combine it with shopping at Big C, but it can also often be combined elsewhere. So just combine instead, wait impatiently Gringo.
I would NOT have my car washed there
The lady is more concerned with her show than cleaning the car
At the end of the video, less than 2% of the car has been cleaned 🙂
Nice scientifically calculated reaction ... this is an advertising film for the car. Have some people lost all sense of reality and or humor?
Lung addie
It is certainly not original. Eons earlier, an American sex film showed car washing in this way, but more effectively. In Florida it has now been commercialized more decently in real life, see YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCzaycnuec – originated as a fundraiser for a school. One comment says that at those temperatures it doesn't seem sexist to wash a car in a bikini. In addition, work is done in groups, as is also the case in Thailand when washing more everyday clothes by hand.
I used such a slightly more casual car wash service several times in Cha-Am (on Narathip and at Esso). But with the short transfer, the possible turn waiting, and the thorough but not very fast work, it takes me more time than the times I washed my car myself at home... in just a swim slip. There were far fewer people watching than on that YouTube video from Bangkok. 😉
I still have a long garden hose with a spray head that can be rotated in 8 positions from 'jet' to 'mist'. In sunny weather I am pleasantly refreshed right from the start (and the soap also works on me). The low hardness of the water only requires a very superficial dry rubbing of the bodywork. My last light sweat is then showered away with the garden hose and I feel just as fit & clean as my car looks.
Those comments are from a bunch of old matured men. This young man would have his car washed by such a lady at least three times a week. Reminds me of Josefien Jongen's story that women are smarter than men. A little hopping around the car with a few dance moves and we men immediately pay triple. Gringo takes it well; he has bought a second car for his wife and has it washed there every week. He is now a regular customer and gets a 10% discount, he let me know.
Yes, a pleasure for the eye, but don't you get distracted by the quality of the car wash?
I have no problem washing and waxing myself. Pretending that I do it better myself and don't leave any snake tow scratches.
When it comes to the door posts, the rubbers, the bottom of doors, people quickly drop a stitch.
Even with self-washing, you immediately carry out an inspection and see the minor damage that Thais are only too happy to make (and then leave with the northern sun). I brought, just off topic, a vacuum dent puller from Holland to remove the friendly Thai parking damage. Have yet to test it out.
By the way, you don't see it being flushed with RO water in Thailand.
I have a problem with the oily product spraying on the dashboard, the wheels and so on. Sticky and my wife gets upset about it.
I also think that by spraying the wheel arches and the underside clean with a high-pressure sprayer, rust gets less of a hold and if it is there you see it in time and can do something about it.
I like a clean engine and engine compartment. They do not do that or at a considerable additional cost with the risk that you will immediately have a starting problem due to water in the ignition.
I once had in the past when behind my back my wife had the maid clean the car that she used Jiff and scotchbrite. Never got the Pajero bumpers right again.
Success with having the car washed, I didn't see it although I do like this form of washing 🙂