Mobile Car Wash In Clyde

For most people it is the more sensible option, because the two things you actually pay for are your time and your paint, and a mobile hand wash protects both. You are not driving anywhere, queueing or waiting in a foyer, and the car is washed by hand rather than by brushes that have been through hundreds of dirty vehicles before yours. The one genuine limitation is space, since we need enough room to open the doors and walk around the car. If you live somewhere with only kerbside parking on a busy road, a fixed site may suit you better, and we will tell you that honestly rather than take a booking we cannot do well.

Yes, washing your own car at home is legal, but there are environmental rules about where the runoff ends up. EPA Victoria guidance is that soapy water and detergent should not run straight into a stormwater drain, because stormwater flows untreated into local creeks and eventually Port Phillip Bay. In practice that means washing on a lawn or a permeable surface where water soaks in, or containing and controlling the runoff. We use biodegradable, pH-neutral products and manage water use carefully, which is also why we are not dumping large volumes of detergent down the nearest gutter on your street.

A drive-through cleans the car in five minutes using brushes or cloth strips that make direct contact with your paint. Those strips carry grit from every vehicle that went through before yours, which is exactly how fine swirl marks and scratch haze get into a clear coat over time. A hand wash uses one bucket for clean soapy water and a second with a grit guard for rinsing the mitt, so contamination goes into the bucket rather than back onto the panel. It also reaches the parts a machine never touches, including door shuts, fuel filler surrounds, mirror housings and the lower rear bumper where road film builds up.

Fortnightly suits most cars parked outside, and monthly is usually enough for a car that lives in a garage. The reason to be regular rather than occasional is that contamination gets harder to remove the longer it sits, and some of it does permanent damage. Bird lime and tree sap are acidic and will etch into clear coat within days in summer sun, which is a common problem on the tree-lined streets around Berwick. If you are near the bay at Frankston, salt film is the reason to stay on a shorter cycle.

A hand wash with an interior vacuum generally runs $79 to $140 depending on the size of the vehicle and how dirty it actually is. A regularly maintained sedan sits at the bottom of that range, while a large SUV that has been off gravel roads or carrying a dog takes considerably longer and sits toward the top. Regular customers on a fortnightly cycle pay less per visit than one-off jobs, simply because a car washed a fortnight ago takes half the time. Call 0413 242 485 with your make and model and we will give you the fixed figure before we come out.

No, we bring our own water and our own power. That is deliberate, because relying on customers for water and electricity causes exactly the problems people complain about, from noisy generators upsetting neighbours to a job that cannot go ahead because the tap is not connected yet. It is particularly relevant in the new estates around Clyde and Clyde North, where a lot of homes still have unfinished landscaping and no working outdoor tap. If you would prefer we use your tap to reduce our water use, we are happy to, but it is never a requirement.