General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

People here routinely pay a monthly fee - usually on automatic payment through a bank - at any one of tens of thousands of high tech car washes - you drive in, stay seated, your car is washed, you drive out. I use mine maybe a dozen times in the winter, 2 or 3 and sometimes not at all, during the summer. Its so cheap I don't bother to cancel my payment for the barren months. Cost, $19.00 a month.

For some years now many car washes have expanded their services and set up a separate drive-thru to clean the inside of one's car. You leave your car on a conveyor belt and three or four people clean the inside, some fresh employees taking over as the belt progresses for, say, those doing windows or back seats. They clean out the car, wipe down all surfaces, clean all the windows, inside and out. A supervisor stands by as you examine your car - and if it is not to your satisfaction, they will run it though again. A final finish is a spray that smells the way a new. car does. Because of all the manual work, the cost is a bit higher that an exterior wash - about $35 a cleaning. But they do have sales. I get my cars cleaned a couple of times a year. It takes less than thirty minutes and they do have drinks, snacks and a TV in the comfortable waiting room..