At the car wash (not a old song)Part 2

["Tony Fortner" <keith_f79@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Rodger;

   I just HAD to chime in on this one!!  I am a professional car washer at 
the local car wash with 16 years expierence.  I think what happened to your 
Imperial is just absolutly terrible!  I have worked at my place of 
employment for all those years and not once have I seen paint blown off a 
car.  That leads me to believe that the owner of that particular 
establishment needs to take more care and pay more attention to how much 
pressure they are running through that power gun.  We run ours at only 1100 
psi. and wide fan nozzle that can barely rinse of your hands,  let alone 
blow paint off the car.
   On the defense of the professional Car Wash industry,  one would be 
amazed to see how many things that the general public is so quick to blame 
the car washer for.  There is great time and money spent in the design of 
these systems to be as gentle on your  car (if not more so) as washing it at 
home.  We have had people come in and try to tell us that the scrathes came 
form the wash and they demand it to be fixed when it is obviously not our 
fault.  You can tell by the way the scratches run if we in fact did do the 
damage.  We get people telling us that we shorted out their radios for 
crying out loud!  I think that the car wash industry has been dealt a cruel 
blow in today's society and that people shoudl not be soo afraid of them.  I 
have five cars that are ran through at least twice a week and I have never 
gotten any damage from there and my father washes his  $52,000 2003 Cadillac 
at least twice a week as well. All that I am saying is that more care should 
be taken by owners of these places to ensure that all the equiptment is all 
the proper specs and make sure that the attendants are properly trained to 
do the job

    Any how it sounds to me that you are more upset with his insurance 
company than the Car Wash.  I hope that i did not upset you,  I am just 
telling my story on this one.  Because of all the bad rumors floating around 
out there of damage at the car wash, poeple like me are losing out on added 
clientel that woudl have otherwise visited the Car Wash..  After all 
everyone has to have a job and I have to eat too..:)

                                                                       Tony 
Fortner

69 Imperial Coupe
71 Imperial 4 door
71 Newport 2 door
92 Lebaron GTC vert
90 Imperial sedan

>From: roger crabtree <rcrabshish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: IML: At the car wash (not a old song)
>Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:52:29 +1100 (EST)
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>Here is a interesting story about the way insurance
>companies work.  I own a 1955 Imperial sedan with
>37,000 original miles on it. The car has been covered
>in a heated garage for 20 plus years. It is a
>beautiful original auto.  Last August I was being lazy
>and took the car to a local car wash. It was a fully
>automated wash with two hand wash attendants. As the
>car went into the wash, one of the attendants blew the
>paint off of the trunk. The wand he was using was a
>high pressure wand and should never have been laid on
>paint.  The company admitted that they did the damage.
>It was turned into the companies insurance.  This is
>where it gets interesting. I was told to take the car
>for a appraisal for repaint of the trunk. I was told
>by the Chrysler dealer that the paint can not be
>matched. He stated that the type of paint on the car
>is no longer used in the industry.  I called six other
>body shops in the area only to hear the same story.
>The insurance company then told me to get an estimate
>on a total repaint.  Chrysler bid it at $4,200.  The
>bid was turned in on August 28th of this year.  Last
>week after multiple phone call to the insurance
>company. They sent an adjuster to look at the car.  He
>wrote a bid for $2,400 and depreciated the paint 50%.
>They stated that the paint had a life of 10 years.
>The company offered $1,200 to repaint the car. I have
>filed a complaint with the state insurance
>commissioner.  Has anyone in the group ever have this
>type of thing happen to them?  I could use some help
>on this.
>RC    Billings Montanaaaaaa
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