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Could it be that single family homeownership is higher there? I can kind of speak for some of L.A.'s use of manual car washes. There's many who live in apartme
by ohmyiv 3y ago
Could it be that single family homeownership is higher there?
I can kind of speak for some of L.A.'s use of manual car washes. There's many who live in apartments or places that don't have places to wash at home. Manual car washes fill the void for people that want to clean their own car but don't have space.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoit might be. It might also be a water conservation thing, somehow, but I can't see how that would work unless they filter the water used in teh carwashes that are automatic and reuse them in some way not feasible with the power-wash-for-quarters sorts of stalls.
- bombcar 3y agoThe automatic systems can reuse water, and quite a bit: https://ncswash.com/what-is-a-car-wash-water-recycling-system/ https://ncswash.com/what-is-a-car-wash-water-recycling-syste... The pay/pressure wash systems I've ever seen are all older, I don't know how many new ones they're building. I suspect automatic washers are cheap "enough" now that you can't build a new pay to wash that comes out substantially cheaper. When I was a kid it was $2 for the power wash for quarters type, and $10 for automatic or by hand, now it's $8 for the automatic decades later.