Car wash

For other uses, see Car wash (disambiguation).

A car wash (also written as "carwash") or auto wash is a facility used to clean the exterior and, in some cases, the interior of motor vehicles.  Car washes can be self-serve, fully automated, or full-service with attendants who wash the vehicle.

• Jerry:  Ah, w-what's the problem, officer?
  Cop:  Well, I was about to ask you.
  Jerry:  Uh…m-m-my-my radiator must be leaking.  I'm sorry about that.  [opens car door; water copiously pours out of the vehicle; closes door]
  Cop:  A radiator doesn't hold that much water.
  Jerry:  Oh, uh…I-I-I-I'm-I must have drove through, uh, a car wash wi-with my windows open?
  Cop:  Oh, well.  That would do it.
  Jerry:  Yeah.
  Cop:  Well, roll up the windows next time.  [returns to his car]
  • Jerry Landers (John Denver) and cop (John Ashton) in Oh, God! (1977), screenplay by Larry Gelbart, based on the novel by Avery Corman.

• It is so fucking typical of you to create a problem like this when I finally have a chance to accomplish something—when I'm really into my work!  I could really write my own ticket if I went back to Boulder now, couldn't I?  Shovelling out driveways?  Work in a car wash?  Any of that appeal to you?
  • Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) in The Shining (1980), written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King.

• You see, I can not go home a virgin.  I came here to study the great American art of muff diving.  [Van Wilder spits out his water]  To-to-to smack clam, munch rug, dine at just one American pink taco stand!  You know, I wanted to, how is it, park the porpoise.  You know?  I want to take it through the car wash, baby, you know?  And get it waxed.  You know, I want to wax it.  Wax it!  You know, and air dry.  You know, air dry that shit, yeah!  And I would like to be your assistant very much, Mr. Van Wilder.
  • Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn) in National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), written by Brent Goldberg and David Wagner.

• Phineas:  We're gonna make the best dang car wash in the dang tristate area, dangit!  …I can't really pull that off, can I?
  Ferb:  You're not very "street".
  • Phineas Flynn (Vincent Martella) and Ferb Fletcher (Thomas Sangster) in "At the Car Wash," Phineas and Ferb (S2E16, 22 June 2009), story by May Chan.

• Working at the car wash
  Working at the car wash, yeah
  Come on and sing it with me, car wash
  Sing it with the feeling now, car wash, yeah
  • Rose Royce, "Car Wash," Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (13 September 1976, written by Norman Whitfield), tr. 1.

• We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
  In a bar that faces a giant car wash
  The good people of the world are washing their cars on their lunch break
  Hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits
• Otherwise the bar is ours
  The day and the night and the car wash, too
  • Sheryl Crow, "All I Wanna Do," Tuesday Night Music Club (3 August 1993, written by Wyn Cooper, Sheryl Crow, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald, and Kevin Gilbert), tr. 9.

• Car wash (also on Sundays)
  • Radiohead, "Fitter Happier," OK Computer (21 May 1997), tr. 7.

• Robots fucking in the middle of the car wash
  • TV on the Radio, "Robots," OK Calculator (2002), tr. 16.

• Automobile
• Cleanliness

• Encyclopedic article on Car wash on Wikipedia
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• Car Washing Techniques on Wikibooks
• The dictionary definition of car wash on Wiktionary
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