# 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.

## Quotes
### Quotes from film

* 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.

### Quotes from television

* 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.

### Quotes from music

* 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.

## See also

* Automobile
* Cleanliness

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Car wash on Wikipedia
* Media related to Car washes on Wikimedia Commons
* Media related to Car washing on Wikimedia Commons
* Car Washing Techniques on Wikibooks
* The dictionary definition of car wash on Wiktionary
* The dictionary definition of jetwash on Wiktionary
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