Some serious blowers at the automatic car wash

Instead of workers smearing their dirty towels over your car at the end, this automatic car wash has four extra powerful blowers, which do a good job of getting most of the water off your car. The motor and linkage which makes them oscillate back and forth is quite interesting, too. Overall, for $7 for a basic exterior wash, this place does a pretty decent job.

[@UtahCarWashChannel]

Looks to be superior blowers. They went out of business a while back and were acquired by The Dryer Pros.

[@superbowlguy9659]

Holy cow! These are ridiculously and seriously powerful dryers .

[@kingcarwashnfansdrivesetc8364]

Going in detail of these dryers, first, the pitch is different. Second, they startup slowly, and shut down slowly, and Third, yeah, those are seriously powerful!

[@kingcarwashnfansdrivesetc8364]

This is one of the Crown Car washes in New Jersey.

[@thecarwashelevatorfanatic7433]

Those are Superior dryers. They sound exactly like the ones at the Scrub-A-Dub on Park Ave in Worcester. And that green Shammy at the end is a RARE Hanna unit. I’ve never seen one before, but I have seen a Shammy Shiner.

[@thecarwashelevatorfanatic7433]

Just went here. The car wash is now called, Sunny Days Car Wash. Those dryers are still there, and they did a great job! They also still have that Shammy textile cloth dryer.

[@kyleknight8267]

It's kinda cool that the side blowers oscillate, I've never seen that

[@douro20]

That is a Tempest dryer made by Superior (now The Dryer Pros). They make a few different models; I don't think I've ever seen this four-head model before, though.

[@clubcar98]

KZbin is fixed! I can comment now... We have some $2 and $3 car washes here. I think they have blowers, and some have a free vacuum. I don't know how they work though. Those seemed really powerful, more than the ones I have ever been through.

[@vwestlife]

@wilkes85 This is not touchless, it is a regular automatic car wash with brushes and chamois strips (you can see the whole thing in my video "$30 Jazz DV151 mini flash camcorder"). We don't even have any brushless car washes around here anymore. They were cheap, but didn't work very well, and they had to put so much acid into the soap that it would eat away at your car's paint.

[@vwestlife]

@cr1901 Yes, this is NJ. I've never heard of that. I try to avoid going to car washes where they make you get out, because the people working there are sometimes not that great at driving a stick shift (and/or immature and careless), and they end up absuing the clutch when they pull my car into and out of the wash.

[@patitauiliili1221]

I like how the dryers move

[@thatkidfromsmartsville2012]

woah thats a pretty powerful dryers

[@faithless8888]

Lol the little screws on the outer end of the left blower looks like it has eyes. :-P

[@rarleyposting5546]

My car wash has these dryers but they don’t have a slow wind down. They also do not oscillate.

[@Lachlant1984]

I used to love these automatic car washes when I was little, they always had warning signs to remind you to fold down your arial before entering them. I remember the brushes and strips and water sprays they had, but I don't remember the rotating blowers, I think the ones we had used fixed air bents. I assume those blowers produce hot air, right? These are much more interesting than the self service manual car washes where you do everything, I'd hate to be in the path of those blowers.

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

@wilkes85 I've taken a couple cars through a local touchless car wash, and both the side mirrors and the antenna (one has the built-in antenna) were just fine. If there were severe problems with touchless car wash systems (compared to the rare occurrence) then there'd probably be less of 'em. besides, the local touchless wash place seems to get very good business.

[@Kawayoporu]

Do you find blow dryer sound spooky when turning on or feel like being on an airplane?

[@wilkes85]

touchless carwahes are cool! I'm scared to drive my car in one though. Well first, the weather stripping around the windows is bad so I'll probably end up wetter than the car LOL, also, i hear they break your antenna and sideview mirrors. And I can't wait to wash my filthy car, it's still below freezing here so my car would end up encased in ice LOL

[@Maxxarcade]

Ha! I did a video just like this at my car wash a couple years back. It's still on my YT page.

[@AlexTraxxas]

These things make my backpack blower sound weak.

[@Mr1p0d]

Which car are you using? Good video :)

[@guest2007]

thanks

[@dallasdaechmacdaech1712]

Same octopus wash car

[@cr1901]

@vwestlife Well, I live in South Jersey (one of the suburbs of Philly), so maybe it may be an ordinance (can't speak for where you live) in that area. I just remember being a 7 year old being told to get out of the car when Mom took me to the car wash b/c of this aforementioned law (if it really does exist?) and remembering how intriguing it was when I was 3 or 4. :(

[@cr1901]

Is this in NJ? I thought that NJ drivers couldn't be inside their cars when they go through a car wash anymore due to complaints of injuries (I guess mostly because of idiots who got out of the car) in the late 90's?

[@Busterdrag]

What, this isn't the norm over in the US? Here in germany, all car washes are automatic and have blowdryers like that. o.o

[@vwestlife]

Automatic car washes are common here too, but we also have plenty of non-automatic self-serve car washes, like this: self-serve Car Wash Demo

[@alistairstuart2009]

does that dry your car?

[@Silverdev2482]

yes

[@ajfrulesisawesome]

Dryer pros dryers

[@noobthatplayswith2fingers]

It’s actually a Superior Tempest drying system. Dryer Pros are newer superior dryers

[@CaliforniaCarWashes]

This is one of the Crown Car Wash locations.

[@thecarwashelevatorfanatic7433]

It’s now called Sunny Days Car Wash. I recently went here and these dryers are still going strong! They even still have that old Hanna textile Shammy cloth!