Trapper Dahlgren posting the salty truck pics reminded me of something I discovered at our local self serve truck/car wash. What's faster, a New York minute, or a coin carwash minute? $2.50 to start, not sure what extra quarters get in time. The numbers go as fast as a slot machine. But what you think is a minute on the carwash timer is about 45 seconds.....At least ours is. Nowhere in signage are times per $ claims made. Had my grandson time a minute on his phone compared to what the display said....Twice. It also takes a slice and a half of cheese to cover the bread now, at least till the bread gets smaller....I will do a heck of a lot less to get a Klondike bar also....Those got smaller too!!
Posted By: Nittany Lion
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 01:30 PM
The thing that ticks me off at a coin car wash is the dang thing starts before you get all the quarters in. I never timed one, but I will the next time I use one.
Posted By: hippie
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 01:39 PM
I'm going to one this morning, ill have the woman time it. I never really thought about it but thought it said minutes.
Posted By: Eagleye
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 01:50 PM
I think the self -wash timing is a full first minute and then it's declines rapidly once they know you're all suds up with the wind down alarm going off... leaving you feeding quarters like a fat kid eating cake.
Posted By: Trap Setter
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 02:26 PM
Don't wash your truck, everyone knows water causes rust. My wife washed mine
once ten years ago and now it's a rusty mess
Posted By: Gary Benson
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 02:40 PM
I think they're set to run just a cotton-pickin' minute.
Posted By: wetdog
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 02:42 PM
Dirt keeps the paint from fading.
Posted By: hippie
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 03:28 PM
Just back from the one in Thompsontown, 12 quarters got me 12 minutes. Buck to start = 4 min. and a minute for every extra quarter. Wife timed it and it was accurate.
Posted By: cotton
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 03:37 PM
when i get one warshed i just go on and pay the 8 bucks and don't even get wet.
lol no clue when the last time my truck was clean
Posted By: Strut10
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 03:40 PM
You wash your trucks??
Well, yeah............ When it takes $5 in quarters to get the mud off the roof, I'll hose it off.
Posted By: Boco
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 03:52 PM
An old guy I used to work with used to take a bucket of diesel fuel and a rag and wash down his truck in late summer every year.
It smelled funny for a while and the paint looked a bit dull but it never had a speck of rust.And they pour the salt heavy on the hiway here.
An old guy I used to work with used to take a bucket of diesel fuel and a rag and wash down his truck in late summer every year.
It smelled funny for a while and the paint looked a bit dull but it never had a speck of rust.And they pour the salt heavy on the hiway here.
Honestly I knew an old boy that did that. He worked asphalt work his whole life. Said they cleaned the tar off the trucks with diesel fuel over the summer and fall. Then plowed snow with them in the winter, The trucks didn't have much rust.
Posted By: Mark K
Re: What's faster? - 02/27/22 09:09 PM
I wonder if that falls under the jurisdiction of the Dept of Weights & Measures?