Ceramic Pro has great advice on what to look for in a car wash. Check out the full video below!

When you're looking for a car wash near me, you're going to find four main types of car washes, that's automatic car washes, touch-less car washes, self-serve car washes and auto detail shops. There's going to be advantages and disadvantages to all of those. When you're looking at an automatic carwash, they're everywhere. That's your main advantage is they're easy to find, they're pretty inexpensive and they're fast. The main disadvantages are that in all likelihood eventually, if not today eventually they will scratch your car, cause marring and potentially even chip your paint.

And then you'll say, "Okay, well, I'll go through the touch-free car washes." Well, there's one way that a touch-free car washes cleans your vehicle and that's by using very, very aggressive soaps and degreasers, which are not good for your paint. They dry out your plastics and if you do have your car washed and waxed normally that stuff just stripped the wax and protection right off. Then that takes you to the self-serve car washes. You think, "Okay, I'll go there, and I'll do it myself," but they're probably lacking in equipment. It can be pretty expensive, sometimes they're hard to find. Worst of all the brushes that you're using, you have no idea what the person before you did to that brush and how dirty it is and is potentially very likely scratching your vehicle.

That leaves your auto detailing shop. The disadvantage of an auto detailing shop is you might need an appointment and it could be slightly more expensive. But if you're looking for fantastic results, the auto detailing shop is going to take the most care, have the best tools and give you the best result. If you really want to see an awesome auto detailing shop and what you should be looking for to clean your vehicle, I'll take you to the back of this one right here and you'll see a clean professional facility.

When you're looking to have your car really professionally cleaned you want to look for an auto detailing facility that looks like this one. The first criteria when you're judging a facility - is this facility actually clean? How can you trust them to clean your car when the facility itself is not clean? The next thing you want to look for is do they have the right tools. Do they have the right experience? Of course, you can find their reviews online first step. Next take a quick look around and see if they have something as simple as this, towels that are nicely marked, color coded for different purposes. For instance, this one is to wash the car and then we have a dirty bin. And this one’s for windows. Having them color coded means that the technicians will always know what towel is for what surface of the vehicle.

The next thing is lighting. The brighter the shop, the better they can see whether your vehicle is clean or dirty. If the shop is not well lit how can they see what they're working on? Can they see the scratches on the paint? Can they see marring on the paint? Next, you'll want to have horizontal lighting like this. These are simple LED lights, but they can be moved up and down to show even the finest details on the paint.