Washing Your RV at a Truck Wash

[JayWinter]

I’ve been thinking about taking my RV to a truck wash to get it washed, as I’ve washed it by hand many times, and it is a lot of work. It will usually take me about 3 hours to do a thorough job, including the roof.
Has anyone taken their RV to a truck wash? If so, was it an overall good experience?

[RBuzz]

I’ve thought about it but haven’t done it yet. I just washed the car for the first time in 5 months. I’m in Tacoma, WA and it’s constantly raining so why wash the car?

I see some of the images on Google show some truck wash places that are automated with the big roller type who-ya that goes over the top and down the sides. I’m wondering what those will do to my AC covers as they’re pretty well sun rotted. At $125 each I wouldn’t be too happy with them getting chewed up before I’m ready to replace them. And what about the little spinny black tank vent. I can see that getting ripped off. You might want to consider stuff like that or be really cruel and search out a kids Saturday School Car Wash. LOL.

[François Goudreau]

It is a lot of work to wash a rig by hand, but it costs almost nothing and you will not break a cover or something else. If you want a job well done, always better done yourself. My two cents.

[Jay n Jazz]

Hey All:
I for one love washing our rig by hand. It is well worth the hard work. But that’s not to say sometimes you just need it done faster. We have not been to a truck wash but did find a cool self serve car wash with 13′ tall bays when we were traveling on our road trip last year. It was just outside Needles California in Arizona. Not sure the exact town but it was cool. They had stairs in there to get up high and clean the roof.

We actually had a good time cleaning up the ol girl after a few thousand miles.

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