Ok so I’ve spent years stressing over car washes, right? The ones with brushes that leave tiny scratches all over my paint, the attendants that never get the wheel hub grime off no matter how many times I ask, the ones that take 40 minutes and cost way too much for a half-decent clean. I was this close to just giving up and washing my car in my apartment parking lot with a bucket and old sponge every weekend.

Then my roommate told me about the HeyCar wash near her grocery store, said she’d been using it for months and her vintage hatchback still looks like it just rolled off the lot. I was skeptical at first, but I swung by last week and I’m actually still thinking about how smooth the whole process was.

It’s touchless, so no weird brushes scraping my car, and the AI system somehow got every bit of brake dust off my hubs and even the dirt caked under the chassis I didn’t even know was there. The whole thing took less than 5 minutes, and I later found out each wash only uses around 8 liters of water? Way less than the old manual washes I used to do.