East Auckland’s most popular self-service car wash has undergone a major rebrand and there are now more reasons than ever for people to get along and get their vehicle looking like new.
The business previously known as TJ’s Car Wash Botany Downs, situated at a handy location beside Animates in Ti Rakau Drive, is now called #1 Supreme Carwash.
Spokesman Baden Pascoe says the rebrand, complete with an eye-catching new colour scheme, is driven by a desire to give customers more than a place to clean their car.
“We want to offer an experience to whoever comes to our site.
“The place has brand new pavement, everything has been repainted, and we’ve landscaped.
“This car wash and our forecourt presentation is the best anywhere in the world.
“We know we’ve taken this to a new level.
“We’re not selling a car wash, we’re selling an experience.”
#1 Supreme Carwash gives people the chance to wash and vacuum their car and “chill out” at the same time.
It has seven spacious self-service bays that are simple to use and offer easy to understand colour codes and directions in English and Chinese.
One of the car wash’s site managers is a Chinese Kiwi who speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.
The “feature” of the site is its state-of-the-art German Supremo Autowashe, which Baden describes as New Zealand’s most advanced brush car wash machine.
It has five brushes, uses special detergent, and pre-rinses vehicles to remove material that may result in scratching during the washing process.
Another machine on-site is the Laser car wash, which offers touchless car washing using a two-step process.
Neither the Supremo Autowashe nor the touch-less washing machine will scratch a vehicle’s paintwork, Baden says.
“You might want to use touch-less washing for a vehicle with lots of nooks and crannies, such as an off-road vehicle with a snorkel or bullbars.
“In the bays we use the world’s best chemical, Turtle Wax, which is imported from the US and has been around for 70 or 80 years.
“We have a lot of different options.
“We have pre-soak, which is water-based de-grease for chassis and mag wheels, and there’s a high-pressure soap.
“In the back bays we offer hot, high pressure soap and that’s good for doing mag wheels or getting rid of things like bird mess.”
The sweet-smelling bubble gum US car washing product Lustre is also available with our foaming brush option.
A new feature at #1 Supreme Carwash is spot-free rinse, which applies reverse osmoses water to a vehicle so when it dries there are no spots and there’s no need to wipe it over with a towel or shammy.
On the forecourt are seven high-powered vacuum stations so people can make the inside of their vehicle spotless.
Available for purchase is a range of high quality self-service vending products imported from the US including glass cleaner, Armor All, cleaning sponges, micro-fibre towels, and tyre shine and foam.
Using the Supremo Autowashe machine costs $14 or $18, while the touch-less wash is $12-$16.
People can use the self-service bays to wash and wax their vehicle for about $12 and it costs about $4 to vacuum the inside of a car.
Baden says the business takes pride in its presentation, cleanliness, and being easy to use.
“People can come with cash and we take debit and credit cards, both with Paywave options.
“Anyone who washes their vehicle here will do so in a totally environmentally-friendly way.
“Rather than washing their car in a driveway, where brake dust and heavy metals go down the stormwater and pollute the channels. That is something we’re very conscious of.
“And we clean up litter on and around our site. This is a no-litter zone.”
#1 Supreme Carwash
347 Ti Rakau Drive, Botany
(opposite Howick & Eastern Buses and next to Animates Pet Centre)
https://www.facebook.com/supreme.carwash.nz/
