Gravity: Helpful Tips for Automated Car Wash?

[bryway]

Having returned home from my first road trip, the Gravity is in dire need of a wash. I don't have the bandwidth to handwash it myself (and know I'd be obsessive to the point of self ruin), so am going to take it to an automated car wash. There's a pretty good one near me in San Francisco (Tower on Van Ness at Mission) where I previously took my Model X. Of course the X had a 'Car Wash Mode' that would tame the automated stuff such as self-presenting driver and passenger doors, falcon wing doors, wipers, etc.

For the Gravity, besides the obvious wiper settings, are there other things I should do before letting them run it through the wash? The user manual isn't all that useful -- just mentions switching wipers to the 'off' position. Should I be worried about the door handles? The Model X didn't really have 'handles' per-se, so I never had the concern

I searched the Gravity section of the site and couldn't find more specifics.

 

[iThinkEV]

I think I set wiper to off (forever, never like it on auto till it rains) and that was it. Been through a local auto touchless car wash a few times. Maybe make sure they know how to switch to neutral for the automated track.

-iThinkEV-

 

[Ron_Burgundy]

I had to laugh when I read this because I always swear I will only do a “quick” waterless car wash regularly when I get a new car and cringe at the idea of a brushless auto wash…two months (and one hand wash later), I end up going through an auto wash…

Car Wash mode usually also turns off external sensors and cameras as they go nuts in a car wash…

 

[9point81]

Aaarrgghh! Car washes! Sorry but no matter how tired I might get, dog hot summer day or freezing of winter, I’m gonna be out there (looking like a fool) hand washing my car. It’s just what you do, as a departed friend of mine used to say. Good luck with yours tho

 

[hmp10]

After having it wrapped in Xpel Ultimate Fusion PPF we've been taking our Air through an automated carwash about weekly for over two years. I don't do anything other than turn off the wipers. I don't even retract the mirrors, as the cleaning at the top of the doors is better with them extended. Never had any damage, and the car finish still looks brand new. If the car is picking up any swirl marks the self-healing properties of the film are still handling them.

One of the reasons I had the Gravity wrapped in the same film is that I intend to do the same with it. The only reason I haven't yet is that I wanted to do the first couple of washes by hand, as it's a way to really catch anything I want corrected with the car or the film. (The only thing I've found so far is that the right tip of the "Dream Edition" tag on the tailgate has not adhered fully to the film.).