AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. — According to www.wrdw.com, when Jonathan McGahee, 21, drove his white 1998 For Explorer through a carwash at a Circle K, it came out pink on the other side.
“Got the $14 package like I always do with the wax and everything. When I got in there, something seemed a little different. The wax seemed highly potent. It was way darker than it normally should be,” McGahee said. “It looked like graffiti art on [my car]. Streaked with pink all over it.”
McGahee claims he scrubbed away at the pink but that it would not clean, the article continued.
In addition, he filed a claim with Circle K’s insurance department, but has not heard anything in the weeks since the incident happened.
“I just want it fixed. I want it white again,” McGahee said.
Lee Richardson, owner of Sparkle Express carwashes, said, “As cars age and the clear-coat on a vehicle fades then you have a chalkboard surface,” adding that older vehicle, particularly light-colored ones, are more apt to soak up a color from carwash chemicals.
Furthermore, Richardson cautioned, any vehicle that is white or silver and older than 10 years or is a late 1990s model (since there was an issue with clear-coats back then) needs to be careful about using chemicals in a carwash, the article noted.
The news station contacted Circle K, the article concluded, and the company followed up with McGahee to see to getting his vehicle fixed; in addition, Sparkle Express told McGahee to bring his vehicle to them because they were sure they could get the pink tint out of the paint.
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