Wilcomatic (Ceccato) Master car wash at Esso

Ceccato Master car wash at an Esso petrol station.

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• esso
• carwash
• car
• wash
• ceccato
• master
• wilcomatic

[patrickdezane2009]

realize that the center of the machine next to the barns is a "stick" hanging from black to better visualize when drying is started.

I wonder how is this "stick"

[AquaValet2009]

@patrickdezane2009

The rod hanging from the centre of the machine is a switch, and if the rod makes contact with the vehicle being washed it causes the dryers to be moved out to the sides. For example, a Land Rover would not have its roof dried properly as a result.

[AquaValet2009]

It is quite old, a late 1980s design I think, and the one in the video must be around 20 years old, although they only stopped producing the WD Plus several years ago, this side of the year 2000.

[AquaValet2009]

Google Street View also shows a Ceccato Master at the BP on the A12 Eastern Avenue near Newbury Park station. Not sure if that is still there, but the same type of machine also exists at a BP in Bournemouth.

[AquaValet2009]

Might be worth checking the Esso at Ewell on the A24 Ewell Bypass. Google Street View shows twin Ceccato WD Plus machines.

I remember the push button activated machines. Similar, but without the 'canopy' bit over the top of the machine.

[MF9200]

@NE11LLL It looks as tho one has been removed :(

[patrickdezane2009]

Thanks for the reply AquaValet

as the machines that filmed and photographed not have this option on the machine, but the control panel or if a Land Rover for example the operator of the machine selects the option pick-up and cecadores do not go to the middle, working only cecando sides of the car

now I know what it is for the stick

[allen1jeremy]

Many years ago I went on holiday to St Tropez in the South of France and there was a supermarket called 'Geant Casino' and it had a petrol station which had this type of car wash but with blue polyethylene brushes

[MegahyperDaniel]

This is one of the old Ceccato's isnt it?

[rclark87]

the driers on those things weren't as powerful as the modern ones that are 'close up', but at least they didn't wreck the car when the sensor failed. guy we know had his windscreen broken