car cosmetician?

[palinkasocsi]

Dear Friends,

Is there such a profession as 'car cosmetician' in standard English? I mean someone who works in a car wash and cleans cars. Anyway, is it car wash or car cosmetics/cosmetician? Any difference?

Thank you very much for your help.

Palinkasocsi

 

[bhaisahab]

Dear Friends,

Is there such a profession as 'car cosmetician' in standard English? I mean someone who works in a car wash and cleans cars. Anyway, is it car wash or car cosmetics/cosmetician? Any difference?

Thank you very much for your help.

Palinkasocsi

In BrE, it's "a car wash". I have never heard the term "car cosmetician", I think someone who works in a car wash is a "car wash assistant". In my experience though, the vast majority of car washes are automatic.

 

[Raymott]

In AusE, this person is a 'car detailer'. Such people are employed by sales yards.
More is involved than just washing the car. It needs to be vacuumed and polished inside, deodorized, the floor mats straightened, etc.

 

[palinkasocsi]

Does a 'car wash assistant' do things like vacuuming and polishing inside, deodorizing, etc, or does he just wash the car? Or is there another word for someone who washes the car and cleans the inside of it too?

 

[bhaisahab]

Does a 'car wash assistant' do things like vacuuming and polishing inside, deodorizing, etc, or does he just wash the car? Or is there another word for someone who washes the car and cleans the inside of it too?

A car wash assistant just washes the outside of the car. The kind of cleaning that you describe, and that Raymott describes as the work of a "car detailer" is the work of a "car valet" in BrE.

 

[BobK]

A car wash assistant just washes the outside of the car. The kind of cleaning that you describe, and that Raymott describes as the work of a "car detailer" is the work of a "car valet" in BrE.

... pronounced either /'væleɪ/ or /'vælɪt/.

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