I think they could probably be trained to do this and they'd probably have a lot of fun as well. Have the money go to buy their chimp-chow or whatever.
-- doctorremulac3, Sep 07 2011

Great if you have a brown car...
-- RayfordSteele, Sep 07 2011


I think dogs (spaniels, perhaps) with sponges tied to them would do a better job.
-- hippo, Sep 07 2011


This seems like a task for trained rotifers, actually.
-- swimswim, Sep 07 2011


I wonder if you can train sponges.
-- FlyingToaster, Sep 07 2011


Sure, but they'll just try to sponge off of the spaniels and rotifers, so what's the point?
-- swimswim, Sep 07 2011


I'd vote for small rodents. A large cage containing a few hundred chinchillas could be drenched with soapy water, then upended over the car. After that, successive cages of dry, and then wax-coated chinchillas could be used.

I suspect that chinchillas are self-cleaning, so they could be reused to keep costs down.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 07 2011


Sea-squirts.

// A large cage containing a few hundred chinchillas could be drenched with soapy water. //

Which would leave you about half a litre of chinchillas. Chinchillas are 99.99% fluff; a wet chinchilla ceases to exist for all practical purposes. What you get is something that looks like a mammalian dragonfly without the wings - two huge eyes at one end, and a bottlebrush tail at the other.
-- 8th of 7, Sep 07 2011


The chinchillas could be pre-treated with a waterproof gel.

Actually, there's an entire "hairgel for mammals" field to explore.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 07 2011


I tried buffing the underside of my car by driving over a heard of chinch once. Worked great.

Made a mess though.
-- doctorremulac3, Sep 07 2011



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