A shiny car is great for blinding potential carjackers long enough to lecture them on how you keep your vehicle so clean. Captivate your auto's audience with today's Groupon: for $18, you get three Super Kiss car washes at Delta Sonic Car Wash (a $35.97 value). Today's deal is good at any of Delta Sonic's nine Chicagoland locations.

Unlike some car washes, Delta Sonic eschews rough brushes and cattle prods in favor of an innovative touch-free process specially developed to leave auto exteriors bathed and unscathed. Each Super Kiss wash woos cars with its strong spray, and soft lathers, as it goes to work cleansing begrimed bellies and inhibiting unmentionable rust growth. Once your car is back to its cleaner self, a clear-coat polish and protectant will impart incessant sparkle to its paint, instilling it with the kind of confidence boost it needs to finally ask you to move in to the garage. Aside from purging cars of road grime and dust, Delta Sonic Car Wash offers a free wash within five days of the original, should your car "accidentally" find itself re-covered in "circumstantial evidence."

Reviews

Delta Sonic Car Wash's Palatine location has a four-star average from six Yelpers; Delta Sonic has more than 2,100 Facebook fans:

• Delta Sonic is the best place in town to get a high quality car wash short of doing it yourself. – Bob R., Palatine location, Yelp