Going to a car wash is safer than using white-out on windshield smudges or parallel parking between two waterfalls. Opt for a less risky wash with today’s Groupon to Total Recon Auto Salon in Rockville. Choose between the following options:

• For $44, you get a base car detail (a $99 value).
• For $75, you get $150 worth of paintless dent removal.
  
  

A team of skilled technicians spruces up dirty and dented automobiles at Total Recon. During the shop’s base detail service, an attentive crew member hand washes vehicles with biodegradable shampoo that keeps the environment smiling. Next, the tidy technician washes dirt from wheels and their corresponding wells, offers the car a spot-free rinse, gently pats the chassis dry with a chamois, and paints on a silicone-based tire dressing. An efficient interior overhaul polishes windows and mirrors, and vacuums trunks and upholstery to rustle up deep-seated debris and parking tickets written in hieroglyphics. Finally, the staff slaps on a layer of paint-preserving carnauba hand wax and carefully checks the auto to make sure it smells like perfection.

Cars bearing scars from hail or fallen superheroes can roll in for Total Recon’s paintless dent removal service ($125–$375+), which repairs offending indentations as large as a half-dollar from the underside. After being purged of dents, doors ($160+), and panels ($275+) regain near flawless façades and newly smoothed fenders ($375+) can confidently flaunt their vanity plates once again.