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Increasing hygiene concerns during the pandemic have increased vehicle owners' demand for car wash services. Stating that these habits continue in the gradual normalization, ooAu-tos General Manager Serkan Akçaoğlu said, “We have grown more than 120% thanks to the hygiene habits that the coronavirus brought into our daily lives. The best way to respond to the increasing demands in the future is to digitize the car wash. With the ooAutos digital automobile assistant, we offer vehicle owners the opportunity to access many vehicle services such as washing, maintenance, tyres, towing, expert-trace, which they can access with one click and make payments without contact using a QR code.”

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İSTANBUL (TR) - The hygiene habits acquired during the pandemic process continue during the normalization period. It is seen that many people who start to disinfect the places they come into contact with during the day frequently due to the risk of contamination do not give up their precautions. Saying that the car wash sector is one of the areas most affected by this situation, ooAutos General Manager Serkan Akçaoğlu said, “We have grown more than 120% thanks to the hygiene habits that the coronavirus has brought into our daily lives. Although the course of the pandemic has eased at the moment, there is no decrease in the growth trends and demands in the previous periods.

Digitalization is inevitable in car wash

Serkan Akçaoğlu, who noted that there has been a great increase in car wash demands since the first day the pandemic came to Turkey, said, “After a year and a half, it is seen that the habits acquired have not decreased in these periods when the cases have decreased and normalization he continued, we observed that the demand for car washes has increased by 85% since March 2020, when the coronavirus was fist spotted in Turkey. This momentum continues this year as well. In the third stage of the gradual normalization, people will start to go out more with the effect of the curfew and travel bans and the summer months. In addition, we can say that the use of vehicles will increase in this period, when we consider the opening of closed workplaces and schools. The way to respond to the demands in the best way is through the digitalization of the car wash.

One-click car service 

Serkan Akçaoğlu stated that they offer contactless access to many car services, especially car wash, with the ooautos digital car Assistant they developed, “we have started to serve with innovative applications in accordance with the requirements of the era for Car Wash, which is now gradually becoming a part of our daily life. with ooAutos digital car Assistant, we offer car owners QR-coded contactless payment and one-click access to many car services such as car wash, maintenance, tire, tow truck and expertise. Very soon, we will add insurance to these services. Thanks to the digital car wash process, everyone can have clean cars in an easy way and continue their journey safely. Our goal is to support the digital transformation of the industry. In this context, we are developing various campaigns to increase the accessibility of the application. In addition to the campaign, in which we offer a special 25% discount for Turkcell users, we will also offer ease of payment with the integration of Istanbulkart, which is about to be completed.”