Method for operating a vehicle treatment system, vehicle treatment system, use of a vehicle treatment system, and computer program product

A vehicle treatment system, comprising:

• at least one rotating brush configured to treat vehicle surfaces and being made of a brush material, the at least one rotating brush being rotatably mounted and movable into a vehicle treatment position at an immersion depth of the at least one rotating brush on a vehicle surface to be treated;
• a brush traversing device configured to move the at least one rotating brush into positions relative to the vehicle surface to be treated;
• a brush rotation drive;
• a sensor configured to detect a friction of the brush material on the vehicle surface to be treated;
• a device configured to detect a position of one or more of the vehicle surfaces;
• and
• a data processing storage and control unit connected in a data-conducting manner to at least one unit selected from the brush traversing device, the brush rotaryrotation drive, the sensor configured to detect the friction of the brush material on the vehicle surface to be treated, and the device configured to detect the position of the one or more of the vehicle surfaces,
• wherein the data processing storage and control unit is configured to:
• receive data from the at least one unit,
• store the data received from the at least one unit,
• control the at least one rotating brush to treat at least one vehicle surface with the brush material at the immersion depth based on a desired value for the friction,
• determining a condition of the brush material by:
• monitoring during treatments of a plurality of vehicles, values of the immersion depth of the at least one rotating brush at the desired value for the friction,
• storing the values of the immersion depth of the at least one rotating brush monitored during the treatments of the plurality of vehicles, and
• statistically averaging the stored values of the immersion depth.