Auto car wash experience

[Pianoman]

Just do what I did, install a RODI water system in the garage so you can blast it off with pure water. No towel drying, no water spots. Obsessive, moi?

I do something similar to you. I have upto 800 ltrs of collected rain water dedicated to my car washing. Oh, and a solar powered jet washer ofcourse. ?
Also leaves no streaks.

 

[RichardC]

Just do what I did, install a RODI water system in the garage so you can blast it off with pure water. No towel drying, no water spots. Obsessive, moi?

I’m not obsessive either!

 

[bowfer]

I’m not obsessive either!

I use the EZ stuff too.
Their citrus pre wash, their foam and now their ceramic shampoo.

 

[Deleted member 9692]

I’m not obsessive either!

Pfff, not even in alphabetic order,

Seriously, like it, I have the exact same shelving. Do you use the EZ citrus wash as a regular wash product or for prepping prior to applying coatings?

 

[siteguru]

Pfff, not even in alphabetic order,

But are they in acidic order?

 

[Les burrows]

Just do what I did, install a RODI water system in the garage so you can blast it off with pure water. No towel drying, no water spots. Obsessive, moi?

Hi Crawfyp what is this RODI Water system and where did you get it from please I once purchased a thing a bit like a mastic gun full of some kind of small crystals that the water passed through and you did not need to dry the car it sort off took all the lime out of the water it was made in the USA and it lasted for a fair while and what ever you have sounds very similar any chance of a picture.
Les

 

[Deleted member 9692]

Hi Crawfyp what is this RODI Water system and where did you get it from please I once purchased a thing a bit like a mastic gun full of some kind of small crystals that the water passed through and you did not need to dry the car it sort off took all the lime out of the water it was made in the USA and it lasted for a fair while and what ever you have sounds very similar any chance of a picture.
Les

@Les burrows I started a Detailing Thread Here with pic of the RODI system, its Reverse Osmosis De Ionisation. The DI bit would be what you used in your device, work well but don't last long.

 

[RichardC]

Pfff, not even in alphabetic order,

Seriously, like it, I have the exact same shelving. Do you use the EZ citrus wash as a regular wash product or for prepping prior to applying coatings?

They were in function order but then I rearranged them into product order. However, you are right, they are not in alphabetical order so that needs to be rectified.

I have only recently received the EZ products so I have not used the citrus wash yet. But when I use it it will be as a regular wash product.

 

[bowfer]

They were in function order but then I rearranged them into product order. However, you are right, they are not in alphabetical order so that needs to be rectified.

I have only recently received the EZ products so I have not used the citrus wash yet. But when I use it it will be as a regular wash product.

I use the citrus wash regularly, I bought onr of those pump pressure spray bottles and go round the car like I’m spraying it with weed killer ?
I often find the citrus and a a jet wash after is perfectly sufficient and I don’t have to go to a hand wash.
It’s good on bird lime, flies and tar (to a point)

 

[Rolfe]

Well, Caliban had his first bath this afternoon. Returning home from Glasgow, I saw a reputable-looking hand car wash with a fair old queue at it, but I wasn't in a hurry. Pretty decent job for £6 (and I left £1 tip), the main problem being that since I still had 24 miles to go and it was a hot, lazy day, the next layer of flying insect corpses was well advanced by the time I got home.

I could still see where some of the insect splatter had been on the front bumper, but better that than scratching paintwork.

Siteguru is right. The main problem is that the minute you drive the car again, square one can be seen rapidly approaching in the rear view mirror.

 

[bowfer]

I could still see where some of the insect splatter had been on the front bumper, but better that than scratching paintwork.

Siteguru is right. The main problem is that the minute you drive the car again, square one can be seen rapidly approaching in the rear view mirror.

So it was £6 and didn’t get rid of bug splatter.
So there was no form of pre-wash to soak into the bugs, they just went straight into a contact wash.
And you think this was better for your paint than an auto wash…

Okey dokey ?

 

[siteguru]

Siteguru is right. The main problem is that the minute you drive the car again, square one can be seen rapidly approaching in the rear view mirror.

I hadn't even driven mine - it's still on the drive. ?

 

[Ian Key]

I hadn't even driven mine - it's still on the drive. ?

I had that on Sunday morning. Saturday morning snow foamed, rinsed, washed, rinsed, dried all by 10:00 am. Sunday morning the mayflies must have mistaken the shiny black roof for water and it had half-a-dozen dead bodies together and some of their eggs all over it

 

[Rolfe]

So it was £6 and didn’t get rid of bug splatter.
So there was no form of pre-wash to soak into the bugs, they just went straight into a contact wash.
And you think this was better for your paint than an auto wash…

Okey dokey ?

I was happy enough with it for the price. There was indeed quite a lot of pre-washing, they had a sort of conveyer system and my car was sprayed with something as soon as I joined the queue, and the actual bug spatter was all gone. I only noticed an effect on the paintwork that I think you'd have to polish off after washing.

 

[bowfer]

I was happy enough with it for the price. There was indeed quite a lot of pre-washing, they had a sort of conveyer system and my car was sprayed with something as soon as I joined the queue, and the actual bug spatter was all gone. I only noticed an effect on the paintwork that I think you'd have to polish off after washing.

You shouldn’t have to polish off anything to do with bug spatter.
It should be easily cleaned off to the point you’ve no clue it was ever there.

 

[Deleted member 9692]

no clue

I agree. ?

 

[bowfer]

I agree. ?

Sigh…what are you referring to?
My comment that bug spatter should be undetectable if cleaned properly?
Undetectable on my cars, motorbike and crash helmet.
Completely so, all like new (barring the odd stone chip I’ve maybe not touched up yet)
If detectable on yours you’re doing something wrong. ?‍

 

[siteguru]

Don't you realise that @Crawfyp is a detailing enthusiast? He was agreeing with what you were saying (albeit in a sarky way about our venerable [you're only as old as you feel] lady)

 

[bowfer]

Don't you realise that @Crawfyp is a detailing enthusiast? He was agreeing with what you were saying (albeit in a sarky way about our venerable [you're only as old as you feel] lady)

Ah in that case, my bad.

 

[Rolfe]

I still think it was a perfectly reasonable job for £6. I've got better things to do than wash a car.