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I use Optimum No Rinse Wash & Shine, Solo One-Hand Pressure Sprayer, filtered water, and clean microfiber towels. The whole car is ceramic coated, just makes washing a lot easier. If it's been a while I'll rinse the car down with a garden hose first. My cars parked outside and I live in an apartment complex so this is what I've come up with over the years.
This is concentrate, I use 4 cap fulls for about a gallon of filtered water. Wash whole car with just over half a gallon of the mix. One bottle has lasted me 2 years, car gets about 12-15 washes a year.
I use Optimum No Rinse Wash & Shine, Solo One-Hand Pressure Sprayer, filtered water, and clean microfiber towels. The whole car is ceramic coated, just makes washing a lot easier. If it's been a while I'll rinse the car down with a garden hose first. My cars parked outside and I live in an apartment complex so this is what I've come up with over the years.
ONR is my jam. I've been using it for YEARS. It makes a great quick-detailer spray as well, and perfectly lubricates the clay bar (or the Opti-Eraser which I switched to a couple years back).
Will you go back if restrictions are lifted?
Thats $75 per month for all three?
I stay away from touchless as I read the acid wash is really bad for the paint.
I would leave 1 car on; wifey likes a clean car. She can buzz through anytime she wants. The place is 1 mile away.
I have to say, once you have made the leap, it is hard to go back. I can't lie...
But we can still rinse the car with a garden hose right? I wash with a bucket and mitt so no running water at all, except to fill the bucket and rinse.
Not in Los Gatos. I do use the Optimum No Rinse car warsh for other cars.
So I am known as having the cleanest car in the neighborhood since I usually wash it once per week, and put some sort of wax on it once per month. Well that is before the dead of Florida summer comes, which it is, so the time spent on it will go down unless I wash it at 6:30 in the morning before the sun starts rising. Can’t wait to retire and get a house with a minimum two 1/2 car garage. A nice big fan blowing humid air around and I will be all set. Look out Peasodos, I am coming for you…
It's just a hobby, I've loved washing cars since I could drive and the desire has never worn off.
I hear you. Been there and done that. Then one day it did. perhaps the lack of a garage was the difference. For 25 years I had one, and at work the car was garaged under ground. It stayed clean. Now its outside all the time. It don’t.
The stuff today is wonderful to work with. Glad there are still those who enjoy it.
This is not about validation. To each their own.
I washed my car last week. We recently visited Chaco Canyon National Historical Park, and that's at the end of twenty miles of dirt road. The car was a a mess inside and out.
Thinking it over, I realized that the previous time I washed my Lexus was probably nine months ago. It's been years since I washed the station wagon. Neither one stays indoors. I live in the middle of a desert, and it seems a stupid waste of water to wash a car that works just as well when it has dust on it.
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