Distilled Water ONLY - Rinseless Washes

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Anyone else do this besides me. I find distilled water real cheap by me, but maybe I am crazy. Anyone else do this? I haven't used hose or tap for any "mixes" in about a year.
 
I haven't but I know a lot of guys on here do it. I've only done rinseless once. My truck usually gets too dirty for it. I do have 3 gallons of distiller sitting my garage though.
 
Absolutely. I always use distilled. One bucket Gary dean method. I can take my time with the wash and not have rush through the drying process to avoid water spots. Hard water plus warm and dry weather here in SoCal equals a workout to keep car from spotting, even in the shade. Takes about three gallons of distilled, 88 cents each at the wal-marts.
 
Rmd said:
Absolutely. I always use distilled. One bucket Gary dean method. I can take my time with the wash and not have rush through the drying process to avoid water spots. Hard water plus warm and dry weather here in SoCal equals a workout to keep car from spotting, even in the shade. Takes about three gallons of distilled, 88 cents each at the wal-marts.
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We're identical. Except I'm in Pasadena. :dblthumb2:
 
We have a dehumidifier type deal in our shop. We run cold well water through a heat exchanger with a fan on it. Pulls the humidity out and cools the shop slightly.

On humid days it will pull 10 gallons or so out of the air. I just collect that water and use it. Same as distilled just free.
 
Durallymax said:
We have a dehumidifier type deal in our shop. We run cold well water through a heat exchanger with a fan on it. Pulls the humidity out and cools the shop slightly.

On humid days it will pull 10 gallons or so out of the air. I just collect that water and use it. Same as distilled just free.
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Nice!
 
Durallymax said:
We have a dehumidifier type deal in our shop. We run cold well water through a heat exchanger with a fan on it. Pulls the humidity out and cools the shop slightly.

On humid days it will pull 10 gallons or so out of the air. I just collect that water and use it. Same as distilled just free.
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That's awesome!
 
I just use hose water. I do a panel, spray with detail spray then dry with a waffle weave. No chance of the water drying that way.
 
Durallymax said:
We have a dehumidifier type deal in our shop. We run cold well water through a heat exchanger with a fan on it. Pulls the humidity out and cools the shop slightly.

On humid days it will pull 10 gallons or so out of the air. I just collect that water and use it. Same as distilled just free.
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Nice! I would probably pull 100 gallons in a week over here lol it's humid every day. What do you use and where can I get one!
 
I don't think it's worth spending money on. It's not pure distilled water once you wipe it on a dirty panel anyway.
 
If you're in an area with a high TDS I'll do it just to avoid any chance. If not, no worries about having minerals remain on the paint as it's wiped off too quick.
 
I have never used distilled water in hundreds if not over a thousand rinse less washes. Have never noticed a single issue.

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I too, use Poland Spring Distilled water to prepare UWWW+. I think it DOES make a big difference. I read on the forums that some use distilled, so I tried it and feel it is worth it.
 
I'm in So Cal and use my house water with no issues. I only do a panel at a time though so it has no chance to dry. I have a Ram, which has a large hood so sometimes I may do half the hood panel and then dry.
 
No difference in results between distilled and tap water. Like others have said do one panel at a time. waterless, rinse less or 2 bucket same results.
 
I usually make all my RTU using the bottled mineral water containers from Bisleri or Aquafina.

If Im out of bottled water and need to make an RTU, then I simply use tap water and add a bit more concentrate just to neutralise the salts, as someone advised me.

Never had a problem that way till now.

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anonymoususer said:
What's the appreciable difference between using distilled or tap water?
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Mineral content. Go to zerowater's website and type in your zip code it'll give you your TDS (total dissolved solids). In my area I have a 400+ TDS score. So rinsing down a car leads to extremely tough water spots, even with a rinseless wash I can get minor spotting that have to be buffed pretty aggressively. And take into account when it rains, water picks up those and deposit them on your car.
 
af90 said:
Mineral content. Go to zerowater's website and type in your zip code it'll give you your TDS (total dissolved solids). In my area I have a 400+ TDS score. So rinsing down a car leads to extremely tough water spots, even with a rinseless wash I can get minor spotting that have to be buffed pretty aggressively. And take into account when it rains, water picks up those and deposit them on your car.
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Thanks for the tip. My score is only a 35.67, I guess that's why I never have any problems.
 
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