A washing trick that doesn't seem to get mentioned

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You can just skip the towel dry step if you wash/rinse with filtered water.

I've been using the car wash for maintenance washing to get big crap off, but frankly no amount of water pressure measures up to just taking your MF mitt and wiping it once. So that's great, but if you do it at home you then have to towel dry which is a) a pain in the ass b) nearly impossible in the desert where water dries instantly c) uses a ton of towels

I started looking up water filtration and additives to prevent hard water spots, and it's all complicated or expensive. Then I noticed my grocery store sells reverse osmosis water for 30 cents/gallon. Just buy 5 gallons for $1.80, which I can wash my car like 3 times for, and enjoy the air-dry lifestyle.
 
Distilled is technically the best and cleanest, but it's $1.25/gallon here. If the RO water continues to work for me then I'll stick with it. That said, would I pay 1.25 per wash to not have to meticulously rinse and dry my car in 8 individual sections to avoid water spots? Probably.
 
Zingledot said:
Then I noticed my grocery store sells reverse osmosis water for 30 cents/gallon. Just buy 5 gallons for $1.80, which I can wash my car like 3 times for, and enjoy the air-dry lifestyle.
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5 gallons for 30 cents/gallon. Shouldn't that be $1.50?
 
Will RO water leave a film versus using distilled water?
 
I get that kind of water for 10 cents here in california.. and its free water if you buy more than $20 of detailing products and then you can get like 5 dollars free of water.
 
How are you getting the RO water from the jug to come out of the hose/pressure washer?
 
swanicyouth said:
How are you getting the RO water from the jug to come out of the hose/pressure washer?
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I've always been told that RO water is the purest. I'm not sure if the information given to me is correct, but that's what I've been told.

I can tell you that RO water will make crystal clear ice cubes...I have an RO system, but it's turned off at the moment because it made my water bill go up quite a bit. RO systems tend waste water...err...um...that is the water they waste is waste water itself from the process of making the RO water. I've also been told that RO water is how the U.S. Navy submarines get their water from the ocean, but I'm not sure if that's true either.

What I do know is that ice and iced tea cannot get any better than being made with RO water, and both are crystal clear. I'd imagine that RO water used for rinse water would most likely not yield any mineral deposits after a car wash rinse, but that's only speculation on my part.

With an RO system like mine it would be easy enough to save some RO water into gallon jugs and do a final rinse on the car. It would be just like coming from the water hose without a nozzle.
 
how r u rinsing using the ro water from a jug ? just pouring it over the vehicle ? u have a tank and pump to feed it to a pw ?
 
Zingledot said:
I've been using the car wash for maintenance washing to get big crap off,

1.) but frankly no amount of water pressure measures up to just taking your MF mitt and wiping it once.

So that's great, but if you do it at home

2.) you then have to towel dry

which is a) a pain in the ass b) nearly impossible in the desert where water dries instantly c) uses a ton of towels
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1.)
I might have missed it... But:
I haven't read anywhere in your above stated processes where
you use any type of car-wash shampoos/soaps/synthetic detergents.

2.)
Also...
Who told you that you have to towel dry a vehicle?

Please advise. Thanks.

:)

Bob
 
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