Best wash soap for harder water?

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Icarus

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Any suggestions for a good soap to wash my car regularly? I've been using microfibre mitts, and Meguiars Gold Class and Mothers Cali Gold wash soaps, but our water I think is on the harder side so it barely suds up at all no matter how much I use. I know with a mitt you don't want tons of suds, but its like nothing at all :(

Been looking into a garden hose filtration system, but not bought one yet and probably won't till the the summer or later...

Thanks for the help!
Happy New Year everyone!
 
Best advice I have is use a quality shampoo of your liking and add an ounce or two of Optimun no rinse to your wash bucket. That will counter any hard water issues.
 
Watching this thread. I also have hard water but I'm more concerned about water spots than suds. CR spotless isn't really an option.
 
Optimum No Rinse...commonly called ONR! I also have hard water and I use a cap full when I two bucket wash, works great...and it's very reasonably priced.

Jay
 
ONR up here is like $54+ a gallon :/
 
ONR will kill suds of your traditional car soap.
Meguiar's NXT Car Wash is good option since it contain water softeners. Here's a line from its product description

"Engineered water softener helps reduce deposits in hard water, leaving behind a spot-free finish."
 
ifadey said:
ONR will kill suds of your traditional car soap.
Meguiar's NXT Car Wash is good option since it contain water softeners. Here's a line from its product description

"Engineered water softener helps reduce deposits in hard water, leaving behind a spot-free finish."
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USA has not had NXT car wash for a long time now. A shame, too. Great soap, NXT is my favorite smelling detail line to date. Wish they had an air freshener.
 
I've never seen the Meg's NXT either :(
Sucks being up here at times, lol...
 
From Mckee’s sight but available on AG. Believe The almighty Ronkh (RIP) tried it with good success.

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That is 1.7x the price of ONR up here :( Stupid Amazon rip off prices here...

I'm going to have to watch for sale on ONR (doubtful, lol) or even stock of it from autoobsessed or anywhere else up here :/
 
As an alternative, you could get a 3 gal. pump-up sprayer, fill it with distilled water, and use that as a final rinse after your regular rinse with your hard water.
 
57Rambler said:
As an alternative, you could get a 3 gal. pump-up sprayer, fill it with distilled water, and use that as a final rinse after your regular rinse with your hard water.
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I like this method but to step up a notch mix with a rinseless wash (onr) and spray car. Tried mixing a rinseless with a regular soap and not a fan.

If water spots are an issue i would say the premium for mckees sio2 soap would be worth it.


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My hard water experience:
1)Adams Car Shampoo (the standard blue color one)
Also did well: Geyon Bathe and GTechniq G-Wash

When I do rinsless, ONR is superior in that product category.
 
I have hard water as well and like Coatings says, I use a SIO2 soap. I just used the metro blaster for the first time to blow most of the water off and the final dry with a towel. Result was no hard water spots!
 
Icarus said:
Any suggestions for a good soap to wash my car regularly? I've been using microfibre mitts, and Meguiars Gold Class and Mothers Cali Gold wash soaps, but our water I think is on the harder side so it barely suds up at all no matter how much I use. I know with a mitt you don't want tons of suds, but its like nothing at all :(

Been looking into a garden hose filtration system, but not bought one yet and probably won't till the the summer or later...

Thanks for the help!
Happy New Year everyone!
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Autogeek and autopia are clearing out Mckee’s. Would be a great time to pick up a gallon or two of the Mckee’s sio2 soap with water softeners for $25 or less....


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Xtreme Solutions Xtreme Suds also contain water softeners.
 
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