first snowfall....

[matryx]

So we have our first snowfall here a couple of days ago and the car is getting pretty dirty. I was wondering what do you guys do to prevent rust? I want to go to a coin-op and spray the snow and salt off but it's -5 degrees C here.
So do you guys wash the car only when the weather is warmer or do you just wash it at a coin-op whenever it gets too dirty?

It's been -3 to -6 degrees C here and I don't have a garage to do a rinseless wash.

 

[swanicyouth]

I pretty much ditch 2BM washes in the extreme cold. However, I have my own method of washing at the coin-op each I feel is just as good.

1. Stick in $5.00 and rinse vehicle well with their pressure hose for about 15 mins. This gets off 90% of the dirt. While I'm doing this I fill up a bucket with their water

2. Clean wheels with Montana Boars Hair Brush and Daytona brush using wheel cleaner. Rinse brushes in bucket I just filled after each wheel. Hit fender wells and running boards with APC or Grime Reaper and a fender wells brush. Stick in $2.00 and rinse wheels and fender wells. Tires are coated with Tuff Shine, so the just get brushed down with the wheels.

3. Get 2 Gallons of distilled water I bought on the way there at a pharmacy and fill up a small bucket to do a rinseless Gary Dean Wash. I use a bunch of waterless wash to soak each panel as I'm going along. Usually I use about a 32 oz bottle of WW for each wash. I bring lots of towels.

4. Spray wax each section after I dry it. Once a month I paste wax the vehicle. That's what I did today. If I'm paste waxing, I use their spray soap as as well initially.

I bring a lot of stuff there, including a Werner Work Platform. Luckily, I have a coin-op place where one of the bay doors close, so you are isolated from wind. I can stay there in the bay several hours and nobody bothers me. I used to drag 5 gallon buckets, a dolly, and grit guards their. Gave up on that and started with GDWM. Saves so much time. If you don't know, that's when you use a fresh towel each time and never dip a used towel back in your rinseless wash solution. It really saves a ton of time. Much easier to wash a lot if towels at home than to stand there and rinse and ring out towels outside in the cold.

When its cold and you hand wash a car, people just think you are just too crazy to bother with.

 

[blckbrd]

I pretty much ditch 2BM washes in the extreme cold. However, I have my own method of washing at the coin-op each I feel is just as good.

1. Stick in $5.00 and rinse vehicle well with their pressure hose for about 15 mins. This gets off 90% of the dirt. While I'm doing this I fill up a bucket with their water

2. Clean wheels with Montana Boars Hair Brush and Daytona brush using wheel cleaner. Rinse brushes in bucket I just filled after each wheel. Hit fender wells and running boards with APC or Grime Reaper and a fender wells brush. Stick in $2.00 and rinse wheels and fender wells. Tires are coated with Tuff Shine, so the just get brushed down with the wheels.

3. Get 2 Gallons of distilled water I bought on the way there at a pharmacy and fill up a small bucket to do a rinseless Gary Dean Wash. I use a bunch of waterless wash to soak each panel as I'm going along. Usually I use about a 32 oz bottle of WW for each wash. I bring lots of towels.

4. Spray wax each section after I dry it. Once a month I paste wax the vehicle. That's what I did today. If I'm paste waxing, I use their spray soap as as well initially.

I bring a lot of stuff there, including a Werner Work Platform. Luckily, I have a coin-op place where one of the bay doors close, so you are isolated from wind. I can stay there in the bay several hours and nobody bothers me. I used to drag 5 gallon buckets, a dolly, and grit guards their. Gave up on that and started with GDWM. Saves so much time. If you don't know, that's when you use a fresh towel each time and never dip a used towel back in your rinseless wash solution. It really saves a ton of time. Much easier to wash a lot if towels at home than to stand there and rinse and ring out towels outside in the cold.

When its cold and you hand wash a car, people just think you are just too crazy to bother with.

What place in limerick has closed bay?
Thanks
Ken

 

[swanicyouth]

What place in limerick has closed bay?
Thanks
Ken

Only the one (front) bay door closes like I mentioned above, but I think its in all the bays. Also, its not in Limerick, its in Pottstown. Nobody has ever bothered me there.

Zekes Carwash
855 E Schuykill Rd (Rt 724)
Pottstown PA 19465.

 

[BillE]

I use the 'wand washer', then try and gently drive home (as to not add injury to insult with more junk on the car) and finish off Meguiar's "Wash and Wax Anywhere."

Due to the fact the we have been under some pretty severe water restrictions (drought), this product works pretty darn well!

Bill

 

[davidc]

So we have our first snowfall here a couple of days ago and the car is getting pretty dirty. I was wondering what do you guys do to prevent rust?

Moved to Arizona 35 years ago. Everything metal on the vehicles looks like it did when it was purchased.

Dave

 

[primo spaghetti]

3. Get 2 Gallons of distilled water I bought on the way there at a pharmacy and fill up a small bucket to do a rinseless Gary Dean Wash. I use a bunch of waterless wash to soak each panel as I'm going along. Usually I use about a 32 oz bottle of WW for each wash. I bring lots of towels.

you use an entire 32 oz bottle of WW to wash one car? im guessing this is the diluted ratio used in a 32 oz bottle just to presoak the panels before you wipe???

 

[01chevys10zr2]

I have been wanting to try a product called fluid film to spray the underside on my vehicles before the winter. Looks like great stuff.

 

[matryx]

Well it's snowed again today and the roads are horrible right now so I'm going to delay it until the roads are cleaner.

Do you guys wait or do you rinseless wash your cars even if the roads still have snow and salt?

Also wouldn't the water freeze when you're washing in -5 degrees C weather?

Do the rinseless products lose it's effectiveness in these cold weather temps?

 

[matryx]

I went to the coin-op wash and spent $6 spraying trying to get all the snow and salt all off the fenders and wheels.

Not sure how swanicyouth can spend 15 mins spraying dirt off the car. Here it cost $1 for each minute and you have to use $4 to start.

After I use the Garry Dean method of washing the car and I gotta say this was a lot easier and faster than the two bucket rinseless method. I think I put like 16 towels in there and had some left over towels and used it on the interior.

Just a question what towels do you guys use to do rinseless washes? I want to place an order for 15-20 towels so I can do rinseless washes but I'm not sure about spending $5 a towel. The cheaper the better but I'm willing to spend more if I need to.

 

[umi000]

you use an entire 32 oz bottle of WW to wash one car? im guessing this is the diluted ratio used in a 32 oz bottle just to presoak the panels before you wipe???

That's about the same amount I use myself - I make sure the panel is completely misted/soaked in solution before touching it with a towel. I feel that doing a safe waterless wash means using a different technique, and a lot more product, than you would with a qd or spray wax. I may be over-using product, but I'd rather "waste" product than instill marring (this is also why the only waterless washes I buy are the highly concentrated ones like UWW or the new Pinnacle).

 

[07gtcs]

I waiting until yesterday when it was above freezing, cause my truck sits outside all the time. Ran it through the local lazer wash. It was dirty when it got home cause the streets were bad, but at least one layer of crap is off it. I did do some WW touch up. It will be filthy again once it hits the street, so I don't waste alot of time and product during the winter.