Go Rinseless or stay waterless

[hardrock2401]

So....kind of a long rinseless vs waterless wash question here

I currently use blackfires waterless wash, and have for a couple years. Its getting to the last few uses and looking for the latest and greatest again. My current process of this, is using a pressurized sprayer with distilled water and product, spraying a panel heavily, then wiping lightly with a sprayed towel, then drying off with a dry towel.

Given I am using this to only wash dust and light dirt off my car, as its garage ornament and weekend car. Not washing off a daily driver or anything with heavy dirt and debris. Is the rinseless wash really that much safer than what I am doing? To me, the waterless wash is easier and less messy.

 

[BLM1]

Rinseless washing is pretty easy in my opinion and not at all messy. If you did use rinseless or at least ONR you could skip the distilled water as ONR has water softners that remove the minerals. Other rinseless washes may have softners as well.

 

[chilly]

I am not sure what your definition of messy but I have heard that complaint before regarding a rinseless wash, and in particular getting the garage floor wet and dirty

My answer always is it doesn't get the floor any wetter or dirtier that driving your car into the garage after driving in heavy rain and having it all run off onto the floor

I would never do any more with a waterless wash than clean off a bird bomb or sap or something if I was away from home and couldn't wrangle a wash one way or the other

In my opinion a rinseless wash will beat a waterless wash as far as safety goes every time

Your soak the panel, spray the first towel with WW, wipe the dusty panel, and then wipe again with a dry towel is 75% of the way to a rinseless wash anyway

YMMV

 

[evo77]

Given I am using this to only wash dust and light dirt off my car, as its garage ornament and weekend car. Not washing off a daily driver or anything with heavy dirt and debris. Is the rinseless wash really that much safer than what I am doing? To me, the waterless wash is easier and less messy.

I would definitely go with RW in your situation. And YES, its just as safe as long as your using a good practice and common sense.

Also, you won't need to use as many towels as you do with a WW. Just a high quality MF wash mitt, a high quality MF drying towel, 1 bucket and a grit guard. Don't worry about pre-rinsing or none of that nonsense. Its not needed although many feel the opposite.

As for which RW to get, there is no latest and "greatest". Only what is new, fresh and most popular at the moment. They ALL perform relatively the same and there isn't something that sets one apart from another by a large margin. Only small miniscule differences.

You can't go wrong with these as I personally enjoy all three:

DIY Detail Rinseless V2
P&S Absolute
Mckees 37 N914

 

[Eldorado2k]

I’d recommend you stick with what you’ve got working unless the accumulation of dirty towels bothers you, but then again rinseless doesn’t necessarily solve that either unless you downgrade to washing with a “sponge”

In your situation waterless wins over rinseless as you don’t have to bother filling up a bucket and dragging it around and once you get to the actual process you’ll find it’s not much different than what you’re currently doing now other than it’s more time & work.

If you’re spraying the panel liberally with a pump sprayer as you describe it really isn’t much different than what the rinseless wash accomplishes except your current process is faster & neater.
I do the waterless wash on my own vehicle in similar conditions that you describe and it only takes a matter of minutes.