How to wash your car without getting water marks

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Hello everyone. I took my car to a local car wash to wash my 2003 Nissan Frontier, and I washed it yesterday. Now I noticed this morning it had a bunch of dried water marks. I didn't dry the car after I washed it. I've only had the car for like two weeks and it's making me mad and stressin out. Now I'm going to go to pep boys after work and just start washing it myself. Since I'm going on vacation for a week next week it will just be sitting it my drive way so I want it to be clean until I get back. Now like I said I'm going to go to pep boys after work. Now what's everything I should get from there? Thanks
 
Not drying it off after washing it most likley caused the water spots. Get some good ww or mf drying towels. And after you get a good LSP on (wax or coating) that alone should help prevent future water spotting.
 
Like stated above get yourself a good All In One Wax. This will clean your paint and give you some protection.

MF towels like the guzzler or others are good at drying your car.

My 2cents :)
 
One other thought in addition to the advice already given:

If the area you dry the car (using drying towels already recommended) is out in the sun, you might want to keep a bottle of quick detailer and a small MF towel handy. Once dry, go around and hit any areas that have spots with the quick detailer and they should all come off.

My neighborhood has NO shade at all. When washing my cars I often have water spotting because the water is evaporating faster than I can wipe it off. Simply hitting the water spots with QD spray works every time.
 
I have no shade available to me where I wash my truck and on top of that it's 100 deg F or hotter here during the summer months. There are a few tricks I use to prevent water spots.
I wash a panel or section of my pick up. Instead of just rinsing the soap off that one section, I rinse that section and give the entire truck a quick spray. Just enough to keep it wet and help keep it cool.
Also, i try to wash it at dusk. If I time it right by the time I am done washing and ready to try the sun has gone down enough that it isn't cooking me or the surface of my vehicle.
 
Well there's a tree right over my car so I don't have to worry about the sun that much.

What should I have to buy. Buckets, sponges, drying towels, spray nozzle, and soap. Should I get a wax? What type of wax? My frontier is a molten lava red. It's sort of a darker shade of red
 
Desertnate said:
One other thought in addition to the advice already given:

If the area you dry the car (using drying towels already recommended) is out in the sun, you might want to keep a bottle of quick detailer and a small MF towel handy. Once dry, go around and hit any areas that have spots with the quick detailer and they should all come off.

My neighborhood has NO shade at all. When washing my cars I often have water spotting because the water is evaporating faster than I can wipe it off. Simply hitting the water spots with QD spray works every time.
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Thumbs up. Great post

I too live in a area with very little shade. After drying the car I go around and inspect each panel and hit with a quick detail spray or ever a spray wax will be just fine


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Thanks for the advice everyone. My frontier is all clean with no water marks. I think the car before me didn't take much care of it or wash it very good because I notice water marks when it's wet, but it's gone when it's dry
 
Okay well it just rained here.. And getting water spots on the windows and body. What can I do to prevent this? Because I don't want to wash the car everytime It rains. Just the weekends.
 
Also my mom has a 2002 nissan xterra which she got In 2002. To be honest it's probably only been washing like no more than 5 times.. Haha. But it seems like she does not has water spots after it rains. I don't know. The color of the car is also white
 
CodyC21 said:
Okay well it just rained here.. And getting water spots on the windows and body. What can I do to prevent this? Because I don't want to wash the car everytime It rains. Just the weekends.
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There's nothing you can do to prevent water spots from forming. If you do not want to do a full wash after every rain, you could use a rinseless or waterless wash product to remove the water spots.
 
CodyC21 said:
Also my mom has a 2002 nissan xterra which she got In 2002. To be honest it's probably only been washing like no more than 5 times.. Haha. But it seems like she does not has water spots after it rains. I don't know. The color of the car is also white
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One of the advantages of a light colored car is that it hides water marks (and swirls and scratches) more than a dark color like on your's. It doesn't mean the defects aren't there on your mom's car though; they're just much more difficult to see.
 
Yeah I ll look around for one. And yeah that's what I thought
 
I saw the Mike Phillips video to learn a different drying technique or method but as I am a spanish speaker and altough my english is not bad I did not catch easily if Mike calls the drying technique in show cars as a "Blood" Water off or "Block" water off.

Anyone can help me with this?

Thanks guys.
 
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