waterless car wash?

[scimpressions]

for mobile detailing this 2 bucket method sounds pretty convienent tho!

 

[Blackthorn One]

Really?

I have a 128 oz Pinnacle WW concentrate that I got for $60. That 1 gallon makes 32 gallons of WW solution. I use about 1/4 a gallon a wash, twice a week. So that ends up to about 1/2 gallon a week, 2 gallons a month, 24 gallons a year.

With that math, me washing my car TWICE a week will cost $60 for 1 year and 3 months.

Pretty cost effective to me!

That product is about the most inexpensive WW there is, so the cost per wash is about the same, but the wash you get isn't the same as a conventional wash. You can't clean nooks and crannies or the engine compartment effectively with that, nor the inner panels. There is also a greater tendency to mar with WW. Plus, you have to wash your WW towels, too, so that's more product you must buy with WW. Towel clean up is more work than with conventional wash. More electricity cost for the washer and dryer, unless you are washing by hand and drying by line.

As long as your car is perfectly clean, you rarely have to wash a drying towel. I use WW occasionally, so I am not against it, but at the same time, I know I can't get a car as clean with it as I can with a conventional wash. I do like WW though at certain times.

For the record, I am really looking forward to trying the pinnacle WW with carnauba.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

I don't even bother to do anything to the car between washes. It simply doesn't pay and is more work than its worth. The more you touch the paint the more you potentially ruin it. That's an inevitable fact.

The only way to prevent doing harm to the paint is to: a ) touch it as little as possible, b) when you do touch it make darn sure you have laid the proper foundation by first protecting it properly before you touch it ...and when washing use clean media every time you touch it ( G. Dean method).

I'm not a fan of the two bucket method although its better than nothing. You will never remove all the dirt off the wash media by wiping it across a plastic grit guard... Then reintroducing that same media back onto the paint. The grit guard is better than nothing but its not good enough in my opinion to prevent introducing spider web scratches back into the paint. You only have to be in a hurry and screw up once .. To ruin your paint.

+1. Found this out on my two dd's. End results, longer period between light polishing now.