touchless car wash

Nick M

Sorry, its no myth - its a well known fact that automatic car washes touchless or not, use very harsh soaps and detergents.

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Junkman2008

The foam gun is supposed to be used in conjunction with the 2-bucket wash, NOT in place of. If you are using one bucket and the foam gun to wash your car, you're doing it wrong. That's not what the foam gun was designed for.

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Wheels3309

Do as the junkman says... Foam first, then 2 bucket wash (hell, I add a third just for the wheels!)

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YzGyz

Let me get this strait, in the two bucket method you use one bucket with soap and one with rinse water. You spray car down with hose then dunk mitt/sponge or whatever you use and clean the panel. Once you do clean the little area, you dunk the dirty mitt in the rinse bucket (not all the way down as to not puck up more dirt). You then dunk the clean rinsed off mitt into the soap bucket and repeat. Correct? Does this not mean the first bucket is to simply hold clean soapy water which you wash the car with?

My method is spray the whole car with pressure washer. fill 2 gallon bucket with rinse water. Foam gun my car on 1 side, then use my mitt to wash the car's 1 side with intermittent rinsing of the mitt as I wash the car. Once the car is washed, I pressure wash the rest of the dirt, soap and junk off the one side I just cleaned and along with the rest of my car. I like to keep my car wet at all times until time to dry. Then I move to another side of the car. I repeat the process and when I spray off the junk again, I re-rinse the whole car. I repeat the process 4x. Once for each side.

Can you explain why I would need the first bucket? I guess I'm missing some point and don't know it. Or maybe I'm not. I know how to clean my hands really well as I wash my hands over 50x in my 12 hr shift each night I work.

In case I never said it before, Thanks for the DIY vid on polishing the car. It was good brain food (the standing on car dance was cool). I polished my car for the first time a few months back with instructions from your video.

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Junkman2008

And that paragraph right there shows that you completely have no understanding of the 2-bucket wash and how it is done. I suggest that you watch my 2-bucket wash videos so that you can get a THOROUGH understanding of WHAT is done, HOW it is done and WHY it is done that way. The fact that you don't even mention the most important part of the buckets (the Grit Guards), tells me that you have either never watched MY videos on the process or misunderstood what you watched. Every part of MY 2-bucket wash has a purpose, from what is done to the equipment used. Leaving out ANY part of it spells damage to your paint.

I have been fooling with this field since the late 70's and have been trying to figure out the SAFEST way to touch my paint. I sleep this stuff so you can bet that I've put a ton of thought into my processes.

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YzGyz

Will do. Thanks again. I have no problem admitting fault or ignorance. All part of life and lessons learned. As for owned? Nah, I don't think he was blasting me or anything. Just pointing out specifics. ☺

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Junkman2008

I definitely wasn't blasting you. Not at all.

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YzGyz

Ok I watched it again. It's been a long while since I seen it. I wash my car very similar to you but not exact. I dingy have the grit guard. I do intermittently use the power washer and blast junk off my mitt after a few wash/rinse cycles. Mayhap that is why I figured I don't need a soap bucket as I figured the foam gun and pressure washer rids of taped grime. The other difference is I use a pressure washer. I blast junk out of rims, tire wells and under carriage like you. I just don't have the gutter attachment and end up on my knees trying to angle the stream upward as best I can.

Anyhoo, good brain food. Guess I need more stuff.
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Junkman2008

The problem with a pressure washer is it still doesn't remove all of the grime attached to the paint. You have to PHYSICALLY touch that dirt in order to remove it. This is why at a touchless car wash, they use not only pressure to clean the car, but some of the harshest chemicals on your paint. Those chemicals are not good for your paint or your paint's protection (wax). Pressure alone will not get the job done and once you start drying the car, you grind all that matted dirt into your paint, creating damage. This is why I don't use a pressure washer to wash my car. It doesn't get it any cleaner, especially if the car has been driven in inclement weather.

If you are rinsing a wash mitt in your hand, you will never remove all of the dirt and grit like you will by submerging that mitt underwater. Submerging allows ALL of the grit to be released at once. Rinsing it leaves the opportunity for some grit to remain behind, no matter what amount of pressure you use. It also is more of a waste of water.

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kenchan

I bet most yellowed headlights are from these autowash's harsh chemicals too. UV alone does not do it. i know cause my dd's are parked out doors 24/7 and they never had dat yellowing even after 7yrs.

Junkman2008

That's an interesting hypothesis. I've never thought of that.

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YzGyz

My headlights yellowed a little bit. I just redid them a few days ago. I own a 2010 and have not gone threw a car wash since ownership at 17k now at 49k. But I'm with you on the chems.

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bigaudiofanat

I ONLY use touchless car wash rarely in the winter to wash off the harsh salt on the car if I can't get to wash. It will strip carnuba wax and some lighter waxes off no issue. Sealants you can go through about 4 times before it will strip it.

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Wheels3309

No blasting intended... just being funny. (I always laugh at JM... love his conviction!)

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