I hand wash mine. & Shamy once finished
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I hand wash mine. & Shamy once finished
usally hand wash, unless I'm in a hurry then there is a very good touchless in the area i go to
Hand wash.
Or I leave it dirty. I refuse to go to a car wash to clean it.
Don't you love Black I DO!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Luos
Cali Duster is must.
I am yet to try it. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by 96Firebirdformula
A little concerned about having it take the dust it picks up and use it to swirl the black paint.
I use a VERY plush microfiber and quick detailer for the dust.
yea hand wash all the way i want to clean my car with what i use, not what a machine uses on thousands of cars!
Hand wash only. DRLs will suffer.. found this out the hard way..
touchless doesn't do shit. my friend and i went through one in his car. afterwards, there was still dust on it. and it seemed very powerful. also, the wax those use is crap and will protect your paint for like a week, if that.
i like a good hand job :jerkit:
I used to have to use the power sprayer/coin machine ones when i lived in an apt. Having a house comes with many benefits :thumbup:
Yup !!Quote:
Originally Posted by third_shift|studios
Sucked having to rush when washing your car.
I didn't know there was another option other than hand washing...that is, if you want your car to look good and not get jacked up by high pressure water.
i know this might sound crazy but i dont wash my cars ever. but i also dont drive them very much and never in the rain. if i drive one as soon as i get back to the house it gets the cali duster and then i go over it with some quick detail with a new microfiber towel every time. and then back in the garage with the cover on.:zoom: my cars havent seen water since i've owned them. i know this doesnt work for everybody but thats how i do it and have been doin it that way for years now. its nice when everytime i go to drive one of my cars i pull the cover off and go ride in my fresh clean car.
well good for you show off!! other people dont have a choice and have to use our cars as dd's!! lol !!
My car gets a good hand wash almost every other week depending on how dirty it gets which is only if it rains really.
In between the automatic touchless work just fine. Its when you let it get real dirty and then go to those that they leave dust all over it still.
The dust a Cali duster will get off will come off with the touchless
I don't waste money on the wax and stuff..
Also you guys with DD. How do you not due an undercarriage every now and then? I like to keep under the car as clean as I can. Makes doing any work down there much more pleasant.
Neither
I hear ya on that quick detailer stuff ( daily ) but well worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Luos
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Originally Posted by Y2KPewterSS
:haha:gotta take it out of the garage to get dirty huh?:thinkin:
Hand wash once a week. About 90 miles a week put on now with my new DD. I usually wax once every two weeks. Next time, I am stripping the wax and then using a clay bar then a good coat of wax.
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Originally Posted by doberman 152
I handwash it no matter what. I would rather it be dirty than to take it through ANY type of automatic carwash! Not to mention, once I've finished washing/detailing/waxing/etc the car, I can't take my eyes off of it & I'm a grinning fool lmao...
Handwash every week or two. Car usually gets about 10-20 miles per week on it.
I guess I have a little bit of OCD or it's the new paint... but Handwash every few days since I'm using it as my DD until I can get a new commuter...
Jackstands, simple green and a gasoline powered pressure washer for those undercarriage cleanings. There is a spot free pressure washer(wont hurt your hand in spot free setting) in town and i usually take the bucket and the mit/meguiars wash and waste a couple of bucks. Worth not having the water spots
me too. usually every 2. if there's any dust on the windows, i wash the whole car.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueMagic08
Usually hand wash but if it's really dirty and I don't have time I'll go through the touchless seeing they don't clean down to the paint anyway. I get free weekly car washes, but never use them very often.
I just got my landlord to let me wash it in my driveway!!! So today I spent about 4 hours washing waxing, and detailing it....and now it's supposed to rain tonight!!!!!! Fuck my life :brick:
Your landlord let you wash it??? What is that all about?Quote:
Originally Posted by 01ws6er
Fuck your landlord for making your wait not your life!
i hand wash mine almost evry time i take it out. i dont drive it much and if i dont have time to hand wash i just dont drive it. im lucky it not my dd.
Hand wash mine. then if i'm out and it gets dirty I'll wash it with the sprayer at a car wash.
I carry a small bucket/washmit with a bit of gold class wash and put it in the cubby hole in the rear.
:)
Hand wash blow dry then shamy.
hand wash, although i will occasionally go to one of those "do it yourself" stalls at a local car wash with the proper drying apparatus if im in a hurry. i dont trust the whole "automated rolling thru a generic wash designed for any kind of car, truck, or van" tho (and neither should anyone else).
I don't drive mine very often-but the key to keeping it clean is a garage. I was keeping my car outside and not even driving it and every 4-5 days it needed a full wash. Now that its in the garage its been 6 months since I washed it. When I do wash it-I wash it by hand. I do everything possible to prevent swirls like- use the 2 bucket system(one bucket of soapy wash water and one bucket of clean water to wash my mitt off in before dunking back in the soapy water bucket-try it-you wont believe the dirt you will have in the clean water bucket that would have been grinded into you paint) I also use a quality carwash that has essential oils to prevent swirls created from grit/dirt and a quality microfibre wash mitt. To dry I use a Micro fibre waffle weave towel- it is amazing how they dry so fast without swirls. I use a quick detailer called Prima "slick"-best QD I ever used-leaves the surface so slick(uses some kind of polymer I believe) which seems to repel or make it harder for dust to stick to. Hope this helps someone.
Come on, this shouldn't even be a question! The best way to wash your car is to hand wash it yourself...Unless you really are lazy and don't care about your paint job...I always hand wash mine...
i always try to hand wash my car. and quick detailer.
oh and does that detailer stuff for aluminum wheel work? i been wanting to try
SPEEDFREAK ANONYMOUS
Hand wash! and Eagle wax as u dry every time in between quarterly waxes.
if for some reason I became instantly retarded and took my car to a carwash, as soon as I saw some random dude start to dry my car off or clean the inside I would immediately go into attack mode and start dropping every person there.:ar:
WERD!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by TransAm11973
the car has its own mit and soap
so i can go to any car wash and wash it since all it needs is water :D
Hand wash only, my will never go through a car wash.....
hand wash, i almsot wax my car every other day some times every day and wash, wax then detail after. all with microfiber towels
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Originally Posted by TransAm11973
That why the only car wash I use once in awhile is a touchless drive through one that has no employee's.
also blow dry @ 120+mph
If your not going to hand wash it and dry it you shouldn't own it.
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Originally Posted by Fury_786
:D lmao! Does it help prevent water spots?
well it should if you use filtered water!! just ask how i know:later:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnb
Hand wash once a month.
Oh yeah, touchless in between.
+1. This is a silly poll.Quote:
Originally Posted by 94TA25thANNIVERSARY
When I was using my car as a DD I washed it about every 2-4 days, depending on the crap I drove through. I would go full hand wash in the first 6 months I owned my black WS6.
Eventually it started to be about time consumed in proportion to the quality of the job, I found that in a touchless wash with a blow dryer(nobody but me EVER touches my car for purposes of washing) drying the remainder off and applying some detail took a fraction of the time it would if I went over the whole thing by hand. Which is really nice, lol. Besides I don't have any of those fancy bucket systems that are essential to a good, swirl free wash unless you are constantly dumping/refilling your bucket.
On another note, for those of us with black cars or a hatred for imperfect paint I have to say STAY AWAY FROM THE CALI DUSTER. It swirled the shit out of my paint after I buffered it, I almost went postal. I threw the duster away after I realized that my hours upon hours of hard work from the month prior had been for nothing.
I don't like the Cali Duster eihter.
A touchless car wash never gets all the dirt off so do not hand dry the car after going through one or use detail spray. Use that 120 method to dry after a touchless wash only. A touchless wash is only for getting some excess dirt off when you don't have time to hand wash.
Touchless Car Washes are for ricers..
Hand Washed only and then shammy dried... NEVER washed in the sun period...
I always hand wash. :yup: Never been to any car-wash period. :true:
Hand wash only.