Best wash soap for harder water?

[Icarus]

Any suggestions for a good soap to wash my car regularly? I've been using microfibre mitts, and Meguiars Gold Class and Mothers Cali Gold wash soaps, but our water I think is on the harder side so it barely suds up at all no matter how much I use. I know with a mitt you don't want tons of suds, but its like nothing at all :(

Been looking into a garden hose filtration system, but not bought one yet and probably won't till the the summer or later...

Thanks for the help!
Happy New Year everyone!

[Dr Oldz]

Best advice I have is use a quality shampoo of your liking and add an ounce or two of Optimun no rinse to your wash bucket. That will counter any hard water issues.

[DetailZeus]

Watching this thread. I also have hard water but I'm more concerned about water spots than suds. CR spotless isn't really an option.

[Jayfro]

Optimum No Rinse...commonly called ONR! I also have hard water and I use a cap full when I two bucket wash, works great...and it's very reasonably priced.

Jay

[Icarus]

ONR up here is like $54+ a gallon :/

[SNP209]

ONR up here is like $54+ a gallon :/

Any rinseless/waterless wash concentrate should suffice. They all contain water softeners.

[ifadey]

ONR will kill suds of your traditional car soap.
Meguiar's NXT Car Wash is good option since it contain water softeners. Here's a line from its product description

"Engineered water softener helps reduce deposits in hard water, leaving behind a spot-free finish."

[JDGolden]

ONR will kill suds of your traditional car soap.
Meguiar's NXT Car Wash is good option since it contain water softeners. Here's a line from its product description

"Engineered water softener helps reduce deposits in hard water, leaving behind a spot-free finish."

USA has not had NXT car wash for a long time now. A shame, too. Great soap, NXT is my favorite smelling detail line to date. Wish they had an air freshener.

[Icarus]

I've never seen the Meg's NXT either :(
Sucks being up here at times, lol...

[Coatingsarecrack]

From Mckee’s sight but available on AG. Believe The almighty Ronkh (RIP) tried it with good success.

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Has water softeners


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[Icarus]

That is 1.7x the price of ONR up here :( Stupid Amazon rip off prices here...

I'm going to have to watch for sale on ONR (doubtful, lol) or even stock of it from autoobsessed or anywhere else up here :/

[57Rambler]

As an alternative, you could get a 3 gal. pump-up sprayer, fill it with distilled water, and use that as a final rinse after your regular rinse with your hard water.

[Coatingsarecrack]

As an alternative, you could get a 3 gal. pump-up sprayer, fill it with distilled water, and use that as a final rinse after your regular rinse with your hard water.

I like this method but to step up a notch mix with a rinseless wash (onr) and spray car. Tried mixing a rinseless with a regular soap and not a fan.

If water spots are an issue i would say the premium for mckees sio2 soap would be worth it.


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[SNP209]

This one right here has water softeners in it and should be around 25.99/gal in canada. Excellent dilution ratio as well 1 oz to 5 gal!

Chemical Guys Maxi-Suds II SUPER SUDS SHAMPOO Superior Surface Shampoo 16 oz. (https://www.autogeek.net/chemical-guys-maxi-suds-shampoo.html)

[dlefty]

My hard water experience:
1)Adams Car Shampoo (the standard blue color one)
Also did well: Geyon Bathe and GTechniq G-Wash

When I do rinsless, ONR is superior in that product category.