Does anyone else do this final rinse method?

[notcreative]

I buy 2 bottles of distilled water for $1.50 from Walmart. After I'm done washing, I use the bottles to sheet the surface with the distilled water, then I take a big waffle weave around the car. This solves my problem of water spots that occurs from dripping after drying (mirrors, trunk, gas tank). Cheap solution I think, rather than going all out with a water deionizer system if all you use it for is rinsing. I'm getting my TDS meter today anyway, just to find out what kind of water I'm working with.

[Just02896]

How often do you wash? $1.50 per gallon or per 2 gallons? $75 a year isn't all that bad but a softener system would benefit your entire household.

[notcreative]

How often do you wash? $1.50 per gallon or per 2 gallons? $75 a year isn't all that bad but a softener system would benefit your entire household.

72 cents a gallon, $1.44 total

[notcreative]

and I wash at least once a week.

[conman1395]

I use distilled water when cleaning door jambs or other areas that I find too sketch for a hose. Never thought of using it for final rinse though! I'll have to try it.

[TurboToys]

distilled water in a pump sprayer, then do a spot free rinse? depending on how big the car it, it helps.

i've tried doing it on my wheels, but it seems like you have to use a lot of water for it to be a benfit, in order to get rid of the rest of the water that has minerals in it. having a filter system would be amazing. wish i had one

[Heisenberg]

I add a capful of ONR to my foam gun and do my final rinse with that. Very little spotting, if any.

[conman1395]

I add a capful of ONR to my foam gun and do my final rinse with that. Very little spotting, if any.

That's a really smart idea! I forgot that ONR softens water.

[mikesal57]

I add a capful of ONR to my foam gun and do my final rinse with that. Very little spotting, if any.


Glad you brought that up...

I was doing my ONR wash at 7 am and was thinking....

Man, this is a pain in the ass ...spraying my detail spray before I wash with the towels dunked in the ONR bucket..

What if I used the Foam Gun instead of the spray bottle to dwell on the car before the towels????


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Mike

[conman1395]

Glad you brought that up...

I was doing my ONR wash at 7 am and was thinking....

Man, this is a pain in the ass ...spraying my detail spray before I wash with the towels dunked in the ONR bucket..

What if I used the Foam Gun instead of the spray bottle to dwell on the car before the towels????


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Mike

As a pre rinse for ONR, I would think the dilution ratios would be too low compared to what we put in a spray bottle.

[mikesal57]

As a pre rinse for ONR, I would think the dilution ratios would be too low compared to what we put in a spray bottle.


maybe someone can figure it out...

there are 5 or 6 settings on the Foam Gun...

say, in the bottle, theres 2 oz ONR and 30 oz water...1/16
whats the foam gun dilutions?

[conman1395]

Also account for the flow rate (dispensed ONR and actual flow rate of water from hose)
That's what I think makes it tricky to find out.

[Kyle_Elantra]

Just use a pump sprayer to pre-soak - much easier than the spray bottle and you can control the ratio better than with a foam gun.

[mikesal57]

Just use a pump sprayer to pre-soak - much easier than the spray bottle and you can control the ratio better than with a foam gun.


So which type spray pumps do you suggest?

1/2 gallon, 1 gallon, 2 gallon, etc. ?


Some examples:

[VISITOR]

another option may be to go to your local supermarket and fill up a 5 gallon water jug (you'll have to buy one) with those coin operated water dispensers, it's usually only $.40 or so...