Washing your vehicle during the winter months.

[Dr Oldz]

Calories that you now use for beer

How can you argue with that logic!

[1flyfisher]

I have been using a really nice brand new Car wash place. They have several bays and a state of the art touchless and/or soft touch brush wash. I don't go through the touchless I just use the bays. The bays have High Pressure Air Guns to dry the vehicle and a Foaming Suds Gun to suds it up. All kinds of sweet features. There are about a dozen rinse settings, I just use high pressure spotless rinse. Also even a raised metal platform (4 steps up) on the sides of 2 bays so you can get the roof of big tall vehicles. I met the owner and he gave me a wash card $20 worth of time. Doesn't mind me drying/detailing/waxing my vehicle in the bay. Well he was talking to me for 1.5 hours while I was doing the KSG and he gave me a wash card while I was talking to him about KSG and he was explaining how the touchless works. In the summer I come late in the evenings or 6 am. Winter it has been slow for the bays. Most folks are using the touchless.
Here you can see it. The Wave Carwash I usually opt for the bay on the far left. You can see the raised platform on the second bay from the left.

I just go there when it is slow and do my 2 bucket wash. Then I dry and hand wax. Like having my own state of the art wash facilities. I will either just do a quick 2bucket wash but if it is a nice day in the winter I will throw on a quick coating of KSG and treat the plastic with some Meguiar's Ultimate Protectant.


I use 2 buckets. I fill a cooler with hot water and a few 64 oz jugs with hot water. Enough hot water to fill 2 buckets. I squirt an ounce of Meguiar's Gold Class Car Shampoo into a bucket and then blast it with the high pressure water to create suds, maybe filling it 1/4 full. Then I top off with my hot water.

[STI4Life06]

I have been using a really nice brand new Car wash place. They have several bays and a state of the art touchless and/or soft touch brush wash. I don't go through the touchless I just use the bays. The bays have high pressure air guns to dry the vehicle and a Foaming suds gun to suds it up. All kinds of sweet features. Also even a raised metal platform (4 steps up) on the sides of 2 bays so you can get the roof of big tall vehicles. I met the owner and he gave me a wash card $10 worth of time. Doesn't mind me drying/detailing/waxing my vehicle in the bay. In the summer I come late in the evenings or 6 am. Winter it has been slow for the bays. Most folks are using the touchless.
Here you can see it. The Wave Carwash I usually opt for the bay on the far left. You can see the raised platform on the second bay from the left.

I just go there when it is slow and do my 2 bucket wash. Then I dry and hand wax. Like having my own state of the art wash facilities. I will either just do a quick 2bucket wash but if it is a nice day in the winter I will throw on a quick coating of KSG and treat the plastic with some Meguiar's Ultimate Protectant.

Where do i have to move so I can use this car wash?!?! Air guns?? Foam gun?? I think im going to faint.

Edit: just clicked on the link. Looks like im moving to Reno

[richy]

Just a word of warning to using too much water in your garage. I did THIS 2500 GMC pickup last weekend (you can see how dirty it was) and I squeegeed the water out the door several times. The following morning I was walking to my car and fell on the ice. I went down so fast it was shocking. I smashed my head on the driveway (didn't knock a damned bit of sense into me, LOL) and twisted my artificial knee to boot. The temps have stayed well below freezing so the salt I put out there did nothing. Try to plan when the temps at least get above freezing so you don't hurt yourself like I did.

[STI4Life06]

Just a word of warning to using too much water in your garage. I did THIS 2500 GMC pickup last weekend (you can see how dirty it was) and I squeegeed the water out the door several times. The following morning I was walking to my car and fell on the ice. I went down so fast it was shocking. I smashed my head on the driveway (didn't knock a damned bit of sense into me, LOL) and twisted my artificial knee to boot. The temps have stayed well below freezing so the salt I put out there did nothing. Try to plan when the temps at least get above freezing so you don't hurt yourself like I did.

ouch! sorry to hear that. Garage floors are the worst when they ice up. One time I got out of my car in a DIY car wash bay near my house. It was a little below freezing and I tried getting out of my car inside the bay and I fell and smacked my head on the door of my car. It hurt a bit but I was alright. The funny part was that the car wash bay is very slanted to run off all the water into the water drain. Lets just say I had a very hard time getting back up and if I didn't have something to hold on to I would have been screwed lol.

[05on20s]

I wish I did have a heated garage but even if I did the truck will not fit

[05on20s]

I have been using a really nice brand new Car wash place. They have several bays and a state of the art touchless and/or soft touch brush wash. I don't go through the touchless I just use the bays. The bays have High Pressure Air Guns to dry the vehicle and a Foaming Suds Gun to suds it up. All kinds of sweet features. There are about a dozen rinse settings, I just use high pressure spotless rinse. Also even a raised metal platform (4 steps up) on the sides of 2 bays so you can get the roof of big tall vehicles. I met the owner and he gave me a wash card $20 worth of time. Doesn't mind me drying/detailing/waxing my vehicle in the bay. Well he was talking to me for 1.5 hours while I was doing the KSG and he gave me a wash card while I was talking to him about KSG and he was explaining how the touchless works. In the summer I come late in the evenings or 6 am. Winter it has been slow for the bays. Most folks are using the touchless.
Here you can see it. The Wave Carwash I usually opt for the bay on the far left. You can see the raised platform on the second bay from the left.

I just go there when it is slow and do my 2 bucket wash. Then I dry and hand wax. Like having my own state of the art wash facilities. I will either just do a quick 2bucket wash but if it is a nice day in the winter I will throw on a quick coating of KSG and treat the plastic with some Meguiar's Ultimate Protectant.


I use 2 buckets. I fill a cooler with hot water and a few 64 oz jugs with hot water. Enough hot water to fill 2 buckets. I squirt an ounce of Meguiar's Gold Class Car Shampoo into a bucket and then blast it with the high pressure water to create suds, maybe filling it 1/4 full. Then I top off with my hot water.

Now that is a car wash

[petermk]

You might want to try something like the Nomad Portable Washer. I got one on eBay for $45 and it can easily remove all the big stuff before I do ONR.