Cash Washing Strategy: When shade my not be an option

[Favorite Planet]

Hello all,

I had an opportunity to wash my truck this weekend but doing so in the shade wasn't a convenient option. What would you do if presented this situation?

Needless to say I decided to try to wash my truck in some sun. Even trying to wash it as fast as possible I was left with some water spots in certain areas where I couldn't just get to drying fast enough.

I'm short and my truck is fairly large so I'm concerned that even in shade there my be times where the water dries before I get an opporunity to dry it myself.

How do you guys combat the scenario when you may not have access to shade, or your vehicle may be too large to dry youself before the sun dries it out?

Possibly dry each panel after I wash it and just carefully wash around the rest?

Thanks for your time.

-Zack

[ski2]

Use Optimum No Rinse car wash (ONR) -- wash a panel, dry it, wash another panel, dry it, etc, etc.

[rider9195]

Use Optimum No Rinse car wash (ONR) -- wash a panel, dry it, wash another panel, dry it, etc, etc.

[silverfox]

Any non- sudsing rinseless wash product will solve that problem. Less (suds) is more in that case. I'd argue that rinseless washing should be considered year round. It began as a winter use product or in areas where water use is restricted. At this point rinseless washing is fast becoming the preferred way to safely wash a car in any season or climate.

[Favorite Planet]

Wasn't sure it was appropriate to use ONR when it's warm enough to bust the hoses out. It definitely seems like a route I need to consider on a consistent basis.

Thanks guys.

[RTexasF]

Where I have to bucket wash there is no shade ever and extremely hard water. I wash it as usual and let it spot up......can't be helped. Afterwards a quick wipe down with Aquawax clears everything up and makes it look great.

[WRAPT C5Z06]

CR Spotless. I wash cars all the time in direct sunlight. Water spots are a thing of the past!

[Favorite Planet]

That's a pretty cool machine. If you go the ONR route, would it be wise to use distilled water? Possibly overkill?

[WRAPT C5Z06]

That's a pretty cool machine. If you go the ONR route, would it be wise to use distilled water? Possibly overkill?

No way that's overkill!

[Rix6]

CR Spotless. I wash cars all the time in direct sunlight. Water spots are a thing of the past!

Mark,

What are your resin costs like? If you've run through your initial stock of DI resin, where you able to figure out roughly how many washes you got thus can figure the number of washes per X dollars of resin? Lol, if you're not that picky about it then that's cool. Enquiring minds just like to know what's going on in Hollywood and all.


-Rick