What’s Your Maintenance Wash Routine?

[dixonk]

Any sort of proof on this vs a bath using regular house water from the tap outside?

Yes. I don’t have any water spots. Regular water is very hard. Lots of minerals and chlorine. I strip all that out from the city supply. With the system I am using it’s about like washing my truck with bottled water. I know the water is nice and pure because we don’t have spotting in the showers or sinks which uses the same water. I have on occasion let my truck drip dry in the garage overnight and then come out the next morning and run a detail spray over it. No spots anywhere. I sometimes wash it mid day with full sun.


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[Donovan]

Yes. I don’t have any water spots. Regular water is very hard. Lots of minerals and chlorine. I strip all that out from the city supply. With the system I am using it’s about like washing my truck with bottled water. I know the water is nice and pure because we don’t have spotting in the showers or sinks which uses the same water. I have on occasion let my truck drip dry in the garage overnight and then come out the next morning and run a detail spray over it. No spots anywhere. I sometimes wash it mid day with full sun.


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Nice.

Never thought about it that deep.

 

[dixonk]

Nice.

Never thought about it that deep.

I used to run around in the corvette circles and frequented car shows. They are fanatical about detailing. I have moved on from the sports car and car show scene but I still apply the detailing steps for our daily drivers.


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[Donovan]

Copy all.

 

[Gdog]

Awesome. And I thought I was OCD

 

[Russ103]

I have c.quartz on mine as well.

foam cannon bath, using water from ionizer, then blow off with metro master blow dryer. I then just micro fiber the windows and call it a day. used to take me 90 minutes or so before the ionizer/cquartz/blower, now can do it in 20 and it looks far better. the ionizer is the shit.

I’m going to give the de ionizer a try soon. Sounds like a tool worth having for OCD car washing.

 

[Mjolnir]

Nice.

Never thought about it that deep.

Yeah, I washed three cars this weekend in Texas using ionized water: the raptor, a 718 Boxster S, and a Macan Turbo. Washed them in full sun, sprayed them off, then just used a squeegee (Griots Garage has a great one), to move the standing water off the cars/truck. The only thing I ended up touching up was the front windshield on the truck as it looked like it still had dust on it. Turns out it was on the inside from the last excursion ;-)

 

[Donovan]

Damn that is efficient.

 

[GEN3LV]

Wash my 22 Gen 3 once every 2 weeks depending on the weather. Adams foam cannon, pressure wash wheels and fender wells, blow dry with air compressor. Interior cleaning with Adams interior detail spray and Adams window cleaner blow out with air compressor. Made a cleaning station in my garage make's cleaning all our cars quite easy. I use mostly Adams and Chemical Guys products.

 

[TriGui]

Wash my 22 Gen 3 once every 2 weeks depending on the weather. Adams foam cannon, pressure wash wheels and fender wells, blow dry with air compressor. Interior cleaning with Adams interior detail spray and Adams window cleaner blow out with air compressor. Made a cleaning station in my garage make's cleaning all our cars quite easy. I use mostly Adams and Chemical Guys products.
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Thats a pretty slick setup.