Any one here using de-ionized water for washing?

brancky3

Do you know what optimum no rinse is? You definitely use soap and water, it's not bucketless.

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JARblue

My buddy built his own set up a few years ago. But it's not the set up that's expensive. Well, they can be if you just buy one. But it's the cost of carbon refills and such that make it expensive to use. Even the raw materials in bulk was expensive. I don't remember his exact numbers, but he calculated the cost per wash after a year and decided it wasn't worth it and sold the set up on craigslist.

I use the Mr. Clean system with filters and can get about 4-5 washes per filter. But I'm down to three filters left and it's long since discontinued. You can find them on eBay and such, but they're stupidly overpriced at like $10 per filter. So I'll be switching to the two bucket method with hose water once I'm out.

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RonRizz

ummm. me for one. my days start around 3:30am. weekends included.

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RonRizz

As I'm researching further, I'm finding that your friend is correct. I was planning a setup using bulk DI resin, and best case is $10 a pound. The media's life span, obviously is shortened depending on the amount of sediments in your water. Although the parts to build such a setup would run me under $50, the number of rinses I would get from each pound of media, coupled with the effort of consistently changing it would not be worth the cost, or effort to me, being on well water with high contaminants.

I currently use griots spray on wax after rinsing, and leaf blower, along with waffle weave towels to dry. Until something better comes along, this will be the regime.

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Davey

Yeah I figured it's around $5 a wash if I only use it for the final rinse and more like $10 if I use it to fill the bucket, too. I have seen cheaper refill material but I haven't tried it.

Sorry to hear about the Mr. Clean discontinued, guess I'll toss mine after I use up the last 2 filters I have. Hopefully the "hose the mud off and Optimim No Rinse" thing works out for me, because there is no way in hell I am getting up at 6 AM to wash my car or dealing with 10,000 mosquito bites from doing it at dusk.


You poor bastard.



Or lucky, I suppose, depending on how you look at it.

kenchan

Yah, I think you'll like it. If you have amazon prime, get the gallon with free shipping. Their car wash green towels are superb. Remove tag before use.

RyanWest

Well for one, a normal wash to me is pre soaking the paint two times then using a pressure sprayer to remove nearly 95% of the gunk attached to the car.