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Is it me or the Z takes forever to wash?

It's you. I can wash and detail dry mine in 1 hour. Add an extra hour, I can have it waxed too.

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Old 03-17-2011, 05:38 PM   #16 (permalink)
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It's you. I can wash and detail dry mine in 1 hour. Add an extra hour, I can have it waxed too.
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Old 03-24-2011, 04:14 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Time to wash/dry is directly proportionate to the number of beers I have during the process. Typically, it's about one hour if one beer is consumed. At six beers, it gets really slow as the beer spills on the car every time you have to extend your reach and you have to keep rewashing the car.

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it's you. The Z is a small car.
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Wow! It amazes me that others are finishing their cars in as little time as they are and completing as much as they do! I wash, leafblower dry, QD and microfiber the entire car to ensure no spots and clean the glass. This takes me 1 1/2 hrs to complete.

Where am I aging wrong? Maybe I should get a foam gun like what Junkman uses so I can wash the entire car in one fell swoop instead of going section by section, and rinsing section by section. That's probably the biggest time killer right there!
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The time consuming parts are preparation (filling buckets, getting out the power washer, etc) and drying. The leaf blower sped things up a lot for me (more importantly, I don't need to touch the car), but my kids got me a Metro Airforce Blaster for father's day and that cuts drying down to about 10 minutes.
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eh it takes me probably 30-45 mins to wash and dry :P

The car is pretty small and easy to wash (aside from the constant annoying water drips!)
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I think it's you lol... really though I don't think it takes long at all. As long as you have some sort of wax or sealant on your car, a lot of the water is gone before you even finish. The problem here is that the water is SOOOOOO bad with minerals. I just bought a water purifier that hooks up to the hose so if I miss a little water here and there it won't leave stains ... or not nearly as bad.

If you REALLY care a lot about it you can get a cr spotless which is a water de-ionizer and will leave no spots supposedly...you don't have to dry it at all.
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45 minutes to 1 hour with out messing with the tires and putting on 1 coat of quick detail spray after drying with leaf blower.

1 hour if I mess with the wheels.
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Wow! It amazes me that others are finishing their cars in as little time as they are and completing as much as they do! I wash, leafblower dry, QD and microfiber the entire car to ensure no spots and clean the glass. This takes me 1 1/2 hrs to complete.

Where am I aging wrong? Maybe I should get a foam gun like what Junkman uses so I can wash the entire car in one fell swoop instead of going section by section, and rinsing section by section. That's probably the biggest time killer right there!
yeah get one of those foam guns, inexpensive and really helps to reduce scratches when washing and really has reduced the time it takes for me to wash the car. from pre rinse to foam to wash then dry (with leaf blower) I would say i am somewhere between 45min - hour. The dressing part after that all depends on what the car needs which can throw in another hour or 2
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It takes me like 10min to dry it. Water sheeting + electric leaf blower... The whole washing, drying waxing process takes me like 4 hrs though lol
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... Where am I aging wrong? Maybe I should get a foam gun like what Junkman uses so I can wash the entire car in one fell swoop instead of going section by section, and rinsing section by section. That's probably the biggest time killer right there!
If that's what you think I do, then you don't understand why or how I use a foam gun.

I will say this. It takes me 2 hours to do a quikie wash on my car, and 3 hours if I take my time and pay attention to detail. I take clean to a whole new level and I take major pride in the finished results. If I watched a lot of people wash their cars, I could find all kinds of dirt on the car afterwards so don't think that how long it takes you is wrong because of the replies in this thread. You are probably just more thorough than most.
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If that's what you think I do, then you don't understand why or how I use a foam gun.

I will say this. It takes me 2 hours to do a quikie wash on my car, and 3 hours if I take my time and pay attention to detail. I take clean to a whole new level and I take major pride in the finished results. If I watched a lot of people wash their cars, I could find all kinds of dirt on the car afterwards so don't think that how long it takes you is wrong because of the replies in this thread. You are probably just more thorough than most.
I think you might be VERY right about that Junkman! My comment, with regard to the foam gun, was not with respect to your how or why but more to the methodology of getting good sudsy foam on the car all at once.

My typical procedure for washing the car first includes a thorough rinse, but for each section that I wash..the section of interest receives another rinse before getting washed. This section then also gets completely rinsed once more after being washed. After the entire car is washed I complete another thorough rinse, then leaf blower dry and a QD.

I am aware that you like to use the foam gun after a thorough rinse to place a lubricating layer of suds down that will further assist in removing dirt.

My thought was to use the foam gun after a complete rinse, and then go directly to a wash of the entire car followed by a thorough rinse of the entire car prior to leaf blower dry and QD.

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...My thought was to use the foam gun after a complete rinse, and then go directly to a 2-bucket/2-mitt wash of the entire car followed by a thorough rinse of the entire car prior to leaf blower dry and QD.

What say you?
I'd say you're good to go with that, including my addition to that statement. I however do not use any QD when drying my car.
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