How often do you waterless car wash
 

For those who does waterless car washes, I am wondering how often do you guys do waterless car wash during the winter (let's say there is no snow, or salt on the road).

Once a week, twice a week?

No experience with snow, but my car has only had water used on it 3 times in over a year. All I use is waterless wash changing towels often during the cleaning. The times I used a water wash was when I got caught in a bad storm, forced to drive through mud, and one time when I was lazy and got heavy build up from a few drives without touching it up.

My car is garaged and has only been driven 2800 miles in a year so I'm able to clean it almost after every drive to stay on top of it.

you can do it as many time as you like, remember the less dirt or grime you have to remove the chances decrease from marring or inducing scratches.

make sure your towels/wash mitts are clean

Never, ever, ever, ever. Buy hey, I'm anal about not creating paint damage.

I've gotten to the point that, unless my car is really dirty (very rare), I use the waterless. The trick is to constantly change towels and not drag dirt across the surface.

I fully appreciate what junkman is saying and I'm a big fan, but practicality plays into this as well. I also don't have a black car and do have to deal with occasional water restrictions.

I agree 100%. Most people don't have a heated garage with a drain to wash their car in during winter time, nor do they park that car for most of the winter.

i dont.

in the winter time unless i can use a hose to wash off the salt, i just let the car (my dd) be as dry as it can.

btw, my Z is spotless throughout winter. :p

Never

Waterless sounds scary, but I guess if you have water restrictions...

Look at my car and it will no longer be scary. Common sense plays a huge role as well as changing towels often.

There, you had to use the "C" word. :icon17:

Seriously, If you use a liberal amount of product and towels, it should not be a problem. Patience young Jedi, patience.

Griot's has some excellent videos on their website on how to do it. Junkman has some great videos too. :tup:

So, is it better than putting water+soap in a bottle and spraying it on? I guess that's sort of my hang-up.

And is it something someone should look at that doesn't wash or waterless-wash their car even every weekend? In other words, is a waterless wash something someone needs to do pretty much every other day/drive otherwise you are dirty enough that you should do a regular wash?

You can scratch your paint washing with soap and water; it's all in the technique. The key is suspending the dirt above the paint and separating it from further contact with the finish.

To answer your question - I only use waterless when my car is dusty/lightly dirty. A really dirty car, like one run through a rain storm, I only wash with water, although I have used waterless in a pinch.

It's really a function of using lots of product and towels.

Waterless wash isn't just a wash it has ingredients to promote shine as well. I thought I made it somewhat clear that my limited driving helps me use this process, as does some common sense.

I don't think I said it was better I was just trying to help the OP figure out how he would implement it in his techniques. If you DD your car it will no doubt keep it looking better between washes if you use it a couple times a week.