After washing the car yesterday my hand nearly fell off with the cold water.

 

Any thoughts on using warm, not hot, water for the bucket?

 

Gets power washed first with cold water.

 

 

Car has Collinite 476S and Sonax BSD on it.

 

Soon to have a coating of Optishine Carnauba Superblend PTFE liquid wax too, may strip previous waxes. Should that be PFTE?

 

 

So any experience / thoughts?

I always use warm water Kevin...It wont affect your LSP one bit

Same here. I use warm water for the soap bucket and a colder bucket for the rinse. Never caused a problem for me.

Ace. My fingers thank you both!

 

Serves me right for washing the car soon after a now flurry!

 

Suppose it cannot affect the wax, otherwise in summer our cars would melt!

Ill ring you later Kevin

Yeah warm should be fine. I hate washing the car this Time of year, I don't mind applying lsp but getting your hands in that water is Not nice.

Enjoy. Hope you don't freeze

I've never used cold water in either bucket TBH, even in summer so I'm a wus! Normally I have the rinse bucket slightly cooler than the shampoo one so I can tell the difference once the rinse bucket has some suds in as both my buckets are B&Q cheapo yellow ones, rather than the more expensive colour coded pukka ones you can get. I could put a big 'S' and 'R' on the buckets I guess but I can't be bothered. Something else I picked up from DW was that after rinsing if you go over your car with an open ended hose it will get rid of most of the water that's left on the car after the rinse stage so you don't have so much to dry off, which helps at this time of year.....Brrrrrrr...

I never wash the car without gloves on...I have dodgy skin which hates detergents, water....most things, in fact. I use a pair of cotton gloves and a pair of black rubber over them. Result....dry, warmer and comfortable hands!

ONR at this time of year!

ONR at this time of year!

Optimum No Rinse?

Ive never used it but vaguely remember you mentioning it before

How do YOU use it ?

That's the one Chris. It takes much less time in the cold weather. Just need a pre spray bottle and one bucket. Works well for me living in a flat.

+1 for warm water used with 2BM 

Optimum No Rinse?

Ive never used it but vaguely remember you mentioning it before

How do YOU use it ?

No worries...Just read it up on DW

Warm for me in both buckets this time of year.

ONR at this time of year!

Takes some learning but a great shout.

Worth everyone trying to see if it suits.

For me in Winter thought it needs a really strong pre-wash routine.

Takes some learning but a great shout.

Worth everyone trying to see if it suits.

For me in Winter thought it needs a really strong pre-wash routine.

VP Citrus Pre wash, Snow Foam, TBM for me ......this time of year

Takes some learning but a great shout.

Worth everyone trying to see if it suits.

For me in Winter thought it needs a really strong pre-wash routine.

 

Completely agree Mark 

Washed my car yesterday morning which turned out to be a bad idea! Frozen snow foam on the roof!

 

Managed to get a reasonable finish with some hot water and the wool mitt!

 

Probably should have waited but there was almost two weeks worth of muck on the old girl!