Please don't shoot me !  But....anyone use a decent waterless wash/wax on their Octavia?! 

 

Just thought i would ask! 

 

😳🙂

There's a car care section on this site that has some good chats about this sort of thing.  Try looking in there.

Amazing stuff.

Just remember to get the crap off your car first, so fall out, sand / grit / salt / bird poo etc etc. 

 

H20 or some sort of washing & hosing off liquid will help do that..

So you find it good, with no scratching? 

I find it total crap, but then i was a car sprayer, so actually if i still was it would be great, lots of work correcting scratched cars.

 

Only use on a spotless clean car, but then why would you..

I saw a vid the other day with a guy cleaning a car with a single bucket and a pile of microfibers.  All about creative use of the towels and only using a section once then fold over.  folded into 1/4's he got 16 wipes from each towel.  as above the car although not spotless was only covered in a few days worth of dust in the US so dry too.  nothing compared to even a couple of weeks of road grime we get.

I can hear the scraping of all the grit and road grime across the paintwork as I type, like fingernails over a blackboard.

 

Please don't do it!

 

This popped up on my Facebook feed the other day, I still feel squeamish now 🤢

 

 

I'm in no way advocating it.  Just wanted to show that there are techniques that exist to clean a car using minimal water.

Many years ago , I saw a French chap cleaning his white Renault with Jif kitchen cleaner cream. Wasn't the only one, by the look of the other patinated cars in the town. Undercoats were showing through in several places.

A touring caravan park where I used to go banned the use of water to wash caravans. This left those with permanent seasonal pitches with the only option to use a waterless wash product.

 

After a few years the paintwork was just about destroyed and the plastic windows were covered in scratches.

 

I'd never use it on a car.

 

Lee

one word... 'gimmick'

 

always use the 'two bucket method' and a decent microfiber mitt (never ever use a sponge) unless you love that halo effect in the sun.

If you have a new car id take it straight to a specialist detailer and get it paint corrected then ceramic coated and all you will need to do is simple maintenance washes to keep it sparkling.

 

 

this was two hours per panel on a DA with two grades of polish and its still not up standard, there was lots of marring and minor scratches left that needed correction. 

Edited 22 May, 20197 yr by JohnnyType2

I use the polish method

5 minutes ago, themanwithnoaim said:

I use the polish method

What's polish mine has never seen any let alone been smothered with it. No show & shine for the Beast.

1 minute ago, shyVRS245 said:

What's polish mine has never seen any let alone been smothered with it. No show & shine for the Beast.

Not what who, they're a race of people that'll clean your car for a tenner & very quick they are too!!!!!

2 minutes ago, themanwithnoaim said:

Not what who, they're a race of people that'll destroy your paint for a tenner & very quick they are too!!!!!

 

there i corrected it for you

4 hours ago, JohnnyType2 said:

 

there i corrected it for you

The car is only rented so WTF

13 hours ago, themanwithnoaim said:

The car is only rented so WTF

 

easy there tiger! 🐯

 

even if it is effectively someone elses car, i wouldnt let a sponge near it, especially if its been lying in the bottom of a grimy bucket that they have washed 100 cars out of that day.

 

but thats just me and my OCD

No dirt and no rust are my aims. And no black paint to show the swirls. Bucket and sponge works just fine for me on normal paint colours.

Local Polish polish guys do a great job imho for £10. And I get defacto free parking on their site when I leave my car to go shopping.

we all have different definitions on a 'good job', detailing is an area where i'm really OCD.

 

I wouldn't want to show the wife my outlay on products, i'd have to sleep in the car  

24 minutes ago, JohnnyType2 said:

we all have different definitions on a 'good job', detailing is an area where i'm really OCD.

 

I wouldn't want to show the wife my outlay on products, i'd have to sleep in the car  

One of my colleagues who has no friends (think he has mild autism) actually does sleep in the back of his 16 plate Octavia Estate rather than drive home to his mother after work. He is 54 years old and wouldn't understand a joke even if you explained it.......slowly.

57 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

One of my colleagues who has no friends (think he has mild autism) actually does sleep in the back of his 16 plate Octavia Estate rather than drive home to his mother after work. He is 54 years old and wouldn't understand a joke even if you explained it.......slowly.

 

 

i think 90% of the peeps on here are "on the spectrum" 

While I do enjoy a bit of detailing running 3 to 4 family cars and being the only one either with the health or will to do it I had to find an alternative.

 

I had a few mobile guys of different "Talent" but they were expensive.

 

Then a new Eastern European place opened locally that promised to be different and they are.

They snow foam to start, wash will lambswool mits which they have a guy cleaning constantly and dry with microfibre towels. They promise no acidic or alkaline products and offer various branded detailing waxes and products for a few quid extra.

They also offer full detailing services costing several hundred pounds.

The quality and price of the vehicles going through is a good indication of the reputation they have gained.

 

 

A Porsche vlogger did a video recently.

 

 

Still wouldn't be good enough for the enthusiast detailers but just goes to show all hand washes are not the same.

 

For £7 that would be good enough for 99% of owners.

Edited 23 May, 20197 yr by logiclee

Avoid like the plague.  My father in law brought an F Pace brand spankers and has been using some form of waterless wash on it.  In a little under a year the swirl marks evident already is actually quite saddening and it's only got about 6k on it now.

I wont use a waterless wash but I do use optimum no rinse quite regularly when I cant be bothered to get all the kit out, normally inbetween proper washes