Winter Car Washing

[fuzzynuke]

How often are you cleaning your Genesis in the winter? With all the muck/snow/salt flying around, my black Geni becomes white in a matter of hours
And now the forecast tells me to eat snow every 2nd day for the next 10 days.

 

[BacktoHyundaibychoice]

How often are you cleaning your Genesis in the winter? With all the muck/snow/salt flying around, my black Geni becomes white in a matter of hours
And now the forecast tells me to eat snow every 2nd day for the next 10 days.

Hee. I'm not. I'll live with the 2-tone until a rain washes away the salt from the roads. Might be in a week, might be in a month...

 

[kev4]

I wash my car (Black) at least once a week using a Hand wand only. Sometimes after I wash it I go home a hand wash using the two bucket procedure and then wax. Maybe once a month with the hand wash and wax.

 

[wallymn]

I wash my car (Black) at least once a week using a Hand wand only. Sometimes after I wash it I go home a hand wash using the two bucket procedure and then wax. Maybe once a month with the hand wash and wax.

How? I can't machine wash most of the time, below -10 the washes shutdown.

even at +10 I can't as water freezes to the car quickly. Generally if it gets up to 20 I wash, if it gets over 40 (months away) I hand wash.

Are you using hot water?

 

[ASHDUMP]

I pull into the "do it yourself" and use high pressure water.... thats it. I have a Pearla colored and it seems to do just fine. Although, I could uses the brush to get the "grime" off the pannel boards...

I save the detailing for the summer.

 

[LLT]

For my daily drivers, I run through the laser wash to get all of the big grime off and under carriage, then follow that up with a hand waterless wash (ONR) in the heated garage at home. OCPD - my vehicles have to sparkle, rain, sleet or shine.

Neither I nor the cars deal well with salt.... and god knows we've had our share of it this year in VA!

 

[GripperDon]

Winter Car washing is easier in Scottsdale.

 

[LLT]

Winter Car washing is easier in Scottsdale.

After this winter, I may become a snowbird and join you there, Don!

 

[Disaster]

I use the two bucket method, with a soft brush, in the garage...just a quick soapy splash and swirl, followed by another with plain water and a quick dry with a couple dish towels. The entire procedure takes 15 minutes. During dry periods, it gets a automatic car wash to get the stuff out of the nooks and crannies...maybe once every couple weeks.

 

[medhat]

Automated "touchless" wash every 10-14 days or so if the temp is greater than 25 degrees. If it's less than that I go to a semi-automated car wash where they towel dry the car before I leave. That's more expensive, so I think I've only been there once of twice this season.

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