spot free washing/hard water

[rookieshooter]

Just bought one of these kits from Mr Clean. It's called Autodry. Supposed to get rid of those nasty hard water stains. Excuse water spot on camera lens LOL

I could not believe how well it worked. You don't even have to wipe it off. This had to be the extreme test on flat black paint. Satin black to be exact Before this truck would have looked like it got splattered by a cement mixer with all the dried mineral deposits. The water spots and runs just dried clear.

Now for the mother of all tests..........the vinyl windows.

They dried perfectly clear with no wiping at all. Still some wet spots on it that have not dried. The secret is the filter.

 

[MONMIX]

you are not the first to sing the praise of this product.

I really should go out and get one...

 

[High_Order1]

I've got one. My girlfriend is on well water, and you couldn't wash cars there before. Looked like you had been driving in a salt rain. That doodad makes it possible to wash here. AND, no bucket to get full of dirty water to scratch the finish.

 

[Maniak]

I've got one. My girlfriend is on well water, and you couldn't wash cars there before. Looked like you had been driving in a salt rain. That doodad makes it possible to wash here. AND, no bucket to get full of dirty water to scratch the finish.

Do you know the TDS of her well water? I'm running a 1-3 micron prefilter on our water and then through a 10" Carbon block filter before it goes into the house. Even after those two filters our TDS (total disolved solids) is close to 3500 (city water in Tucson is < 300).

I'm hoping that doodad would work for us but with our extremely high TDS I just don't know if it will help enough (w/out the two filters you get a big white film on the ground when you water the plants... with the filter you don't but the TDS is still really high)

~Mark

 

[High_Order1]

no, sorry, I don't. I haven't had it checked, although I do plan on installing a whole house filtration system at some point.

As for the dissolved solids, I can tell you after a rain it looks like brown water, and even in this drought, it brown stains all of the porcelain about 5-6 days after the previous wash. On my black car, it looks like I sprayed concrete finishing water or aggregate mine slurry on it.

I use Big Blue, and it looks GREAT. I buy a new gun filter for it about once every two months, I think, if I am washing once a week.

-Shawn