Another vote for No Rinse. Fill up a warm bucket of water with the ONR solution and wear a glove with a rubber glove over it. This way your hands won't get cold. Works great!

 

I hear ya Elvato!!! It was a freezing cold 75 this morning!!!

 

I guess it's the price we have to pay to keep our trucks good-lookin'

 

why is everyone so against public carwashes and self serve bays?
I've been washing my truck at flagship carwash for years, sometimes i do the self serve, sometimes i take it through the exterior express?
is it the fact that those brushes have touched so many other dirty vehicles?
just curious

 

Yep. Thise brushes are:

1. Too abrasive to start with. They are fine if you dont car about your car, but if you actually want the paint to look good, forget about those places
2. Not washed in between the cars, thus the grit and extra abrasion from one car is transferred to the next, resulting in a LOT of new marring in the clear.

The soaps are overly alkaline, thus they are great at stripping away any wax you had on there, not to mention more caustic than is necessary for a gentle cleaning...

...The list goes on, but I am falling asleep...

 

i use the local automatic carwash in the summer and the sprayer at the same wash in the winter. though the automatic bays are completely touchless and have dryers. the water pressure does the trick, no brushes.

 

The odd time I use the power wash bays and use the pressure washer $3 it gets expensive real fast. I washed my truck in the driveway on Sat -1 outside. I just wash faster and have my shammy ready to go in a bucket of warm water.

My truck won't fit in the garage it hangs out by almost 2 feet.

 

When I just have to wash a vehicle outside in the cold the best thing I have found to ease the pain is a pair of neoprene gloves. Wal-mart carries them in the fishing section and they are cheap, waterproof, warm and snug. Like the perfect date These and a bucket of warm water make the job tolerable. One warning - the gloves work so well that you just might not notice that the water is freezing on the driveway. BTDT!