Water Spots
07-12-2008, 06:44 PM
#41
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RE: Water Spots
ORIGINAL: Nuke
Clay bar and wash/dry in the shade. I have the same problem with the alloy (any dark color shows water spots easily) when it air drys faster than I can microfiber it.
It's my damned windows that I can't get clean. Even used solvent on them...
Clay bar and wash/dry in the shade. I have the same problem with the alloy (any dark color shows water spots easily) when it air drys faster than I can microfiber it.
It's my damned windows that I can't get clean. Even used solvent on them...
07-12-2008, 06:51 PM
#42
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Location: Virginia
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RE: Water Spots
ORIGINAL: smokestang
Very important to wash-dry in the shade! for drying i use a california jelly blade to get about 85% of the water off the car and micro-fiber towels for the rest and finish off with a spray detailer. also important and not brought up is keeping your car away from sprinklers! the water is hard as hell and full of minerals and will leave spots from hell all over your ride! I left mine out one night and forgot about the sprinklers and the next day i had water spots so bad i needed to use a cleaner wax to remove them!( and thats on a very well waxed car) just food for thought.
Very important to wash-dry in the shade! for drying i use a california jelly blade to get about 85% of the water off the car and micro-fiber towels for the rest and finish off with a spray detailer. also important and not brought up is keeping your car away from sprinklers! the water is hard as hell and full of minerals and will leave spots from hell all over your ride! I left mine out one night and forgot about the sprinklers and the next day i had water spots so bad i needed to use a cleaner wax to remove them!( and thats on a very well waxed car) just food for thought.
07-13-2008, 06:33 PM
#43
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 54
RE: Water Spots
Just read this whole thread.Anyone that hates to spend time drying their car should spend less time on this forum and more on their car care.I stopped using chamois [animal hide] when good micrfiber came out.For the window spots Griots Garage .com has glass polish that works great.I even used it on the outside of my windows on a 40 year old house I bought.It made them look like new.His microfiber is the best I have ever used.
07-14-2008, 07:33 AM
#44
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Red Bay, Alabama
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RE: Water Spots
+1 on the microfiber...but I take this even further...I NEVER (and yes I am shouting) dry my car with anything but aNEW microfiber cloth...you can get a pack of 8 for five bucks...takes about two rags to get it dryone to knock off the water and one to finish drying...oh and those chamois and absorbers...you will find out one day that those things will put those fine scratches in your car too because they pick up dirt evry time you dry with it...I swore never to use them again after I swirled the hell outta my lastGT with one...so far the new microfiber only thing has worked fine
And not only wash your car in the shade...but let thepaint cool off for an hour in the shade before washing (ESPECIALLY WITH BLACK)...if not you might as well do it full sun...
BRUSH did you say brush...I have that feeling I get when somebody runs their finger nails across a blacboard when somebody says they used the brush at the car wash...sh*t dude might as well **** on some sandpaper next time to wash it
To the OP...sorry dude have the same problem with my windows...nothing has gotten mine clean...I don't think I am brave enough to try steelwool
And not only wash your car in the shade...but let thepaint cool off for an hour in the shade before washing (ESPECIALLY WITH BLACK)...if not you might as well do it full sun...
BRUSH did you say brush...I have that feeling I get when somebody runs their finger nails across a blacboard when somebody says they used the brush at the car wash...sh*t dude might as well **** on some sandpaper next time to wash it
To the OP...sorry dude have the same problem with my windows...nothing has gotten mine clean...I don't think I am brave enough to try steelwool
09-01-2008, 04:45 AM
#45
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: virginia
Posts: 40
agree
i agree black is a bitch to keep clean, ive had a hell of a time with my black 06 gt keep water spots off it, but it has to be dried after washing, get ya a california water blade, works wonders in drying
09-01-2008, 07:29 AM
#46
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Detroit Area
Posts: 894
Obviously a good wax 3 times a year with touch ups, a non-spotting car wash soap, with a complete rinse, all done in the shade, not direct sunlight. Then a real animal skin Shami, Shami, Shami !!! Nothing can replace it.
General Shami to remove the bulk of the water on an area, wring out, then a fine water pass. My car never has waterspots afterwards on the paint body, glass or chrome. Erik
General Shami to remove the bulk of the water on an area, wring out, then a fine water pass. My car never has waterspots afterwards on the paint body, glass or chrome. Erik
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