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I’d rather have a dirty car.
Just go to a contactless car wash, or get it hand washed somewhere they know what they’re doing.
Just go to a contactless car wash, or get it hand washed somewhere they know what they’re doing.
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Bad, bad carwash
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And there I thought they would do something akin to The Most Interesting Man in the World on RollerbladingAt 39:23 How to Wash your Model 3 in an Automated Car Wash
Lasairfion
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Well.. who could possibly beat a Dos Equis story? I wish I could tell them like that.
To be fair, while I'm sure it is possible to take your car through an automated car wash, I personally, in the worst case scenario only ever use a hand-wash place on any car I own, or perhaps one of those token-run jet washers, or use my own at home. So I get where you guys are coming from.
I did have one car that I just never washed full stop. But that's a story involving a car that was destined for the scrapyard, a fence paintbrush for creosoting and a few litres of surplus army green paint. Oddly enough I never seemed to have any trouble parking as space seemed to materialise around me.
To be fair, while I'm sure it is possible to take your car through an automated car wash, I personally, in the worst case scenario only ever use a hand-wash place on any car I own, or perhaps one of those token-run jet washers, or use my own at home. So I get where you guys are coming from.
I did have one car that I just never washed full stop. But that's a story involving a car that was destined for the scrapyard, a fence paintbrush for creosoting and a few litres of surplus army green paint. Oddly enough I never seemed to have any trouble parking as space seemed to materialise around me.
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SpudLime
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How do you clean your dirty towels when done? Just put them all in a regular clothes washer? Or a little more detailed than that?
You just wash but air dry...if u want to get fancy there is a micro fiber detergent or regular stuff works ..if u want to put in dryer use low setting ..
SpudLime
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SpudLime
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You need to stop!! My wife gave me a rash of *sugar* for all the amazon boxes I got today. The ONR shows up tomorrow. I gotta get home before she sees those boxes.Fancy stuff
Chemical Guys CWS_201_16 Microfiber... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TJXWH4?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf
Okay yeah I ordered that now too.
Hehe, I was thinking more like 7 min... spray, wash with ONR, dry. If I am not too tired tonight, I will try to do it and report back tomorrow.
Okay so, my original plan of spending 7 min turned out to be more like 40 min.
But I have to say it is a lot easier without rinsing and worry about the car dry up too fast leaving water spots. I did the wash under 96 degree sun. Also I didn't realize the X is so huge that even with a step stool it is hard to reach the center of the windshield and roof. But here some pics. Notice that I took that last pic as soon as I was done with the last wheel. There is no water on the ground. I pretty much just used about 1 gallon of water.
That's not exactly what I said. I have not made arrangements to add the car to the insurance -- or rather, to switch insurance as my current one will be bad with Tesla. A new car is automatically insured for one month under existing insurance.
I will take care of this today.
Or tomorrow.
Good mocrofiber towels need to be washed separately from other clothes. There should be wash directions in the package you get. But basically, wash separately using dedicated microfiber detergent or liquid detergent on higher heat setting. Then dry on low heat but DO NOT USE FABRIC SOFTENER SHEETS. No bueno for microfibers.
Uncle Paul
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To make your roof easier to clean on my X, I lower the suspension when I am doing the top. Then raise it up so I don't have to bend over so far to wash the lower portions.
I recently bought a microfiber wash mitt on the end of a short extension pole. Can wash every part of the car (except wheels) in 1/2 the time and little effort. Walk around the car 3 times and it is done
I recently bought a microfiber wash mitt on the end of a short extension pole. Can wash every part of the car (except wheels) in 1/2 the time and little effort. Walk around the car 3 times and it is done
To make your roof easier to clean on my X, I lower the suspension when I am doing the top. Then raise it up so I don't have to bend over so far to wash the lower portions.
I recently bought a microfiber wash mitt on the end of a short extension pole. Can wash every part of the car (except wheels) in 1/2 the time and little effort. Walk around the car 3 times and it is done
I got the pole too and yeah it was easy to wash the top. Drying was not LOL. You know those car magazines with female models lying on top of sport cars? Well it was kind of like that yesterday.. except with a 200 lb sweaty male trying to clean the center of the windshield and hope the glass roof/windshield was not going to crack!
I like the first visual much better than the second.
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