Whats the best tool for use with Optimum No-Rinse

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What works best for washing with ONR? Brush, big MF, Wash mitt?

I thought the general consensus was washing with a MF mitt/ towel is a no-no, is it diffrent when using no rinse products?
 
For me, If my car has dirt on it, I wash it. Most of the time it has just light dust and I use plush MF towels with a one bucket 4 gallon system. Works for me............
 
If the car has major dirt on it, I stop by the coin-op and rinse the major crud off first.



For the ONR wash, I use a medium plush MF towel. Have not had any marring issues to date. I do add a little more ONR than the directions recommend, about 4 capfulls to a 2.5 gallon bucket.
 
I use Chenille covered foam pads to wash, and the Meguiars Super Terry Towels for the first drying pass and the yellow Excel Detail MFs for the final drying pass.
 
carn00bie said:
What works best for washing with ONR? Brush, big MF, Wash mitt?

I thought the general consensus was washing with a MF mitt/ towel is a no-no, is it diffrent when using no rinse products?
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so far I have tried



sheepskin

Chenille

MF towel

Sea Sponge

Grout Sponge



I give the nod to MF towel. For the simple fact that folded into 1/4's you are always touching the paint with a clean side at least four times. and Wring it out in your rinse bucket will keep you with a relatively clean towel. One long pass in the direction of the wind. flip towel, repeat. Save the rockers, bumpers and wheel arches for the end with the more roughed up towels from the MF towel collection bin.

This way the wash water bucket stays as clean as possible. With such a large stock of MF towels there's obviously no shortage of towels for me. I leave several clean ones close to the bucket in a paper shopping bag so I'm not tempted to keep using the same towel.



Before touching any of the panels I use a grout sponge to dunk and unload water over each panel thoroughly. Let the car soak while I pretreat the wheels with Poorboys wheel cleaner. After cleaning the body panels I'll reuse the wash water to clean the wheels and wheel wells.



While the car is still wet/damp I do a spray down with FK 146 cleaning detailer, (might try Poorboys rinseless wash too). With a poorboys waffle weave (EXCELLENT towel no snagged threads ever) I do a long dry pass that cleans and slickens at the same time.

Hit it with FK 425 to lock in all that good stuff and it does a fantastic job on windows which seem to stay cleaner longer than when I was using NXT glass.





p.s.

Using one bucket and one Sheepskin will give you the same results probably in less time than my method. But I'm too paranoid to do it that way. Either way I can get my medium sized car done in 20 minutes. Defnintely less time than the hose wash.
 
I use a standard MF towel and fold it 4 x's and keep flipping the towel as I go along. I then rinse once per panel. For drying I use a large WW Towel.
 
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