Truck Washing

[bironacad]

X2, plus I have a 4-5 foot handle with a soft bristle brush for reaching the roof. This also works great for cleaning the side so I don't have to bend over at all. I can wash the truck in 10 minutes. Of course wheels take a little bending and scrubbing. The pressure washer works for the most part, but it never gets the film off so I need the brush.

That is me in the summer but in the winter it is the self wash for my truck.

She is 21' long bumper to bumper, a Dodge 2500, CTD with an 8' box and full quad cab. Wash it? it is a chore to park it, lol.:laughing::thumbsup:

 

[Combustix]

I just wait till it rains

 

[buck12]

I don't keep spotless vehicles. Just not enough time. When I do wash it is always by hand.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I am amazed at you guys who say they do not wash their vehicles. I mean it seems like a dumb thing to me not to take care of you 2nd biggest investment behind your house.:confused2:

I have too much invested not to take care of them.

2006 F-350 Diesel
2008 Nissan Titan
2008 BMW 335I

Heck I wash my boat after every use and for that matter my car haul trailer also gets washed before getting stuck back in the barn.

Kind of reminds me of my neighbor. Him and his wife park in the drive way while $200 worth of broken bikes and crap no one would buy at the last garage sell sits secure in the garage. It makes me laugh each time I drive by and see that $45,000 Lincoln and $50,000 Dmax sitting there with limbs, snow, bird crap, cats, ect all over them.

Chris

 

[flusher]

NAPA store parking lot--benefit car wash-- high school girls soccer team. Enjoy helping a worthy cause :thumbsup:

 

[frischtr]

A buddy of mine has a two car garage and a shed big enough for another two cars and all of his vehicles sit outside.

Also, just because some guys baby their trucks doesn't mean they don't use it as a truck. As I said before I only drive mine once every week or two, but when I do, its either a trip to the lumber yard, or to go pick up a tree for firewood, or hauling a tandem axle utility trailer for who-knows-what. But I baby mine like a show-car...:thumbsup:

 

[buck12]

I am amazed at you guys who say they do not wash their vehicles. I mean it seems like a dumb thing to me not to take care of you 2nd biggest investment behind your house.:confused2:

I have too much invested not to take care of them.

2006 F-350 Diesel
2008 Nissan Titan
2008 BMW 335I

Heck I wash my boat after every use and for that matter my car haul trailer also gets washed before getting stuck back in the barn.

Kind of reminds me of my neighbor. Him and his wife park in the drive way while $200 worth of broken bikes and crap no one would buy at the last garage sell sits secure in the garage. It makes me laugh each time I drive by and see that $45,000 Lincoln and $50,000 Dmax sitting there with limbs, snow, bird crap, cats, ect all over them.

Chris

My vehicles may not always be clean but they are kept in the garage and shop including my 19 year old hunting truck.

 

[drivadesl]

Well after driving on upstate NY clay backroads, I decided I had to get her washed. All that mud caked underneath and below the wheelwells so took her to some local automated carwash, where it goes through and you get to watch it along the way. Some hand washing by the locals to start. a quick vac, and dry her off when done, came out pretty good. $15, and maybe 15 minutes sure beats dragging out the hose n bucket right in the middle of winter.

 

[JDgreen227]

None of our vehicles (1 GMC and 3 cars) has ever gone thru a commercial car wash, I have always done the cleaning at home when weather permits. Even a $100 1400 psi electric washer will suffice for most purposes, and when 3 minutes at a drive thru wash costs you $1.50 plus the gas you burn to get there, that $100 machine pays for itself really fast. The only time I go to the drive thru places is when it's too cold to wash it at home. The biggest advantage to home cleaning is you can scrub away with a mitt or wash brush as long as you want, while the drive thru places frown on bucket washing and other customers get impatient.

 

[JDgreen227]

I was with my boy and he took his car to a touchless spray shop to get the salt and dirt off and spent $7.00. When we got home I looked at his car and I was amazed at how dirty it was from a bad wash job. I'm to cheap anyway but I would never do that except to spray underneath the car in the spring.

What about wax? I paste waxed and liquid waxed over the years, but does that work much better than carnuba car wash soap?

Take it from me, a hand applied and buffed wax job is worth 20X those carnuba car wash soap applications. Those are basically just an additive to make water bead off and look like it did some good.

The more work a wax job entitles, the better it protects. The cheapo spray on and buff off applications you can buy give a very small amount of protection, but nothing like a hand applied liquid or paste wax job. The very best wax I have found for the money is Black Magic liquid, costs about $7 a bottle.