Just seeing what everybody thinks of this a friend of mine has it and he loves it.Im not sure of it what is it that makes you not to have to dry off you car

http://www.homemadesimple.ca/mrcleanautodry/en_CA/unit_demo.shtml

I used it before and it works fine. No, you do not have to dry off your car.

The water is purified and doesn't allow the calcium to be put on your car to form the water spots. That is why you don't have to dry you car afterwards.

Personally I think this is a wussy way to clean your car. I like to touch it and make sure its really clean, nothing beats towel drying your car. But my brother bought it and he says it works alright. Not my style though.

I'm mixed.

I don't like paying 6.00 for the soap. The machine only works with the Mr. Clean Soap; it'll clog if it's not the Mr. Clean stuff.

I also don't like paying 6.00 for the filter that I get five uses out of, even though it says ten.

When its new (filter), your car will dry 90% spot free if it's black, probably more if its not black. Don't expect miracles if the sun is shining down on it, though.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no such thing as a 100% self-drying, unless you dry it yourself, which makes it not self drying :).

Personally I think this is a wussy way to clean your car. I like to touch it and make sure its really clean, nothing beats towel drying your car. But my brother bought it and he says it works alright. Not my style though.
I use it because in california the sun is always shining and by the time you dry one side of the car the other side is already dry with spots, and the side that you just dried with a towel has all kinds of lint unless you use a microfiber towel, which is just smearing the water around until it dries which still leaves a film of calcium on the paint. Oh, and it does work with other brand of soaps, it just doesn't foam very much, but it still works. It's better that putting you hands in a bucket of soap, and putting dirt back on your car. Also, i haven't ever bought a new filter, i'm still using the the one that came with the kit, and i havn't had any spots yet. To each their own though.

I bought it and used it one time did not like it i like to be more hands on and i found it did not do a verry good job on bird #/*/*$##

It is very good try it

I'm going to buy some to try. I think I would use it a lot for when I just want to a quick wash/rinse, still sounds cheaper in the long run than running it through a wash. I can still get my hands dirty whenever I want to detail it.

Just remember that you still should use a sponge...the soap doesn't always take all the shit off the car.

It works well when the filters are new, but they don't last long.

I've used it it a few times on 2 different cars. My Red G6 and a Dark Gray Jaguar Type S. It does a pretty good job.

It's alright. I used it on my red Grand Am and it made the car look fairy nice and shiny. As for no water spots, that's not true, you do need to towel off the spots that don't dry within 5 minutes or else you'll get some. I like to use Mr. Clean when I only have 10-15 minutes to wash the car, otherwise I do it the old fashioned way and towel dry.

I go across town to hand wash my cars at a wand-type place. I then use the spot free rinse. Then, 1/4 block away, I get on the interstate and blow-dry rhe ship out of it at 90-100 mph on the way back to town. Works great- very few spots...

LOL, I used to do the drive fast blow dry of my car but the dang roads around here are too crowded these days. I can never get above 45MPH in town :-(

That's why I drive 10 miles out, so there is less traffic for my wind tunnel spot-free hellride. There are several closer ones, and the one I go to is in a very bad part of town (think "Deliverance"), but the things we do for love...

I go across town to hand wash my cars at a wand-type place. I then use the spot free rinse. Then, 1/4 block away, I get on the interstate and blow-dry rhe ship out of it at 90-100 mph on the way back to town. Works great- very few spots...

That's an ideal way to do it. You may have a few streaky water spots, but it's nothing a bottle of quick spray on wipe off detailer and a microfiber cloth can't take out in a mist.

Yeah, that's exactly what I do. Loving how easy it is to keep the Granite Metallic color clean. And I love the painted wheels- really easy to keep clean, unlike my BMW that will brobably need to be bead blasted to get ALL the brake dust off of them... I hate that car, sometimes... For all the great press it gets, I have a lot more "little complaints" about it design-wise than the G6, the stuff that drives you nuts... Oh well, another forum, another time I guess

My experience with the Mr. Clean auto carwash was mixed good and bad. I think that it cleans really well (allthough you still need to hand scrub it). And the spot free rinse works but heres the problem I see, the filters that take the minerals out of the water dont last very long at all, and if you live in a hard water town like I do, they go even faster. The other down side is that to make sure you get off all the regular water you really need to go over it twice with the filtered water. I think its a decent product but I wont be buying replacement soap/filters, its a gimmick to sell accessories to me, ill be sticking with the sopy water bucket and hand dry system. :(

My experience with the Mr. Clean auto carwash was mixed good and bad. I think that it cleans really well (allthough you still need to hand scrub it). And the spot free rinse works but heres the problem I see, the filters that take the minerals out of the water dont last very long at all, and if you live in a hard water town like I do, they go even faster. The other down side is that to make sure you get off all the regular water you really need to go over it twice with the filtered water. I think its a decent product but I wont be buying replacement soap/filters, its a gimmick to sell accessories to me, ill be sticking with the sopy water bucket and hand dry system. :(

i have heard you can get similar results by using a little Jet-Dry in a bucket of water to rinse your car off. all the additive in the Mr. Clean thing does is lower surface tension of the water molecules so that they slide off the car more easily and Jet-Dry will accomplish basically the same thing. that is what some dealerships do when they wash the cars on the lot.

Wont Jet-Dry strip the wax, I mean doesnt it have some kind of abrasive chemical in it?

Wont Jet-Dry strip the wax, I mean doesnt it have some kind of abrasive chemical in it?

that i am not sure about. i usually wash mine with dish soap and have to wax them afterwards so i never even though of what it would do to the wax but it is something to look into before using the stuff.

What wax do you use and how often? Im totally new at this new car care stuff and the last wax job I did on my Firebird was a nightmare that took the entire day! :eek:

i just use regular liquid turtle wax which i know is a sin to all the detail freaks. if i am not going to wax it i use Eagle 1 Wet car wash soap cause it doesn't cut the wax like dish soap does and sometimes i just don't have the time to wax it. waxing it once every 4-6 weeks is probably a good idea...my poor car doesn't get that much attention though. maybe someone like Interfire can chime in here cause he knows a lot more about cleaning/detailing cars than i do lol.

Yeah and im sure that there are about 50 other threads dealing with this, but im lost. I went to Kragen today and walked down the carwash/wax isle, and was STUNNED. There are way too many products to choose from, so i basically want something easy to use that wont break my arm trying to buff off. My car is 3 months old has 3500 miles on it, so time for its first wax im assuming?

Yeah and im sure that there are about 50 other threads dealing with this, but im lost. I went to Kragen today and walked down the carwash/wax isle, and was STUNNED. There are way too many products to choose from, so i basically want something easy to use that wont break my arm trying to buff off. My car is 3 months old has 3500 miles on it, so time for its first wax im assuming?

yeah definately. who knows what the dealership put on it to make it look shiny when they were trying to sell it.

i know a lot of people love Meguiars products. there are others i can't think of off the top of my head though.

and there look to be a couple wash/wax threads in here that should help too.

I bought the pro Series and it worked pretty good, there are some spots that dont dry very well like the tunk lid but other than that it works great

I bought the pro Series and it worked pretty good, there are some spots that dont dry very well like the tunk lid but other than that it works great


And I dont know how anyone can complain about the price, I myself spend 6-7 dollars at the car eash each time. Spending 8 dollars on a filter and 8 dollars on soap works out to 3 dollars a wash if you get 6 washes out of the filter.

Yeah and im sure that there are about 50 other threads dealing with this, but im lost. I went to Kragen today and walked down the carwash/wax isle, and was STUNNED. There are way too many products to choose from, so i basically want something easy to use that wont break my arm trying to buff off. My car is 3 months old has 3500 miles on it, so time for its first wax im assuming?

If you are just looking for a simple easy to use wax I would look into the Megs NXT. That's easy to apply and has very good durability since it is synthetic. First you need to pick between a natural wax ie carnuba or the synthetic line, carnuba will give you more gloss and that wet look everybody loves and synthetic will be more reflective. But to answer your question I would stick with megs because they are among the best of what you will find in stores and you will find it mostly everywhere. Meguiars #26 I would recommend also, that's carnuba based and still has good durability.

If you find it hard to buff off by hand then you are most likely using too much product. A dime sized amount should do a whole panel, if you think you don't have enough on there then it's probably the right amount you really only need a very very thin layer on there. I buff wax off by hand or machine and even by hand one swipe with a microfiber should be taking off 95% of the wax in a single pass. Oh and make sure it's completely dry before buffing off, otherwise it'll turn into a greasy mess. NXT for example needs to setup for at least 15 minutes, most people leave it on for 30 plus.

Hope that helps somewhat, I cut this post down A LOT lol kinda got carried away :D

Yeah it does, thanks. What about liquid vs paste?

And I dont know how anyone can complain about the price, I myself spend 6-7 dollars at the car eash each time. Spending 8 dollars on a filter and 8 dollars on soap works out to 3 dollars a wash if you get 6 washes out of the filter.


Thats true IF you get 6 washes out of the filter, which i dont, more like 3 or 4. And the amount of soap they tell you to fill the washer up with, not sure about you guys but its not enough, it runs out of soap half way through the wash. Again its a good product but overall its a marketing gimmick in my opinion.

Thats true IF you get 6 washes out of the filter, which i dont, more like 3 or 4. And the amount of soap they tell you to fill the washer up with, not sure about you guys but its not enough, it runs out of soap half way through the wash. Again its a good product but overall its a marketing gimmick in my opinion.


Holy how much soap do you need?? And as far as the filter your probaby overusing it, 3-4 washes is still what 4.50 a wash??? People just need something to complain about I guess.

Holy how much soap do you need?? And as far as the filter your probaby overusing it, 3-4 washes is still what 4.50 a wash??? People just need something to complain about I guess.


Im not complaining and im not overusing it. If you read my other post I said that I live in a town where the water is very hard and even the owners manual tells you hard water will shorten the life of the filter. As for the soap, I fill it to the fill line and its empty after 3/4 of the wash. I bought the thing and liked it, I just dont like having to buy refill soap/filters all the time, not complaints, simply stating the obvious.

Yeah it does, thanks. What about liquid vs paste?

There is no difference in performance, the only difference is in which form it is in. Some just prefer the paste form, others prefer the liquid. I use liquid myself as it's easier to work with when applying. But again it's all just preference on your part, one is not better than the other.

Yeah I went with the liquid, the paste seems like a mess, globs, uneven amounts ect.

Yeah it's easier to apply it to the applicator, I find the older generation prefer the paste form.

Im a paste kinda guy, ive been using pastes for so many years i instinctivly grab the paste.

As far as the auto dry goes, im not a fan.
*Ive* found it to be quite harsh on the LSP.

i just use regular liquid turtle wax which i know is a sin to all the detail freaks. if i am not going to wax it i use Eagle 1 Wet car wash soap cause it doesn't cut the wax like dish soap does and sometimes i just don't have the time to wax it. waxing it once every 4-6 weeks is probably a good idea...my poor car doesn't get that much attention though. maybe someone like Interfire can chime in here cause he knows a lot more about cleaning/detailing cars than i do lol.

Nothing wrong with using turtle wax. Its all about what *you* like to use and what works for *you*.