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The Ranger missed a wash two weeks in a row and ended up being borrowed again. So, it needed attention. Except I just didn't have the desire to get the pressure washer out. My process today was a modified rinse-wash routine.
Because the car was dirtier than I'm comfortable with when using rinse-less, I wanted to hose off the mud, dusty rain film and loosen up the bugs on the front bumper. Oh boy, how foreign it felt not having the pressure behind the hose like I'm accustomed to.
In the process, I also used some Green Star to give the wheels a quick brush over.
Normally, the pressure washer would remove these bugs before the contact wash. In this case, we use the rinse-less pre-soak to loosen them down.
Compared to a normal rinse-less wash, I now have a fully wet car. In this case, I blew the car down with the EGO remove the excess water so as to not over dilute my pre-soak solution.
Now we resume the usual rinse-less procedure. Today I decided to give McKee's N-914 another try. People rave about this product, but my initial uses didn't wow me. In no way is it an average product, it's just that once I used P&S Absolute, it sort of put N-914 further down my list.
As usual, pre-soak a section (or the whole car if you like) with N-914 at the 128:1 waterless wash ratio, making sure to hit those areas with bugs.
N-914 is different to ONR and Absolute in that it's surfactant based and not polymer based. That will be important to some as it apparently leaves nothing behind, which in theory won't alter the look or water behavior of your coating, wax or sealant. In use, you can tell its a surfactant because of the mild sudsing action, this is especially evident if you use N-914 as a clay lubricant. You can just see this on the right-hand side of the upper grill surface in the above picture.
I use the multiple towel method when rinse-less washing, here soaking in a bucket of N-914 at the 256:1 rinse-less dilution.
I then remove a towel, ring it out till it's just dripping, fold and start wiping, flipping to a clean section as needed. Once each section of the towel is used, it gets put in the laundry bucket and a fresh towel retrieved. Never does a towel get reintroduced to the bucket of solution, keeping it clean. The same process applies to the door jambs.
As always, technically you don't need a drying aid as the surface is already wet with lubrication, but I have the product and it's there to be used, in this case Meguiar's Last Touch. Towel is a medium TRC Gauntlet.
McKee's N-914 redeemed itself today, although I still prefer ONR and Absolute.
Finishing off the rest of the car, the glass inside and out was attended to with Carpro Clarify, the interior freshened up with InnerQD and the tyres dressed with Adam's Graphene Tire Dressing.
Back to spec!
Because the car was dirtier than I'm comfortable with when using rinse-less, I wanted to hose off the mud, dusty rain film and loosen up the bugs on the front bumper. Oh boy, how foreign it felt not having the pressure behind the hose like I'm accustomed to.
In the process, I also used some Green Star to give the wheels a quick brush over.
Normally, the pressure washer would remove these bugs before the contact wash. In this case, we use the rinse-less pre-soak to loosen them down.
Compared to a normal rinse-less wash, I now have a fully wet car. In this case, I blew the car down with the EGO remove the excess water so as to not over dilute my pre-soak solution.
Now we resume the usual rinse-less procedure. Today I decided to give McKee's N-914 another try. People rave about this product, but my initial uses didn't wow me. In no way is it an average product, it's just that once I used P&S Absolute, it sort of put N-914 further down my list.
As usual, pre-soak a section (or the whole car if you like) with N-914 at the 128:1 waterless wash ratio, making sure to hit those areas with bugs.
N-914 is different to ONR and Absolute in that it's surfactant based and not polymer based. That will be important to some as it apparently leaves nothing behind, which in theory won't alter the look or water behavior of your coating, wax or sealant. In use, you can tell its a surfactant because of the mild sudsing action, this is especially evident if you use N-914 as a clay lubricant. You can just see this on the right-hand side of the upper grill surface in the above picture.
I use the multiple towel method when rinse-less washing, here soaking in a bucket of N-914 at the 256:1 rinse-less dilution.
I then remove a towel, ring it out till it's just dripping, fold and start wiping, flipping to a clean section as needed. Once each section of the towel is used, it gets put in the laundry bucket and a fresh towel retrieved. Never does a towel get reintroduced to the bucket of solution, keeping it clean. The same process applies to the door jambs.
As always, technically you don't need a drying aid as the surface is already wet with lubrication, but I have the product and it's there to be used, in this case Meguiar's Last Touch. Towel is a medium TRC Gauntlet.
McKee's N-914 redeemed itself today, although I still prefer ONR and Absolute.
Finishing off the rest of the car, the glass inside and out was attended to with Carpro Clarify, the interior freshened up with InnerQD and the tyres dressed with Adam's Graphene Tire Dressing.
Back to spec!
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