Water Deionizer/spot free setup

[kilobravo]

Hey, if the pump sprayer works for you, rock 'n roll but honestly, it seems like a whole lot of effort pumping and spraying. There's almost no force coming out of the sprayer to push the hard water off so you'd have to get right down next to the surface to get any movement of the bad water.

All this to save less than a few hundred bux for a softener rig? Do yourselves a favor and get a DIC-20 or similar and put the pump sprayer in your garden tools section where it belongs. :-)

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[BrianB]

Simple /cost effective and Cheap I use it when I rinse and it works great

 

[kilobravo]

OP: The problem with something like that is, it is only a filter and carbon, so it will only filter sediment and remove some chlorine taste and odor but it won't remove dissolved solids as a softener cartridge would. The filter you have is more for improving drinking water in an RV.

Therefive, if your municipal water is not too hard (TDS) this will help but if you have a high concentration of dissolved solids, (TDS over 100,) you will get water spots if any water is allowed to dry on the painted surfaces.

Softening is the only way to avoid spotting.

 

[DFB5.0]

I'm blessed with low TDS town water, so I've never really had the need for a deionizer or filtration system.

After I wash a car, it's driven it under cover, I blow the standing water off the whole vehicle and any remaining water is then mopped up with a towel and drying aid.

Out of curiosity, if you had hard water, would you still need to soften the water if you followed the above procedure?

 

[MAGS1]

I'm blessed with low TDS town water, so I've never really had the need for a deionizer or filtration system.

After I wash a car, it's driven it under cover, I blow the standing water off the whole vehicle and any remaining water is then mopped up with a towel and drying aid.

Out of curiosity, if you had hard water, would you still need to soften the water if you followed the above procedure?

We have very hard water and I do what you mentioned. No water spots although I do follow up on the windows with a dedicated window cleaner immediately after drying. That’s the one area where I will sometimes get spots.

 

[Joker721]

Las Vegas/Henderson has some of the hardest water I’ve seen. I did order the Scott’s sprayer and filled it with 2 gallons of distilled water. It worked well for what it is. It has a battery operated pump but no where near the pressure of a do it yourself car wash or pressure washer.

 

[Postal Bob]

Simple /cost effective and Cheap I use it when I rinse and it works great

I use those filters throughout the whole wash process. Then after I rinse off the soap, I attach this to the nozzle for a final spot free rinse.
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