Winter Washing Options

[kayger12]

Ok. Thanks gents. Looks like the DW post#2 system will be in use this winter.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Dane's method, detailed in post two, looks pretty good to me.

[mimalmo]

My current BMWs have never seen anything other than a hand wash. Luckily the weather cooperates. None of that 20-degree weather here.

The carwashes around me don't open if it's around 0 degrees or colder. You wouldn't want to anyhow. Everything freezes immediately. Luckily, that super cold stuff usually only lasts for a couple days here. The rest of the time its more like teens and twenties through winter.

[Pooters]

My current BMWs have never seen anything other than a hand wash. Luckily the weather cooperates. None of that 20-degree weather here.

I'm jealous.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Ben, you know there is room for you in SoCal.

[az3579]

its what I do. No prob...lol

The other option is that waterless car wash....

Optimum No Rinse Wash.

For. The. Win.
Around here, where you'd be hard pressed to find a touchless wash anywhere nearby, this is the ideal method. Hell, I'm gonna go ONR the car right now.

[MrMaico]

My car is hibernating for the winter but in the summer I usually do either a hand wash or the do it yourself coin-op pressure wash. We have so many bugs around here in the summer that it's nice to just hit the coin op to get them off everything. I never use the brush at those places though, just the wand.

I was out one night last spring for a drive down along the river and some idiot didn't know how to adjust his underground sprinkler and before i knew it I was driving through a shower of water that left white water spots all over my car so I hit up a touchless that night around midnight. That's the only time the BMW has been through one but I use them all the time for my other vehicles.....never had a problem. One nice thing about them for you guys that drive your cars all winter is I believe most of them have an underbody spray that hits the bottom side of your car as you drive (slowly) into the washbay, at least the one I use does. Might be a good idea to use one now and then to get the salt and crap off the undercarriage.

Days like today I really wish I lived farther south! Temp right now at 4pm is -1 with the wind gusting to 30mph giving a wind chill of -22! I'm just glad I'm off for the next 3 days, supposed to warm up some by Sunday. A couple of days ago it was 40 though, that sure felt nice.

Barry

[pyreguy]

We are at 71 and the high was 74...

[az3579]

We are at 71 and the high was 74...

[mimalmo]

We are at 71 and the high was 74...

I just got back from a trip to Miami. Talk about temperature swings...