Mr. Clean

Anyone use one of thos mr. clean car wash things ? With the wax stuff too ?

Anyone use one of thos mr. clean car wash things ? With the wax stuff too ?
for such a senior member you have not looked really hard :grin:

agreed.....
but to answer your question.....I use it and I love it.
I like the fact I no longer need a bucket of soapy water to wash that usually runs out of soapy water prior to my finishing.
I picked up the older version for $18. I think the car wash soap is definetly better than the older stuff I was using from AA.
I am sure there is better car wash soap and later I might try to use some in the MR Clean.

Generally I wash and rinse with Mr Clean, than use Eagle1WAYD spray.
Next weekend I plan to use NXT on the car instead of Eagle1.

I like it also. I have an older gun (Blue) and the newer kit gun (Black). The newer gun has a harder pressure spray in addition to the standard spray. I like it to get some of the more stubborn dirt off. I don't think it contains wax though. I use it because of the efficiency and all of not washing the car with a dirty sponge and a bucket full of dirty water, which occours as you rinse your sponge while washing. The detergent seems good and It works really good at removing most of what gets on my car. The tree sap and bird crap and all.

I don't rely on the spot free drying though. The deionized filtered rinse works OK if you spray the car down well but the spray is not very strong and requires more time to thouroughly rinse than it is worth. I find it faster and easier to just dry the car normally with an "Absorber" Towel.

The way the system works is you wet down the car with normal (UNFILTERED) spray then spray the soap, doing small managable sections. Wipe as you normally would, cleaning the car with a clean soft wash rag or sponge. Then, rinse again with the normal spray. When finished washing and rinsing completely, you are supposed to be able to spray with the deionized filtered mist setting. That washes away all the normal water that would cause spotting, displacing it away with a filtered cleaner water. Start from the top and rinse downward, as though you were spraypainting the car. Concentrating on all the areas where water might settle or collect from the washing. All the seams between doors and windows... Rinse all the normal unfiltered water out. Like I said though, this final rinse, is a fine low pressure mist and requires so much attention that it is, simply, easier and, probably quicker, to just dry the car normally.

Cool, I guess I will pull it out of the garage and start washing the Element again..Oh I was too lazy to look last night... :|

I don't like the Mr. Clean soap, but use the filtered water spray. I just wash my car normally and then follow up with the filter spray and it works quite well. It takes far less time to spray the car than to dry it by hand. Just let it dry by itself any spots left can be quickly removed with a towel or in my case, the Absorber.

I use the Mr. Clean Autodry on my E too. Love the smell of the soap! I've found that no matter how long I rinse with the deionized/filtered spray, I still end up with some spots and streaks on the sides. I think part of it is that we have extremely hard water, and part of it is the design of the Element. There are a lot of nooks and crannies that hold water. The minute you start driving, all that residual water runs out all over the finish, leaving spots behind. :x It happens even if I spend the extra time drying everything I can with a towel.