How To Measure Car Wash to Water Ratio?

[r1ch]

How To Measure Car Wash to Water Ratio?

Hi

I am new to Meguiar's products - and so far have been very impressed. I love the NXT car wash - produces a nice spot free finish but it seems to require an large amount of the product with each bucket full - especially compared to other brand products I have used before (eg 1 or 2 cap fulls).

In my 3 gallon (UK measurement) bucket it requires 11 or 12 cap fulls (if I have calculated correctly).

Is this correct?

[Mike Phillips]

NXT is a fairly high sudsing car wash mixed at the appropriate dilution levels which are once ounce per gallon, this is the dilution level for all Meguiar's car washes.

1 ounce is somewhere between 2-3 capfuls. It's hard to measure this way because of the thick viscosity of the product that some of the product clings to the inside of the cap so that when you go to add more to a cap if you're measuring by capfuls then you don't measure enough product.

What I do is measure how much water I'm going to use as a routine in my life, and then mark a Dixie cup to the appropriate level and fill the Dixie cup to this level.

[Murr1525]

Well, technicaly, you would need 3.6 US ounces, or 3.7 UK ounces, for a 3 UK gallon bucket.

So it would be about 11 capfulls.

I suppose you could get away with a little less, but the recomended dilution rate is designed to have enough suds and lubricity to protect your finish.

You could always experiemnt with Hyper Wash, wich has a 400:1 dilution rate instead of the 128:1 for everything else.

I just bought a little $2.00 measuring cup that measures from 1/2 to 5 ounces..

[Toady]

I use a measuring shot glass I got at a kitchen supply store. It has various markings for ounces, milliliters, etc. I've also marked my bucket with hash marks at the 1, 2, and 3 gallon levels.

[Detalnewb]

Originally posted by Toady
I use a measuring shot glass I got at a kitchen supply store. It has various markings for ounces, milliliters, etc. I've also marked my bucket with hash marks at the 1, 2, and 3 gallon levels.

Likewise - except I use a jigger for measuring. That way 1oz multiples are easy as well as 1.5oz multiples. I fill the bucket to 2 gallons, put in required soap and blast away for the last gallon. Most times suds are spilling out by the time I get there

[imacarnut]

i use a laundry cup. first, i filled a measuring cup with five ounces of water and then poured it into the laundry cup to know exactly where five ounces is. now all i do is pour car soap in it, and it gives the perfect measurement, and it works great!

[TKDDAD]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
NXT is a fairly high sudsing car wash mixed at the appropriate dilution levels which are once ounce per gallon, this is the dilution level for all Meguiar's car washes.

1 ounce is somewhere between 2-3 capfuls. It's hard to measure this way because of the thick viscosity of the product that some of the product clings to the inside of the cap so that when you go to add more to a cap if you're measuring by capfuls then you don't measure enough product.

What I do is measure how much water I'm going to use as a routine in my life, and then mark a Dixie cup to the appropriate level and fill the Dixie cup to this level.

Mike, where can I pick up one of those bucket dollies ??...that's something I could really use....thanks

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by TKDDAD
Mike, where can I pick up one of those bucket dollies ??...that's something I could really use....thanks

I purchased mine from Doug Lamb over at Grit Guard.com I have both the single dolly set-up and the double dolly set-up.

I use the single dolly set-up most of the time but if I want to use the two-bucket method I use the dually.

The Grit Guard Bucket Dolly Car Wash System is probably without a doubt my favorite tool for taking car of my cars. I seriously don't like walking back and forth to my wash bucket and I also don't like lifting and carrying a full bucket of water around the car as I move around the car as I'm washing it.

With the Grit Guard Bucket Dolly I can simply roll the bucket, or buckets around the car as I move around the car.

How's the saying go?

"You'll have to pry my Grit Guard Dolly out of my cold dead hands"



I've never washed any of our cars without it since it got it.

[Setec Astronomy]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips


I use the single dolly set-up most of the time but if I want to use the two-bucket method I use the dually.

Does that mean you don't use the two-bucket method all the time???

[gb387]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips
I purchased mine from Doug Lamb over at Grit Guard.com I have both the single dolly set-up and the double dolly set-up.

I use the single dolly set-up most of the time but if I want to use the two-bucket method I use the dually.

The Grit Guard Bucket Dolly Car Wash System is probably without a doubt my favorite tool for taking car of my cars. I seriously don't like walking back and forth to my wash bucket and I also don't like lifting and carrying a full bucket of water around the car as I move around the car as I'm washing it.

With the Grit Guard Bucket Dolly I can simply roll the bucket, or buckets around the car as I move around the car.

How's the saying go?

"You'll have to pry my Grit Guard Dolly out of my cold dead hands"



I've never washed any of our cars without it since it got it.

I really like the idea seems VERY handy.... is your driveway on a incline? My driveway has a very small incline more than likely it won't roll down the driveway but is there a brake on one of the wheels just in case?

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by gb387
I really like the idea seems VERY handy.... is your driveway on a incline? My driveway has a very small incline more than likely it won't roll down the driveway but is there a brake on one of the wheels just in case?

Each dolly has 5 wheels and out of each of the 5 wheels, two of them have brakes.

[sneek]

didn't meguairs use to sell a bucket with wheels and a grit guard?