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My parent's house has EXTREMELY hard water and for some reason their softener was not hooked up to discharge through the outside spigot. So I got thinking how I could reduced water spots as they are really bad whenever I wash my car there.
So I had an old Mr. Clean Autodry system that I never really used since I didn't like the soap that well but I thought the filter might work well.
What I did was spray down the car with un-softened water and then quickly went over it with the filtered water. I then proceeded to wash the car as normal but instead of using hard water to rinse I used the filtered water. It took a few seconds longer to rinse off the soap but it seemed to work well. In fact the car pretty much dried by itself with very little spotting.
I then pulled in the garage and went over the car with UQD followed by UQW and it came out much better than previous times.
The only negative is that I went through an entire filter cartridge in one use and I really wasn't using it that much.
I'm thinking of getting a filter for outdoors there from Lowe's or possibly one of these in-hose filters http://www.hosefilter.com/ . Who knows. Anyone else have any effective solutions without forking over $90 plus for a filter system?
So I had an old Mr. Clean Autodry system that I never really used since I didn't like the soap that well but I thought the filter might work well.
What I did was spray down the car with un-softened water and then quickly went over it with the filtered water. I then proceeded to wash the car as normal but instead of using hard water to rinse I used the filtered water. It took a few seconds longer to rinse off the soap but it seemed to work well. In fact the car pretty much dried by itself with very little spotting.
I then pulled in the garage and went over the car with UQD followed by UQW and it came out much better than previous times.
The only negative is that I went through an entire filter cartridge in one use and I really wasn't using it that much.
I'm thinking of getting a filter for outdoors there from Lowe's or possibly one of these in-hose filters http://www.hosefilter.com/ . Who knows. Anyone else have any effective solutions without forking over $90 plus for a filter system?
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