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So, I'm almost out of Optimum No Rinse, and wondering if I should maybe try something else out, heres why:
I find that bug guts from the front of my car are getting kind of tough to remove, I have a feeling that maybe my wax layer is getting a bit thin, so I probably should do another wax, but still ONR doesn't seem to do a great job of removing bug guts. I take the car to a car wash and I'll spray down the front (sometimes just with the rinse, othertimes with the pre-soak then rinse) to get the big bits off, and this takes off most of it. What is left is usually a little bit of crust on the car. With a careful fingernail it comes off pretty easy, but if I'm just washing with ONR and a wash mit, it never seems to come off (unless I would scrub more, something I don't want to do).
Now I'm wondering if there was maybe a different car wash similar to ONR that I could try that may handle this a bit better, or is there something that I can spray on the front end to kind of "pre-soak" it at home before I wash it with ONR, to start to lift up the crusty dried on bits, and then have the ONR/Wash Mitt wash them away? I try to do this with the ONR, I'll squeeze my wash mitt over the front end before I wash it, but it doesn't seem to do to much.
So what do you guys think? Should I keep on with ONR, is it as good as I'll get? Something to Pre-Soak it with first? Or should I maybe just bite the bullet and do a Cleaner Wax on it to freshen up the wax layer and clean it at the same time. It was a couple of months ago for my last wax job, and I was hoping to last till fall.
Thanks guys!
I find that bug guts from the front of my car are getting kind of tough to remove, I have a feeling that maybe my wax layer is getting a bit thin, so I probably should do another wax, but still ONR doesn't seem to do a great job of removing bug guts. I take the car to a car wash and I'll spray down the front (sometimes just with the rinse, othertimes with the pre-soak then rinse) to get the big bits off, and this takes off most of it. What is left is usually a little bit of crust on the car. With a careful fingernail it comes off pretty easy, but if I'm just washing with ONR and a wash mit, it never seems to come off (unless I would scrub more, something I don't want to do).
Now I'm wondering if there was maybe a different car wash similar to ONR that I could try that may handle this a bit better, or is there something that I can spray on the front end to kind of "pre-soak" it at home before I wash it with ONR, to start to lift up the crusty dried on bits, and then have the ONR/Wash Mitt wash them away? I try to do this with the ONR, I'll squeeze my wash mitt over the front end before I wash it, but it doesn't seem to do to much.
So what do you guys think? Should I keep on with ONR, is it as good as I'll get? Something to Pre-Soak it with first? Or should I maybe just bite the bullet and do a Cleaner Wax on it to freshen up the wax layer and clean it at the same time. It was a couple of months ago for my last wax job, and I was hoping to last till fall.
Thanks guys!
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