What am I to do about washing this car in the cold? I live in NY and i want to keep it clean but damn i like to keep all my fingers. Diving gloves maybe? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

hey man it was 45 here today and i washed my z but my hands stayed good and warm...all you do is take your wash bucket inside and fill it up with warm water and your hands will stay nice and warm, i have to do it twice once for the rims and tires and once for the body...oh yeh get you a california water blade removes the bulk of the water so you dont have to spend as much time drying with a microfiber towel, or whatever you use!

 

Yep, I do the samething, my neighbors always drive by with a weird look on their face, but it's actually really warm if you have a hot bucket of water.

 

I have armorall wipes and it works fine just wipe them over ur car and its clean no water needed niether

 

I use warm water from inside. you can also get like a body suit glove, itll keep your hand dry during washing, cause no matter what you will get a little cold.

 

I think warm water is the only way. Too bad I have to go to a drive in bay to wash my car. No warm water available there.

I dunno Tim, no good answer from me.

My Z got very very dirty last winter.

Clay it in the spring.

 

Based on my experience from last winter... DON'T USE WARM WATER!! It freezes faster than cold water. I use soap water that is just slightly warmer than what is coming out of my "frozen" hose. This will give you the most amount of time before the water freezes on your car. After I am done washing the car and have ice all over it, I take a flowering pot with warm water and dump it all over the car. Quickly pull into the garage and blade that sucker.

DO NOT USE THE ABSORBER in freezing weather either! It freezes so damn easily. Trust me.

 

lol it sounds like there's a story to go with that!

 

I like the idea about the body suit glove. I also heard this before but haven't actually tried it. To prevent the doors from freezing after a good washing, you're suppose to wipe it off with a towel that's got antifreeze on it. Has anyone else tried this?

 

i washed my car yesterday, it was like 35 degrees, i wish i had known about the absorber...it wasn't frozed, but it was hard, i couldn't figure out why it was taking forever to dry the car, my fingers felt like they were about to break off...

 

cold water takes longer to freeze than warm water?

heh physics would appear to argue with that theory... you have a reason behind that?

as far as antifreeze. I couldnt imagine Id wanna wipe my car down with antifreeze...

Im in GA and didnt really think about this, "cold" to me is 40s. so freezing isnt a concern, till I wash it once in 30degree temps... I slipped on my *** like 10 times, I froze half the driveway. my dad was slightly pissed...

 

As the temperature approaches infinity, DY over DT equals the derivative of the rate of change of water molecules at the limit. LOL! I have no clue about the actual physics of it, but I believe its due to the rate of change in temperature. Hot water is cooling at a faster rate than cold water due to thermal activity and what not. Its called the mpemba effect.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Physics...Mpemba_Effect/

 

Hey Afropuff,did you learn all that at NJIT?

 

wierd, just seems like hot water starting at 80 would drop to 70 substantially faster than water at 50 would drop to 40, and that faster than 40-30. but the water going 80-70 would also drop faster when it hits 50 to 40 than water starting at 50...

owell crazy stuff.

 

HAHAH! I don't remember a single thing that I learned while at NJIT. I learned all that when my b!tch azz was out in the cold and wondering why the hell my hose water wasn't freezing but my warm soap water was.

I just sampled my opening DY/DT line from what I recall from calc I freshman year. It just sounds cool!

 

Bah, you got the engineer in my going with that one. Looking at the research, it can in fact happen, however, the starting points have to be much higher than I'd feel comfortable sticking my hand in. They observed the effect in the most plausible experiment when having 2 containers of water, one at 50°C, and the other at 90°C and made note that you had to have one at near boiling for the effect to occur. The difference between warm tap water (41-46°c) and cold tap water wouldn't produce the effect.

Neat phenomenon though, wasn't aware it existed since by the physics I'd learned, hotter things took longer to cool.

 

Did you have some snake oil mixed in with the water ????