For those of you who live in Vegas know what I am talking about. We must have the hardest water in the world. I was just wondering if any of you came up with a solution for the hard water when washing the car? It takes me longer to wipe out the wather marks after I dry the car then it does to wash it and I refuse to let somebody else wash the car. Can anyone help??

 

get a water sofenting system for your house.

 

I have one but its hooked up to the outside hose.

 

^^ I think you ment to say it's NOT hooked up to the outside...

umm... boil the water before hand and catch all the steam and condense it, then use that water? lol.. .that's one way..

Running it through a britta filter might solve the problem as well....

hook your hose up to your kitchen sink instead of outside? lol...

OR!!:

Get some lava rocks, and put them into a container, flush the container with large amounts of very high salt content water, then run your hose water into the top of the container, and pull the water to wash your car from the bottom of the container, make sure you have enough lava rocks, and smaller ones too, to make a nice layer of them that is fairly solid, not just a few rocks with large gaps between them.

This would act as a home made water softener, it actually will work in the same way that your home water softener system does... you just have to make sure to re-saltwater bath the rocks before you use them again.

Or you can get your hands on some actual "resin" ***** that they use in your water softener... for more info see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite

 

Keep the whole car wet while your washing the other parts ,dry fast and use detailer to touch up any water spots.

 

I've owned my z for 2 years and only washed it once. After driving it I use a California duster then use a spray detailer. I don't drive it much, it just turned 2400 miles today

 

Isn't that turtle wax "fast dry" or something that sort of deal. It;'s like a sprayer that holds some sort of water softener in it...I can't remeber what it called....I'm sure you can find it at a Pep boys/checkers/autozone. I'll take your hard water if you take this frozen waste land of ours!!!

 

You might want to try the inline water filter you can buy from Griots Garage, I have heard it works great.

www.griotsgarage.com

Mudd