Car dryer

[1hardwork]

Been looking at car dryers. Any recommendations??????

[bullitinhead]

as in cloths, or the blowy type???


bullit

[ziggy328]

Chap over the road uses his leaf blower - have to say it seems to be fking brilliant!

[smithyithy]

I use a Metrovac Sidekick, it's brilliant tbh, small and relaitvely lightweight, very powerful for the size, filters the air it blows.

They're about £100, not the cheapest but I put off buying one for years and wish I'd got it sooner.

[milu]

I use a Blo. Handheld. About £100. Brilliant tool
I suppose it helps if your car is nicely waxed and slick

[belleair302]

I use a motorcycle dryer and it is excellent.

[anonymous-user]

ziggy328 said:

Chap over the road uses his leaf blower - have to say it seems to be fking brilliant!

I used my brand new leaf vac on its blower setting. Worked brilliant. Then I used it as intended . Next time out , I pebble dashed my car with leaf fragments.

[Dolf Stoppard]

smithyithy said:

I use a Metrovac Sidekick, it's brilliant tbh, small and relaitvely lightweight, very powerful for the size, filters the air it blows.

They're about £100, not the cheapest but I put off buying one for years and wish I'd got it sooner.

I've got one of these. Good for wheels. People passing by clearly think I'm mental.

[Belle427]

I use a Ryobi garden blower, it’s a small unit and I have the batteries anyway for other tools.

[Summit_Detailing]

Dog dryer on eBay, c.£50 - has served me well over the years.

Cheers,

Chris

[ian332isport]

If you’ve already got some 18v Bosch professional tools, this is very good.

https://www.bosch-professional.com/gb/en/products/...

Bit expensive if you also need a battery and charger though.

[Shanksy87]

I use an Ego leaf blower, it is excellent but I would add regardless of what you choose unless your car is ceramic coated or waxed regularly you won't see the full benefit.

[curvature]

Shanksy87 said:

I use an Ego leaf blower, it is excellent but I would add regardless of what you choose unless your car is ceramic coated or waxed regularly you won't see the full benefit.

Used my Ego blower for the first time on my car last week.

Just wish I'd bought one before as my car is a nightmare for retaining water that then slowly runs down the clean and dry car after you have gone indoors!

[Pothole]

Summit_Detailing said:

Dog dryer on eBay, c.£50 - has served me well over the years.

What I was about to say

[Mikebentley]

Yep same here. pink coloured dog grooming dryer. £25 works well with high and low settings for airspeed and heat.

[Gio G]

Have used my dog dryer (off eBay) for many years now. Agree with comments that with well finished bodywork, waxed/ceramic coated it works very nicely!

G

[Chubbyross]

Metrovac Sidekick most of the time. It’s small and easy to cart around. I’ve also just invested in a Bigboi, which is a lot more powerful and great for full details.

[remould]

I brought a cheap (20 quid) compact blower which works really well for drying wheels and all the nooks and crannies,two downsides to aware of with some of the cheaper units are they can be noisy and the cables are short,I swapped my cable to a decent length which also showed up that the connections inside were just twisted together ! 🙄

[Paulprior]

Do you use these to fully dry a car instead of a cloth?, or just to finish off ?

[remould]

Paulprior said:

Do you use these to fully dry a car instead of a cloth?, or just to finish off ?

For me it's to get the water out of the crevices then dry it with a towel.