Waterless car wash

[gun12b]

Are they any good ?
Which do you recommend

[bunchofkeys]

I can recommend Greased Lightning, showroom shine.
Follow the instructions and the car comes out clean and without scratches.

[R8Reece]

I've used Greased Lightening and it was good at getting the car clean and shiny.

However the problem was that you go through a huge amount of application clothes as they get very dirty very quickly.

[How u doing]

I use showroom shine too, but only on a clean car.

I can't imagine how if clean a dirty car with it.

[Chris32345]

Okay for cleaning glass on a dirty car you'd need to give it wash first really unless you want to go through a lot of it and a lot of cloths

[bunchofkeys]

When i used it, i was living in the flat at the time, so no driveway to wash the car properly.
If the car was filthy, then I'd take a quick trip to the local Shell/Tesco and use their jet wash to blow off the chunks of dirt; the brush was never used.

Once driven back to the flat and parked up, it was nice and dry. As mentioned, would probably go through 4 microfiber clothes on each clean.

[320d is all you need]

There is no reason to use a waterless car wash

They are fine (well, I can understand their use) in "dry" places like California or similar where the roads are generally clean and you just end up with "dust" on the paint rather than proper dirt.

But in the UK and other wet / salty / dirty road areas

Absolutely no reason to use them.


You go through loads of cloths
Despite their advertising claims you will be damaging the paint each and every time you use them on a dirty car
If you aren't a "detailer" or or detailing mind and don't know what you're doing with the cloths (regarding management of debris and dirt build up, folding etc) then you will scratch your paint even worse

Even if you live in an apartment or similar you'd be better off carting a bucket of water to your parking area or if you had to, take a bucket to the car wash and fill it up from there. You can even get buckets with sealed lids


I hate them.

[Olivera]

320d is all you need said:

There is no reason to use a waterless car wash

I hate them.

+1, usually a terrible product for the UK given how dirty our cars get. Perhaps usable if you keep your car spotless and use it for a very light/quick clean, with lots of microfibre cloths.

[Louis Balfour]

Olivera said:

320d is all you need said:

There is no reason to use a waterless car wash

I hate them.

+1, an absolutely terrible product for the UK given how dirty our cars get.

+2 if I am doing it right. I have used Megs Quick Detailer and also more recently their waterless wash product, whatever it is called. I believe they scratch cars.

I am using the leftovers as something I spray on after drying the car to give a little extra sheen.

[Chrishum]

I looked at these a few weeks ago and they made no sense I just couldn’t see how it was possible to use one without ruining my paint.

The immigrants or the IMO rollers are probably safer.

[Belle427]

Not waterless but optimum no rinse is supposed to be pretty good, not tried it myself.