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Old 07-29-06, 11:03 AM
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Anybody use this on there vehicle?? Does anyone one recomend it?
Old 07-29-06, 11:12 AM
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Sorry people, I rekindled my friendship with the search button and found a bunch of info on the subject.
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Anybody use this on there vehicle?? Does anyone one recomend it?
Heard from several media places that it is very good but you have to buy the replacement filters. Very clean and No water marks.
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It works I've tried it but it's really kind of a pain because you always have to connect and disconnect it from your regular hose nozzle and the filtered water spray is kind of weak so it takes awhile before you can rinse off the whole car. You don't need to use their soap though just use any other carwash soap the main thing is that you need to replace the filters fairly often for it to be effective.
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As I have said before on this topic, I think it is a huge waste of money. The amount of water pressure it has when in spot free mode takes forever to rinse your car clean.. You could have dried it 2 times over by hand.. Also the soap and filters are expensive and there seem to always be water spots anyways.." running down from mirrors, ect.."

That is just my .2
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It'll be great if someone can find a big filter like one that was made for a sink/shower application that we can rig to hook onto a hose that filters out water minerals and have a strong spray at the same time.
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Originally Posted by ba-b4
It'll be great if someone can find a big filter like one that was made for a sink/shower application that we can rig to hook onto a hose that filters out water minerals and have a strong spray at the same time.
Something like this?
http://www.pwgazette.com/gardenhosefilters.htm

It'll probabaly lower your water pressure. And you would still have to dry your car because i dont think it'll filter much.

There was this professional system that somebody posted before. Cost a few hundred bucks and works best with a high pressure sprayer.
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Originally Posted by ba-b4
It'll be great if someone can find a big filter like one that was made for a sink/shower application that we can rig to hook onto a hose that filters out water minerals and have a strong spray at the same time.
I'm thinking about running a line from the water softner to the garage only for washing the vehicle.
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How about something like this? Replacement filter is kind of expensive.

http://www.griotsgarage.com/catalog....1001&SKU=37244
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Found the old post.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...light=spotless
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^ wow pretty awesome thanks.. those will be much better than the stupid mr. autoclean!
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