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Originally Posted by Theruleslawyer
Those battery and bucket ones are interesting. I don't have a hose near the garage for some insane reason and hooking up both power and water is always a PITA.
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You truly don't need anything more than
a hydroshot and bucket ever for any reason. The only reason pros (should) use pressure washers is for speed, i.e., to do many cars fast.
I have the Kranzle + CR Spotless setup, and it's great n all but for DIYers it's purely for fun and totally unnecessary.
For DIYers a pressure washer is purely a toy.
I consider this the master setup:
It's basically Home Depot buckets full of de-ionized water & N914 waterless wash I get at the grocery store along with the smallest hydroshot, which has the benefit of a sprayer nozzle with a watering setting versus only the power settings.
The reason this is the sweet setup is because it's always 100% ready to go, so I can wash my X5 in 20 min including setup & cleanup.
After loads of testing, I use chenille mitts and
the Garry Dean method.
So 1 of those buckets is for spraying down the car with rinseless wash, and another is for wetting down the mitts. After each pass the dirty mitt goes into the dirty bucket, I grab a clean mitt, dip it, do the next section, and repeat around the whole car. Then I dry the whole car with The Rag Co Twistresses.
I have drawers of TRC microfiber, but really only use the chenille mitts and microfiber madness large pads for the roof & hood
Then every month or so I'll do a 2nd pass with a water-based sealant; the best one IME is Turtle Wax Seal-n-Shine and if you want pop do a topper of TW Ice Spray Wax which has carnauba.
I don't do ceramic coatings on my paint (only wheels) because for me it's a complete waste as every 12-18 months I like to polish the car (which is also noobie simple & safe) so I'd just be polishing off the ceramic
and *functionally* there's zero difference between monthly applied water-based sealants and 1,000 year duration resin-based ceramics.