Corvette_Ed

I daily drove my C5 for three years, rain or shine, and used waterless wash only. It works just fine as long as you do it right.

Scuba Ghost

Leaf blower for anywhere water gets trapped.

Jim2003

I use my stihl gas powered blower over the whole car, then drymanymspots with my soft towels. Never had water come out of my tail lights.

dcarter0001

You should move

LoganExplosion

Ridiculous statements. Guess brooms, vacuum cleaners and mops are worthless ideas too? NOBODY WANTS PORTABLE LIQUIDS OR CLEAN FLOORS!!

What grinds my gears, is when people blow their sand/yard trash into the street. Oh! Great! It's clean two feet from your curb and nowhere else. That'll do I suppose. Then they wonder why their yard gets lower and lower over the years.. Blow those clippings back into the yard, imbecile!

RC4G

So you use waterless wash inside the wheel wells, underbody, wheel barrels, engine compartment etc. ?

RC4G

and how exactly how much of that "small yard" do you have to mow, weed-eat and edge on a regular basis?

Having a nice little house in the woods is great but not really applicable when it comes to needing certain types of lawn equipment. If I lived in a boathouse on a lake somewhere I could say I have no use for a leaf-blower either. For many of us though, that is not the case.

I own 4.25 acres in a deed restricted community (permits 1 horse per acre but no livestock). Of that 4.25 acres app. 2.5 is managed front and back yard leaving the remaining acreage unimproved including a good size pond that has bass, perch and some ridiculously sized bull-frogs.. The 60+ trees spread out in the 2.5 acres drop a volume of leaves that if left unattended would kill large sections of grass in the yard and wreak havoc with my pool (both from a water quality and equipment filtration standpoint).

So yes, for those of us that it is not feasible for nature to do our lawn maintenance a leaf blower is an invaluable tool in our shop.

2L8LUZ

Can someone please explain this "Water-less Cleaning?

Spray fluid and just wipe down?

Corvette_Ed

Yes, except for the wheels. Those I pull off the car and wash with soap and water once every couple of months, but for spot cleaning between the deep cleaning, yes, I use waterless wash on them too.

Corvette_Ed

RC4G

That video shows using waterless cleaner on basically a clean car. Might be an option for a lightly diusted car where the contaminents are only attached due to static.

Wiping a really dirty car down (puddle dirt or dried bugs) after lightly misting with a waterless cleaner is just going to push dried debris around on your finish.

Detail sprays (waterless cleaners) are great for quick touch-ups but to offer them up as a sole solution for keeping your car clean just isn't viable for cars driven in the real world.

Corvette_Ed

That was just an example I grabbed quickly from YouTube to answer his question. To use on a dirty car just use a greater amount of spray, and a lot more towels. There is also a difference between a detail spray and a waterless wash. Waterless wash has more lubricity, so the dirt floats and doesn't scratch the paint. That's why I like Gary Deane's Infinite Use Detail Juice. It can be mixed as either a detail spray or a waterless wash.

Mikey_T

I like the hole idea. I also use rinse-less wash in my garage, however I pre-spray the car down with a large pump garden sprayer filled with the Optimum No Rinse before washing the car down. I still get water pooled in the lights.

the kid C6

Detail sprays and waterless wash are two different products. Waterless wash have more lubricity. Imho, people who don't like them aren't using enough product. Dead bugs slide right off.

RE real world, my C6 is a daily driver.

If Bruze would like to give me his house, maybe.

jost6453

Waterless wash might be OK, but I like to take my GS to the self-spray car wash primarily clean out the inner fenders and wheel barrels. I painted my barrrels black so a good spray down and they look clean enough....

JustDennis

I use my leaf blower to dry my vette and bikes. Thought that was what it was for

TomdaToolman

Only 1000' more and you got your own drag strip!

Joe1968ny

also

Ok so my 2013 GS has never been washed since the day I bought it 5 years ago. Or driven in the rain. Use dry wash and California duster , clay bar once a year cleaner wax and finish wax .

Bruze

Less and less. Since I bought it in 1981 I've let nature take back a lot of the yard. I hate lawn mowing so it all works out. But I do have to beat back the brush and trees now and then, or they would take over my whole yard.

I have a walk-behind mower (I like the exercise) and if I do my whole yard it takes about 45 minutes. But there is so much shade here the grass doesn't grow that well (yay!) so I only have to do the whole yard every week in the first couple of months in the spring.

FWIW: The leaves that fall here (and there are a lot) stay right where they are all winter, and in the spring after I mow the lawn a couple of times they are gone. Doesn't hurt the grass at all. It is a natural process, after all.

This is a serious question: Where do you blow the leaves to? Doesn't the wind -- fickle as it is -- likely blow them back in a day or two?

Who said "You should move" . . . ?

Jermo

Hands down, buy a master blaster, you wont be sorry. Love mine