Spotless Car Wash

[Mr. B]

Today at my fellow neighbor' driveway I saw the CR Spotless Water car wash system. This is a deionizator and it is compact and simple to use.

Below is a picture from Amazon and eBay. My fellow neighbor is very happy with this, and there are a lot of positive reviews about it on the Internet.

They are available in 100 gallon flow or 300 gallon flow, with price of $300 and $400 relatively.

I am going to order one for myself, and this thread is a share with any our forum members, in order to eliminate water spots especially on black color Interstates, or to save forty buck at every car wash station.

If anybody has a knowledge what is better to buy - 100 gallon or 300 gallon for an occasional private driveway usage - please share your knowledge!

[ROBERT CROSS]

I found this to be a less costly Solution.

They also have a filter


IMHO...
All Griot's stuff is first rate.

Bob

[AWCHIEF]

Car soap, bucket of water, sponge, several clean soft towels and bit of elbow grease. Cost est. $10. Results in a spotless shiny Airstream. A plus is some quality exercise doing something I like to do.

[ghaynes755]

CR Spotless, fantastic. Wash and then rinse with the CR. No drying required. No spots. See a nice video over at www.great-escape.us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-Ixu5pxQw

I use it on the cars and exterior windows on the house. Anything where you don't want water spots. And for car finishes no additional scratching, no matter how minor, from drying cloths.

[amirm]

Thanks guys. Seems like another thing I need to spend money on. It is timely as I was dreading having to figure out how to wash and dry my new Interstate.

[Mr. B]

There are two different CR systems is size of flow: 100 gallon and 300 gallon. I was not able to figure difference between them, beside the size of containers and the 100 buck in price.

Amirm, when you are ready to buy it I'm sure you'll make a research, share it with me.

[InterBlog]

Originally Posted by AWCHIEF

Car soap, bucket of water, sponge, several clean soft towels and bit of elbow grease. Cost est. $10. Results in a spotless shiny Airstream. A plus is some quality exercise doing something I like to do.

+1 and it's not the slightest bit difficult. Drying gives me a good upper body workout. Even a semi-cooperative teenager can execute this function, as this photo attests. My girl waxed the driver's side of our Interstate and I did the passenger side. The Invisible Interstate with hyper-reflective finish courtesy of Rejex. If not for the wheel trim and backup mirror sticking out, you'd barely know it was even parked there.

In many areas, even if the water can be cleaned of minerals and particulates, natural dust in the air will settle onto the vehicle and stick to it in the time it takes to air dry. Better to towel it, I think.

[UKDUDE]

Originally Posted by InterBlog

The Invisible Interstate with hyper-reflective finish courtesy of Rejex. If not for the wheel trim and backup mirror sticking out, you'd barely know it was even parked there.

Nice picture too!

[73shark]

Originally Posted by Mr. B

There are two different CR systems is size of flow: 100 gallon and 300 gallon. I was not able to figure difference between them, beside the size of containers and the 100 buck in price.

Amirm, when you are ready to buy it I'm sure you'll make a research, share it with me.

I thought the 100 gal and 300 gal referred to the amount of water used before the cartridge needed refilling/replacing.

[Ron_CA]

I use deionized water supplied by Evoqua (formerly Siemens). Much larger than the CR Spotless setup but essentially the same thing.

Started using it 6 or so years ago when I got my black sports car that I wanted to try an avoid swirl marks from drying with towels. Works great on the interstate and the black windows require no wiping and come out perfect every time.

[Mr. B]

Does anybody know the difference between 100 Gal and 300 Gal canister? Is a performance the same?

[Hittenstiehl]

Pick me, pick me, I know this answer: 200 gallons.



Forgive my moment of juvenile behaviour. Back to the previously scheduled thread.

[Mr. B]

Originally Posted by Hittenstiehl

Pick me, pick me, I know this answer: 200 gallons.



Forgive my moment of juvenile behaviour. Back to the previously scheduled thread.

Forgiven. They don't have 200

So, no one knows... Going to order 300 then.

[ghaynes755]

Operationally they are the same. 100 is much shorter. Resin, since there is less, will need more frequent replacement. But if you are planning to take it with you I would probably get the 100 size. Much more portable. Replacing resin isn't that hard to do.

[Mr. B]

Originally Posted by ghaynes755

Operationally they are the same. 100 is much shorter. Resin, since there is less, will need more frequent replacement. But if you are planning to take it with you I would probably get the 100 size. Much more portable. Replacing resin isn't that hard to do.

Thank you for advise!

[Mr. B]

Ordered 100 Gal system, and as a topicstarter will report upon its arrival and testing. Thanks everyone for involvement in the thread.

[Ron_CA]

Had my new Evoqua tank delivered today and asked the tech how many gallons of water it was good for. 900 gallons. I pay $30/month and order a new tank when the tank sensor tells me to which is a year or so.

[BTB]

You folks are so funny - 200 gallons indeed!

So "de-ionized water" is Reverse Osmosis water. Water is forced by pressure through a membrane with vewy vewy tiny holes in, so only the water, and not the salts and other stuff can get through. So when the water dries, nothing is left behind, i.e. no spots!

Same thing as under your sink.

The 100 gal or 300 gal will be a supposed measure of how many gallons per day the system can produce.

Toweling dry has the same effect, as virtually nothing is left on the vehicle to evaporate and leave pounds of salts behind.

[Ron_CA]

DI water Is Not the same as RO water.

[ghaynes755]

Ron beat me to a reply. CR uses resin to de-ionize and also filter the water. If you have a water particulate meter the CR will be 000 until the resin starts to 'wear out'. Easy to replace resin. RO is what BTB said. Many RO systems also have additional filters. But you don't want to drink DI water. Bad for your health, pets, plants and the like.