Would you wash your car with Dawn?

[spence82]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Some companies instruct that their products must be used after washing with a strong cleaner/degreaser like Dawn.

Yep...Mainly a Zaino thing.Used to use it.Great stuff though.

[rst08tierney]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Found the MSDS for dawn on line, check it out

http://216.178.79.158/leonardpaper/pub/msds/81300/P-08095.PDF

[Blue Apollo IV]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Use what you want but if it was harmless, why wouldn't P&G say go ahead and use it?

Very true, That's like turning away revenue.

I for one, will never use dish washing liquid on my cars.

[mis3]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Hard to believe that dish soap would hurt the paint and clear-paint. It is negligibly mild compared to road salt. Also, the dish soap is rinsed off right away while the road salt stays for days.

Many, many people have used Dawn and I never read of any complaint.

[rst08tierney]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Hard to believe that dish soap would hurt the paint and clear-paint. It is negligibly mild compared to road salt. Also, the dish soap is rinsed off right away while the road salt stays for days.

Many, many people have used Dawn and I never read of any complaint.

I think you dont hear any complaints because the people dont have any clue they are doing something thats not up to par. Those same people are also the ones who splurge the extra $2.00 at the drive through car wash to get their yearly wax job on there car as well.

I do agree that in the big picture road salts more harsh then dawn on the paint but your forgetting what road salts will do to plastic, metal and chrome, just like what dawn will do to plastics and rubber.

All in all like most car care its a personal preference.

Another tid bit to add on Dawn is my wife took our 2 golden retrievers to the vet on saturday. Sure enough we asked about flee control and the vet told us not to waste are money on flee shampoo any more and just to use Dawn dish soap since the chemical make-up will kill the flees on contact.


Side Note

I did start to brain storm a bit. Since people have turned to dawn for years to do their dishes and clean cars, what if Meguiars marketed a dish soap thats not only great on glass ware and dishes but would also be automotive friendly?

Think about the added product exposure. More people visit the grocery store then the auto parts store daily in america and across the globe. Im sure if Meguiars took a local survey at any grocery and asked customers if they wash their cars at home with dish soap the % would be quite high. Why not cash in on the people who have been doing this for years? Meguiars could then be found on one of the most visited isles in the grocery store and by doing so, more product awareness could be at the customers fingertips for future potential car care purchases.

[DavidSomers]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

I always use Dawn to wash my car. Since 2006. Nothing better.

[davey g-force]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

^^ Do you wax (or at least spray wax) after every wash?

[Blueline]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

If one doesn't care about stripping off wax, Dawn is a perfectly good soap for car washing. Before I got the waxing bug, I used to use Dawn, or anything I found under the kitchen sink, to wash my vehicles. It does not hurt the paint and it does not hurt rubber weather stripping. (myths) If it did there would be a lot of home dishwashers with some pretty awful hands, myself included.. Frankly, for the price, I would still use any dish soap, except for the fact that hours of detailing my car(s), would be basically washed away. It is a shame that to make a ph balanced soap, that won't strip wax, is so expensive to make, and pass on to the consumer. Big LOL, and tongue in cheek..

[Eldorado2k]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Try taking a bath with Dawn, and then spend the whole day in the backyard doing yardwork on a hot summer day, shirtless. No sunblock, and to make it a fair comparison you can't have even a glass of water.. Then lets see how pretty your hands look on your lobster colored torso the next day Lol.

Thanks to drinking fluids your skin stays hydrated and can even sweat to cool off without you even having to think about it.. On the other hand, a vehicle usually spends all day in the sun without any of those perks. And if 1 were to always wash with dishsoap it would eventually end up as dry as your sunburn.

Carwash > Dawn. No brainer.

[Blueline]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Try taking a bath with Dawn, and then spend the whole day in the backyard .

Human skin is a lot different than clearcoat. Skin absorbs, clearcoat absorbs nothing. On a vehicle, any soap residue would be hosed off, leaving only water (like rain) on the surface. Comparing a car left out in the sun to a person out in the sun, is simply ludicrous. A car doesn't die if you leave it without water for three days. Dishsoap is fine for someone who doesn't wax their car. (Unless of course you want to drink the Koolaid while doing work out in the back yard) LOL

[Eldorado2k]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

Ok that's fine, if it's good by you then that's all that matters. I'm not 1 to argue against something that works for you. I'm more than certain you know what you're doing when it comes to maintaining a vehicle.

[Damien]

Re: Would you wash your car with Dawn?

I find it difficult to understand why anyone would wash their vehicle with anything other than a product specially formulated for use on auto paint. But then again, I guess us lot on here tend to care about our vehicles more than the general public.

To some people a car is just a car.