Preventing Hard Water Spots?

[seth1066]

We have terrible water in my town, which has a separate water supply from the county. One county away, Loudoun, the water is much less prone to spotting.

Looking for a solution. I have to use three chamois, because the car has to be dried immediately.

Waht do you use and has anyone tried this method I found on the web:

"Use a mixture of about 1/2 cup Borax to 5 gallons of water and rinse your car.
The Borax is a water softener and will eliminate hard water spotting. Works best
with warm to hot water since the Borax is a powder. You may also mix in a 5 gallon
bucket and rinse that way by making the mix and dumping the mix onto your car."

[yalerd]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

Maybe getting a filter and installing it.

[Ryan L.]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

I agree with Francis, installing a spot less filter on the hose or even a stand alone for the house is going to be your best bet.

Ryan

[Mort Corey]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

My area has pretty hard water and a membrane type filter won't help much. I go through four or five drying towels and use compressed air to blow out the nooks and crannies. Even at that, it still takes a little QD to fine tune things afterwards. I think either Gold Class or NXT (or both) have water softening agents incorporated into their formula. I've never tried Borax, but it just hits me the wrong way for some reason......maybe it's thinking of all those mule droppings getting on my paint

Mort

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

I seem to remember on the old forum, that someone had the same problem. His solution was to go to Wal-mart and he bought a RV filter kit. It was around $50.00 and he said it was doing the job. It may be worth your while to check it out.

[Daniel Kinder]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

I have the same problem at work with hard water and agree with Mort Corey about using a quik detailer to remove the water spots.

I use shampoo plus to wash the vehicles then after rinsing I take off the nozzle and let the water flow off starting from the top down so as to make drying faster and easyer and then I still have water spots to deal with, so next I use last touch diluted 1:1 to remove the water spots and it leaves an almost waxed finish.

[ajb39oh]

Re: Preventing Hard Water Spots?

I also have hard water. I use the Mr. Clean car washer to rinse since it has a built in softener. Makes drying easier for sure.