Mr. Clean AutoDry

I've only heard good things about it and plan on getting one.

Read somewhere that the Mr. Clean deal uses a filter like the Pur faucet filters. Supposedly by filtering out most impurities and deionizing the water there's nothing left in the water to make the water "spot." It'd be like washing the car with distilledor reverse osmosis water. If you washed alot it could get pricey. you can get much the same effect with good soft water by letting the water sheet over the car instead of spraying it. Let the water run out of the hose at a low pressure & volume and it will generally dry very nicely, IF you have soft water.

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at 20 Feb 2004, Patrick [ snipped-for-privacy@aol.com] wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:

Haven't tried it. Know you can get $5 off though. :-)

From what I gather it uses PUR brand filters to soften the water and remove impurities. Not that I'd really need that as I have a KinetCo whole house softener/purifier. The idea sounds nice but I fear it's the ole Polaroid trick. Give 'm the unit cheap then soak 'm on the supplies.

I'm gonna stick to my pressurewasher and sponge and Zymol shampoo routine. Not wanting to waste the money even for using it on my wife's daily driver. Unless I get a unit free. :-)

As of a year or two ago, it's illegal for me to wash my car in my driveway and let the suds run into the sewer!

Afghanistan? Iraq? Where do you live?

LOL... Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They said phosphates were poisoning our local streams, rivers, lakes.

I picked 1 up last week for 14.99 at Autozone, works just like it says, I didn't use the soap that it comes with tho, only used it for the filter on final rinse. dried great, not 1 bit of spotting on my black car.

I can't see it. Amsoil sells something like this too, but it seems to me you're grinding the dirt down on your paint. Besides, after that ad during the SB I'm really not interested.

Okay THAT is not what I was thinking of. Either the ad I saw was for a different Mr Clean auot product or I was so taken aback by the stupidity of the ad that I didn't nothce much about the product...

I got a $5.00 off coupon so I bought it, figuring I'd only be wasting $13.00. Much to my surprise, it worked really, really well... I don't know how expensive it will be to operate over a long period of time, but it does work and I'll keep using it on both my '03 Mach and my '66 coupe show car.

you're grinding the dirt down on your paint.

Just exactly how do you wash your car? Do you use some kind of electro-laser-gizmo that disentegrates dirt & dust. This system is is all about the conventional way of washing the car... its "magic" is really in the filtered rinse.

exactly, how much do the replacement filters cost, and how long do they last ?

pressurewasher ? that could damage your car if you're not careful.... Remove NO-SPAM from email address when replying

you're kidding... Man, the enviro nazi's have struck bad up there... I thought phosphates were removed from soaps long time ago ? Sounds to me like they fixed the wrong end. Need to treat it at the source.

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Did you have to do any drying ? I live in AZ and the water is rock hard. On top of that, it's warm to hot in summer so I always need to keep rinsing the parts I am drying otherwise it will dry up and leave nasty spots/streaks

How long do the filters last ? how much is a replacement ?

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I didn't check replacement filter prices at autozone,, however I did notice the filters and soap refills being sold at grocery stores (Food Lion, Albertsons) for 5.99, you know Autozone will be cheaper than that.

at 21 Feb 2004, Rein [ snipped-for-privacy@NO-SPAMyahoo.com] wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Yup. That's my main concern here. Not only filters but I believe the shampoo is in a custom container as well...

*grin* I am aware of that. I use it on a 'wide' setting and keep it at an angle and far enough away from the cars. It does worksreal well in that mode to rinse of dirt and grime. Then I use it's low power mode to soap up the car and grab my trusty sponge and suds for a real good cleaning. :-) After which I use the washer again to rinse and an 'abosrber' shammy to dry. The water used is already filtered by our wholehouse KinetCo system and leaves very little spots.

Works real well, basically it's what those 'DIY' car washes use as well, pressurewasher technology but on low enough power and wide enough setting as not to harm the paint. But yeah, use the 'circular' wand or the pencil setting and you'll drill through your paint real quick if you get the wand close enough.

Actually the "shampoo" pours into a reservoir, I didn't use their soap, but it's pretty much set up to use any soap you want.

at 21 Feb 2004, KellyJ [ snipped-for-privacy@bellsouth.net] wrote in news:sLQZb.12753$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews3.bellsouth.net:

Cool! I didn't know that. Maybe I'll get oen of them if the get priced low enough and see if I can bypass the PUR filters as I don't need those with already purified/softened water. May make a handy washing tool...

I didn't try it on my beater. I use it on the Bullitt. I have a private well for my water here, not filtered, and this thing works just as advertised. What you might not be aware of is that this is a single hand-held plastic unit that attaches to your hose, and the soap goes in the reservior, and the filter goes in it's niche, and you use the three-way dial to select the rinse, soap, and dry. Since the Bullitt is black, any spotting is horribly obvious, and the Mr. Clean does a very good job of preventing that. Of course, it isn't fool-proof; if you have water dribbling out of the crevices after you've washed it, you'll want to dry those off, and not leave it. It's also a bit awkward to use the hand unit. It's bulky, and the hose coupling doesn't swivel as well as it should, making it difficult to use with one hand. I think it might benefit from a whip connection with a better swivel (read: not plastic). Also, I prefer to keep the sponge in hand as I go, and you pretty much need two hands to switch from soap mode to rinse. As far as the soap and filter go, they recommend that you don't use any other soap but theirs, because it will clog the unit. I haven't tried any other soaps; if it ain't broke, don't fix it, as they say. The filters can be bought locally here for just over $5 apiece at WalMart, and 20 oz. of the soap is just over $4. The filter that came with the kit is supposed to be for 3 uses, but unless it turns brown, it's supposed to still be good. All the regular rules of washing a car still apply: don't do it in full sun, don't do it if the car surface is too hot; don't let the soap dry on the car. If you have water spots already on the car, you'll need to remove them first, and if you get rained on after, you can expect the same results as you always get when your car gets rained on and you can't dry it right away. No magic there.

I'm thinking that, for the sake of convenience, I'm going to try using the soap in a bucket, and use a conventional spray head for the rinse and after that, I'll switch to the unit for it's filtered dry. But as far as the product goes, I recommend it. It isn't often that you come across something that does what it's supposed to do, but this does. Amazing.

Oh, and just a side note: when you buy the kit, read the literature that comes with it. The enclosed f.a.q. is pretty funny, and from it's tone, I think a car guy (or gal) wrote it.