New drying technique

Scott P

Scott P

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In the Grand Prix forum, there is a thread on drying. Here is one post I found a bit amusing. :)

I wash the car in the shade...then dry it with these heavy duty paper towels (more like throw away shop towles, they are blue) and the wax as you dry stuff, works pretty good, but when I dont do that, Instead of using the california blade, I use an old winshied wiper blade (cleaned of course) and becuase its old and broken in, that seems to work the best
 
1. Grand Prix owners are a strange lot.
2. This is a fine time to tell me this information. I already invested in all those MF towels and a couple of Absorbers.

Charles
 
I think it would be better not dry it at all... just let it "water-spot". :nono
 
Well i can finally get rid of those $20 a peice WW towels. Do you have any idea how many wiper blades I can get $60?

Greg
 
I think that the old wiper blades are such a good idea. I think that it would make polishing so much more fun. You could have a challenge getting all of those marks out.
 
GregCavi said:
Well i can finally get rid of those $20 a peice WW towels. Do you have any idea how many wiper blades I can get $60?

Greg
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Hey Greg, don't rush into anything.
Let me check my garage tomorrow. I might have some old wiper blades I could trade you for some of your WW towels. Just let me know how many WW towels you need to get rid of. Keep in mind that one wiper blade can do the work of several towels and it never needs to be wrung out or washed.

Charles :D
 
Scott P said:
I wash the car in the shade...then dry it with these heavy duty paper towels (more like throw away shop towles, they are blue) and the wax as you dry stuff, works pretty good, but when I dont do that, Instead of using the california blade, I use an old winshied wiper blade (cleaned of course) and becuase its old and broken in, that seems to work the best
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What the hell is wrong with you, man? Don't you know
children may be reading this forum? :hah :lmfao
 
Scott P said:
In the Grand Prix forum, there is a thread on drying. Here is one post I found a bit amusing. :)

I wash the car in the shade...then dry it with these heavy duty paper towels (more like throw away shop towles, they are blue) and the wax as you dry stuff, works pretty good, but when I dont do that, Instead of using the california blade, I use an old winshied wiper blade (cleaned of course) and becuase its old and broken in, that seems to work the best
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Dear God in Heaven!!!!!Even in my worst nightmares....I couldn't cook up something like that!
 
usdm said:
What the hell is wrong with you, man? Don't you know
children may be reading this forum? :hah :lmfao
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And I (child I guess...) actually thought it might work.... Does it?

what happened to a shamy?
 
raikko77 said:
And I (child I guess...) actually thought it might work.... Does it?

what happened to a shamy?
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Depends on your opinion of "work."
It would get rid of the water. So in that regard it does work.
However, you would "risk" (I suppose I could substitute "ensure" here) marring your paint. Shop towels (even the "Heavy Duty" ones) are not intended for gentle wiping of water from paint. There is no nap to them, so if you had any dirt blow onto the car between the time you rinsed and the time you wiped it, you would be dragging the dirt across the paint, thus marring it.
The wiper blade... Theoretically, it could work the same as a Water Blade. The problem there is that, again, if any dirt blows onto the car before you wipe it, you'll be dragging the dirt across the paint. Another risk with the wiper blade is that they have hard (and often times sharp) edges, that could "bump" or "graze" the paint, which, again, would mar the paint. Wipers have a fairly narrow strip of rubber, whereas the Water Blades have a fairly wide strip, thus allowing a bit more margin of error in handling it.
As to the Shammy, if you are referring to the man-made synthetic, again, there is no nap, and WW mf's are often preferred over them. If you mean natural leather chamois, it's been suggested that there is friction from using them that removes some of the wax, each time you dry the car, thus reducing the "lifespan" of your wax.

Hope this helps.
 
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