Perpetual Water Spots

**Older** · 07-25-2018, 07:20 AM

My daily driver sits outside. Most mornings it`s covered with dew. Which then burns off, leaving small water spots.

I`ve yet to find a solution to this.

Any suggestions?

PS: I`m not going to cover it at night.

PSS: It looks great from more than 1 foot away.

**showbbq** · 07-25-2018, 07:53 AM

Do you have any kind of lsp on there? Some are pretty good at staying clean

**Older** · 07-25-2018, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by showbbq

Do you have any kind of lsp on there? Some are pretty good at staying clean

I have 2 coats of FK1000p.

The spots are very small. A normal person wouldn`t even notice them. I guess that says something about me.

**Stokdgs** · 07-25-2018, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Older

I have 2 coats of FK1000p.

The spots are very small. A normal person wouldn`t even notice them. I guess that says something about me.

If you were to experiment and spray some water on car, do you get the same type spots ?
Dan F

**Lonnie** · 07-25-2018, 08:55 AM

Have you ever tried washing the water spotted area with white vinegar, car soap, and water mixture? I say car soap to add some lubrication , BUT it does neutralize the vinegar acid (acetic acid), which is what you want to cut (dissolve) the mineral deposits (AKA water spots). You could try a 50/50 mix of water and white vinegar in a quart mixing cup/bowl, and then a FEW drops of you favorite car soap, wash the affected area, then rinse, and THEN was the entire car like you usually do.

I tried Meg`s Consumer Line of Water Spot Remover, but it swirled my black Ford Freestyle when done by hand, and I demoted it to cleaning windows, which it does a very good job of removing mineral deposits on glass. I bought Optimum`s Mineral Deposit Remover to replace it, but have not used it yet.

**Accumulator** · 07-25-2018, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Stokdgs

If you were to experiment and spray some water on car, do you get the same type spots ?
Dan F

I`d do that experiment with Distilled or Deionized water to avoid the chance of an "oops!"

My Solution#2 would be to rinse it off with a pressure washer using Deionized water.

(Solution#1 would be to just not care

)

**Older** · 07-25-2018, 06:08 PM

All good suggestions. I just can’t be doing them almost every day for three seasons yearly. Especially at 5:30-7:30 in the morning.

I’m going to experiment with them just for fun.

The more I think about it,the long-term solution is apathy.

**KEVINS** · 07-25-2018, 10:22 PM

I apologize that I don`t have an answer for your question. I just wanted to post a thumbs up for CarPro Water Spot Remover and that if you needed to get rid of them then to give this a try. I was so overwhelmed by how well it worked I made a thread sometime ago:

CarPro Water Spot Remover - Results

My car got sprinkled on the other day so I will probably need to go over the entire car with it within the next few days and hopefully the new ceramic coating will make cleanup easier.

Good Luck!
ks

**tropicsteve** · 07-26-2018, 08:18 AM

do a baggie test for surface contamination the next time you give it a bath.

**Accumulator** · 07-26-2018, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Older

All good suggestions. I just can’t be doing them almost every day for three seasons yearly. Especially at 5:30-7:30 in the morning.

I’m going to experiment with them just for fun.

The more I think about it,the long-term solution is apathy.

Heh heh, sounds fine to me! Pick your battles...

**SWETM** · 07-27-2018, 09:36 AM

Is it something that the regualar wash takes care of? If so I would be fine with that. One thing would be to have a look at what you put on the fk1000p. With if you have anything added from the car soap in protection and glossenhancer or the spray wax/QD you are useing or anything else. Something that some QD is great with is that they contains a small amount of lime scale remover in them. The one I know of which is very great at removing water spots is Koch Chemie FSE QD. I`m not so comfortable to use QD on the car if it has been out in the environments. But a quick rinse and with great plush mf towels and a QD that feels like adding lubrication I would do it. I think that a waterless wash would be an option to and some of them seems great to handle new water spots. It`s more lubrication in a dedicated waterless wash so if you live in an environment that don`t get you that of a dirty car a waterless could be an option too.

**Accumulator** · 07-27-2018, 12:57 PM

I *can* indeed get the "little spots from water getting on an unclean vehicle" with my FK1000P too..guess it`s that "why sheeting is better than beading" thing (FK1000P beads). They wash right off.

For a QD on the FK1000P, while FK425 or FK156 are the obvious choices, IUDJ works just as well for me, if not better. And it`s dirt-cheap compared to a "real QD".