My $35 pad washer

**ExoticAutoDetai** · 01-05-2011, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by AudiFanatic

After looking around at all the available pad cleaning options, I was a little baffled by the price tag of these pad cleaning systems. I then came across this video of how the grit guard washer works.

http://www.palmbeachmotoring.net/asc...ad-washer.html

After watching the video and realizing how simple the pad washer is, I decided to just build my own. So after 20 minutes of walking around lowes and $35 later, here is what I have come up with:

The washer functions very similarly to the grit guard one. I did a quick test run with just water and a heavily caked up orange lake country pad with phenominal results. I`m thinking I need to tweak the splash cover a little bit to make it more accessable. I`ll be detailing a car for a client tommorow so I will give it a full test run in the morning. Let me know what you guys think.

Hopefully you`ll find the receipt to guide me what I need and how to do it to build one like urs!!! You would be a money life saver!!

Exotic Auto Detail via tapatalk

**AudiFanatic** · 01-05-2011, 11:59 PM

Sorry guys, been extremely busy, I will try to make a parts breakdown this weekend.

**ExoticAutoDetai** · 01-06-2011, 07:37 PM

Thanks buddy take your time

so you don`t forget an important step or part

Exotic Auto Detail via tapatalk

**photoadjuster** · 01-08-2011, 10:14 PM

<< No kidding. The price Lake Country and Grit Guard charge for their pad cleaners is a bit rediculous >>

You did a great job on this. To be fair to Lake Country, I would like to point out that the cost to have all of the dies made to injection mould the plastic parts is extremely high. Since they are not going to sell a million of them, the unit price of each must be high enough to recover the cost of the dies.

**imported_Peco** · 01-09-2011, 02:38 AM

Im very interested in this too!

**Nopstnz8** · 01-09-2011, 04:13 PM

Looks great! This looks better than me dunking my pads in solution then spinning them in the air to dry. I`ll be building one probably in the Spring. Thanks.

**AZN_C300** · 01-10-2011, 05:19 PM

Lowes match competitor`s coupons also. With this $10 off $30 coupon, it`ll bring this down to $25. Now just need the part list

**Muffclnr** · 01-26-2011, 02:48 PM

Where did you find the springs?

**sullysdetailing** · 01-26-2011, 05:12 PM

Can you give us a part list please

**imported_PaPaHoFF** · 02-04-2011, 07:18 PM

Very Interesting. I thought of making something like this and this gives me all the more reason.

**sacdetailing** · 02-05-2011, 03:23 AM

Autopians these days... lol... soon somebody will create a rotary or DA from backyard junk.. lol

just a joke! cook project btw!

**Nopstnz8** · 02-29-2012, 02:31 AM

Bump. Anyone else ever build one of these and have a sorta DIY or at least complete parts list?

**Nopstnz8** · 03-01-2012, 01:59 PM

Seriously? No one has a DIY on something this useful?

**GBynum** · 03-10-2014, 03:55 PM

I hope you don`t mind. I managed to recreate your pad washer, so I wrote up specific instructions.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ad-washer.html