Ionic Rinse Systems

I've been thinking about this...the water around here is really hard. I have a water softener at home, but the outside faucets bypass the softener (lest all that softened water get used up watering the lawn, etc.). At work we have deionizing systems (for supplying spot-free rinse water) that have to be periodically regenerated by the supplier.



I'm sure that companies like Culligan would supply DI (deionization) or RO (reverse osmosis) systems that I could plumb up (inside, in my basement) to my car wash faucet, however that seems pretty nuts...but maybe not to you Autopians. If I just plumbed in my soft water, that would help, not sure if that's a good intermediate solution.



Why do we want DI rinse water again? Is it to prevent spots? Speed drying by not having to get all the drops because they won't spot? Should we get mini-blowers like Bill D and others?
 
I have been having pretty good luck with one of these filters.



http://www.pwgazette.com/gardenhosefilters.htm



These filters by themselves do a pretty good job of decreasing water spotting but I am still drying my cars by hand using MF waffle towels. If you let the car air dry you will still get some spotting. But they don't seem to be "real" water spots. They will wipe right off with QD and a MF towel. Where a water spot from tap water will leave a "permanent" spot that must be polished off.

One experiment that I tried was attaching the Mr Clean filter to the hose on the big inline water filter. It got the water even cleaner and kept the Mr Clean filter from clogging so fast.
 
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