No-Rinse Wash... Mitt or Microfiber?

[imported_Luster]

When you use ONR or QEW, do you use a wash mitt or a big thick microfiber towel for the wash process?

Recently, I've started using microfibers for washing... The thick ones hold an incredible amount of water and do a good job washing.

What's your choice?

 

[Street Dreams]

I prefer the MF mitts to lambswool or foam. They hold a lot of water and glide smoothly with ONR. With a high lubricity shampoo, lambswool mitts work great, same for foam sponges like the zymol but with ONR MF mitts works really well.

 

[Old Pirate]

Bill, I being using a sponge when washing with ONR.

 

[gmblack3]

I have 3-4 very plush larger MFs that I use for QEW. I can't remember where I got them. Just remember to flip your MF or whatever you use often to a clean side. Especially when the surface has excessive dirt.

 

[imported_Pats300zx]

I love my grout sponge with ONR....

 

[bigpoppa]

I have 3-4 very plush larger MFs that I use for QEW. I can't remember where I got them. Just remember to flip your MF or whatever you use often to a clean side. Especially when the surface has excessive dirt.

+1

IME very plush MF mitts (mine are the Vroom brand from Target) are the way to go when using a rinseless wash. They hold a ton of solution and just overall work/feel better than lambswool when using ONR/QEW.

 

[Mobilejay]

I've always used a Schmitt with ONR and regular washing. Theres no fibers to get things trapped in so nothing is "hiding" ready to come out later. Its foam so its really soft and glides very well, plus it holds a lot of solution wether ONR or any other wash.

 

[imported_Luster]

I've always used a Schmitt with ONR and regular washing. Theres no fibers to get things trapped in so nothing is "hiding" ready to come out later. Its foam so its really soft and glides very well, plus it holds a lot of solution wether ONR or any other wash.

Not familiar with a "Schmitt"... Is it a microfiber mitt? Got a picture?

 

[Mobilejay]

Check out this video. They keep saying Edge Schimtt, now they are owned by IAP but exact same product. the white part is REALLY soft and holds a ton of shampoo

crap, forgot to post the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhifjp2dXQ

 

[Mobilejay]

The only thing I don't recommend is using it like in the video, don't put your hand inside it. You can and it works great, but after a while the glue that holds the yellow to the white will start to come apart. It doesn't happen after 2 washes or anything but I use them everyday for work and after a while they start to seperate. Using them with out putting my hand inside I have no problems at all.

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

I still haven't been sold on this ONR method, seems to go against everything I've ever known(Scratching/Swirling)

Another thing, how do you use this method on dirty tires/wheels?

 

[imported_Luster]

The only thing I don't recommend is using it like in the video, don't put your hand inside it. .

Haha... I never put my hand inside mitts anyway because my hands are too dang BIG!!!:biggrin::cursing::biggrin::devil:

 

[imported_Luster]

I still haven't been sold on this ONR method, seems to go against everything I've ever known(Scratching/Swirling)

If done properly, it induces no more scratching and swirling than a conventional wash... the key is to USE LOTS OF WATER!!!! I really slop it on and use almost no pressure.

I was skeptical also, but I used QEW for years on a black car with remarkably little swirling. But there was a learning curve. :biggrin:

Another thing, how do you use this method on dirty tires/wheels?

Same as a conventional wash... just use lots of water/ONR and scrub away. I'm not saying it will do as well as a conventional wash on wheels and tires... but it's a really good substitute if you have time or weather limitations.

 

[imported_broker99]

I use a grout sponge as well. Does a good job at picking up the water and releasing it as well.

 

[imported_Pats300zx]

Not familiar with a "Schmitt"... Is it a microfiber mitt? Got a picture?

I would never trust the schmitt for ONR or QEW...

Here you go Bill...

 

[imported_Luster]

I would never trust the schmitt for ONR or QEW...

Here you go Bill...

Thanks Pat.... I haven't tried the grout sponge, but I'm going to pick some up this weekend.

 

[Street Dreams]

I still haven't been sold on this ONR method, seems to go against everything I've ever known(Scratching/Swirling)

Another thing, how do you use this method on dirty tires/wheels?

To be honest I wont use ONR on my own car. Flat black, easily marred paint scares me with ONR... but I have not tried it so I can say it wont work wonderfully.

But in a pinch, or when a customers car is already clean it really is a time saver.. and you use so little water.

Any LIGHT damage (if any) you may inflict using ONR, your correction work will remove within the first few passes and just about any polish.

 

[imported_Luster]

To be honest I wont use ONR on my own car. Flat black, easily marred paint scares me with ONR... but I have not tried it so I can say it wont work wonderfully.

But in a pinch, or when a customers car is already clean it really is a time saver.. and you use so little water.

Any LIGHT damage (if any) you may inflict using ONR, your correction work will remove within the first few passes and just about any polish.

I almost always use it on customer cars because it's fast. I figure I'm going to polish it anyway, so if any minor scratching does take place they'll be buffed out with the polishing process...

For my own cars, I use it during the winter months (in the garage), when conventional washing is impossible due to the weather.

 

[Going Mobile]

I came to this thread late, but ...

For me, this subject has been a "Grail" type search.

IMO, when selecting "wash media," my focus is on where are the dirt particles going as I'm cleaning the surface. I want the WM to take up some of the particles and not just drag it or spread it along the paint surface, and that's why the Schmitt makes me uneasy. Whether I'm using a grout sponge or a MF mitt/towel, I'm going to be moving it across a grit guard to get out as many particles as I can before reapplying.

Grout sponges seem to work fine for me, but at the moment, I'm partial to (and just more comfortable with) thick MF mitts and/or towels. What I like about using ONR is that yes, the MF does get blackened with dirt, and some of it you can't rinse out, but this lets me know when I need to change MF's.

As for wheels, I am currently spraying on some P21s wheel cleaner or an APC, then brush off using my ONR solution, sometimes spraying a little H2O or ONR solution with a bug sprayer (which I just broke) to get off excess cleaner. I do one wheel at a time and it works fine.

 

[imported_Bunky]

I had been using a chenille dread lock wash mitt with rinseless but this weekend I tried a plusher microfiber towel (AG 530 towel) and it worked pretty good. Interestingly, it did not stain (retain grime) as much as in prior washes as the mitt did but maybe the vehicle was cleaner than normal.