I think you are doing it right, the problem is the cold temp. For some reason, I've found the colder it is, the harder it is to dry the rinseless wash. It can streak in colder temperatures. What I do when it's cold is go around the car again with a quick detailer (not a waterless wash). For whatever reason, QD play better at cold temps. Prima Slick is a top notch QD to use for this. It's thicker than WW or RW and wipes off better in the cold.
I have been doing a Water Waster Rinseless Wash. This is where I just use one high quality sheep skin wash mor, but I rinse it out with a hose before putting it in the rinse bucket. By the time it's in the wash bucket, its clean as new and the solution never gets dirty.
But, with the cold weather, I think the GDWM makes a lot more sense and have been meaning to do it. This is what I see are the ADVANTAGES to his method
1. No, none, zero dirt get replaced into wash media
2. You can make less rinseless solution because of it, so you will save money.
3. You only need to drag one bucket to the wash site and around the car - and it can be a much smaller bucket. This is huge for people like me who often drag an arsenal of stuff to a coin-op in the winter to wash.
4. It's faster to do. You don't have to fill a second bucket and you don't have to rinse any towels and wring out all the rinse water. Clean up outside would also be faster.
5. If you don't try and overuse the towel surface it should be safer, as you are always using clean solution.
6. You don't need a grit guard.
7. If you don't use all your solution, you could save it in the bucket for the next wash since its clean, as you could do this method 2 towels at a time
8. It's more feasible to use distilled water for someone like me. If I wanted to do a rinseless 2BW with DI water, I would have to buy like 9 gallons of water - I'm just not doing that. I can probably do a whole car with two gallons with the GDWM. If you use a deionizer, your resin would last longer.
Disadvantage
1. You have to wash more towels and use more microfiber detergent.
The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. While you will have to wash more towels and put them away, I can do that part in my nice warm house.
How many towels would I use to do a GDWM on a Pathfinder? Not to include drying towels.
