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Offline herbie911

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What to wash your car after snow foam?
« on: 08 December 2009, 12:12 »
Sea sponge vs microfibre sponge vs Lambswool mitt

I am currently using a lambswool mitt from Meguiar. I just can't get used to using it. Maybe I got small hands!
Bought some microfibre sponge yesterday.  Just waiting for it to be delivered. Just wonder whether anyone here had tried the sponges before?
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Offline kdiz

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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #1 on: 08 December 2009, 12:19 »
The reason why mitts are better is because the grit gets pushed to the middle of it so you don't rub it around the car, every sponge I have seen will rub it around the paintwork and cause mini-scratches.

Not really used the microfibre sponges but I am guessing they aren't too dissimilar to normal sponges. Maybe try a different smaller wash mitt  :smiley:
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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #2 on: 08 December 2009, 14:15 »
Thanks for the quick reply. Just wonder why they cannot do a 'lambs wool' sponge?
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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #3 on: 08 December 2009, 14:27 »
the microfibre ones might be ok but not sure how they compare to a wash mitt could be and more than likely will be worse, they will be better than a normal sponge though and if you use grit guards in the buckets it will lessen the damage that they will cause.
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Offline herbie911

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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #4 on: 08 December 2009, 14:33 »
I ordered those sponges yesterday. Will try it out this weekend and let everyone know!

PS. I use 3 bucket. Hopefully this will minimise damage!
One for bodywork
One for wheels
One with water only
« Last Edit: 08 December 2009, 14:36 by herbie911 »
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Offline Guy

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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
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Offline nogrille

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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #6 on: 08 December 2009, 16:09 »
one bucket with a grit guard for me, lambs wool wash mitt will always win hands down.  I've tried sea sponge and grout sponge and always gone back to the mitt.
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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #7 on: 08 December 2009, 20:24 »
Having used a mitt for a long time I tried a natural sponge at the weekend.  I was impressed with the washing and results. Still seems to be a divide between mitts and natural sponges.
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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #8 on: 08 December 2009, 20:31 »
you need to WASH after snowfoam  :shocked: i must be doing summat wrong  :lipsrsealed:

Jetwash - snowfoam - jetwash - once round the block to dry off then into the garage to finish off the drying.

Must be the TOP JOB done by www.tonavaleting.com  :cool:

all this on a car which hadnt been wax for many a year .

Still beads to the MAX and the dirt just runs off after the snowfoam  :cool:
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Re: What to wash your car after snow foam?
« Reply #9 on: 09 December 2009, 08:21 »
From personal experience, snow foam can only manage to remove 50% of grit on my daily driver. Its like prewash in a washing cycle. You still need to do the main wash! :wink:
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