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Offline JDM82

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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #10 on: 12 June 2011, 13:22 »
Ok great cheers when I save up enuf cash to buy the migures stuff I'll try it. Have tried deman shine and still leaves water marks makes no diferance.

So I use a micro fibre cloth to take water off like a chamy?
That can't work as good as a chamy to get the water off tho can it?

http://www.waxamomo.co.uk/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=84&idcategory=79

Buy one of these and bin the chamy mate  :wink:

http://www.waxamomo.co.uk/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=107&idcategory=26

I use this and it works great  :smiley:
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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #11 on: 12 June 2011, 14:53 »
i use demon shine everytime with no water marks... maybe the way you use it lol
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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #12 on: 12 June 2011, 15:36 »
i use demon shine everytime with no water marks... maybe the way you use it lol

alot of the time the water marks seem to dry on before i get a chance to rins.

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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #13 on: 12 June 2011, 16:21 »
i use demon shine everytime with no water marks... maybe the way you use it lol

alot of the time the water marks seem to dry on before i get a chance to rins.

You really need to wash your car in the shade or like I do, as the sun's going down   :cool:

The drying towel will make a massive difference too  :wink:
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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #14 on: 12 June 2011, 16:50 »
Yep, lose the chamois.  Nothing to do with your problem, they're just rubbish.

You like me obviously have hard water - mine is an absolute swine to rinse.  You can get all manor of filters and stuff to remove the lime from the water but none of them are particularly cheap or usable with low pressure hoses.

The likes of Demon Shine (you're effectively using it as drying aid) do help but note, there is more than one type of Demon Shine and you'll find varying degrees of success.  The one you buy in a spray bottle isn't as effective as the stuff which comes in the small jugs (I prefer larger ones though, sorry!).

Best option is to wash out of direct sunlight, dry with a proper drying towel and once you have a good protection coat (wax etc) by using a trickle from a hose or a watering can to sheet the water off, you will end up with far less spots.  The spray from a jet wash/squirty hose will make the problem worse but by "chasing" the water from the paint, you will end up with less remaing on there and therefore less to dry out in the first place.

If you still end up with the odd spot, use a spray quick detailer (there are products you can use as both quick detailers and drying aids) and a good micro fibre and you'll be good to go.  The better your polishing/sealing/waxing etc, the easier they'll come off.

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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #15 on: 12 June 2011, 17:08 »
Think we use the same hard water!

Even though i prep the paint, add a wax i still get water marks. Quick detailers dont seem to help.

I think the key is to wash and dry out of sunlight as said above.
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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #16 on: 13 June 2011, 20:41 »
I live in a hard water area too and used to get this problem when using auto glym shampoo conditioner, i don't think it rinsed off very well so if i wasn't super quick drying the car i'd get little white spots/runs.

I've since used Meguirs NXT shampoo (purple one) gold class and now using dodo juice supernatural and haven't had the issue with them at all, i'd steer clear of wash-wax type shampoo's with black paint mate, get a shampoo and a wax and see how you get on and +1 on doing it out of direct sun. :wink:
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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #17 on: 14 June 2011, 13:35 »
So can I buy these products from most car shops or are they only bought online.
Would a clay bar work?
I used to use miguers clay bar on my old calibra and it was great.
But then again it was silver not black.

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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #18 on: 16 June 2011, 13:13 »
you could use one of those window squeegy type things for cars to get most of the water off, then chamoix afterwards?

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Re: bloooooooody water marks
« Reply #19 on: 16 June 2011, 13:14 »
you could use one of those window squeegy type things for cars to get most of the water off, then chamoix afterwards?

one of these

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_186383_langId_-1_categoryId_165609