slalom38 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Once I apply a sealeant,will a "touchless" high pressure car wash remove the protection of a seal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tim Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Touchless washes use pretty strong chemicals to clean the car, so yes, it will degrade the sealant, but won't remove it all at once. jessewsmith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thorsager Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 As mentioned the chemicals are strong. The bigger problem is that touchless washes create swirls and cobbwebbing in your paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 fshelton79 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 How would a touchless wash generate swirling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 IAcamoprincess01 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 How would a touchless wash generate swirling? Yes, how? Would be interested to learn how this would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SumBeach35 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 If anything a touchless car wash never really cleans the vehicle well. It gets the surface to appear clean but often leaves behind a film of dirt. My opinion is that if you use touchless all winter, you will have a lot of bonded contaminates on the surface due to the accumulation of that film. Â Another thing I do if I do go through one is I only get the basic wash without any wax. No reason to lock in any of those bonded contaminates with a protective coating of sub-par wax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 slalom38 Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 If anything a touchless car wash never really cleans the vehicle well. It gets the surface to appear clean but often leaves behind a film of dirt. My opinion is that if you use touchless all winter, you will have a lot of bonded contaminates on the surface due to the accumulation of that film. Â Another thing I do if I do go through one is I only get the basic wash without any wax. No reason to lock in any of those bonded contaminates with a protective coating of sub-par wax. Since the car post wash is not entirely dry, I spray the car with detail spray then use a drying towel. Â I figure I get through the winter, then come spring, I do a strip wash, correction, seal, glaze and wax. Â Sound like a plan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LT1xL82 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 The Detail Spray is a good idea, but I'm not keen on the idea of towel drying a car that has a dirt film on it. Â Instead, I follow up a touchless wash with a waterless or rinseless wash. Then chase it with a drying towel, perhaps with a spritz of Detail Spray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SumBeach35 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Since the car post wash is not entirely dry, I spray the car with detail spray then use a drying towel. I figure I get through the winter, then come spring, I do a strip wash, correction, seal, glaze and wax. Sound like a plan? Like Joel said, I'm not a fan of detail spray after a touchless wash. I would do Rinseless or waterless wash. The film of dirt needs to be encapsulated before being wiped away. Detail spray won't do that. Â I try to only go through a touchless wash if I know I'll be washing the car. Like others said they use strong chemicals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thorsager Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 How would a touchless wash generate swirling? From the high pressure of the water. I had bought a new 2010 Mustang and for 3 months used nothing but a touchless wash. Then one sunny day I noticed all the swirls in the paint. Learning how to get rid of the these swirls is how I got into detailing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hamilton Detail Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 From the high pressure of the water. I had bought a new 2010 Mustang and for 3 months used nothing but a touchless wash. Then one sunny day I noticed all the swirls in the paint. Learning how to get rid of the these swirls is how I got into detailing. More than likely, those swirls came from the dealership. You would have to have crazy high pressure water to swirl the paint. zapdon, SumBeach35 and Norton 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thorsager Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 More than likely, those swirls came from the dealership. You would have to have crazy high pressure water to swirl the paint. The swirls did not come from the dealership. tbarn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SumBeach35 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 The swirls did not come from the dealership. My thinking on why he stated that was, if a dealer does doll up a car often time a glaze is applied to hide imperfections and then maybe a wax is used. So while it may have not looked like they were their when you picked it up, the touchless wash degraded the wax and glaze and then you think the touchless wash has scratched your paint when really the glaze and wax just covered them up temporarily Norton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 AvsBest Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Out of curiosity, what about a coating instead of the sealant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SumBeach35 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 IMO: A touchless wash shouldn't effect a coating at all. I still wouldn't make a habit it using a touchless wash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Wy_detailing Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 A touch less wash should have swirled the paint. Did you wipe the car down with a quick detailer very often? Mayne a bad microfiber or two could swirl the paint but I don't see a touch less wash doing it at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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