The Safest Way to Wash Your Car Without a Hose
We wish our cars to be clean all the time. Unfortunately, environmental pollution does not help us with this goal. However, having access to water at home, or a carwash nearby can resolve this problem. But what should you do if you live in a dry area, and don’t have access to water to wash your car? It means you should wash your car without a hose!
In this post, we will describe the safest way how to wash a car without water, create a checklist of what you need, and how assess if you can wash your car using this method. Nature lovers, you will be pleased to know this!
How to assess if you can Wash your car without a hose?
Unfortunately, this method will not fit everyone, unless you want to scratch your car. Washing a car without a hose creates some limitations on what severity of dirt you can remove safely. If your car is too dirty, even using the softest towels and the best waterless wash will lead to scratches. Before washing your car with a waterless wash, make sure that you don’t have on your car’s paint:
- Massive amount of dirt
- Sand
- Hard contaminations
The best use case for washing your car with a hose is a slightly dirty, or dusty car. For example, you washed your car in a car wash and the next day is rainy. So instead of visiting a car wash again, you can wash your car using a waterless, or rinseless wash method.
Wash Car Without Hose Check List
Waterless Wash
- You can use ready-to-use waterless wash, which you can find by clicking on the highlighted text, or dilute Rinseless Wash in the correct ratio, which you can find in our post about Rinseless Wash.
- As many as you can get high-quality 70/30 exterior microfiber towels.
Rinseless Wash
- Use high-quality Rinseless Wash, you can find our recommended top list in our recent post about Rinseless Wash by clicking on the highlighted text.
- A bucket filled with water, and a cyclone dirt trap.
- Cross-Cut sponge.
- As many as you can get high-quality 70/30 exterior microfiber towels.
Step-by-Step Guide to Wash a Car Without Hose
There are 2 ways how you can wash your car without a hose. The first is using Waterless Wash products, and the second one is by using Rinseless Wash. Both methods are based on the same principle, they lift the dirt and lubricate the surface, so you can safely collect dirt with a clean microfiber towel. However, a Waterless wash will fit you more when you want to wash a slightly dirty or dusty car, while Rinseless Wash can help to wash a bit dirtier car.
Waterless Wash
1. Shake Waterless Wash, and spray it generously on one body part.
2. Let it work for 1-2 minutes.
3. Collect the dirt with a clean microfiber towel using linear moves, and fold your towel to collect the dirt only with a clean side of a towel. Do not apply excessive pressure.
4. Buff the surface with a clean towel.
5. Move to the next body part, until you will wash the entire car.
Rinseless Wash
1. Dilute Rinseless Wash following the manufacturer’s instructions in the bucket.
2. Dive the cross-cut sponge into the bucket, and start washing the first body part. Use linear movements, and avoid applying excessive pressure.
3. Wipe off the residue with a clean microfiber towel.
4. Move to the next body part, until you will wash the entire car.
Conclusion
Car care companies are trying their best to create new ways of washing and detailing cars, but until now there is nothing better than a high-pressure washing and two-bucket wash method to wash dirty cars effectively and safely. However, modern products like Waterless and Rinseless Wash can help to wash your car without a hose and without the risk of scratching the car when traditional methods are unavailable.
Such wash methods cannot replace traditional car washing but can be the only solution when you are far from car washes, water hoses, and want to have a clean and shiny car without the risk of damaging the paint.
