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mkinttrim
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- Mark
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- Soldotna, Alaska
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- 2021 Lariat 4x4 501a
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Quit using Chamois 10 yrs ago. With a professional ceramic coating just need a leaf blower.
NVRANUF
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+1 for Ceramic Coating and Leaf Blower... Gets 95% of water off. Drying towel is now just for little drips, glass, and final touches.
plannersteve
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Look for those large microfiber towels on sale at Harbor Freight. I got one that is 23x36. Probably not at as good as Detailers, but it soaks up a lot of water.
I don't use it for detailing. I have a heated garage and whenever it is snowing, the vehicles come in all wet. Makes the garage very humid. So I give a quick wipe to vehicle and greatly reduces moisture. Then I hang the towel to dry in the laundry room and it puts humidity into the dry house air.
I don't use it for detailing. I have a heated garage and whenever it is snowing, the vehicles come in all wet. Makes the garage very humid. So I give a quick wipe to vehicle and greatly reduces moisture. Then I hang the towel to dry in the laundry room and it puts humidity into the dry house air.
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zx6roclet
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x3 on blower and ceramic…
My detail supply stocks super towels. This is all I use now after trying all the other big brands .
had a few of my friends who own detail businesses ask me “wow, where did you get these!?!?”
https://www.golden-state.net/super-towel
My detail supply stocks super towels. This is all I use now after trying all the other big brands .
had a few of my friends who own detail businesses ask me “wow, where did you get these!?!?”
https://www.golden-state.net/super-towel
Graygoose2021
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You can actually blow the car off with ceramic coatings.
digitaltrucker
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I use a quick detailed and it blows off.
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NVRANUF
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@fmdog44 Nope.... Leaf Blowers can be for blowing the water off the entire vehicle, and when you have a ceramic or graphene coating you often don't even have to use a drying towel afterwards. The water slides off the ceramic so easily that it often doesn't need further drying (just a good detail spray and microfiber towel to remove any small water marks and provide a final gloss shine). A definite side benefit of using a leaf blower is being able to get water out of all the trim pieces, under the door handles, inside the mirrors and gas door, etc... all the places it tends to drip from after you've dried the vehicle. Here's a short video on this topic.
Here's what Adam's Polishes says about the reason to use their "air cannon" for drying: "The most vulnerable time for your vehicle to become scratched is during the drying process! Every time you touch your vehicle with a towel, microfiber accessory, or even a chamois, you are introducing swirl marks, scratches, and marring your finish. This state-of-the-art drying accessory provides a high-powered, continuous blast of air to any surface, effectively removing water without any chance of scratching."
A Griot's Garage video I found tends to emphasize that using compressed air is more for areas that tend to trap water, versus a whole body panel... but the idea is the same, to get the water off your vehicle without having to use a towel.
Here's what Adam's Polishes says about the reason to use their "air cannon" for drying: "The most vulnerable time for your vehicle to become scratched is during the drying process! Every time you touch your vehicle with a towel, microfiber accessory, or even a chamois, you are introducing swirl marks, scratches, and marring your finish. This state-of-the-art drying accessory provides a high-powered, continuous blast of air to any surface, effectively removing water without any chance of scratching."
A Griot's Garage video I found tends to emphasize that using compressed air is more for areas that tend to trap water, versus a whole body panel... but the idea is the same, to get the water off your vehicle without having to use a towel.
fmdog44
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If there is nothing on the towel or chamois you don't scratch. If you ride is free of debris no scratch. Simple. What kind of filters come with leaf blowers to prevent particles hitting the surface? None. I would strongly prefer a dust blower over a leaf blower and after never seeing a scratch from washing, drying and polishing/waxing I think the air dry idea is just a passing fancy because I never see them on car TV shows or at car display shows. My two cents.
Last line of your video reads," No matter what your preferences are, the most important thing is that your car gets dried to avoid streaking and hard water spots."
Last line of your video reads," No matter what your preferences are, the most important thing is that your car gets dried to avoid streaking and hard water spots."
Evolvd
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Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Every major detailing channel on YouTube uses a leaf blower to dry their coated cars. And your car is constantly attacked by sand, dirt, and pebbles every time you drive. A tiny spec of dust accelerated by a leaf blower isn’t going to harm your paint.
The point is contacting the surface with anything has the chance to mar the paint. A blower removes/reduces the need to touch the paint.
If a filter is the only thing stopping you from getting blower then look at Metrovac. Their blowers use filtered air.
fmdog44
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You just verified my concern about leaf blowers. You wrote, "Every major detailing channel on YouTube uses a leaf blower to dry their coated cars. And your car is constantly attacked by sand, dirt, and pebbles every time you drive". I'll ask how is that wind different from a leaf blower moving the same wind? Again, there is no filter on a leaf blower as opposed to an air duster. Also, there are several sites using microfiber towels detailing their rides. All this latest crap about perfecting the paint is just that. Keep it washed with he soap made for paint finished on autos and protect the paint with wax. I'll park mine next to yours and take closeup pic and ask other which one used a leaf blower and which one used microfiber towels? What do you think the voting would prove?
Evolvd
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lol oh boy…where to begin. So…sand and rocks…on the road…kicked up by other cars as well as your own versus a blower, which is handheld, and not being fed sand and rocks unless you’re actually tossing them into the blower motor. How does this not make sense to you?
Did I say anything negative about MF towels? Nope, sure didn’t. I use them, and they have their place in specific processes.
And wax vs coating? There’s no comparison. When it comes to making your car easier to maintain the ceramic coating wins every time. Wax lasts 1-3 months at best on a daily driven car that is washed on a regular basis. Coated cars last 1-8 years depending on the solids content of the coating you use.
Wax has its place, but it’s old school tech and doesn’t stand up against quality ceramic coatings. I’ve been a detailing hobbyist doing this over a decade now. I’ve taken plenty of professional classes, tested may products, and educated myself with multiple sources of information…not just buying wholesale what others say.
I’m sorry to break it to you, but the current process of cleaning and maintaining cars is light years ahead of your old-school mentality. It’s time to catch up to the present.
And your “competition” comparison is laughable on its face and as a premise. I can maintain a scratch-free process just fine with my method and have so for years on daily, highway-driven cars. Parking it next to yours would prove nothing to anyone other then your easily brusied ego.
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