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Ahhhh, the Bentley Touareg.
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Ahhhh, the Bentley Touareg.
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Angry Wanker
The old-school DI 4.2 is cool and all, but suffers from horrendous carbon buildup, I would stay away. Audi has kind of fixed this on some of their newer forced induction engines, but you're going have to clean the intake valves on the older 4.2 every 15k miles. I don't understand Audi, the rest of the car world has figured out how to properly vent the crankcase or add port injection (which VW/Audi does on the 2.0T), but even some of their current motors still have this issue.
Not that I am aware. But I have also heard that the touchless washes use very harsh chemicals in the water. Still probably better than the tons of salt and brine on the roads. Just another reason this state sucks.
THATmanMANNY
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WWhhhhaaat!
Oh well, guess she will have to suck it up lol I'm not home early enough when warmer temps are here during the day to spray it off.
I'll have to connect some HW to my hose plumbing in the future.
saturday is supposed to be 60+, im washing the cars off then.
@THATmanMANNY
From the Meguiar's website quoted from a Meguiar's product training specialist:
Will a touchless car wash strip wax - that's basically the crux of this discussion. Well, if the wash is a two part acid wash/alkaline rincse then it will, at least to some degree. How quickly it will do so is another question. If you're going to remove dirt with any level of effectiveness you need either some pretty strong detergents (which will strip wax) or some pretty high tech soaps (that may or may not - and such soaps may or may not even exist).
Meguiar's does not supply soap to these types of car washes, although we do supply a wide variety of soap (check our Detailer Line for the full run down) to a heck of a lot of car washes around the country. Our soaps are all pH balanced to ensure they do not strip wax. And that's the key - the pH of the soap or, in the case of a touchless car wash, the final rinse.
By far the most common method of cleaning in these touchless washes is to presoak/pretreat/preclean (or whatever word you like here) with an acid wash that will remove the dirt. And that acid level is generally in the pH range of 3.5 to 4.5. But that acid was needs to be neutralized, not merely "rinsed" off, and the only way to do this is with an alkaline rinse that is generally in the pH range of 11 to 13. It's this high pH that strips your wax, not the acid wash.
Now, we certainly can't speak for any other company's soaps or claims, and if someone has developed a soap or prewash/neutralizing rinse that is able to step outside of this scenario, it isn't something that we are involved in at all. But there's usually an easy way to check - ask for a copy of the MSDS and check the pH levels of the product. If the pH is high, as noted above, then it is at the very least highly suspect when it comes to concerns about stripping wax.
Having said all that, there's something else that needs to be stated (again - we've said this a bunch of times recently): if you live in an area where the roads are salted in the winter and your car is covered in the stuff, then whether or not a touchless car wash will strip your wax is the least of your concerns. You want that salt off, even if it means taking the wax off with it. Truth is, if your car has been covered in salt there probably isn't much, if any, wax left anyway. GET THE SALT OFF Using a wash like this from time to time is likely not to be a problem. Marki, from your own experience your paint hasn't fallen off, your trim hasn't turned to dust. As with anything, however, there are good, not so good, and downright terrible examples. Finding a good one is the tricky part.
From the Meguiar's website quoted from a Meguiar's product training specialist:
Will a touchless car wash strip wax - that's basically the crux of this discussion. Well, if the wash is a two part acid wash/alkaline rincse then it will, at least to some degree. How quickly it will do so is another question. If you're going to remove dirt with any level of effectiveness you need either some pretty strong detergents (which will strip wax) or some pretty high tech soaps (that may or may not - and such soaps may or may not even exist).
Meguiar's does not supply soap to these types of car washes, although we do supply a wide variety of soap (check our Detailer Line for the full run down) to a heck of a lot of car washes around the country. Our soaps are all pH balanced to ensure they do not strip wax. And that's the key - the pH of the soap or, in the case of a touchless car wash, the final rinse.
By far the most common method of cleaning in these touchless washes is to presoak/pretreat/preclean (or whatever word you like here) with an acid wash that will remove the dirt. And that acid level is generally in the pH range of 3.5 to 4.5. But that acid was needs to be neutralized, not merely "rinsed" off, and the only way to do this is with an alkaline rinse that is generally in the pH range of 11 to 13. It's this high pH that strips your wax, not the acid wash.
Now, we certainly can't speak for any other company's soaps or claims, and if someone has developed a soap or prewash/neutralizing rinse that is able to step outside of this scenario, it isn't something that we are involved in at all. But there's usually an easy way to check - ask for a copy of the MSDS and check the pH levels of the product. If the pH is high, as noted above, then it is at the very least highly suspect when it comes to concerns about stripping wax.
Having said all that, there's something else that needs to be stated (again - we've said this a bunch of times recently): if you live in an area where the roads are salted in the winter and your car is covered in the stuff, then whether or not a touchless car wash will strip your wax is the least of your concerns. You want that salt off, even if it means taking the wax off with it. Truth is, if your car has been covered in salt there probably isn't much, if any, wax left anyway. GET THE SALT OFF Using a wash like this from time to time is likely not to be a problem. Marki, from your own experience your paint hasn't fallen off, your trim hasn't turned to dust. As with anything, however, there are good, not so good, and downright terrible examples. Finding a good one is the tricky part.
qclabrat
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Paul Miller in Parsippany has got a fleet of Bentaygas, I find it interesting so many are left outside
mwlikesbikes
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Sweet 280zx outside the Wawa this morning. Nice to see one that hasn't rusted away.
Some Xmas stuff!
I finally got rid of the only bit of chrome on the Raptor. A guy custom paints a new camera bezel and emblem. Pretty happy with the end result. Everything else in the truck is black from the factory.
And a polar blue start button to match the stitching and calipers on the M2.
I finally got rid of the only bit of chrome on the Raptor. A guy custom paints a new camera bezel and emblem. Pretty happy with the end result. Everything else in the truck is black from the factory.
And a polar blue start button to match the stitching and calipers on the M2.
gtluke
The Moped
gtluke
The Moped
This is what @Kaleidopete took to prom. 
RSAmerica
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Joe bought my RS America!
