In this video, one of the best detailers in the country shows us how to properly wash a car without a hose or drain and with very little water. After a 700 mile trip home in the winter, my 2005 CL65 AMG was covered with dirt and salt and I assumed I'd have to wait until the snow cleared to get it out for a wash. The results are absolutely amazing and the most important part is that we didn't scratch the car using this method.
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Welcome back to legit street cars today i have jason from chicago auto pros in my garage to wash a car, except we're going to be washing this car without a hose and without a drain, and it's the middle of wintertime in chicago. It's like zero degrees out. So we can't go outside, so we kind of got to work with what we have in here. I think we're going to be able to make this cl65 sparkle again, because right now i mean to say it's disgusting is an understatement.

It is nasty. The salt is like munching away at the car, as we speak so anyway without further ado. Jason's gon na show us all of his weapons of choice over here on my table and we're gon na get right to work all right. If you don't have access to a hand wash or uh you don't have water or you don't have a hose or a pressure washer.

This is a great way to wash your car in your garage. If your car doesn't work very well, we're going to do a rinseless wash, so what we have here is we have two five gallon buckets and we have about three gallons of water in each we're actually going to mix in optimum no rinse. This is the rinseless wash method that we're going to use. This is a very high lubricity type of product.

It's an encapsulate all the dirt and salt and everything that you have on your car and we can safely remove that without adding scratches or sore marks. Mixing. This product, you don't need a lot for this. A lot.

A little goes a long way, we're gon na add one ounce to two gallons of water, so we have about three gallons here, so we're actually going to add just this capful is about an ounce, we're going to add one and a half capfuls. That's all you need. We have also mixed in some solution into our pump sprayers. Now, i'm going to show you the process of actually getting this done and we actually have a secret weapon coming that i want to show you too so stick around all right.

This is a pretty simple process once you have it down. The first step of the process is we're going to be using these pump sprayers here now. This is an o r dilution that i've already made up and we're going to simply pre-rinse the car. So we're going to spray this on the car, and this is going to soak in and it's going to help encapsulate all the the salt and the dust and the sand and everything that you got on the car most of this car here on the top is Pretty clean, respectively to the bottom, where it's just caked up, so what we can do is actually on these spots up here.

We can just do a simple nice little mist, okay, but when you get down to here, we can actually spray it just a little more just to loosen up all that salt, you see how that is just almost dissolving away: oh yeah, so that doesn't get caught Up in our towels - and we don't grind that into the paint, so normally we would wash the wheels and the tires first. But this type of wash we're actually going to be washing the body first and then we'll wash the wheels. Last - and i say these little pump, sprayers work really well look at the pressure you get out of that just blast the salt right off all right. So now we're actually going to get into the process the washing process.
You have a couple different sponges that you can use. This is the big red sponge from optimum. You can see it has all these little slits in it, and then this is a different sponge same similar style, just a different uh size and shape there. You can also use just a regular mitt if you wanted to do it this way or several different towels, depending on how dirty the car is, will kind of depend depend on what sponge you use, but at the top here, let's show you how to use these Sponges, it's pretty simple, we're going to dump it into our our wash bucket with our solution we're going to rinse this a little bit.

We don't want it. Super dripping wet, but we still want to be able to have some water that's on there and then you would come to your hood here and just like normal. Is that even up or anything nope, no suds, no, nothing! It's and that area is clean right there. We'll rinse it in our rinse bucket and then we'll grab one of our drying towels a couple different styles here and just dry the car and that part of the car there is clean.

We got a secret weapon for areas like this that are down below or like the back area, where it's really really dirty. Let me show you this here, so this is a inexpensive steamer, it's a couple hundred dollars and then you can fill this with water and you can actually steam the car and stuff that is stuck into these cracks and crevices. You can actually just steam them away. So once you have a lot of that built up salt, you can go back to your your o r start at the top and work your way down to the bottom.

If you get to a really heavy section, just flip, it finish that out back to your drying, towel and dry the car now another method too. We have lots of towels that you see here. If you wanted to use a lot of towels, let them soak in there and you have eight different sides of this towel so use your towel there. You can actually use this to wash.

So if i wanted to come up here, i'd do a small section on the glass. I can flip this towel to a new section and again, depending on how dirty your car is. You can just keep on flipping it. If you wanted to do one pass in each one flip it we're just doing everything we can to prevent any of the salt or dirt or anything built up into the rag doesn't get dragged back across the paint.

So that's why you can use if you had 15 or 20 towels. You can do this method like that too. So there's lots of different ways. You can do it all right, so jason and i just finished washing the entire cl65.

I can't believe how nice this is looking and with very, very minimal water. I mean most of it is still in the bucket, and this is definitely something you guys can do in your garage and not make a gigantic mess. If anything, this actually gives me an opportunity to kind of mop up and clean up the floor a little bit, but just look at this car. It took us about 20 minutes to get to this point.
It's dry. It's clean. We did the tailpipes uh. We've done everything except the wheels all right onto the wheels for obvious reasons.

We do these last because they're the most dirty part of the car, so we've taken out our media that we've used on the body. We don't want to mix that into our wheels now and we have all-purpose towels in here. These are just cheap, all-purpose, towels, and then we have our two wheel, brushes that we're going to be using on the wheel, and then i just have. This is just a mild, all-purpose, cleaner, we're going to spray this directly onto the wheel and the tire a little bit into the wheel.

Wells too, we're not going to actually clean the wheel wells because that's where most of the dirt is caked up and then we can in our solution and use this here, go ahead and just wash it rinse it in your rinse bucket back into the wash bucket And then we just take one of our towels here with a nice little ring, and then we can wipe this all down and then i'll just clean a little bit of this wheel. Well, here so i'll be either throwing this towel away or just throwing it right into the wash. This won't go on anything else. Take another one here: i'll really wring it out like that i'll use that just to basically dry everything and clean up your floor a little bit all right, one last step: we're almost done so you may have some streaks.

You may have some spots that you may have missed and to get them we're going to use a quick detailer here. This is just a basic, quick detailer, and this is a very plush microfiber towel, feel it it's nice, it's very flush. So what you can do you know like some of the spots here up on the windshield and the wipers here that we maybe missed a little bit. You can just mist them there kind of wipe the whole car flip it around.

This will add a very light layer of protection and make it smooth and just clean up any smudges or any leftover dripping water wow. These really are very plush. You weren't kidding. Oh man, let's see, let's see, oh, that is nice.

Yes, yell the calm before the storm. Here soon you will be in thousands of little pieces, but if it never runs again at least it'll look pretty stuff smells really good. I got ta say i i really like the process. Obviously it'd be better.

If i was outside with a hose, but if it wasn't caked up with salt in the wheel wells, i'd say it wouldn't be that much better like it worked really well, the car looks perfect. These things are awesome, so even if you don't have the steamer, you could pretty much blast a lot of the stuff off with this. So um. Where can i get a kit jason because i'm gon na need? You saw my you saw my cabinet it's brutal.
I have like the most embarrassing little detail cabinet ever, but yeah um, you guys, sell a complete kit. Basically, we sell all this on our website. Car supplies warehouse.com and we actually have a kit together that you can buy with everything that we just used here. Links down below guys, uh definitely check out chicago, auto pros here on youtube as well.

They have a ton of phenomenal videos, really really good tutorials. Basically anything you could imagine that has to do with cleaning your cars on that channel so check it out. Links down below i'll throw a coupon code in there as well. If you guys need anything, i hope you guys really enjoyed this video kind of an impromptu little.

You know add-on video for the week, but something we definitely needed to do because i'm going to have this v12 engine in about 5000 pieces starting tomorrow, and i just it's like mental clutter, seeing this dirty salted car and it's not good. If you have an engine ripped apart to have all these particles in the air, so you know for me: i've cleaned the garage everything's looking better than it was before, and i just this was the final step. So thank you very much. Jason appreciate it and uh stay tuned guys for the big v12 engine removal and disassembly coming to a city near you in the next few days.

Does that smell good too? This stuff is phenomenal? Oh hang! On a second, oh that's! Even better. Are you kidding me? Don't drink but you can smell. This is seriously good. I mean it's worth it just for that.

You.

By Alex

11 thoughts on “How To Properly Wash A Really Dirty Car Indoors Without A Hose Or Drain. Safe Rinseless Wash!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars AK says:

    Two detail kegs, one with rinseless wash, one with deionized water. Use the big red sponge and two buckets with grit guards (very important) and of course separate wheel bucket and sponge (we use black sponge on wheels and red on paint). Once the whole car had been washed, we rinse the car down quickly with the second keg to flush dirt and dilute the rinseless wash residue, then we dry the car. Otherwise you risk grabbing dirt off an adjacent panel with your drying towel. It’s basically a controlled car wash, leave the keg you’re using hooked up to an air compressor with a regulator and you got consistent 150 psi. Is a pressure washer better? Yes, but only for an initial rinse, foam, and rinse.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Off Dat Go-Go says:

    ONR tune turned me into a believer years ago. I've had numerous clients with brand new black vehicles that have only been washed with ONR (except for the dealership wash 😔) and looked just as new when they traded or sold them. I've only use the big red sponge. Small sections at a time. Definitely faster than traditional soap and water washing.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tafari Boozer says:

    Wow Awesome Job, road salt Wreak Havoc on a vehicle paint when not washed off. That CL65 looks wonderful aesthetically, can't wait to see the engine sorted and running like a beast on the road.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bob Storr says:

    While interesting if you don't have a garage it's not going to work. If you're out in the cold and don't have access to car wash, pretty much the best option I've found is the ammo frothe , spray the foam on and wipe off quickly. No ice forming from the water in a rinseless wash like this.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeremy Morgan says:

    I've been using Dawn dish soap in a spray bottle with water to clean my grandma's Lincoln for a couple years now and it does absolutely fantastic. The only downside is you have to rinse the car really really well or it'll streak bad

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Iz Mc says:

    Well i have used that method almost my whole life. But just for a couple of days of dirt. I don't live in a Extreme weather country so i prefer to wait to proper cleaning. Love your Mercedes Videos mostly Alex!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars IKhan says:

    That kit might seem expensive but even the consumables will last a very long time. I have a bottle of ONR from like 3 years ago and it's not even half way done and I use it for quick clean ups and as a clay lube. People here complain about the price of the detail products yet they spend $150 every 2 months on Starbucks, $150 a month on cigarettes or heck, $150 a week eating out because they're too lazy to cook dinner. All of a sudden $150 to keep your second most expensive purchase looking good doesn't seem like much does it?

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ben young says:

    Alex thank you for included all the links in your videos. Sometimes I forget how much great stuff there is. I just changed my oil last week and noticed today all your Amsoil products too! Next time I’ll use Amsoil.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars shootr04 says:

    I’ve always been reluctant to try this, but on a lightly soiled car I could see trying this for maintenance washes since I live in an apartment. I feel better about being able to use a hose or pressure washer but this does have its place.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Phillip Todd says:

    I get that this is basically an infomercial on how to do a process like this but why wouldn't you go straight to the drive through carwash and run through it about 5 times (spray only – no brushes) before you got home? As a Florida resident I cringe every time I see one of your insanely-rusty undercarriages.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars I D says:

    For a such dirty salty car I will never do a superficial clean like the one that was done. It may look "clean" but it will rust away as the same rate as if you don't wash it at all. The pressure wash will remove the salt on places that you cant reach with a sponge or towel and the undercarriage will also loose the heavy dirt. You are better doing a quick spray at the car wash than doing it on this way.

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