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Car Forum / Australian Car Forums / 4x4 Cars (Australian group) / January 2007Bore water for under car washes
Hiya Team, Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and Tuwantan (spelling), Ive been told not to wash the car with Bore water or even recycled water as with both they contain salt and water softeners that casue rust? And I better off taking it home and water blasting under neath with fresh water (Or even tank rain water)? Cheers Scotty > Hiya Team, > Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and > Tuwantan (spelling), Ive been told not to wash the car with Bore > water or even recycled water as with both they contain salt and water > softeners that casue rust? And I better off taking it home and water > blasting under neath with fresh water (Or even tank rain water)? Yes. And you could even buy your own soluble oil to add to it. -- > Hiya Team, > Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cheers > Scotty So after driving along the beach you are worried about hosing it with bore or grey water? I used the one at Noosa after driving back from Rainbow. That was about 4 years ago. I think they had some sort of oil in the water, as it left a white film on everything. I cleaned it properly after I got home >> Hiya Team, >> Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > water, as it left a white film on everything. I cleaned it properly after > I got home Was wondering as Ive been told that the water used had corrosive properties. I just water blast it when I got home, no worries but. >>Hiya Team, >>Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > was about 4 years ago. I think they had some sort of oil in the water, as it > left a white film on everything. I cleaned it properly after I got home They used to use a Caltex soluble oil called Trusol-DD I know because the guy who runs that wash came down and got it, I used to load his trailer(2x205L drums of it) as for it being too salty I've been using that wash for years and never had rust from it IO use bore water here at home as well but I do give the vehicle a quick rinse with fresh water to stop it turning rusty brown Kev I do something a little different, but I am not 100% sure if it is a good idea. If I have just had a run along the beach or something minor like that, I go through a car wash that has the undercar spray. I make sure I drive over it very slowly so that it gets a real good flush. HOWEVER if I have run through salt water or similar, I then take the car down to our local fresh water river (non tidal due to the weir) and drive it in (using the boatramp) as far as I can to actually soak the underneath of the car. I usually drive in nose first for about 5 minutes and then tail end for another 5 minutes. I then finish off with the same car wash undercar spray. Is this a good idea or am I missing something?? Garry >I do something a little different, but I am not 100% sure if it is a good >idea. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Garry Not a bad Idea at all but you cant usually get all the sand out unless you wash it out. Once dry a 4x4 shakedown (Curbs and what not to shake all the sand free) required and another excuse to go 4x4ing. We've always used the undercar wash with oil at Rainbow before and after Fraser. On this trip (got back at the weekend) we did the oil before. We pulled up to do the oil after coming off Fraser a few days later, only to find that carwash closed for repairs for a couple of months. Seemed a strange time to do it as I thought they'd be busy in school hols. Instead we went to a car wash on the road from Fraser to the main highway to Brisbane (name escapes me) south of Gympie. No oil but it did a good wash. Still lost about 1/2 kg of sand in the garage when we got home though! > Hiya Team, > Im wondering what the go is with the undercar washes at Rainbow and [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cheers > Scotty > We've always used the undercar wash with oil at Rainbow before and after > Fraser. On this trip (got back at the weekend) we did the oil before. We [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> that casue rust? And I better off taking it home and water blasting under >> neath with fresh water (Or even tank rain water)? No need to go to all this extra trouble if you own a LandRover product as the "natural" oil coating protects just fine :-P PhilD > No need to go to all this extra trouble if you own a LandRover product as > the "natural" oil coating protects just fine :-P > > PhilD That's if you can keep them running long enough to get to the beach in the first place!!! Garry I got a staun thingy works a treat >> No need to go to all this extra trouble if you own a LandRover product as >> the "natural" oil coating protects just fine :-P [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Garry |
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