[xxxBlakexxx]

Hey guys (and gals), I thought I would throw out a bit of information that some of you may know, but some may not.

Did you know that your water quality greatly affects how clean your car can get?

Water, as you know, is H20. But it is also loaded with contaminants. Many of these contaminants are dissolved. This means that they can NOT be filtered no matter how hard you try. Also, all municipal water sources have chlorine added to it. Do you know what chlorine does to a car finnish? It is a strong oxidizer...think about it.

These harmful contaminents can be removed a few different ways. If you rinse your car with high purity water, you will NOT get any water spots even if it air dries. Your car will also get much cleaner and it will be a lot easier to dry (if your prefer to wipe it down).

Here are some options. Purchase a Reverse Osmosis unit. An RO will remove about 97% of these unwanted contaminents. Then put the water in a garden sprayer, and use this water for your final rinse.

I have a $700 RO unit in my house (we use it for cooking and drinking), but I can get them for about $400.

Or, buy a few gallons of distilled water at the store and use the sprayer concept. This cost only a few bucks and will be enough to convince you. You will not be dissapointed.

Also, "Mr. Clean" makes a cool car cleaning device ($19 at WalMart). It comes with soap too. The machine has a demin cartridge that you use for the final rinse. You will get three washes or so out of each one. With this unit, you don't need a sprayer as it uses garden hose presure. I have used this thing and it really works!!! The down side is that you need to keep purchasing cartridges.

I am a water treatment consultant and have been working in the industry for 15 years. This concept is a no-brainer and many hi-tech industries have been using high purity rinse water for years. I personally involved with the design of the water rinse system used on the first DVD's nearly 10 years ago for Time Warner and they still use it today.

I have tested my water for contaminents many times and here is what I have found:

My water (well): TDS - 325 ppm
RO Water: TDS - 18 ppm
Mr. Clean Demin: TDS - 3.2 ppm

If you have exceptionally good quality water, you will not see as much of a difference as with bad water.

Hope this was not too boring,

Blake