Blow dry my snake ?

[Ulysses]

You most likely will not get it all by just blow drying. At least that's my experience. I still have to follow up with the towel. Air compressors, even with accumulators, will still blow out some condensation. Gas powered blowers vent exhaust thru the tube. Best bet is the electrical type.

 

[Snake Bitten]

Blow dry at 120 mph for 4.5 minutes...140 mph for 2.8 minutes, or 160 mph for 1.6 minutes...then apply large amounts of Zaino...Z2 followed by a fine mist of Z6...

 

[VENM8R]

Why not just buy the Blue Coral® brand "Self Dry" wash. I have used it on my previous cars with great success. (I can't find it here locally anymore unfortunately), it worked better than going to the car wash. No toweling what so ever.


GPII®

 

[Ron]

<FONT face="Comic Sans MS">When well Zaino'd, the smaller electric leafblower works great for me. No need for any toweling, except for the windows.</FONT f>

 

[garolittle]

A small electric leaf blower will work great! I too was sick and tired of using towels.

 

[treynor]

FWIW, the Toro you mention is my current tool of choice. A thorough blow-dry, followed by a quick towel touch up on those corners where droplets accumulate, and voila! clean without any water spots, towel marks, or spiderwebbing.

I tried a gas blower -- once -- and ended up getting little spots of 2-stroke oil all over my freshly-washed Viper

 

[genXgts]

you wimps, I remove the water at the speaker vents with my mouth, works like a charm, and great if you've worked up a sweat as well......some hydration on the fly.

10 minutes with the chamois and the thing is mint, haven't tried the air deal but might give it a shot if Tony says it's okay, as I've heard the car rarely sees light, let alone dirt!!

 

[Greg W]

Electric leaf blower. Good for 98% dry. Alittle touch up maybe necessary, but very little. Buy a powerful one. Saves time, and potential scratches from over-zealous drying. With a good Zaino/wax job, the water slides right off. My drying towels last forever, with little use, towels rarely even need washing.

Greg

 

[BigsViper]

What Ron, Treynor and Greg W. said.

One caveat: make sure you are on good terms with your neighbors. My drive is in the shade in the early morning, and the rest of the day it is too sunny, hot and dry to effectively wash. I have washed it in the sun, one section at a time but the surface gets really warm in West Texas and dries the water before you can blow it off. So I need good neighbor relations since I sometimes fire up my 210mph Toro blower early on the weekends!

Another idea: I bring home a five gallon jug of R/O water from the office and use that to wash and rinse (West Texas water is very hard). I fill a 2.5 gallon yard sprayer and use that to wet and rinse, and to mix with the Z7. The R/O water shoots off the Zaino lots better than tap water. My partner and I are building a low pressure sprayer on casters that you can just plug the five gallon jug into; no filling or pumping. I'll post the plans when we get done. DB

 

[Janni]

There is one thing that really saves drying time and its hardly ever mentioned. Since Zaino beads water like CRAZY... there is an awful lot of water stuck on your car to move around with the blower and then the towel.... Sal has a trick that you take the sprayer OFF your garden hose and "run" water over the car and it'll sheet off MOST of the water - leaving only a little bit to remove with the blower. From what I have seen, this is the best time saver out there - and it has the added benefit of not allowing hard water deposits to form around the beads if they sit there too long and start to evaporate....

 

[Hot Rod]

I use an electric yard blower for inital dry every time I wash (which is about twice a week). Have to admit, got the idea from this board. Gets 98% of the water off and makes the job so much easier.

Follow it up with the "Absorber" then take a cotton towel to completely dry. Nice thing about the blower is it gets the water out of the hood grills, mirrors and side sill area below the doors.

Once completely dry, hit it with some Z6 for a finishing touch. I use the same technique on the motorcyle to remove all water from hard to reach areas.