Optimum No Rinse & Wash (ONR) review

[Number19]

After reading many comments on Autopia regarding rinseless washes, I finally decided to try out ONR. Another fellow forummer demo-ed to me before and I found it extremely disturbing that a rinse step is not required. His sheepskin mitt literally turned BLACK and when dunking it into the ONR washpail, the dirt does not go away

 

First I started off with the rims which haven't been washed in 2 weeks.

 

Before

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After

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Here's the wash bucket AFTER all 4 rims/tyres + 2 dirty fenderwells

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That's 4 reasonably dirty rims, and almost clear ONR in the washpail, only a little grit trapped inside the Gritguard. At this point I don't have a drying towel for the rims so I just let it be, I'm not about to dry the wheels and paint with the same towel

 

 

Moving on to the paint, previously I would be doing Rinse > Wash > Rinse > Dry

Now I am going to ONR > Dry (panel by panel, top to bottom)

 

Mitt & Washpail before

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Mitt & Washpail after (you can't see but the ONR is rather clear, all the crap is trapped in the mitt)

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Nothing to shout about & the paint is still intact

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I used only 1 surface of MD's WWMF towel for the entire vehicle, including door jambs just to see how dirty the towel would get.

 

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After all this which took about 40 mins, I AW-ed the entire vehicle, rounding up a 'quick' detail at just over 1.5 hours which included spot claying, hand polishing the entire roof with Poorboy's Polish with Sealant and polishing the sunroof with Optimum Compound.

 

My verdict: Safe, time-saver, cleaning power not good (perhaps I under-diluted) and good for areas like door sills. Get 2 drying towels, 1 for paint and 1 for rims, if you let ONR stand it will cause some watermarks. There are ABSOLUTELY ZERO suds. It looks just like plain water.

 

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[Number19]

To make clay lubricant, add 2 oz to 1 gal of water.

 

To make QD, add 6oz to 1 gal of water.

 

These are also factors which made me try out ONR~

 

Happy detailing!

Edited June 4, 2007 by Number19

[Steppenwolf]

Sorry to go off topic, but i was wondering where u bought the GritGuard from? Is it really effective in removing and trapping dirt away from the wash mit?

[Number19]

I got mine off detailogy.com

 

Scrub your wash mitt against the grit guard when u dunk it into the washpail, then the grit will come off and settle at the bottom~ This is for 1 bucket system~

[Cskhoo]

wow bro u last pic bonnet damn deep shine sia. envy

[Mzrmazda3]

Bro, your ride is gim gim man

[Ivan96935sg]

Your Mazda very very well maintain......

[Number19]

Thanks, don't need to envy la, you haven't seen the scratches and chips yet

[Number19]

Thanks for the compliments guys

[Rliewky]

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bro,

 

notice that you are using shmitt, do you happen to have the issues of tear at the edge?

Edited June 5, 2007 by Rliewky

[Number19]

The opening for the hand to go in, the adhesive is pretty good, so far its good through 10+ washes~

[Steelblue]

This 1 from LC, it looks 'safer' to me

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/autogeek_1952_134988267

[Number19]

I got this feeling you won't be able to clean edges and crevices well with this but the design sure aids in releasing dirt easily

 

If the price is right...

[Rliewky]

maybe my hand is a bit too big for the shmitt as i have tear at the opening. have to glue them back. hopefully my wheel shmitt don't have the same issue

[Number19]

I hope your rims are not those multispoke type cos these shmitts might be a little bulky..

 

Overall I'm quite pleased with this ONR and shmitt combo save time save water save effort

 

If only we live in continental US, ji tao ask for 1 for 1 exchange

Edited June 6, 2007 by Number19

[Rliewky]

ya, could have ask for 1 to 1 exchange if we live in US. my wheels is not those multi spoke so it still ok. the shmitt can go in easily. the only issues i have is with the washing shmitt. have been using quite regularly. so they are tear at the opening and have to glue it back. else the tear may get bigger