Washing your Raptor

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Njraptorfan

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Car. Wash will ruin your paint quick,swirl city. Foam,two bucket method,6’ step ladder for roof.use Adams products they are worth the extra coin .
 

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Car. Wash will ruin your paint quick,swirl city. Foam,two bucket method,6’ step ladder for roof.use Adams products they are worth the extra coin .
That’s for sure a spring fall and summer solution.. not winter when is 0* F [emoji23] also underbody wash is needed


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That’s for sure a spring fall and summer solution.. not winter when is 0* F [emoji23] also underbody wash is needed


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Just use the pressure washer at the self serve stations and you'll alright. Bring your own buckets and mitt, use their water and you'll be good.
 

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Car. Wash will ruin your paint quick,swirl city.

I don't know about that. All I know is that my local car wash (Mr. Car Wash) has some pretty high end cars go through it (its a conveyor belt type). I mean, really high end. If it damages the paint, I'm sure they would complain or never go again. That's good enough for me.
 

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Go to any car show,I can almost garentee not one Owner of those classics runs their car through a auto car wash. Self serve in winter power wash with wand to get salt sand off when temps are above 32.
 

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Clear bra ceramic coating you can’t take through car wash too harsh on the surface


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Just use the pressure washer at the self serve stations and you'll alright. Bring your own buckets and mitt, use their water and you'll be good.
True just getting underneath seems like a pain in the cold [emoji23] my plan was self wash all year except winter so we will see what happens


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Go to any car show,I can almost garentee not one Owner of those classics runs their car through a auto car wash. Self serve in winter power wash with wand to get salt sand off when temps are above 32.

So Raptors are now a "Classic Car" type vehicle? Classic Car owners also don't drive their cars daily nor in the rain. Is that what we're suppose to do with our Raptors?
 

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Go to any car show,I can almost garentee not one Owner of those classics runs their car through a auto car wash. Self serve in winter power wash with wand to get salt sand off when temps are above 32.
And definitely no off-roading for our classic Raptors either
 
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