What are your thoughts on heating the rinse water on an automatic wash? My presoak is heated, but I am currently running no heat on my automatic rinse water. I did run heat on the rinse water in the winter but I am not sure if its necessary. If the rinse water is just to remove already loosened dirt does it need to be heated?
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Should Automatic Water Be Heated
- Thread starter sparkey
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Whale of a Wash
5 Washes 36Bays 2Vectors
On our rinse we use cold and unsoftened water-it works well and saves alot of salt and energy.
Well, I know that things clean better with warm water, but in my experiments I found hot water alone does not remove road film. You need to do some math on heating your wash water. The last numbers I saw done by another person was almost 1.00/ car. I would rather use that money for better chemistry.
I use soft, de-chlorinated for my rinse in the autos. However, don't go thinking I spend all the money to make it that way. Instead of sending all my waste water from my RO creation process down the drain, I store it in 55gal drums upstairs and feed it to my autos for rinse. Why not? It's softened, ran through a charcoal filter, thus it is cleaner than what the city is feeding me! Oh, and it also adds a flavor of being 'green'.
