washing a car

I recently saw a diy tv show where they said for water spotting on a
car to use water with vinegar. I don't recall tho if they said to wax
afterwards. Does anyone know if vinegar and water mixture takes the
wax off the car ?

 

I would assume it would, since vinegar is used as a degreaser, and almost
all degreasers emove wax.

Interesting concept, though!

 

So do most acids...like acetic acid.

 

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Maybe you're thinking of ammonia . . . It will strip wax. A tiny bit of
vinegar won't harm wax. Softened (or distilled) water is a better
solution to the spotting problem.

'Curly'

 

I thought a really good wax job will get rid of water spotting?

chris

 

Just as a follow up to this, I read other archived posts and a common
thing was more or less found in all messages about removing the hard
water when washing / rinsing a car. Either use vinegar in small
amounts in water and/or use a wetting agent like the stuff they use in
dishwashers to make the water not leave spots on the glasses.

I decided to experiment and I tried some vinegar and some wetting
agent in a bucket of car soap. It worked pretty good cleaning the
car. I then used a hose hookup with those attachments you use to
liquid spray fertilizers in gardens/lawns and put just vinegar in that
for the rinsing of the car. It too worked pretty good. Then to dry
the car, I went with those micro?? towels instead of a chamois and it
worked better in my opinion than the chamois (less wiping to dry the
car). All in all, I think the whole experiment worked well. I will
say the car has been waxed a month or so ago so I'm sure that does
help.

Anyway, this is just a followup to my own post in case any one should
have the same question more or less.

Also, at least to my eyes, all this didn't appear to remove the wax
based on the car's shine upon drying.

 

probably does since vinegar is an acid. best way to remove wax is with a
mild rubbing compound, it willalso remove most dirt and get down to the
original bright color but dont use it too much or it will remove the shine
also.
i like to use turtle zip wax after washing and use nufisnish once every 6
months. the zip wax will shine it up nicely and you simply spray it on and
wipe off like windex. this will preserve the shine between actual nufishish
waxes