Coldest weather youve washed in?

Yup, the world officially hates me. They were giving a 30% chance of flurries.



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I washed the car yesterday and it was the coldest day this year here in Cape Coral. It was around 69°,:grinno:



Southern Florida rulz in the winter. I don't know why I spent all those freezing winters in Wisconsin. Driving through that salt/slush slop in a grungy vehicle. Freezing my butt, trying to keep a car clean and watching it turn back to looking like crap in a day. Scraping snow and ice from the car while hoping I wasn't scratching the paint.:LOLOL
 
I think the high here in the Atlanta area was low 40s with a blowing wind. So I put on my brave detailers face, put a heater in the garage and broke out the QEW. :dance
 
It is 1.6 F outside when I washed my wife's car in the unheated, uninsulated garage which has hot water and a drain. Although the humidity was a little much, I gave it a full wash (hose & 2 Buckets) but only after having sprayed it down well with ONR as a pre-soak. It came out well.
 
I just did mine yesterday at about 18 degrees, but with the windchill had to be more like 0. But it wasn't a normal wash, I just blasted it at the do-it-yourself with the rinse setting to get as much salt off as I could. Between the cold and the wind, the entire car had a nice sheen of ice. before I was done.
 
Hmmm, our coin-ops are actually quite warm inside, trouble is it gets so steamy you can't see what your doing.... Much less try to actually dry the car.
 
Many years ago when I was living in the Chicago burbs, my wife used to drive on the Eisenhower Expressway. They put down tons of salt there. One day, she came home and our charcoal gray 242 looked white--- it was covered with so much salt spray from the road. It was about 20 deg rprob 0 deg with wind chill. There was a heated-spray carwash across from my apartment. While I got the salt off the car, it was covered with ice as the wash spray froze pretty quickly.



I' glad I live in FL now!
 
Just now, in my garage. Outside temp is 0 F, windchill is -19. ONR and a space heater FTW!



Pete
 
I may have you all beat. I washed my Audi last week at -13 celcius. Hot water to wash and rinse, and most of it rolled right off, thanks to a long lasting combo of AIO, Acrylic Jett and Insulator wax. Still runs right off and beads like crazy.
 
I washed late this afternoon at 23F. Rinse outside, wash inside, rinse outside. Sun was still out. Apart from the wind and iced pavement, it was quite pleasant and

cars are uber-clean which is all I care about. ;) I even took the time to 1Z Raindance Perlglanz one of the them :cool:
 
Just did a full detail at 28*F but by the end it had gotten all the way up to 30*F. I think i ran inside for warm running water around 10 times. The car looked great though!
 
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