So last night I decided to clean the salt off my car with ONR. To give you an idea of what I was working with, I had a slight dusting by the wheel wells, front and rear of the car.

I used two buckets with grit guards, with plenty of ONR concentrate. I took my time, going over each panel about three times, to make sure I lightly removed the salt each time.

This morning, with the sun shining on my car, I noticed minute scratch marks all along the car. I'm hoping the scratch shield paint will diminish the marks, or I may have to pay someone to polish the car. Needless to say, I'm ******* pissed off about it.

The point is don't use ONR if you got salt on the car. Do a regular wash or go to a self-service station and blast it with water.

 

Sorry to hear about that...
On the bright side.. I put a light scratch on my car last time when claying it...
Now i'm at work and the car is sitting in the sun. I just went to check and i believe it is healed by the "self-healing paint" *cross fingers*

ps: you shouldn't "blast" water on a dirty car regardless..
The pressure from the hose will only push the grits into the clearcoat and damage it.

 

imho nothing can prevent swirls.

just looking at your car gives it swirls

 

I would agree with Neal...salt on the car(or heavy dirt for that matter) will induce swirls whether you wash normally or use ONR. It's like the sports analogy:

"You can't stop swirls and marring...you can only hope to contain them".

 

what was the wash medium used?
did you rinse off the "feelable" salt before you ONR washed it?

 

I thought its Optimum "No-Rinse" lol

Thank you for the review, but I'm still going to give ONR a try to see whats up.

 

I think I'll wait for your review on this before I try it on my car.

 

i asked BEFORE he applied ONR. the No-Rinse refers to the unnecessary rinsing after the scrubdown/sudding part of a wash.
i asked if rinsed off the feel-able salt before doing the ONR wash because trying to wash off salt (that your fingers can feel) with a mitt or something could possibly push the grain against the clear/paint. it would only make sense to spray off what can come off first anyways...

 

no, i didn't rinse it off before i ONR'd it, only b/c i dont have access to running water in my apartment complex.

if i had running water i would just do an ol'fashioned car wash, with suds and all.

so ONR has been great to me for the past year, except for this one salty experience. and i was *very* light on the salt parts and went over it three times to minimize scratching.

hope this helps.

 

try buying some turtlewax rubbing compound (comes in a black bottle) to get rid of light scratches.

 

so what is the proper way of using ONR? i live in S.cal, so no snow or salt here. do i still need to rinse before ONR?

 

i generally use it on a dry surface because im just too lazy to rinse... but he was talking about salt and stuff thats why i asked.

2 buckets... 1oz of onr 2gal water in 1 bucket, the other bucket is just water (for rinsing)
wash mitt in onr bucket and just wipe away
rinse out dirtyness in water bucket

 

great. that's what i thought. thanks.

 

That's exactly why I rinse the hell out of my vehicle when it has salt on it BEFORE I wash it. A really good rinse can get all the salt crystal off (or dissolve them) and I don't have to worry about grinding them into the paint.

Either way though, I don't trust ONR to clean my paint without scratching.

 

If you are going to use the 2 bucket system with ONR, I'd recommend having at least some ONR in the rinse bucket. If not, you risk diluting your ONR solution thus limiting its abilitiies.