Official Product Endorsement

I remember a few years back some friends and I talked about this cool-sounding new product for washing cars:  Mr. Clean Auto-Dry.  In theory, it was supposed to keep you from having to dry your car after washing.  That part is always a problem because if you don’t do it all fast and complete, you get spots.

Fast forward to last night, time to wash the car.  I swung by Target to check out the Auto-Dry now, and they had a full kit with all the gear you need for $18.  I figured that was cheap enough for an experiment.  To my surprise, it range up $8 total at the checkout – Target often doesn’t label all their clearance products.  $8 is definitely fair.

So here’s how it went:  Set to rinse, rinse.  Set to soap, spray soap and rub in with a mitt like you normally would.  Set to rinse again, rinse again.  Set to Auto-Dry, and basically spray the car from top to bottom like you’re spray-painting it.  5 minutes later, my car was completely dry and spotless.  It apparently filters the water through the auto-dry cycle and de-ionizes it, so it pulls the existing water off the car…  At a molecular level.  30 minutes max, and not much actual work.

Didn’t know Mr. Clean was a scientist, did you?

Here are the results, the next day.  It was too dark to take pictures after washing.  Still super clean.