Leaf Blower

Don't put away your leaf blower for the year after you have successfully blown all the leaves and garbage to your neighbors' yards! There is another use of the leaf blower. I found this from P-cars forum. After washing the car, use the leaf blower to dry it. I did it over the weekend and was happy with the result. I was able to get 90% of the water off the car. More remarkable are the windows. 99% of the water was blown away and left with almost spotless windows. Also there was no more water sipping out from under the mirrors, lights assemblies etc. after towel drying. This work especially well on larger cars. I used to need two towels to dry the CRV. I was able to use just one this time. If you are not anal, you can almost get away with no towel! Give it a try next time you wash your car.

I know others that do this, too. I guess I should just buy a light-weight cordless one for this and cleaning the garage.

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Originally Posted by jrj512

I know others that do this, too. I guess I should just buy a light-weight cordless one for this and cleaning the garage.

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I think that Jimmy was with me at HF when I bought a cheap corded one... I only use it to dry my cars.

That's a new one on me, but I like it.

I have one of these. It works well for me.

I use my air compressor to clear out the places water likes to hide. But I still use a microfiber drying cloth to finish dry the car. #oldschool

I don't worry too much about show quality washing my cars. It was a quarter mile of gravel-dirt road from my house to my mailbox. Now it's a half mile of gravel to the highway. The county has replaced the paving of the other quarter mile to the highway with grave.

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Originally Posted by cone-cerned

The county has replaced the paving of the other quarter mile to the highway with grave.

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You live in a cemetery?? ;-)

Gravel, damn it, gravel!

Haven't thought of that but I do use mine to blow out the garage before working on a car. Works better than sweeping.