GRAPHENE WASH! No longer concerned about keeping Stainless looking good.

[GuyV]

https://a.co/d/878QZcP

Bought this from Amazon, highly-rated and works great.

I bought something very similar on Amazon but it's still awkward and messy and doesn't do nearly as good of a job being able to reach the whole windshield. The outgassing haze is hard enough to remove completely even in areas that are hand reachable.

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[Pulaski]

Pic?

Agreed. Pic or it didn't happen.

 

[HaulingAss]

Pic?

I washed the truck with soap and water tonight in my driveway as the sun was setting. I looked through my photos to find the most recent one, before I washed it:

This is with two out of three weeks worth of off-road filth on it, but you can't see the dirt very well. So I looked back to the most recent one that shows the filth:

This one was taken earlier in the day. It still looks shiny even though it's coated in dust and mud. Driving through the dry brush actually cleaned it up a bit and polished it up a bit. I noticed the "cleaning" effect all the brush had on it when I looked at it in the field. Natures car wash! It's still dirty, but I do think it looks better than before I drove it through all the brush. The stainless steel is easy to keep looking nice, even when the truck hasn't been cleaned for two weeks or more. Sure, if you walk right up to it you will see it's a mess, but it still looks attractive from a distance. The black plastic shows off the dirt the best.

I continued off-roading another 3 or 4 days after this picture was taken, it got a little dirtier but still looked much the same. It reaches a point of homeostasis where it doesn't change much. After washing it tonight it looks clean and shiny but has some streaks where branches rubbed a little "tree juice" into the stainless steel, leaving some off-color greenish streaks the soap and water didn't fully remove. There is also some coniferous tree sap that left a bit of residue I couldn't get off with the paper towel that I used to "pinch" most of the sap off. I was planning on removing the greenish streaks and remaining sap residue with some Sprayway Glass Cleaner but it got dark, so that will have to wait.

 

[L3it3R]

I didn’t realize we could change our font size

 

[REM]

Looked a little bit into it.

Looks like "graphene" coatings are just ceramic coatings with graphite sprinkled in.

Which companies are putting graphite in their ceramic coatings? Any reputable ones I know of are putting actual grapheme in their formulas, and the chemists are advising people to not allow that stuff to touch your skin, and definitely don't aspirate it.

 

[REM]

I didn’t realize we could change our font size

Is this a forum for ants?!

 

[HaulingAss]

After washing it tonight it looks clean and shiny but has some streaks where branches rubbed a little "tree juice" into the stainless steel, leaving some off-color greenish streaks the soap and water didn't fully remove. There is also some coniferous tree sap that left a bit of residue I couldn't get off with the paper towel that I used to "pinch" most of the sap off. I was planning on removing the greenish streaks and remaining sap residue with some Sprayway Glass Cleaner but it got dark, so that will have to wait.

I tried removing the green streaks on the stainless steel that were deposited from driving through live branches at speed using Sprayway Glass Cleaner. No change. I tried 99% alcohol. No change. I tried mineral spirits. No change. I tried acetone. No change. But Barkeepers Friend foamy spray cleaner in a pump bottle took it off almost instantly, like magic.

I highly recommend this over the normal Barkeepers Friend because it has no abrasives. I plan to continue using mainly soap and water to maintain the stainless steel, but will use the Barkeepers Friend Foamy Spray Cleaner in a pump bottle for stubborn stains.

We are fortunate to have a truck body made from bare metal, with no coatings, because it's almost impossible to damage it, even the really strong solvents like acetone don't phase the HFS (Hard Frickin' Steel).

 

[igs]

I love not caring about the finish. Let people touch it, scrape it, open doors into it. I really don't care. I'll run the truck through my local automatic car wash once a week and blissfully carry on not caring how many bugs are stuck to the front or how much patina doesn't wash off.

Dents are like scars, they add character.

 

[Outdoors]

I tried removing the green streaks on the stainless steel that were deposited from driving through live branches at speed using Sprayway Glass Cleaner. No change. I tried 99% alcohol. No change. I tried mineral spirits. No change. I tried acetone. No change. But Barkeepers Friend foamy spray cleaner in a pump bottle took it off almost instantly, like magic.

I highly recommend this over the normal Barkeepers Friend because it has no abrasives. I plan to continue using mainly soap and water to maintain the stainless steel, but will use the Barkeepers Friend Foamy Spray Cleaner in a pump bottle for stubborn stains.

We are fortunate to have a truck body made from bare metal, with no coatings, because it's almost impossible to damage it, even the really strong solvents like acetone don't phase the HFS (Hard Frickin' Steel).

But it strips the Patina away ?

 

[HaulingAss]

But it strips the Patina away ?

Not wanting to strip the patina is why I tried Sprayway, 99% alcohol, mineral spirits and even acetone before using BKF. The patina will re-establish itself without having to do anything special.

I could also have polished the sapling stains away with my RO sander, but that also strips the patina. If you know of a way to get them off without stripping the patina, and that is as simple and fast as BKF foaming spray, speak up.

 

[HaulingAss]

Dents are like scars, they add character.

You can have too much character too.

My brother saw a shopping cart blow across the parking lot and run into his Dodge Ram. This was the result:

Rust is not the kind of character I want my truck to exhibit! That's from one errant shopping cart that was empty!

I saw this when I was going out to dinner:

The sheet metal is as thin as a soda can! This is not the kind of character I want either!

The scratch and dent damage resistance of the Cybertruck is underappreciated by people who have never owned one. There is a reason stores have scratch and dent sales, and why used trucks without scratches and dents are worth a lot more than trucks covered with scratches and dents (and rust).

 

[igs]

You can have too much character too.

My brother saw a shopping cart blow across the parking lot and run into his Dodge Ram. This was the result:

Rust is not the kind of character I want my truck to exhibit! That's from one errant shopping cart that was empty!

I saw this when I was going out to dinner:

The sheet metal is as thin as a soda can! This is not the kind of character I want either!

The scratch and dent damage resistance of the Cybertruck is underappreciated by people who have never owned one. There is a reason stores have scratch and dent sales, and why used trucks without scratches and dents are worth a lot more than trucks covered with scratches and dents (and rust).

That won't happen with the CT!

 

[av8rdude]

I have used all the Adam's Polishes Graphene products on my other cars. They even make a car wash soap with graphene. I have been hesitant to use the graphene wash soap on my cybertruck....but I will try it now. Just using the graphene soap might add enough graphene to help protect the stainless and make it hydrophobic.

Another great option to quickly clean and remove fingerprints, etc, is ONR. (Optimum No Rinse). This stuff is cheap and works great with a streak free finish. I keep a 0.5 gallon sprayer filled for quick spots or partial wash/wipe downs.....great stuff. A gallon on amazon is cheap and will last a lifetime with the suggested dilution with water.

I'll report my graphene findings soon.

 

[Bartender_Bill]

This is my windsheild solution. It doubles as an extension pole to clean my home’s windies on the second floor.

I use squeegee on the whole truck - 14” for most of it, 4” for small spots. Perfect. Oh ya, and I use the dreaded self wash bay brush no self respecting painted car owner would.. no problem!

 

[Bartender_Bill]

Oh… and has anyone noticed… where are the bugs on the windshield!!!!??? ?

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