Ignore the detailers, Sprayway Glass Cleaner is the easiest way to clean the exterior of your Cybertruck

[carsly]

Newer car washs here offer a graphene cycle that I have found removes the dark spots ( especially on doors). Leaves a nice sheen as well.

Interesting. Do you have any before/after pics you can share?

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[carsly]

If you don't wash it with soap and water first, you are not getting all the salt and dirt off the truck, completely. The spray away only gets what you can grab with the towel, the water and soap rinses away everything. And you will use a lot less S/A.

Sprayway does indeed get everything off the truck - at least from the windows and body panels I've sprayed. Always a good recommendation to start with a soap and water wash, ideally using a foam cannon and some kind of sponge/mop with the two-bucket method as a first pass. However in a pinch you can go straight to Sprayway and it gets the job done, albeit it does use a lot of Sprayway as you've noted.

 

[jf64k]

I’ve never had water on my FS AWD since it‘s May 2024 delivery. Only Sprayway ~1x/week with Costco microfibers. CT looks great!!

If it was covered in mud, etc then I’d rinse with soap/water.

The CT is so easy to keep clean.

 

[carsly]

I’ve never had water on my FS AWD since it‘s May 2024 delivery. Only Sprayway ~1x/week with Costco microfibers. CT looks great!!

If it was covered in mud, etc then I’d rinse with soap/water.

The CT is so easy to keep clean.

Always Costco microfibers

It really is remarkable how simple it is to keep it looking spotless. Never have to worry about scratching paint, or paint chips, swirl marks, etc.

 

[HaulingAss]

Newer car washs here offer a graphene cycle that I have found removes the dark spots ( especially on doors). Leaves a nice sheen as well.

Graphene is certainly an interesting and very useful substance that will improve lives and bring amazing advancements in the coming years. However, suspending it in an aqueous solution and spraying it on a vehicle is not one of them. It has no mechanism to bond to the stainless steel with this method of application (and there is probably precious little actual graphene in the spray). It's being used as marketing ploy to steal your money.

Any benefits noted likely result from other chemicals in the "graphene" spray, which is probably just some sort of wax or silicone (with tiny amounts of graphene added so they can't be sued).

Don't fall for fake marketing ploys. The stainless steel of the Cybertruck does not need coatings. Even if graphene could be applied in a way that offered some kind of benefit, and that might be the case, it's too expensive to simply spray on a solution that has a tiny amount in it. Adding graphene to an existing product is just a marketing ploy.

 

[Speednet]

I totally agree, the Cybertruck is the easiest vehicle I've owned to keep clean, and Sprayway is the way to go.

I recommend wearing some gloves while cleaning with Sprayway because it has a scent that will live all day on your hands.

Other basics include a box of microfiber cloths, which are great for quickly cleaning up and I treat as disposable (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NDHL9TM) and Adam's Polishes Graphene Tire Dressing (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MBH2GPK).

Gotta keep those tires looking new. Put that dressing on and they will stay looking good for at least a week.

 

[Coagulation]

Sprayaway is great, but if the truck is super dirty, I found it easier to do a five minute hose down with traditional car, wash soap. Let that dry and then do it once over with spray away once dry. I’ve never spent more than 15 minutes cleaning this truck.

 

[REM]

Graphene is certainly an interesting and very useful substance that will improve lives and bring amazing advancements in the coming years. However, suspending it in an aqueous solution and spraying it on a vehicle is not one of them. It has no mechanism to bond to the stainless steel with this method of application (and there is probably precious little actual graphene in the spray). It's being used as marketing ploy to steal your money.

Any benefits noted likely result from other chemicals in the "graphene" spray, which is probably just some sort of wax or silicone (with tiny amounts of graphene added so they can't be sued).

Don't fall for fake marketing ploys. The stainless steel of the Cybertruck does not need coatings. Even if graphene could be applied in a way that offered some kind of benefit, and that might be the case, it's too expensive to simply spray on a solution that has a tiny amount in it. Adding graphene to an existing product is just a marketing ploy.

Spot on! Furthermore: it's only a matter of time before you start seeing commercials on t.v. saying

"have you ever used an automated car was that uses graphene? You may be entitled to compensation!".

Seeing how it's generally not a good idea for your health to aerosol carbon nanoparticles into the surrounding air that you breathe ?‍

 

[HaulingAss]

Sprayway does indeed get everything off the truck - at least from the windows and body panels I've sprayed.

Yep, water is a solvent and so is Sprayway. According to the MDSS it contains less than 5% ethanol and less than 5% 2-Butoxyethanol, a solvent and surfactant that is not highly toxic. Most of it is probably water. If you use enough of it it will undoubtably clean better than water, or even soap and water. However, we don't know all the components or what it leaves behind. My direct experience is that it leaves very little behind that wasn't there to begin with, but I have no way to verify that.

Always a good recommendation to start with a soap and water wash, ideally using a foam cannon and some kind of sponge/mop with the two-bucket method as a first pass. However in a pinch you can go straight to Sprayway and it gets the job done, albeit it does use a lot of Sprayway as you've noted.

I don't see that the foam cannon adds any real benefit over a bucket of soap and water. And the stainless steel of the Cybertruck would gain minimal benefit of the two-bucket method, assuming you use a decent brush and a reasonable amount of soap and water with a hose to pre-wet. The abrasive dirt should be heavier than the water and settle on the bottom of the bucket and the nature of a brush is that its not very good at trapping particles between the brush and the surface being brushed). The only benefit of the foam cannon I can see is the foam creates its own shade if you are washing in direct sunlight (which I avoid anyway).

Save the elaborate cleaning paraphernalia for fragile surfaces such as painted cars, clearcoats and plastic wraps. Even in the worst case in which you make a mistake that leaves swirl marks on your stainless steel, they are super easy to polish out with a random orbit polisher/sander and the correct pads, should the need arise. Unlike painted cars you don't have to worry about polishing through the clearcoat, which is only one and a half thousandths of an inch thick (and a lot softer than the stainless steel).

It's easy to maintain a gleaming Cybertruck if you don't go down all the fake rabbit holes created by detailing "professionals" who don't have a clue when it comes to the Cybertruck.

 

[Macgreiner]

I totally agree, the Cybertruck is the easiest vehicle I've owned to keep clean, and Sprayway is the way to go.

I recommend wearing some gloves while cleaning with Sprayway because it has a scent that will live all day on your hands.

Other basics include a box of microfiber cloths, which are great for quickly cleaning up and I treat as disposable (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NDHL9TM) and Adam's Polishes Graphene Tire Dressing (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MBH2GPK).

Gotta keep those tires looking new. Put that dressing on and they will stay looking good for at least a week.

No need to throw them away, just wash them. I have and they still work great.

 

[carsly]

Sprayaway is great, but if the truck is super dirty, I found it easier to do a five minute hose down with traditional car, wash soap. Let that dry and then do it once over with spray away once dry. I’ve never spent more than 15 minutes cleaning this truck.

Truth be told, I've even done just a hose down with a sprayer attachment to knock off the bigger dirt/gunk and then hit it up with Sprayway with no soap, brush/mop or rinsing and it's been fine.

 

[HaulingAss]

No need to throw them away, just wash them. I have have and they still work great.

I prize my used microfiber cloths more than the new ones. They are more absorbent and clean better. But you have to wash them correctly. I save them up until I have a bag of dirties big enough to fill my washer half-full.

Don't worry about microfiber towels with black stains on them, they work great too as long as they have been properly washed. Wash them in cool to warm water and hopefully in a washing machine that doesn't just get them barely wet. I use a front-loader that uses very little water but choose a cycle that fills the tub up more. Use a basic unscented detergent with no fabric softeners and, depending upon your washing machine, you will probably have to run them twice, once without any detergent, (or add an extra rinse cycle at the minimum). The more detergent you use, the more rinsing required, so go easy on the detergent. More is not better, it's the water that does the cleaning, you just need some detergent to activate it. I use a couple tablespoons of Borax powder dissolved in warm water which greatly reduces the amount of detergent needed.

And, whatever you do, don't use those evil dryer sheets, they will ruin the performance of your microfibers (and it's difficult to remove fabric softeners once introduced). They coat the insides of your dryer too, and contaminate future loads.

 

[Speednet]

No need to throw them away, just wash them. I have and they still work great.

If I had a clothes washer dedicated to shop cloths I might, but I'm not putting gobs of Sprayway and road salt into the same machine I wash my clothes in.

 

[Art138]

Truth be told, I've even done just a hose down with a sprayer attachment to knock off the bigger dirt/gunk and then hit it up with Sprayway with no soap, brush/mop or rinsing and it's been fine.

Tried them all,but at the end of the day spray away saves the day. I have never needed to wash mine. Every other day a 15 minute detail and the truck is super clean.

 

[Peterwtf]

I take mine into a $7 drive thru car wash and towel dry. Usually once a week. Works great. A little bit of water comes in on passenger side of the bed but all good. SEVEN BUCKS TO WAS A CT!?

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