ONR really lives up to the hype. With two gallons of water you can get your car cleaned up for the week. I live in an apartment with uncovered parking that explicitly forbids car washes - I'm able to take a bucket out there at 6am on Saturday and wash it before anyone knows what hit them. The perfect crime!Here's my process:1. Mix two capfuls of ONR with two gallons of water (standard dilution) inside a bucket with a grit guard at the bottom. Add a wash mitt to soak.2. Get a pump sprayer (the type that is used to spray plants, you can find them at any hardware store) and fill it with some of the solution out of the bucket. Spray the entire car for a pre-soak. This starts getting to work breaking down the dirt before you try to wipe it away, so you reduce the risk of scratching.3. Take your wash mitt, wring it out until it's just slightly dripping, and wash one panel at a time starting at the roof. Glide, don't push. Let the product work its magic.4. After you finish a panel, spray a tiny bit of wet wax, then dry and shine with a microfiber towel.If you do this every week, it takes no time at all and your car will always look clean. I also keep a more highly-concentrated solution in a small spray bottle in my trunk - half a teaspoon of ONR for 8oz of water. This works as a quick detailer between washes if you see some bird droppings, pollen, etc. Just spray, let it soak for a few seconds, wipe away and lightly buff with a clean part of the towel. I'm going to try it on my interior too; I'm convinced there's nothing on/in a car that this stuff can't clean.ONR, I first bought you about 15 years ago and loved you. Since then I have cheated on you with just about every new product on the market and have come round circle back to you. Why do we always think there is something better? Today, I took an old bottle of you from the garage shelf, put 2 cap fulls in a bucket of water and wiped down and dried every inch of my wifes car including the wheels. Spectacular shine and depth!! I had forgotten how fast and easy it is compared to pulling out the foam cannon and everything else that goes with it just to do a light wash. At the end, I always use the damp drying microfiber to wipe down the interior windows, door jams, door panels and plastic sill plates. From now on, I will only use ONR. Car: 2022 Lexus IS300 AWD in Matador Red metalic.BackgroundI'm 34 years old. From the age of 12 until just 6 months ago, I thought that the "Right Way" to wash a car was the way my Dad taught me: on a nice day, maybe 3 or 4 times a year, always in the sun, take a bucket, an old sponge, and a bottle of car wash that will generally last for ever, or until you move house and forget which box its in. Lazily spray the car with water from a hose. Then cover the whole thing with lovely soapy sudsy water. Spray the car again with water to get the suds off. Make a token effort to dry it using a nasty old piece of Chamois, then go for a fast drive around the neighborhood to finish it off. The water spots and streaks were just a normal part of car ownership, and anyone that spent all weekend getting their car shiny was just obsessed.RevelationWell, all that changed when I bought my first NEW car. I suddenly gave a damn about the paintwork. I did not like the streaks. I did not like the swirls. I decided to see whats changed in the world of car washing since my Dad learned the art - some 50 years ago. I spent many days in the office reading up on the Two Bucket Method, the Importance of a Good Sponge (actually called a Wash Medium), and finally I heard about ONR (Optimum No Rinse)Can it be true?The ONR are useless at marketing themselves. They have no facebook page, they have no twitter account, and no hot models draping themselves over mustang hoods.Only a few people on a few car detailing forums seem to speak out in favor, most normal people are of the opinion: "hmm, sounds like it might scratch the paint" or "seems like it leaves a film behind" or the more general "Even though I don't have any first-hand experience, my intuition provides many great excuses why I should not leave my comfort zone". The benefits of being able to wash a car in my garage in under half an hour, not wait for a dry, warm day, not soak myself to the skin and not have to rush to dry every bit of the car before the hot sun baked the suds into the paint... the benefits seemed worth the risk.How it works:They don't have a facebook page, but they do know an awful lot about polymers. specifically with regard to making polymer solutions that can trap dirt with magical chemical hands and release that dirt into a bucket of water. I don't really know what a polymer is... "a chain of molecules" is what I got from Wikipedia. That doesn't really help, to be honest. But you know how soap gets dirt off your hands? Well, its like that. Dirt moves from the car to the cloth, then from the cloth to the bucket. Does it every time. And when you dry the car, its totally clean.There's no filmy residue at all, really none at all. I always give the car a blast of wax after anyway, which is a totally filmy residue. so I'm unsure why people don't like a filmy residue. But it doesn't leave one. Relax on that count.The dirt in cloth does not scratch the paint. It simply doesn't. Even if your brain cannot imagine that scenario, its still true. ONR can be a clay lubricant as well as a wash, so its slippery stuff. If dirt is still trapped in your cloth, the lubricant means it doesn't dig into your paint and scratch it. Again, hazy on the details, don't really know how it works, but it just does.Caveats:If the car has actual mud on its panel, blast it off first with a hose. If there's accumulated black crud on the panels, you may need to look at some other way to wash your car. This stuff will remove normal daily crime, but if you drive through mud holes, you're on your own.Also, importantly, if you have no problem with rinsing your car off - if you live in a warm place with ample drainage, where the sun won't prematurely dry your car (leaving ugly water spots) in the summer, and the cold air won't freeze it in winter - and if you have time on your hands - in all these cases you probably don't need ONR. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it, but you're not going to get the maximum benefit from it.One more thing: if you're the sort of person to believe what your Dad taught you no matter what, you also probably won't like ONR. You probably won't buy it anyway. You're probably reading this thinking that I'm being paid to write it. Dude, companies who want marketing don't pay people for reviews on amazon, they hire hot chicks to lie on Mustang hoods and put the resulting pictures in car magazines. So no, I am not being paid, I'm just bored on a Sunday afternoon. I can't be bothered to wash my car.And finally, I know it doesn't quite "feel" right when you don't SEE a bunch of foam on your car, and SEE it getting blasted off with water. I sometimes feel like I'm cheating. I sometimes wonder if I should give it an occasional "proper" wash. But then I think that once we're in the world of molecular chemicals, the human brain and associated "feely bits" are not a very good judge of whats right and wrong. So I trust the scientists, and it never fails to impress me. Really, if you think you have a good reason why ONR doesn't work, I'm sitting here now saying you're wrong. How's it feel to be wrong? Look in the mirror. Look back at the screen. That person you just saw was wrong.How to do it:You mix up a bucket of ONR, and a second bucket of plain water (I recommend tepid temp). You take your microfiber cloth (you should have a whole stack of them by now), dip it in the ONR bucket, squeeze it out so its wettish / damp, then wipe it over a panel or two. While you're wiping, the polymers are clinging to dirt (and still clinging to the cloth). Now, dunk the cloth in the plain water. Agitate. Squeeze. Agitate again. The polymers have now released their dirt into the bucket. Leave your cloth in the clean bucket. Take another microfiber cloth, a dry one, and use it to dry off the panels that you just washed. Keep drying until it looks nice and shiny. Repeat that until you have done the whole car. It takes my about 25 minutes to do my Sienna.I would recommend getting the small 8 ounce bottle to start with. Your first wash will seem weird, but after that order the gallon bottle. Then, one day in a few months time when you're bored on a Sunday afternoon with your whole family napping, take the time to write a review on amazon. and ONR will send you a check. (only joking)Easy to use, mess free, no hose needed. Only one bucket, microfiber washcloth and drying towels required. Can dispose of small amount of water required in home sink. My community prohibits driveway car washing because typical car soap runoff contaminates the water table. At the same time, the only self serve car wash in my area is both a filthy mess and in a state of disrepair. For car aficionados who wish to avoid inevitable paint scratches from commercial car washes, this is what you have been looking for!Been using this product for about 12 years now.It's literally magic in a bottle.Can be hugely diluted to do a bucket wash 30ml to 8litres.You can also dilute it to make a QD or Quick detailer 60 ml to a 1litre bottle which you should always keep in your car.Great for removing bird lime from your paint. And you can use it all over the inside of your car.Dashboard door linings etc etc.Initially you think it's expensive at £25 litre but when you look at the dilution ratios it lasts for years. Oh and it puts shine and gloss on your paintwork that is phenomenal. Brilliant on glass too.Its a little more expensive than I'd like but it does a great job of washing the car in summer where using conventional bucket and suds will leave streaking and sunspot marks. Its a quick process to wash the car, although a somewhat different technique. Only useful if the car is mildly dirty rather than if yiu need to clean your offroader following a weekends serious green laning! Apparently better for the environment too.Been over a year now and I’m still to run through one bottle. I wash my car twice monthly so this has both saved me money from the car washes and also less water used. Can’t fault the quality as it cleans the car leaving my wrap colour enriched.This product works really well and makes car washing a whole lot easier. It saves a lot of work and leaves a good finish.Great product works very well for clay lube and a drying aid in the correct dilution