Mr. Clean Starter Kit

by Mr. Clean

Product Features

• All grip selector knob designed for use with wet/soapy hands
• 3 independent flow paths and nozzles
• Refill filter window indicator
• Leak resistant hose hookup
• Thumb activated on-off switch

Product Details

Product Manual [598kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 15 x 10 x 4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001YLJBO
• Item model number: MCC0AA
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,841 in Automotive (See Top 100 in Automotive)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Contains Mr. Clean Auto Dry Device, starter soap and starter filter.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars **Great Carwashing Tool - Worth Every Penny!**, June 8, 2005

By 

J. Tomaszewski (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mr. Clean Starter Kit (Misc.)

I was a bit skeptical about buying this product because of the other products I have tried that claimed to be spot-free and failed miserably. I was pleasantly surprised with the Mr. Clean AutoDry system! If you follow the directions and put a bit of effort into your wash job it works very, very good!

- You first rinse off your vehicle with regular, unfiltered water either through the AutoDry gun or with your regular hose sprayer.

- Next, you use the AutoDry on the "soap" setting and completely cover the vehicle. They advise to only use the Mr. Clean soap, of course, because it contains agents not normally found in other car washing soap that assists in the sheeting action (similar to Jet Dry for the dishwasher)

- Thirdly, you give the vehicle an old fashioned hand wash with a sponge. Make sure you do a good job and clean it completely or you will find streaks when it dries with the old dirty water smeared all over.

- Fourth, rinse the vehicle completely with unfiltered water. Make sure you are very through in this stage. Take your time!

- Finally, set the AutoDry to the filtered rinse setting and go over the vehicle again. Make sure you start at the vehicle's highest point to remove all the tap water sitting on the roof. Basically, you want the filtered water to remove all the unfiltered water. Spray the filtered water in all the crevices to avoid spots later (side view mirrors, bumpers, etc.)

Although it sounds like it takes a long time it is really quite quick if you put some effort into it. I can do a complete vehicle (Ford Explorer) start to finish in about 15 minutes. The car dries completely spot free EVERY time! Of course, the results will only be as good as YOU make them. If you don't wash completely or rinse the unfiltered water off completely there WILL be spots. It is up to you to do a through job to get great results!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product! - Just know how to use it, September 5, 2004

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L. Benson "JRB" (Dallas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mr. Clean Starter Kit (Misc.)

I read some reviews on this Auto-Dry system before I went out to buy it because usually things that sound too good to be true are too good to be true. The reviews seemed split up, people hate it or love it. This lead me to believe that the people who didn't like it just didn't know how to use it properly.

So I bought it and the first time I used the Auto-Dry it worked perfectly, no spots whatsoever. I followed the procedure like this:

-Rinse the car like always

-Spray on the soap but all you need is enough to coat the surface because this soap leaves a thin layer on top anyways. I could see how it would be easy to waste the soap because it uses up pretty quickly. However one fill to the little arrow was a perfect amount I found. Do the car in 4 sections, front, back, and sides.

-Scrub the area you soaped with a wet sponge like you would normally

-Rinse of that section with non-filtered water, you will find out that no matter how much you will spray, soap keeps coming off, it is because there is a thin layer on top right now and you want that its part of the good drying process.

-After you have soaped and scrubed all four section now you should use the filtered water to rinse off. It's best if the whole car is wet at this time you dont want anything to dry before you use the filtered water.

-The trick is to have only filtered water on you car when you are totaly finished. If you have any non-filtered water on the car then it will dry with a spot.

If you know how to use the Auto-Dry it is a great tool. I will always wash my car with one now.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not perfect, May 8, 2004

By 

Brian Cohen (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mr. Clean Starter Kit (Misc.)

I've had the autodry car wash for about 2 months now, and i was my car weekly. It works pretty good, the most important thing to remember is to wash your car one section at a time and rinse it off so soap doesnt dry on 1 spot while your washing another, you want the car to be wet the entire time your washing. The rinsing also takes some practice, youll want to start with the top of your car and use a lot of the rinse water to make sure no minerals get left on. It does work, will not leave spots as long as you do it properly.
The down sides to it are. It uses a lot of soap, compared to filling a bucket with water/soap, youll use much more soap shooting it out of the gun, but it is a lot easier and ensures you arent washing with dirty water, make sure you rinse your wash sponge or whatever off regularly. It is very hard to fill the soap dispenser up if youve used it recently, there will be a lot of soap bubbles in the tank and putting soap in just makes the bubbles come out the hole, and then the soap doesnt go in, gets very annoying, make sure you fill the soap up before starting each time. The filter is another problem, for me at least, I live in texas and we have very hard water, lots of lime in it, so the filters tend to go quite fast, another factor making the filters use up faster than 10 washes is that you really need to use a lot of the rinse water to make sure no spots form, i get about 5 washes per filter, but thats over a month worth of washes for a relativly cheap filter, bout $6 at walmart.
Another thing I like about the whole thing is that by not having to dry with a towel, I'm not rubbing my car so im further reducing the risk of making scratches or swirl marks from either a bit of dirt that got on the drying towel or anything else that could get between the towel and the car and get dragging over the paint.

The design is simple, water spots are cause by minerals in the water that don't evaporate with the water, the filter removes them so only water is on the car after rinsing, which all evaporates.