WORX Hydroshot 20V Power Cleaner

Yeesh, the excitement for this product lasted about 10 minutes. I live in Michigan. During winters, even if ya take your car to a car wash before coming home, ya get the salt from the car wash to your home. In summer, I drive on a dirt road almost every weekday. As it is, I hand wash my car 2-3 times a week with a sponge and chamois. I take it to the quarter car wash a day or 2 per week. I have 2 vehicles, so while the times I wash it doesn't double, I guess I'm washing one of my vehicles one way or the other 5-6 times a week. So the idea of something like this was something I've thought about for a few years. I could use a pressure washer in summer, but in winter it's a no go. I figured this would be the ticket. I got it. Charged it. That all went well enough. Then came time to use it. It didn't clean my car. I knew I wasn't getting a pressure washer. I didn't expect this to be that bad though. I guess it's better than a garden hose, but not by much. It didn't occur to me to take pics before I did my first one. After seeing the job it did, I've included pics of it. It does look a bit better, but hardly like if I had taken it to the quarter wash (which btw/ is actually $2.00). I went over my first car several times. I knew the battery life was 20 minutes, so I didn't want to spend all day on it. My first car I finally realized this wasn't going to do the job. I got the brush attachment and used that for a bit. Flimsy. I figured at that time there was a good chance of returning it, and I didn't want to break it. Then I went and got my sponge. If I'm going to do that, I might as well just wash it like usual. The mini van I didn't complete. I guess in a nutshell, there's not enough battery life to do 2 cars. For that matter even 1 if I'd stuck with it. I didn't do the roof of the first car. It will get some of the dirt off, but nothing near what a quarter car wash will do. This won't come close to getting the ice out that builds up under your car in winter time. I can already see that. I also spent 10 minutes on my car where a quarter car wash rinses it in about 2 minutes. Then the last thing- if this was the only thing I'd keep it- but the clip the connects the hose to the bucket is flimsy too. That thing came off several times. The pics- first 2 are of my car after it was washed. Second 2 are of mini van before wash. Last 2 are of mini van after wash. A total of 20 minutes was spent spraying the 2 vehicles. 10 minutes on each. I did sponge the other side of the car, and that looks ok. I love the idea of this thing. It's just that this isn't a very good unit.