Car Cleaning and Detailing

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How To Clean Your Car

Professional Car Cleaning and Detailing Tips

Congratulations, you’re about to embark on a wonderful adventure. You know the importance of keeping your car clean, detailed and in tip top condition. But, what you may not know is that cleaning your car doesn’t have to be a time consuming task. In fact, with our speed cleaning method, you’ll have a super clean car in no time at all. So, roll up those sleeves, grab your cleaning supplies and let’s clean that car of yours.

Gather all cleaning supplies

. First and foremost, you must gather all cleaning supplies that you’ll need upfront. Make sure that you have high pressure hose or hosepipe, pails, sponges, garbage bags, dusting cloths, cordless vacuum, car wash cleaning products, cotton bath or beach towels, wash clothes, furniture polish, window cleaner, and air freshener. Approximate time: 5 minutes

Pre-rinse your car’s exterior

Second, you should pre-rinse and wet your car with clean water and a high pressure hose or hosepipe with a strong jet. This will enable you to remove the loose grit. Approximate time: 3 minutes

Pre-wash your cars exterior

Third, you should pre-wash your car with a bucket of clean water and a superior car wash product, preferably one that contains conditioners and no built in polish. Approximate time: 10 minutes

Wash again

Shampoo your car again with a sponge and cleaning pad. Work in circular motions and try not to scratch the paint. Rinse it thoroughly. Approximate time: 5 minutes

Clean those wheels

Brush your wheels with soap and water and then use a hard scrub brush to quickly shine them up. Rinse. Approximate time: 5 minutes

Rinse it off and dry it

Rinse off your car once again and then dry it off using a specialized cloth like Chamois leather. Approximate time: 10 minutes

Clean the car’s interior

Pick up all garbage, remove, wash and/or vacuum mats; wipe down dashes with a micro cloth, console and other plastic material. If you have leather seats, use moisturizing soap. Rub the soap on a cloth, lather it up, and clean it with a dry clean cloth. Add air freshener. Approximate time: 10 minutes

Clean those mirrors and windows

Last but not least, clean your mirrors and windows. Make sure that you clean them using an ammonia free glass cleaner and newspaper to get streak free. If you don’t have newspaper, you should use a pillowcase or cloth diaper. Approximate time: 5 minutes

In conclusion, by following the above mentioned tips, you will save yourself time, money, and can have a clean and detailed car in less than an hour. So, have fun as you embark on this wonderful speed cleaning adventure.

Best Products To Clean Your Car

There are many types of materials and surfaces inside a car. Vinyl, leather, acrylic paint, rubber, chrome, glass and plastic all do best with their own specific type of cleaner to maintain and condition them.

Since each surface really does best with its own cleaner with specific pH and required conditioners, I easily tell you what to stay away from.

NO STRONG DETERGENTS/SOAP

The strong solvents in most cleaning products will break down and damage paint, vinyl, and leather and rubber material. Laundry detergent is highly alkaline and all soaps leave a film residue which will dull the shine.

DO NOT USE AMMONIA BASED PRODUCTS

Ammonia is used in certain glass cleaner’s and all purpose cleaners. Ammonia based cleaners will degrade and crack leather, vinyl and rubber. It is possible it will also damage the protective covering if used on tinted glass windows

DO USE A MICROFIBER DUSTING CLOTH

A Microfiber dusting cloth will not leave lint and is used by professional car detailers for a streak free shine. (It’s also used by my professional maid services on all glass cleaning, dusting and when we clean the mirrors)

SUMMARY

So, If I was in a pinch and had to clean the inside of my car with only one product- I’d find a gentle non ammonia based glass cleaner and use this on all the internal hard surfaces. I’d wipe everything down and dry it off with my microfiber dusting rag. Then I’d use some plain water and dampen the rag and re-wipe any plastic/rubber/hard surfaces to ensure that the chemicals in the glass cleaner are completely removed.