Car Cleaning

Subject: Car Cleaning Tue 26 Feb 2008, 10:47 pm

I was thinking we could start a recommendation up of products used, so people have an idea of what to buy and tips on how to clean a car!

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Tue 26 Feb 2008, 10:54 pm

My first few tips: -

1. Never clean a car in direct sunlight as it causes streaks down the car and some products react badly with hot sunshine
2. Always wash down your car prior to adding any car shampoo
3. Take care when cleaning your car with a soft sponge, make sure you keep rinsing it so as not to get a stone trapped and scratch your paint
4. Make sure you rinse off all your car shampoo
5. Use a drying towel and not a leather as you can scratch your paint if a stone gets caught on the leather due to little give
6. When applying polish, do so in small areas and not in direct sunlight
7. Make sure you use a micro fibre cloth to take your polish off
8. This is the same for adding any car wax after the polish

This is a very brief car-cleaning guide and does not include any rotor buffers, clay bar, etc - but should be good enough to make most peoples car 100x better!!

2 of my favourite cheap and cheerful products

1. Turtle Wax Wet n' Black for tyres - excellent product and lasts for weeks
2. Simoniz Back To Black, great for any exterior trim or black bumpers

More to come…

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Tue 26 Feb 2008, 11:18 pm

Good work mate, I am waiting for the better weather and then I am feeling a serious detailing session coming on Cool

I have to say I am a Meguiars whore, I think I have every product they do Embarassed

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Tue 26 Feb 2008, 11:20 pm

I used to be a Megs fan, they are very good....then I found this site

http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/

Enjoy Very Happy

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Sat 01 Mar 2008, 11:36 am

Megs all the way cheers

Newbie Age : 37 Joined : 27 Apr 2008 Posts : 13

my car cleaning tip...... which may or may not be of use to you....ive always used AUTO-GLYM polishes, and had no problem with there polishes,it is little more expensive but worth every penny...and CAN be used in the sun!..

also does anybody have problem with getting bird poo off your car ????

it simple.. pour hot water straight onto it...
then use doubled over kitchen towel and pour hot water onto that and leave for a few minutes.... this should remove it.. as you know bird poo will eventually eat into your paintwork, and that can be costly to get it resprayed.!!!

hope this has helped...

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Sat 03 May 2008, 9:04 am

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Wed 11 Jun 2008, 9:03 pm

My new favourite product is Victoria Wax. Applied some to my car on Monday, and again today, and it feels really nice and the colour is deeper and more metallic. I would recommend using the lite cleanser as well and it's an amazing product, which removes tar and so on, but also should be applied before any Victoria Wax.

http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/wax/victoria-wax/victoria-wax-6oz-yellow-collectors-wax/prod_235.html

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Thu 12 Jun 2008, 1:05 am

Subject: Re: Car Cleaning Thu 12 Jun 2008, 9:08 am