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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Auto Addict on 11 August 2006, 08:42:00
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Tools and Ingedents:-
2 Genuine Chamois Leathers (1 for bodywork, 1 for windows)
1 Synthetic Chamois Leather (for engine compartment)
1 Roll of Machine Mart Mutton Cloth (for polishing)
1 Tesco Wheel Brush
1 Sponge
1 Hose Pipe
1 Tesco Car Shampoo (for wheels)
1 Autoglym Car Shampoo (for bodywork)
1 Autoglym Super Resin Polish
1 Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection
1 Autoglym Vinyl and Rubber Care
1 Paint Sponge Pad (for applying vinyl rubber care)
Washing :-
Wheels:-
Add a generous amount of Tesco Car Shampoo to a bucket of very warm water.
Scrub inside and ouside of wheels with bush and water (including tyre walls)
Rinse off thoroughly after each wheel with hose.
Bodywork :-
Sprinkle water all over bodywork.
Add a small amount of Autoglym car shampoo to 5lts of luke warm water.
Wash car with sponge (rinsing out regularly)
Sequence - Roof, back an front windows, wiper arms and blades, bonnet and grill, boot, doors and sills, rear wings and arches, front wings and arches, front skirt, rear skirt, wheels and tyres.
Drying off:-
With a bucket of luke warm clean water and the bodywork leather, dry off car (rinsing leather regularly)
Sequence - All windows (outside), wiper blades and arms, roof, bonnet, boot, doors and sills, rear wings, front wings, front and rear skirts.
Open doors and dry off all metal painted areas, including door pillars.
Open boot and dry off all metal painted areas.
Change leather to synthetic.
Open bonnet, wipe over all visible reachable areas. Metal and plastic, hoses etc.
Change Water to very hot. With the genuine chamois leather for windows, clean all inside windows.
Polishing (every 3 to 4 months)
Polish bodywork, including inside of doors, boot, bonnet and wheels with Super Resin Polish.
Apply Extra Gloss Protection as above.
Apply Vinyl and Rubber Care to the paint pad and wipe over walls of tyres.
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Sounds a bit compicated. How about a demo, my car is on the drive ;)
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Sounds a bit compicated. How about a demo, my car is on the drive ;)
You couldn't afford me ;)
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How often do you do all this?
What about the inside, or do you spend so much time cleaning it that you don't have time to sit in it? [smiley=lolk.gif]
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How often do you do all this?
What about the inside, or do you spend so much time cleaning it that you don't have time to sit in it? [smiley=lolk.gif]
On a weekly basis, weather permitting.
Washing takes under 1 hour.
Polishing also takes under 1 hour.
I vac the inside out at least once a month.
You can all take the p**s, but I enjoy driving around in a clean car.
RB's seen it and commented on it's condition.
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How often do you do all this?
What about the inside, or do you spend so much time cleaning it that you don't have time to sit in it? [smiley=lolk.gif]
On a weekly basis, weather permitting.
It washing takes under 1 hour.
Polishing also takes under 1 hour.
I vac the inside out at least once a month.
You can all take the p**s, but I enjoy driving around in a clean car.
RB's seen it and commented on it's condition.
I'm not taking the p**s, I just wish I had the patience to clean mine properly. I've only had this one three weeks and it's already starting to look dirty. Why can't they be made self cleaning? [smiley=bath.gif]
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I am ashamed to say, I pay some Eastern Europeans (probably illegal, judging by the way they hide when plod goes by) to wash and vac. If I have time, I get then to polish it as well....
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Tools and Ingedents:-
Bodywork :-
Sprinkle water all over bodywork.
Add a small amount of Autoglym car shampoo to 5lts of luke warm water.
Wash car with sponge (rinsing out regularly)
Sequence - Roof, back an front windows, wiper arms and blades, bonnet and grill, boot, rear wings and arches, front wings and arches, front skirt, rear skirt, wheels and tyres.
dont you have doors? or do you leave em to give the b4 and after look [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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You spotted the deliberate mistake Mr Dev [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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There was a guy featured on tv a while back, takes him a week to fully clean a car and he charges £4000 ! He will do a quicker clean, 2 days £1700.
Of course he only has super rich clients.
I'm with Auto on this. :) I quite enjoy giving the car a thorough clean. Look after your toys and they will last a long time.
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You spotted the deliberate mistake Mr Dev [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
have to say tho if you add a couple of pictures that would be awfully like a how2
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Look after your toys and they will last a long time.
I agree servicing and maintenance is important, but I don't think cleaning will make it last longer. Except that it does give you a chance to spot the rust sooner.
And, a clean car does look better. My old one was dark blue, and even at almost ten years old, it looked great when it was clean. My new one is silver and, apart form the wheels, doesn’t look much different clean or dirty. [smiley=bath.gif]
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You spotted the deliberate mistake Mr Dev [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
have to say tho if you add a couple of pictures that would be awfully like a how2
...difficult to take photos of myself cleaning the car, daren't ask the wife, she thinks I'm paranoid as it is, which I probably am.... :-?
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I guess you could get a hand model in to show your method of cleaning. ;D
My car needs a good clean aswell.
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close ups of hand with sponge, tripod with auto timer, get the cat to do the photography bound to be better than some of the monkeys i work with ;)
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Nice writeup there AA. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
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It sounds like you do a thorough job there AA [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Mine usually gets cleaned twice a week.....even when its not been raining it still gets dusty.
My quick method....
Bucket of water, nothing added
Sponge...whichever one i find 1st
Quick sponge around the car.....skipping the wheels.
Two watering cans of water to rinse off (Hose pipe ban here!)
Chamois the windows......skip the rest (being silver it doesnt show water marks easily)
While its drip drying
Vacuum out the inside using a 14V rechargeable portable vac (quicker than dragging out the mains vacuum cleaner)
Wipe down the dash and anything else that looks dirty/dusty with detol fridge wipes (everything else ive tried leaves fibres behind and when dry looks just as dusty as before!)
15mins later job done :)
Which is what its gonna get in a bit coz im off to Gatwick at 4 ish
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i wash mine once a week, not quite the regimented way that AA does it, but i have a 'route' that includes all the underbonnet, door shuts, boot shuts etc.
it's gets polished every 2 months and the inside gets cleaned on an as and when basis, normally every few weeks as i don't generally get it very dirty inside.
I like the car to be clean, being gold i can get away with it if i wanted to but i don't