How to Wash and Wax Your Car

Washing your car can be a good activity for relaxing and having fun. This can be great especially if you are doing it with your family with kids helping you.


For efficient and easy way of cleaning your car, follow the following steps.

i) Ensure your car is packed at place where it is not under direct sunlight. This is important, as it will reduce the chances of premature drying of your car.
ii) Set every requirement for cleaning your near. This should include scratch out kits from auto detailing which are available at affordable prices. Also, ensure you have gloss additive, cups, shop towels and any other equipment from auto detailing that you think will be necessary for giving your car the most appealing look after washing.
iii) Have a bucket filled with water then add soap or detergent for washing your car in the right quantity as directed by auto detailing on the bottle.
iv) Have another bucket of plain water.
v) Loosen the dirt on your car by hosing it off. Take care that you don't rub over the grit on your car's paint scratching it by use of strong jet.
vi) Apply soap water over your car by use of a sponge or a washing material from auto detailing which will ensure the wash mitt will wash out dirt from it. Avoid using brush as this may leave scratches on your car.
vii) Starting from the top, wash your car each section at a time. Circling around your car severally to ensure you wash the lower part with every round.
viii) While doing this, ensure you rinse the sponge off wash mitt in the plain water to get rid of any dirt in it frequently.
ix) Avoid leaving any place with soap for long as this will stain your car again. Therefore, hose it immediately you are done with applying soap.
x) Ensure that the entire car is always wet to avoid drying of droplets on the paint of your car. This is important as it will enable you dry your car with a auto detailing towel before it air-dry.
xi) Make sure that the lower body part of your car are the last to be scrubbed as they are the grittiest and the dirtiest. It is also advisable to use a different auto detailing mitt for these parts of the car because this can get really gritty.
xii) Using a skinny and long wheel brush, clean the wheels openings. In case the wheels happen to be very glossy, clean them with a mitt or sponge just like the other car body parts. This should be done after ensuring you have hosed off excess grit. This is because a wheel brush can scratch the reflective or clear coating of the wheel.
xiii) Clean the side walls of the tire using a plastic brush. This should remove excessive plasticizer which comes out of the tire surface protecting the outer layers of the tire. Sometimes, it can make the tire brownish.
xiv) It is important that sometimes you rinse the car's bottom vigorously using a spray nozzle from different angles. This is important especially if the car had been exposed to salt which can lead to speedy rusting of your car even at the ordinary atmospheric moisture conditions.
xv) After you are through with this, dry your car with clean auto detailing towels. This should be done thoroughly to facilitate waxing.
xvi) Then using wax from auto detailing, wax your car from a shady place. This will prevent the wax from damaging your finish as it can react strangely in hot sun.

By following these steps and using wash materials from auto detailing, your car will be left not just clean but also shinny as if it's a brand new one.



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