Do-It-Yourself Car Washing Tips
Owning a car of ones’ hard earned money is indeed a matter of big achievement. In the midst of much fanfare and car companies vying for customer’s attention, it is not difficult buying car of own in choicest of model, color, imbued with additional gadgets and various other utility features. As proud owner of your hard earned possession, you will definitely leave no stone unturned for its maintenance and service. Timely maintenance and servicing of your vehicle may help it enhance its life and luster.
There are an array of manufacturers today selling car touch up paint spray cans that can give an entirely new look to your tampered, scratched car paint. Your much cherished possession may wane out with time bearing the onslaught of extreme weather conditions, accidents etc. Such products are useful in protecting the life of your vehicle. Cleaning and maintaining the sheen of your car is not a helluva task, if you know to do it the right way. At the very outset, cleaning a car is simple today with many DIY products made for the customers to be used by them anytime. The list of basic things that you will need to start of the process yourself with things easily available at home:
1. Bucket or a hose that is connected with consistent water supply
2. Soft sponge, washing mitts or a chamois
3. Liquid detergent made specifically for cars and automobiles
4. Polish and Car wax
5. A polishing sponge and cloth
6. Toothbrush for detailed cleaning
Washing with the Right Suds
Hand washing detergent is good when it comes to degreasing the car but it is not ideal to be used in giving car finish. It removes dirt, grease and old wax and gives you a prime base to apply other cleaning products. It is important to know that general liquid detergent do clear dirt but it also sucks important oils from the paint’s polish. Thus it is always advisable to use cleaner formulated for vehicles in place of regular dish soap. Once you are done with choosing the right kind of suds, move onto the next step of cleaning. This will include correcting the scratches using spray paints for cars. It is advisable to rinse the mitt often as this will remove most of the grit from the mitt and prevent the scratches.
Once when you are done with the basics of the cleaning process, washing all parts, you can start with hosing the whole car down; make sure the scratch paint you applied is dry. (Choose a sunny morning to clean up your car). The detailed process below will clean the whole vehicle in few steps:
1. Start with scrubbing the entire surface with a scrub using best shampoo for car available in the market, judge the best one based on the degreasing ability it has.
2. Gently scrub off the bodywork of the vehicle with the wash mitt you made. Lamb’s wool is best to use as any abrasive thing will damage the paint of car’s body.
3. At last, start with polishing the car using suitable car wax in your DIY kit, use plastic polish to clean the non metal surfaces like headlights, indicators, brake lights.
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