How Do You Love On Your Car?

Loving and nurturing a child you feed, cloth, wash and direct them. Psychologists indicate that a person’s biological needs must be met before any others. Similarly the same is true with your car although feeding it requires gas instead of food, lots of clean air, a good bath regularly, preventative maintenance and occasionally it’s get sick and requires care.

So how do you love on your car? Below is some simple instructions for a good bath.

How to Wash Your Car

This process may seem simple enough, however, ask any Body Shop and they will tell you horror stories of many a well meaning car wash victim.

Number one, have you ever seen a Classic or Antique car going through an automatic car wash? I doubt you ever will. Even the brushless ones use clothes that get the grime and sand from the last three hundred cars they washed and then leave little tiny scratches all through your clear coat. Or high pressure water that loves to get into places it shouldn’t, this causes all kinds of damage that you may not see for months.

Besides, there is nothing like going over your cars paint surfaces with a clean towel that helps you, “feel the love” necessary for a long, long  happy relationship. This, by the way could save you up to $500,000 over 47 years as did Rachel with her car Chariot.

First get your gear together, hose, bucket, clean wash mitt (a clean wash rag will do), liquid dish washing soap (like Lux, or dawn), a tire brush (Brillo pads will do ONLY FOR THE TIRES NOT THE WHEELS OR ANYTHING ELSE).  A good vinyl cleaner like Armor All or McGuiars, glass cleaner, News Paper works great for windows or just paper towels. If you live down south in the summer you may want to get a good bug remover like McGuiars, and a shop Vac or some kind of vacuum, Tire dressing.

Next try to get your car in the shade on a sunny day, (water spots). Go ahead and vacuum the car out first and clean the interior vinyl surfaces.

Then starting at the top of the roof, rinse down the entire car. Always start on top and work your way down, gravity will work for you with the heavier gritty dirt on the lower part of the car. Rinse the complete outside of the car including the wheels and tires.

Now add a small amount of your dish washing soap to the bucket and fill it with soapy water. Again, starting at the very top of your car, soap up you mitt and start washing in circular motion. Never get the mitt grimy from the bottom of the car and then go back to the upper surfaces or if you drop it in the dirt get that one clean or go get another. Keeping your circular motion move down to the hood and deck lid, then to the sides and lastly the rocker panels (the panels below the doors) until you have soaped down the entire car. Now rinse thoroughly.

Go ahead now and use your tire brush on those tires, scrub, scrup hard, then wash the wheels and rinse.

Now using a clean dry towel or shammy dry off the car, again starting at the top and working down dry the all the paint surfaces and dress the tires. Lastly clean the windows.

Finally park your car on the grass somewhere and stand back and admire. AHHHHH