Car Wash at Home. What Should you Know?

Posted by James Cooper on January 6th, 2021

Washing a car at home can be highly satisfying. It also ensures that your car is getting a safe wash without someone else damaging its paint surface or any other part. While it may consume more time to wash the car often, but at the same time, you can bring home savings in the long-run. There are a few things that you should know for the car to get the best wash treatment. Keeping in mind, if you don’t like doing it on your own, there are many car washes in Owensboro Kentucky.

What Do You Need?

Get two microfiber cloths, a wash brush for tires scrubbing, two sponges wash mitts, washing shampoo, window cleaner, car polish, water buckets, and water pressure jet. If ensure that the car is cooled down and parked in the shady area before working on it. If the surface is hot, it will end up drying the wash shampoo quickly. Hence it will make it difficult to wash off the marks that are left.

How to go About It?

  • Start with wheels first. Rinse the wheels with a water jet and don’t forget to follow the two-bucket technique used. It involves filling one bucket with clear water and another with shampoo water. It also involves soaking the washing mitts in the clear water before dipping it in the shampoo. It helps to clean much of the dirt and muck from the washing mitts and sponge. In this way, there not many chances of getting scratches when you are using the same sponge. As the wheels are the car's dirtiest part, you must always prefer to go with wheels first. While it is not a hard and fast rule, you can also start cleaning off the hood, roof and finishing with wheels. However, as the wheels are dirty, all the muck is rinsed off the wheel would not come back on the car and dirty the clean parts.
  • Now rinse the whole car using the mild pressure water-jet. It loosens all the body dirt, and the car will be ready for the full-body shampoo session. A lot of car wash shampoos are available online. Apply shampoo to the entire car part-by-part. Once you are done, rinse the car without delay to avoid the watermarks.

In the End,

Soak up and polish and clean the windows. Don’t use polish on the windshield area or any other glass area. Instead, use a separate window cleaner. 

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