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How To Spend A Glorious Summer Afternoon Detailing Your Car The Right Way

A few key things to keep in mind before you start:

• Try not to park in direct sunlight. This evaporates the water very quickly and leaves water spots.
• Remove any jewelry on your fingers or wrists, and make sure you don’t have anything metal on your person that could scratch the car if you brush up against it. Things like necklaces, zippers or buttons.
• If you drop any claybar, microfiber towel or sponge on the ground, do not reuse it. Once it’s hit the ground, it will pick up all kinds of grit that will scratch your car if you continue cleaning with it. You’ll need to wash the sponge or the microfiber towel thoroughly before using it again.
• Top to bottom, always! Spray and soap from top to bottom because then you won’t spread dirt around as much.
• Be conscious about not cross-contaminating towels and sponges. A towel used on your rims should not be used for anything else. Likewise, a buffer pad that has scratch remover on it shouldn’t be used to wax, either.

(Jalopnik.com)

I'd Give This Product A Try

Wype will come clean your car where it sits

Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here's the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game.

Wype is based in Southern California, where cars are shiny and water is scarce. Wype detailers arrive at your car armed with non-toxic, plant-based proprietary cleaning products that require no additional water — no hoses, no puddles. According to Kim, the car wash industry wastes 300 million gallons of water, or 38 gallons per car, each day. (Auto Laundry News estimates that car washes use between 35 and 120 gallons per vehicle, depending on wash type.)

No matter the demographic, there are three levels of Wype: the Quickie, which only cleans the exterior and doesn't require you to give the keys to the detailer; the Standard, which gets the interior and exterior clean; and the Swanky, which adds wax. When they clean the interior, they'll take out the trash, organize your stuff that isn't trash and leave you a mint. They also take before and after pictures.

Kim said in an email that no car has yet been too dirty for Wype to handle. "Our process safely and effectively cleans surfaces that haven't been washed for months," he wrote.

(AutoBlog.com)

How To Wax On & Wax Off, Daniel-San

How to wax your car | Autoblog Details

Waxing your car is vital to the protection of paint, but how do we do it properly to get the best bang for our time? Here are a few things you need to know before waxing your car. Watch all our Autoblog Details videos for more quick car care tips from professional detailer Larry Kosilla.

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Did You Know - Car Detailing Edition

Car Wax Explained: What It Is, Why Your Car Needs It, And How Often You Should Do It

What exactly is car wax, and why should you use it? We headed over to the HQ of Autoglym for a wax education, to find out the answers to these questions and more

When should I apply wax?

There are two parts to this question: when during your wash regime should you use wax, and how often should you use the stuff? The first one is easier to answer - it should always be the last thing you apply. After washing the car and applying treatments like polish, the wax goes on to ‘seal’ and protect your hard work. Paul warns against the common mistake of waxing and then polishing - doing so simply strips off the wax.

The question of how often you should apply wax is a little more tricky to answer, but Paul suggests around three times a year, depending on the sort of driving you’re doing. Between then simple shampoo washes (or even a snowfoam treatment, if the car’s not too mucky) will be sufficient, and good car shampoos shouldn’t strip away the layer of wax.

(CarThrottle.com)