Get the Showroom Shine within Minutes
Your poor car! How much it has to put up with – the dirt, the grit, the lashing of storm, the assault of snow and what not! The result? Even the most expensive car on the road starts lacking luster within a year.
As the common idea goes: it requires a long session with a sponge and bucket to get your car spanking clean. But few of us have that time to invest on a regular basis.
What if you can get the desired sheen without needing to devote so much of your precious time?
Well, our quick cleaning tips are aimed to do just that; it teaches you the secret of keeping the car shiny without needing you get stressed over it!
Target the different parts of the car separately
Attack the grime of interior and outside of your car with different approaches; use different products to clean different parts of the car such as windscreen or car tyre.
Dealing with the interior
The commonest problem suffered by your car’s interior is spillage—from your coke can, from your kid’s ice-cream cone, from your wife’s make up and so on.
Together they can create enough blotches to give your car upholstery a worn-out look.
But you can fight against them…how?
- A good preventive solution is to use the coating of a product like Armor All. This coating helps you to easily wipe out the spots as soon as they appear.
- If the upholstery is made of leather, apply warm water mixed with mild soap and sponge the streaks with it.
- Getting rid of the blemishes from fabric is a real challenge: but we have the solution for it too. Just stir in some baking soda in warm water; now apply this liquid over the spot and wait for half an hour. After that soak the area with a dye-free towel to get rid of that stain.
- One point to remember: avoid using silicon based products as they are prone to create a greasy effect.
Dealing with the exterior
- Use a very soft sponge which you should wipe the car body in a circular motion. This prepares your car to get a pre-wash.
- In pre washing stage avoid foam-creating pre wash product or those that come with built in polish. This locks in the dirt under the layers of the wax and makes your job tougher.
- Now is the time for final wash. At this stage, first clean up the body and then move on to the tyres and bumpers, the dirtiest parts of your car!
- For windows use glass cleaners specially made for the car and not house glass cleaners. White vinegars make a very good home-remedy to eliminate the blurry look from your windshields.
Polish it up
To give the quickest possible polish to your car, follow these steps:
- Give the car a jet wash.
- Now apply the polish when the body is wet and rub.
- Rinse off with another jet wash and rub the body with a soft sponge.
- Also use a chamois leather to wipe off the damp polish residues.
Get the help of some reliable car cleaning products popular in UK:
Autoglym products are equally suited to the professional users, as well as the family car owners.
And here you go with the cleanest car: let your car dazzle your neighbours with it’s newly acquired showroom glamour!
my kid left a smoothie on the roof of my audi and i didn’t discover it for a week. i was successful cleanning some of the gook off using a tar remover but some of the stain isn’t coming off. especially the metal area of the top{IT’S A WAGAON]
THANKS
the best way to clean it of is don’t give you kids smoothies
Windows Cleaners also work quite well to safely remove bird droppings from the exterior.
Never seen this blog before. I have just written a post today which would compliment this guide on car cigarette smoke odour removal.
http://www.autowirez.co.uk/blog/34/cigarette-smoke-car-cleaning-tips/
I hope the author of this blog doesn’t object to this link post. I did try to trackback but couldn’t find the link for the url, sorry!
When I wash my car, I do so with a big soft sponge and biodegradable cleaning solution that does not corrode the metal in my car and protects the environment at the same time.
I was using a jet wash, but found by the time I’d connected it all up, I was as quick to use a bucket/sponge. I did find however that whatever method I used I tended to miss bits if I was doing a quick wash. If I was spending more time on it, I’d always have to finish with a polish – otherwise there were streaks or missed bits. Now I just use the Permaclear waterless car wash. Looks just as good in a fraction of the time.
Wear slippers in the car ! Put on gloves kept just for the car ! Wear something like light overalls in the car. Don’t eat in the car … stop and get out to do that (remembering to take off your slippers!)
If it is going to rain don’t use your car on the road until it is dry again. If salt has been put on the road because snow is expected then use the bus or walk!