OCD neat freak + black car = going crazy. Help needed.

[toppstuff]

Help me to help a friend of mine.

Ex Army, irons his boxer shorts. Neatest man I have ever known.

Just got a nice Scirocco. It is black.

I fear for his mental health and that of his long suffering wife.

Just how do you keep a black car looking good without spending your entire life on an endless loop trying to remove swirl marks?

And what is the best way to stop water spot marks? It seems he has to polish the car to remove the water spot marks when it dries, this increases the chance of swirl marks, which means he then has to clean it again, which means more chance of even more water marks, and so the madness begins...

I am not a keen car cleaner. I don't know this stuff. What is the best advice here?

What is the best way to avoid water spots? Someone said something about wetting agents to me...? And how do you avoid swirl marks and so stop the endless cycle of clean and polish?

Or is he just crazy for buying a black car?

Advice and experiences from the PH collective are welcome.

Thanks

Edited by toppstuff on Sunday 26th May 10:04

[toppstuff]

Is there a product that solves this?

Surely someone has invented something?

We've cracked the key to human DNA. Put man into space. Figured out the physics of creation. Finding a lasting way to keep a black car clean without spending a whole day cleaning the bloody thing cannot be beyond mankind surely?

[toppstuff]

Kermit power said:

Cars are for driving, not for cleaning and polishing.

See if you can switch his OCD so that instead of worrying about having dirt on his new car, he worries instead about not having a perfect layer of road grime all over it. This may still trigger his OCD tendencies, but at least the solution is taking the car out for a good hoon down country lanes, not spending endless hours wasting his life away with de-ionized snow foam filters or whatever.

He can always valet it before he comes to sell it.

That will never work.

This is a man who loves to see the marks in a carpet left behind by the vacuum cleaner and only recently was persuaded to stop ironing a crease in his jeans.

I can't believe he has purchased a black car.

Going to see him this afternoon to watch the GP. I know he will be getting anxious about dust on the black paint.

[toppstuff]

Is it right you can put rinse-aid for a dishwasher in the final bucket of cold water and it acts as a wetting agent and all the water runs off, reducing beading and therefore water spots?

[toppstuff]

Back in the day I can recall getting something from Halfords that you put in the water which made all the water run off, reducing the need to dry with a chamois leather and meaning you had no water marks.

Or maybe I am making it up and my mind has persuaded me it was true. It was a long time ago and it came in a blue bottle. I had a new black Renault 19 16 Valve at the time...