need advice

[aubrey9160]

I have recently had my cerbera resprayed, when I got it back I cleaned it and waxed it with dodo purple haze,(its moonraker black) It has got covered in builders dust and I dont know what to do for the best. I can blow it of with compressed air and then wash it as normal but dont know wether this will leave it with surface scratches.I would appreciate some advice.
Thanks in advance, Aubrey

[domster]

Blow off as much dust as possible, then rinse liberally with water using an open hose.

Then jet wash with plain water, spraying onto the car at a 45 degree angle (rather than blasting water into the paint)

Finally, do a contact wash using shampoo at 2x normal dilution. A good shampoo will encapsulate the dirt during a contact wash, especially at twice strength. Use the twin bucket method and grit guards and check the mitt/sponge carefully whilst washing.

Then rinse normally and dry.

[Jaykaybi]

domster said:

Use the twin bucket method and grit guards and check the mitt/sponge carefully whilst washing.

I do this EVERY time but in your particular case I would be very very inclined to use the one bucket method. One bucket with suds, and a hose pipe to rinse the mitt after each pass. No messing around.

[kds keltec]

Jaykaybi said:

domster said:

Use the twin bucket method and grit guards and check the mitt/sponge carefully whilst washing.

I do this EVERY time but in your particular case I would be very very inclined to use the one bucket method. One bucket with suds, and a hose pipe to rinse the mitt after each pass. No messing around.

I guess you either still live with your parents or not on a water meter or just got to much money so sod it leave the water running anyway

Which of the above

Quite a good idea thou

[Jaykaybi]

Hose with a nozzle ya tart!

[domster]

Jaykaybi uses a new mitt every wipe and has his butler following with the hose

As long as you try to avoid bits of grit on the mitt/paint then you will be fine. But all it takes is one grain of sand to cause a mark so the safer the better.

[Jaykaybi]

domster said:

Jaykaybi uses a new mitt every wipe and has his butler following with the hose

Who let you out of the servants quarters?

[domster]

Jaykaybi said:

domster said:

Jaykaybi uses a new mitt every wipe and has his butler following with the hose

Who let you out of the servants quarters?

LOL... sorry sir, back to polishing the 'Friday' Veyron in a minute.

[johnS2000]

kds keltec said:

Jaykaybi said:

domster said:

Use the twin bucket method and grit guards and check the mitt/sponge carefully whilst washing.

I do this EVERY time but in your particular case I would be very very inclined to use the one bucket method. One bucket with suds, and a hose pipe to rinse the mitt after each pass. No messing around.

I guess you either still live with your parents or not on a water meter or just got to much money so sod it leave the water running anyway

Which of the above

Quite a good idea thou

If you rinse the mitt with clean running water from a hose ( spray attached ) is not this much safer for the paint than rinsing the mitt in a second bucket of water that after the first rinse will be dirty !!!

I use the 1 bucket + hose pipe method and my wash bucket water will be as clean when I finish as when I started

[domster]

Just wastes a lot of water. Not environmentally friendly and the neighbours report you to the lentil brigade and throw GM-free fruit at you etc etc.

[johnS2000]

domster said:

Just wastes a lot of water. Not environmentally friendly and the neighbours report you to the lentil brigade and throw GM-free fruit at you etc etc.

I am sorry but when it come's to cleaning the car it's not waste it's a civil right ( or will be if anybody do's complain cos I will take it Belgium or whatever foreign power is governing us now )

What's the objective here ? to clean the car minimising paint damage ?or saving water so that water campany's pay higher dividend's to shareholder's

Edited by johnS2000 on Tuesday 9th March 11:50

[aubrey9160]

Thanks for the replies, in the end I got my butler to do the car so as he got pelted with gm crops from the neighbours.
Did it with wash mitt and one bucket and running water in the end didnt think it was worth being enviromentally friendly on this occasion.
Noticed some small scratches on it, nothing too bad but just wandering how long I need to leave it before I get it professionally detailed. Does anybody know of a good detailer in Shropshire or West Midlands area.

[domster]

It's just a question of perspective, really. The govt spend all that time saying turn the tap off whilst brushing your teeth, and if it's yellow let it mellow, so the public consciousness seems to be to save water. We don't have pressure washer or hose restrictions at the mo, thank god, but that could change I suppose.

Besides, I am not sure an open hose is necessarily better, in that the two bucket technique with grit guards and inspection of the mitt works really well - the wash water can be amazingly clear at the end of the wash. Maybe the bucket helps soak and float dirt away that a hose can't, and unless you have a warm water supply I'd rather use a warm rinse bucket than a cold hose. So perhaps it uses 4 or 5 times the amount of water and is just 5% better at cleaning the mitt with 50% more inconvenience and discomfort. It's not something that would add up, for me, but it may be the choice of others

[domster]

aubrey9160 said:

Thanks for the replies, in the end I got my butler to do the car so as he got pelted with gm crops from the neighbours.
Did it with wash mitt and one bucket and running water in the end didnt think it was worth being enviromentally friendly on this occasion.
Noticed some small scratches on it, nothing too bad but just wandering how long I need to leave it before I get it professionally detailed. Does anybody know of a good detailer in Shropshire or West Midlands area.

Coxy at http://www.elitedetail.co.uk/