what happened to using a bucket and a sponge?

what happened to using a bucket and a sponge?

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PH User

22,154 posts

107 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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Chris32345 said:
Chainsaw Rebuild said:
With a single bucket, when you clean the mitt in the bucket the water gets dirty; as evidenced by the water going brown. This dirty water has bits suspended in it, so you will get bits on the mitt from the dirty water.

These bits are abrasive, so when you rub the car its a bit like sandpaper and marks the paint.

Where as if you clean the mitt in a bucket of plain water to get the dirt off, then go to the soapy bucket, you prevent this.
How dirty are you letting your car get if the water I'd brown after washing?


While mine gets discoloured you can still see the bottom of the bucket afterwards
Depends where you live and drive. I could do 20 miles in a clean car and wash it again and the water would go brown.

SWoll

18,206 posts

257 months

Thursday 8th April 2021
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Chris32345 said:
Chainsaw Rebuild said:
With a single bucket, when you clean the mitt in the bucket the water gets dirty; as evidenced by the water going brown. This dirty water has bits suspended in it, so you will get bits on the mitt from the dirty water.

These bits are abrasive, so when you rub the car its a bit like sandpaper and marks the paint.

Where as if you clean the mitt in a bucket of plain water to get the dirt off, then go to the soapy bucket, you prevent this.
How dirty are you letting your car get if the water I'd brown after washing?


While mine gets discoloured you can still see the bottom of the bucket afterwards
Out in the sticks during the winter months I go through 2 buckers of wash water per weekly wash . Probably not so bad if all your driving is done in the city.

Pan Pan Pan

9,777 posts

110 months

Saturday 10th April 2021
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it seem to be personal preference on who washes their car, and how often they can or will do this.
My daily driver stays out in all weathers, and gets washed about 2 or 3 times a month depending on what weather prevails, and how dirty it gets, But when I start getting dirt, on my hands, or clothes every time I use it, it is generally time to wash it.
I hose it down first to wash as much dirt off as possible, followed by a sponge wash using a wash/wax car shampoo, which I then hose off. I tend not to dry it with a leather, but in hot weather I will use a leather to dry it off.
For my high day, and holiday car, it gets washed about 2-3 times a year. But with this I start with a snow foam, followed by hosing it off, then washing it with a mitt and wash wax. and then hosed down. The car is then dried using microfibre towels laid onto the body work, and finished with a hot air car drier, which blasts all the water out from the body seams, under the rubber seals, and the light / mirror fittings etc.
I then tend to go straight out in it, and get it dirty again, because it looked so nice when it was clean.

bad company

18,484 posts

265 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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I washed my car myself for the first time in years. It was quite satisfying though hard work. I finished it with Autoglym wax/polish. I then saw this online which I think is applied after the polish. Worthwhile?


320d is all you need

2,114 posts

42 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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I'd use Gyeon Cancoat myself.

bad company

18,484 posts

265 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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320d is all you need said:
I'd use Gyeon Cancoat myself.
Please help me out. What do these products do, why do I need them as well as wax/polish?

TheRainMaker

6,302 posts

241 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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bad company said:
Please help me out. What do these products do, why do I need them as well as wax/polish?
You don’t, they are just a longer performing wax in basic terms.

You put them on after you have polished the paint, just like would a traditional wax.

vikingaero

10,256 posts

168 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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bad company said:
320d is all you need said:
I'd use Gyeon Cancoat myself.
Please help me out. What do these products do, why do I need them as well as wax/polish?
It will make the paintwork super smooth and a bit more glossy. Dirt is less likely to stick. The next time you wash after using a decent ceramic coating/wax/sealant is far far easier.

Let's get down to basics here:

(1) Automatic car wash/garage jetwash/Eastern European car wash - fine for any car on PCP/Lease for c.3 years that you will never see again

(2) Decent car/keeper - 2 buckets, decent shampoo, wax/sealant. Look at something like this: Beginners Detailing Setup : Everything you need on a budget and even half that stuff is overkill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7q5E8Kz-CY

Previous

1,434 posts

153 months

Saturday 1st May 2021
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Like many, I spent far too long and too much money on detailing jn the past... but at the same time, I'd you have the time and enjoy it then good for you.

We've a 6 year old now. We go through the automatic brush wash ag the petrol Station or IMO car wash every now and again, just because its fun for kids (and I'm lazy).


Pommy

14,229 posts

215 months

Sunday 2nd May 2021
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anonymous said:
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Can't disagree with that.

Also to say 'the good old fashioned method' should really just be called 'the old fashioned method'.



Ranger 6

7,042 posts

248 months

Sunday 2nd May 2021
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How many buckets should I use for this?



What you can’t see is the mud splatters across the dash and inside the windscreen hehe

SWoll

18,206 posts

257 months

Sunday 2nd May 2021
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A quick jetwash will have most of that off in 5 minutes. Its the baked on crap from months of neglect that's the challenge.

TheRainMaker

6,302 posts

241 months

Sunday 2nd May 2021
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SWoll said:
A quick jetwash will have most of that off in 5 minutes.
Just not on your own drive biggrin

SWoll

18,206 posts

257 months

Sunday 2nd May 2021
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TheRainMaker said:
SWoll said:
A quick jetwash will have most of that off in 5 minutes.
Just not on your own drive biggrin
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Leave it for the next poor bugger at the petrol station instead.


Ranger 6

7,042 posts

248 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Funny you should say that hehe

No buckets were harmed in shooting this photo



There was an extraordinary amount of clag stuck underneath and yes, we did clean off the ground afterwards.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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That would look wrong with properly perfect paint.

Ranger 6

7,042 posts

248 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Thanks - someone asked if I was going to fix the dents. An over used word I know but I think of it as patina.

The dilemma comes when I need to fix the bulkhead - do I paint those bits the original colour, or the respray colour??

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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I met someone in Hong Kong once who drove a dented car. This was apparently not the done thing amongst the locals, and I don’t remember seeing any, so maybe that was true. Anyway, he discovered that people would give the obvious maniac a wide berth and let him out in traffic, so he didn’t fix it...

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Saturday 8th May 2021
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otolith said:
I met someone in Hong Kong once who drove a dented car. This was apparently not the done thing amongst the locals, and I don’t remember seeing any, so maybe that was true. Anyway, he discovered that people would give the obvious maniac a wide berth and let him out in traffic, so he didn’t fix it...
Dents and scrapes always bring you a guaranteed win when confronted with entitled junction blockers as well as the merge in turn or two cars but only one parking space challenge or when some Cockwhisk intentionally undertakes a long queue to barge in at the front of it...


nickfrog

20,872 posts

216 months

Saturday 8th May 2021
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Jaguar steve said:
Dents and scrapes always bring you a guaranteed win when confronted with entitled junction blockers as well as the merge in turn or two cars but only one parking space challenge or when some Cockwhisk intentionally undertakes a long queue to barge in at the front of it...
You always sound bitter Steve. Is it the badlands effect?