Snow Foam

[carburettoricing]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 06 June 2018 at 17:37

[carburettoricing]

Thanks pal.

The more I research the more I'm shying away from the thought of even touching the car when cleaning, particularly as it's black so every little thing will show up, lots of articles suggesting if you have to dry it use a really soft microfibre to pat dry, not scrub.

Just watched a few videos of people using leaf blowers to forcibly air dry, sound sensible?

Rinse/snow foam/10 minutes/rinse/air blow dry?

Considering taking it to a professional detailer to get it washed, waxed and sealed to protect the clearcoat and paint, and from then on washing it myself via the snow foam method. Good idea or overkill? Or even insufficient?

Edited by carburettoricing on Wednesday 18th April 17:51

[carburettoricing]

This look alright then?



I'll use up the prokleen stuff and then upgrade to the Bilt Hamber once it's empty.

I'm thinking

1) Pressure wash
2) TFR - Wheels/Arches/Lower body where it picks the mud and straw and st up off the country roads
3) Pressure rinse the TFR off about a minute later, can't leave it on too long
4) Snow foam application
5) Tea/10 minutes
6) Rinse
7) Microfibre towel pat dry
8) Little bit of detailer spray application with the small microfibre cloths to finish

I appreciate the need to still do a manual wash, the foam/TFR is to remove contaminants to stop scratches/swirls when you start to physically drag cloths over the car, but given I'm driving down country roads I can't at the moment see the point of spending hours hand washing when it'll get dirty soon after. The quick spray applications of TFR/foam and finishing with the detail spray for a bit of shine on the upper body/bonnet and then drying to stop water spots will do me as it'll take 20 minutes of little effort rather than ages of manual cleaning but will still look lovely. (Hopefully!)

Only had it 5 days so won't be needing to get as obsessive as using small detail brushes or specific alloy/window cleaning gear for a few months yet.

Good plan?

Edited by carburettoricing on Wednesday 18th April 21:46

[carburettoricing]

Suppose I could graft a manual clean every so often.

Better?

[carburettoricing]

"Snow foam, two bucket wash, rinse and dry while using some QD once a week will be fine."

That's what I'll be doing, with a TFR application first to take a stab at the baked on crap on the bottom surfaces.

Going forward, not sure about the polishing/waxing, having not done it before I will no doubt fk it up which won't be ideal on a brand new car that doesn't actually belong to me! There's a private detailing place I know of, might see if the guy sells training days.

In terms of the Gyeon wet coat thing, that looks quite interesting, like it would be a quick and easy way to take a stab at replacing a manual hand wax? Would the correct sequence be, in my case, TFR - Foam - careful hand wash - wet coat spray on - hand dry with microfibre - QD maybe to touch up certain spots?


See what you mean about it being a sickness, I have just bought a ridiculous amount of stuff from Amazon....