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Warning - washing your car

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I read an article today regarding being wary washing your car

It said that the volcanic ash, which may have built up on your car, is extremely abrasive and could cause significant damage to paintwork.

It advised hosing the car down before washing, cleaning your sponge very regulary in clean water and using several half buckets, changing them often. Also said to be careful cleaning the window seals as opening and closing the windows if wet and dirty could scratch them.

Makes sense - it's something I had considered and therefore, I used the power washer last weekend before cleaning

It was in the Daily Mail mind so was probably a bit on the scarmongery side................



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i have read this too

I would use full buckets though, less chance of picking up grit from the bottom, unless you use 50L buckets Laughing
  
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Load of Censored
Always hose your car down before washing it - and I'm sure that the sand that drops on them from the desert when it gets lifted and normal road muck is just as abrasive
  
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Assume as it was Daily Mail the story was titled. 'If Princess Diana was alive this is how she would clean her car' Question
  
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rinse, snow foam, rinse, wash using two bucket method (one for rinse one for soapy stuff), rinse, flash auto dry mist, chammy dry.

best way to keep it looking good (probably overkill unless your a santorini black like me!!)
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DaveC wrote:
chammy dry

Your procedure was going so well until this bit Whistle

Chammy's are so "yesterday" and apparently scratch hell out of paintwork by trapping grit and crap (especially on Santorini/Java Black).

Much better to dry it with a proper "modern day" drying towel Thumbs Up
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I've tried those microfibre towels and don't like them.

so long as the chammy is rinsed often and binned after a few washes it works fine. i find it easier to see any grit on the chammy than the towels, besides the flash auto dry does 80% of the job i literally just drag the chammy over or mop the awkward bits where water sits waiting to pounce on the newly applied polish!
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Whats 'washing your car'?
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hahaha...I tried this same argument a couple of years ago and it didn't work Laughing

I bought a decent dying cloth - a huge waffle weave one, not a microfibre cloth, and it is fantastic - much better than my old autoglym chammy Thumbs Up

But I think you're right....if you rinse it out every 2 minutes then it would probably work well Thumbs Up
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Drying towel, chammy?

I use an aquagleam filter - no need to touch the paint after rinsing and it dries spot free

Although, to be honest it's all a bit pointless as the previous owner didn't seem too careful and I haven't gotten round to dealing with those swirls and scratches!

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Is Chammy the chav for Chamois? Or is the Shammy........

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bigdave wrote:
Whats 'washing your car'?


it's what those 10 bosnians do when you drive up to the industrial unit and wave £5 out the window.

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