Winter washing is important, and if you live in a cold, snowy or rainy climate, essential to keep your driver in top shape! This process is not intended for your show car, rather it’s meant for the vehicle you drive daily, which typically gets abused!
Here’s what I do, living in the mountains of Colorado:
· Locate the best self-wash bay in town!
· I’ve found a well operated self wash here in town, and it takes credit/debit cards, which makes the hassles of dumping $10 in quarters into a slot.
· Ideally, but not essential, your wash will have a foaming gun, or a foam option on the sprayer.
· Your local wash should also have boars-hair brushes on the foaming brush.
· Finally, most good self-washes will have a “Spot Free Rinse” option.
How I do it:
· Dress for success! I wear winter boots, old cruddy jeans, and a rain coat to the wash. (The better you are protected, the more thorough you’ll be able to clean while staying clean!)
· Bring a weather-proof knee pad, like a gardening pad available from the hardware store.
· Remove your all-season floor mats, and hang them on the wall.
· Give them a blast off!
· Using the high-pressure setting spend 10 minutes blasting the winter muck off.
· If there is a nice Boars Hair Brush in the booth, give it a blast off to clean it from the previous use.
· Be sure to spend extra time on the wheel-wells, and kneel down on the pad to really get the salt, gravel, and mag-chloride, etc.
· Next, foam down the vehicle. Use the foam gun, or “Soap” setting if there is no “Foam” option.
· If your wash has a nice Boar’s Hair Brush, wash down your vehicle.
· If not, bring our bucket, pre-prepped with a wash pad from home, soap added and all. Be sure to close the lid tight, and bring dish gloves to wash so your fingers don’t freeze!
· Spray your wheels and tires with APC, and clean with brush.
· Finally, Spot-Free Rinse the vehicle, and drive away!
· If you want it perfect, and it’s warm enough, Spray the vehicle with Detail Spray, and dry with our large waffle weave microfiber drying towel.
We live on a dirt road, so I do this weekly to our winter driver!
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