steps to cleaning your car..

[M3.SA]

Originally Posted by Dewey540i

wash
clay
polish
glaze
sealant
wax

What does the glaze and sealant do?

[Dewey540i]

Glaze will help fill light scratches, and help with the gloss of your finish, a sealant is a protectant and a gloss enhancer like wax but does not contain carnuaba, it is a synthetic wax if you will. Sealants will usually last longer than wax. Topping a sealant with wax will give you another layer of protection and add another layer of gloss.

[M3.SA]

Originally Posted by Dewey540i

Glaze will help fill light scratches, and help with the gloss of your finish, a sealant is a protectant and a gloss enhancer like wax but does not contain carnuaba, it is a synthetic wax if you will. Sealants will usually last longer than wax. Topping a sealant with wax will give you another layer of protection and add another layer of gloss.

would love to try it, but dont get poorboys by us....

[mtechnik]

@M3.SA- There are other brands of sealants & glazes if you really can't get Poorboy's, Meguiar's for example.

-Long time no see round these parts Dewey! lol

[M3.SA]

Originally Posted by mtechnik

@M3.SA- There are other brands of sealants & glazes if you really can't get Poorboy's, Meguiar's for example.

-Long time no see round these parts Dewey! lol

Meguires ones, do you have a name for me...
This what I currently have,
Cleaner - step1
Polish - step2
Wax - step3

[mtechnik]

May look different for your market...

[M3.SA]

okay difinetly not seen it by us, will try a local dealer.
Thanx Man

[427]

1. get in car
2. drive to car wash (with with just the jets of water no big brushes)
3. put in money
4. car gets washed
5. drive home again

Lazy way of doing it.

[metro123]

watch out for them scratches when you take it to a washing machine.

[jesselyons2002]

Exterior:

Wash wheels and wheel wells Ez Detail brush, wheel brush, long handle brush

Wash car Sheepskin mitt, Chemical guys cirtus wash and gloss

Dry car Leaf blower and Waffle weave microfiber towel

Polish wheels & pipes Meguiars All metal polish

Clay car Clay magic blue and Optimum no rinse as lube

Polish car This step depend on the finish on your car
* Meguairs 105 for deep rids and swirls
* Menzerna SIP for moderate type swirls and scratches
* Menzerna 106ff for light swirls and scratches

Remember after each aggresive step, you move on to
the next lighter step.


Seal/wax car Use Zaino Z2 or Z5 and Pinnacle sourveran paste
wax or P21s 100%

Seal wheel Klasse All in one

Dress trim Black wow

Dress wheel wells Meguiars Edurance gel

Dress tires Zaino Z16 or 303 aerospace protectant

[jesselyons2002]

Interior:

Wipe down interior bucket of water, Apc, Microfiber towels,
Air compressor, Paint brush.

Vacuum carpets annd seats Rigid 4550, Claw, Crevice tool

Clean Leather Lexol ph cleaner or Meguiars APC +

Conditioning Leather Lexol conditioner

Protect interior panels & Leather 303 aerospace protectant

Pretreat stains floor mats and carpet Folex and Meguiars APC +, carpet brush

Shampoo floor mats and carpet LGM proheat and Rigid 4550

Clean glass Stoners Invisible glass or Meguiars proline glass cleaner

[jesselyons2002]

Engine bay:

Remove battery and and intake hose and cover up the distributor with foil including the open harness connector

Rinse down hood and engine bay with water

Filled bucket with ONR and GC

Spray Purple power all over the engine bay and hood

Dip the Ez detail and Mother wheel brush into the wash mix and agitate the the pp with the brush

Rinse down with water

Dry areas with blower from the vacuum and any rest of the water was pick up with a terry cloth

Spray the bay with Megs endurance tire gel

then use a foam pad to evenly distribute the gel

Intake plenum and Valve cover were scrub with Mother mag and aluminum polish and #0000 steel wool

wax hood with Klasses All in one

Before:





After:

[krux303]

-Wet car down
-Over look for scratches if so buff them
-Get meguires wash
-wash the car by hand
-Rinse car off
-Dry car off
-Wash wheels
-Dry wheels off
-Get meguires paint cleaner(step 1)-Follow directions
-Get meguires polisher(step 2)- Follow directions
-Get meguires wax(step 3)- Follow directions
-Get eagle spray 20/20 on windows
-Get tire foam on the tires
-Get meguires spray interior and clean the dash
-Vac
-Clean engine bay with engine cleaner and come back and clean by hand
-Should be ready after 5 to 6 hours.

-Granted I dont do this on a bmw..more like a Ford product

[overeasy]

very useful about the brands, thanks

The following morning: start with strangling the neghbours cat, because it has used the bonnet and the roof as a combined running track and shit bucket

roflmao

[BMPOWR]

Originally Posted by Nitrious

finally some one that is taking car cleaning serious enough

Morning:

vaccum the inside
clean the seats and carpets with the BMW orginal interiour cleaning "innen reingung" (weird spelling probably)
wash the car with turtle wax shampoo and a bucket of hot water
dry the car

Noon:

clean the engine bay
dry the car again

Afternoon:

polish with either BMW orginal polisher or turtle wax polisher
wax with either BMW orginal wax or turtle wax

Evning:

wash again to remove the wax that had been left behind
dry it again

Night

The following morning: start with strangling the neghbours cat, because it has used the bonnet and the roof as a combined running track and shit bucket

then start all over again

.

In between the polish and wax do u wash?