How do you wash your Stinger?

[MerlintheMad]

No, just no.

You should only use water between details.

Well I only use water. I haven't had a detail in 16 months. Car looks good.

 

[westcoastGT]

Well I only use water. I haven't had a detail in 16 months. Car looks good.

wait till you have you first experience with clay bars........................it redefines sexy Merlin !!

 

[Peeso33]

But, the roof. How did that work out?

Every time my son "Helps" me, it ends up adding another 15 min or so to the car washing time. He's almost 6 now. I did tell him the Stinger has a 10 year warranty, and he can have it in 10 years , hence the eagerness in keeping "His" car clean.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Wow, look at the poll. Car wash places aren't being kept in business by very many of us! Heh!

 

[westcoastGT]

wait till you have you first experience with clay bars........................it redefines sexy Merlin !!

that should read .............sexy, Merlin ....................we are not ready for sexy Merlin yet ...............but somehow this sparks the image of a vid of Merlin washing his car in a Speedo ..................with bad 80's music ahaahahahahah

 

[MerlintheMad]

Imaginations running off the rails. Time to shut down …

 

[westcoastGT]

Imaginations running off the rails. Time to shut down …

bad theatre of the mind .......................but you really should do a vid of your car wash routine........speed it up to 15 seconds ..................would be funny !! Speedo optional !

 

[Ozstung]

This should be fun(ny). I have my own "half hour car wash" thread up from last year. (Unfrequented, because it is anathema to purists/fanatics like you. )

First of all, I do use an automated car wash tunnel, but only in the winter, and only after a snow storm has resulted in our dry roads getting wet again, i.e. getting saline on the undercarriage, aaagain. The tunnel has a vigorous undercarriage spray station. Otherwise, I avoid tunnels like a plague.

So, my revised/improved version of the "half hour car wash" (I don't enjoy it if it takes longer than that; but I enjoy it a lot while it lasts that long):

1. If necessary (too much dust, or too much dirt in the dried rain drops), get out the hose and schnozzle and spray down the entire car (this lengthens the "half hour" by as much longer as it takes to spray down; unavoidable): get off all the surface loose dirt.
2. Fill a normal sized household bucket to just below the brim, with a largish terrycloth towel in it. The water must be SOFT and straight hot (wear thick rubber gloves throughout the entire wash: saves your hands for washing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, each time it rains ). Go around the lower "skirts" to get off the grim that has spattered up from the road. Don't rub! Turn the towel regularly. Rinse it out in the bucket regularly. By the time you're done, there should be virtually no water left in the bucket: water is your "lubricant" to prevent scratching: use it copiously.
3. Fill the same bucket fresh with straight hot, SOFT water. Drop six large (16" x 28", I think, from Bed Bath and Beyond) hand drying towels (terrycloth, nice and thick, luxurious feeling) in the bucket before filling. Drop two towels on the hatch window; two on the sunroof; two on the windshield (or hood, doesn't matter).
4. Wash the right side/rear top to bottom with the right towel on the hatch; turn towel frequently, do not rub; (pay close attention to the exhaust pipe ends, inside and out, and underneath; pull the edge of the towel in between that narrow space). Wash underside of diffuser last. Drop towel in bucket.
5. Repeat step 4 for the left side. You now have two towels in the bucket; they will be your dirtiest towels; you are done with them.
6. Using a 2' x 3' microfiber DRYING towel, drop the non pile side on the hatch glass and thoroughly dry; use vigor! Switching to the pile side, drag (lightly) the towel over the entire rear surfaces. Wipe the exhaust pipe ends and that area last. Polish the exhaust pipe ends inside the lip and outside.
7. Go over roof, side windows and mirror, down to the rocker panels with one towel; left or right, it doesn't matter which is first. Turn towel frequently.
8. Repeat for the other side.
9. Taking the same microfiber drying towel, use the non pile side to polish the sunroof. Using the pile side, drag (lightly, do not rub) over the roof between sunroof and hatch glass. Use non pile side to dry side windows and mirrors glass. Use pile side to finish drying the sides down to the rocker panels.
10. Last two towels are used on windshield, hood, fenders and grill area. Pay special attention to the grill area because of bugs, etc. (These will be your cleanest returned towels, unless you have a lot of dead bugs.) One towel for the left.
11. Last towel for the right.
12. Using the same microfiber, polish the windshield with non pile side. Use pile side to drag (lightly) over all surfaces. Take extra care to dry the dark chrome carefully, and quickly before it dries.
13. Starting with one rim (I go front to back on one side at a time), use your cleanest terrycloth towels to go around each spoke as far inside the rim as you can reach, then between each spoke, then up each spoke to the center. Dry off with same microfiber towel (yes, one drying towel covers the entire car; but a second drying towel won't hurt a thing! ). Repeat for rest of wheels.
14. If you want to, open each door, drag one of your least soiled terrycloth towels along the inside of the door wells and along the edges of the door; then dry with the microfiber; each well and door edge takes well under a minute.
15. Stand back and admire, then get on with the rest of your day. (Which includes laundering your towels; terrycloth separately; never launder microfiber with other than microfiber: I wait until I have at least two drying towels that need laundering then wash them together.)

I also find that small microfiber hand towels are handy for spot cleaning with a spray bottle, in between full washes. Make sure that you use a Cali Duster first, so that you are not soaking down dust and corrupting the microfiber. Go across the sprayed spot very lightly, do not rub!

In the time it took to read this I could have washed my car twice.

 

[Manaz]

that should read .............sexy, Merlin ....................we are not ready for sexy Merlin yet ...............but somehow this sparks the image of a vid of Merlin washing his car in a Speedo ..................with bad 80's music ahaahahahahah

I was just thinking this...

 

[PxbVic]

Every time I wash it I have an accident


The only thing that touches the car other than me, is a micro fibre glove and a leaf blower to dry it.

 

[westcoastGT]

I was just thinking this...

exactly ! C'mon Merlin .....................Merlin. Merlin . Merlin !!!

 

[MerlintheMad]

exactly ! C'mon Merlin .....................Merlin. Merlin . Merlin !!!

That doesn't work on me.

 

[westcoastGT]

That doesn't work on me.

I'm with you bud , not my style either ......................all in good fun !

 

[ZyroXZ2]

You're missing the "Naked with bare hands" option.

 

[westcoastGT]

You're missing the "Naked with bare hands" option.

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[Revvdmedia]