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Car Paint is equal to that of a human skin. So how one takes care of their skin, its equally important to take care of your car’s paint work. We shall help you to break down the steps and tricks to take care of your car paint work.
Before we start why should one take care of their loved cars paint work? Let me help you in answering this.
Regular Maintenance Wash from day one of purchase is the key to maintain your car’s paint work.
All you Require for Maintenance Wash are few Simple Tools and Chemicals.
Rinse the car again with a hose pipe or pressure washer and dry the car with a good quality Microfiber Drying Towel (minimum of 400 GSM). Once again start from top to bottom and follow straight pattern of motion to remove the excess water.
And that’s how simple is maintenance wash sounds to be but unfortunately most of us are not able to do it due to multiple factors. We are also ashamed to tell that most of the local car wash centers are also not trained and capable enough to do a simple Maintenance wash. Now let me Break Down the mistakes of what most Local Car Washes do, so that the next time your car goes to a local car wash you will realize on how trained they are.
Mistakes Committed by Local Car Wash Centre’s
High Pressure – Local Car Wash Centre’s use Extreme High-Pressure washers to fasten up the work, but this in turn damages the clear coat on your car’s paint work. Every Paint work has a regulated pressure handle before the clear coat gets damaged. The usual pressure recommended by experts on pressure washer for car’s range between 100 – 160bar. Certain trained professionals can handle a 200bar pressure washer on car paint, but if not handled right the paint work does get effected.
Harmful Chemicals – Harmful and harsh chemicals are used by the local centers to remove the dirt fast and give an instant gloss finish, but again these harsh chemicals eventually eat up your paint’s gloss look characteristics as these harsh chemicals are too acidic in nature and not well Ph balanced.
Low quality Microfiber Cloths – Local Center’s again focus on extreme cost cutting and use extremely cheap quality microfiber cloth and re use the same cloth multiple times. Yes, cloths are not use and throw but every microfiber cloth loses its potential after a speculated usage, approx. 150 washes for a good quality microfiber cloth. Another horrible and a big no practice performed by the local wash center’s is using the same cloth for the wheels as well as the paint work, this is a big no as the wheels contain extremely harsh contamination of break dust and road debris which should not enter the paint work of a car. This is called as cross contamination which the local wash center’s master in.
No Two Bucket Method – 95% of the local car wash centers are unaware of two bucket wash method where you install grid guards on two buckets, one bucket contains plain water which is used to rinse the wash mitt and the other bucket contains PH balanced car shampoo to re lubricate the mitt and the painted surface.
Hard water – Most of the local Car wash center’s does not have water softener and end up using hard water which leaves permanent marks on the cars paint.
Method and Techniques – Among all this is the most important one, the Local Car Wash employees are not trained and use their own techniques to clean a car. The main motive of most local car wash employees is how fast they complete a car and move to the next one to increase their revenue. So stay away from such unprofessional centers.
Let’s Break Down the Myths of Water Less Car wash concept.
Water less Car wash should be considered as a quick detailer, it should be used in situations where the car is perfectly detailed, and you move out to a place during your travel and do not have access to a pressure washer or hose pipe. So, in simple terms waterless car wash solution should be used as a quick detailer to remove the loose debris which accumulate on your paint. So, it’s a big no to use waterless car wash solution on a completely dirty car, you will end up adding more swirl marks on your paint. Most car service centers use waterless car wash to clean a dirty car and end up adding good number of scratches on the paint, so once again stay away from ticking the option of waterless car wash when you drop the car for a general service. It’s better to keep the car paintwork dirty then to introduce swirl marks and scratches.