How-To Articles: Tips & Best Practices — Car Products
What is a Waterless Car Wash & How Do You Do It?
A waterless car wash is a spray-on product that enables you to clean your car pretty much anywhere without the need for a traditional water hose and bucket. A quality waterless car wash like 3D Waterless Car Wash is formulated to break down, loosen, and emulsify surface dirt, road grime, traffic film and other contaminants while also lubricating the surface to prevent swirls and scratches during wipe-off. The key to getting great results with a waterless car wash is using lots of clean, dry microfiber towels. What’s the difference between a waterless car wash, a spray detailer and a spray...
What is a Waterless Car Wash & How Do You Do It?
How Often Should You Wax Your Car and Why?
The most common question about waxing your car goes like this, How often should I wax my car? The answer depends on two things. 1: How do you use your car? 2: How do you wash your car? Let me address both of these variables in two segments. 1: How do you use your car? What this means is, what kind of environment is your car exposed to? Do you drive your car back and forth to work Monday through Friday? Or do you work from home? Or are you retired and no longer driving your car back and forth...
How Often Should You Wax Your Car and Why?
How to remove stubborn water spot stains from your cars paint and glass
4 types of water stain spots There are different types of water spots when it comes to water spot stains and etching on car paint and car glass. These include, Type I Water Spots – Mineral deposits on the paint surface. Type II Water Spots – Imprint etching in the paint. Type III Water Spots – Crater etchings in the paint. Type IV Water Spots – Whitish discoloration stains on and in the paint. Type I water spots are simply called hard water spot stains. This means that there were dissolved minerals in the water and after the water evaporated,...
How to remove stubborn water spot stains from your cars paint and glass
How to Clean Glass Without Streaks
Everyone Loves Crystal Clear Streak Free Glass One of the most annoying things about cleaning glass is how to clean the glass without leaving any streaks? Glass streaks have to be the number one problem people, including professional car detailers struggle with when cleaning glass. The way to not get streaks when cleaning windows is actually really simple. The answer is so simple, once you read my two tips below where I explain the best way to clean windows without leaving streaks or smears, it will all make perfect sense. What is a streak? A streak on glass is simply...
How to Clean Glass Without Streaks
Ultimate Car Detailing Supply List for a Professional
I’ve been detailing cars for over 30 years. That’s a long time and I’ve seen a lot of products come and go and I’ve also seen a lot of products endure the test of time. With the introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web, we all have access to the latest and greatest products around the world. The downside of the Internet is there are just as many mediocre products as there are truly great products and sometimes the only way to separate the good from the bad is to either purchase and use the product yourself or...
Ultimate Car Detailing Supply List for a Professional
How to Make Your Car Trim Shine
Exterior Auto Trim Modern cars use a lot of exterior plastic trim and cladding as part of the aesthetics and design. Before the 1980s, car manufacturers used primarily chrome for trim accents, but the expense of using chrome compared to plastic became excessive and thus one of the reasons car manufactures switched over to plastic trim. Another reason car manufactures switched over from chrome to plastic is because plastic weighs less than chromed metal components. The problem with exterior plastic trim Unlike plastic trim and other parts used for the interior of the car, including the passenger areas, the trunk...
How to Make Your Car Trim Shine
How To Remove Bugs from Car & Keep Them Off
Flying insects and bugs - they may be small but they can be a huge problem! Driving head-on into flying bugs is unavoidable. If you drive your car any distance at all, chances are good any flying insects that cross your path are going to slam into the front of your car’s body panels, headlights and grill as well as the side mirrors, windshield and the front portion of the roof of your car. When bugs slam into a glass windshield or a chrome grill, there’s no risk of damage because glass and chrome are not affected by the acidic...
How To Remove Bugs from Car & Keep Them Off
Liquid Wax vs Paste Wax? Which Shines the Longest?
Question: Which shines the longest, a paste wax or a liquid wax? Answer: If you choose a quality brand of wax, the shine will last about the same time no matter what form the wax comes in. The more important question is how long will the wax last? And the answer to how long any wax will last comes down to how well was the paint surface prepared to accept the wax? Just like getting a custom paint job for your car, the final results always depend on the prep work performed before applying the wax. If you’re working on...
Liquid Wax vs Paste Wax? Which Shines the Longest?
How to Clean Cloth Car Seats Like a Pro
When it comes to cleaning cloth seats as well as any other cloth, fabric or upholstery inside your car, the process is actually quite easy and simple. It helps to use quality tools and products and of course the key ingredient is you and your focused attention to the task at hand. Besides these things, the most important thing I can share when it comes to cleaning cloth seats is try to work with a foaming upholstery cleaner and after all the cleaning is done, place a small fan inside the car for an hour or two as the moving...
How to Clean Cloth Car Seats Like a Pro
How to do a Cosmetic Engine Detail in 5 Easy Steps
Before After Cosmetic Engine Detailing When it comes to most modern cars, when you open the hood you don’t see an engine but instead, see lots of plastic covers and cladding that cover the engine. For the most part, due to better technology, the engines don’t become covered in oily sludge like they did in the old days, thus there’s nothing to clean or degrease. The plastic covers and plastic cladding inside the engine compartment does become dirty and neglected looking over time but the good news is - it’s fast and easy to clean and then restore that factory...
How to do a Cosmetic Engine Detail in 5 Easy Steps
How to Wax Your Car: Step-by-Step Guide
The most important thing you can do to protect your car’s clearcoat finish as well as maintain that just detailed look with a deep, wet shine is to regularly wash and wax the exterior paint. Before we dive into how to wax your car, my own personal teaching style is to not simply teach people how to do a task but to also teach them why to do it in such a way. Let’s begin! There are two basic categories of waxes. Cleaner waxes Non-cleaning waxes 1: Cleaner waxes Cleaner waxes also called AIOs, which means, All-in-One, are waxes that...