How To Detail Your Car

Here are a few tips to make things easier:

• Use a plastic knife covered with a thin cloth to get down into deeper crevices and dig out caked-on grime or dust.
• Use canned air to blow dust and detritus from cracks or crevices that are hard to reach.
• Remove pet hair easily from seats and carpeting by running masking or duct tape around your hand, sticky side out. Run your hand over all the cloth surfaces until they are free from hair.
• Remove grease and ground-in dirt with a strong solution of detergent and water. Scrub hard with a stiff brush, then vacuum out with your wet vac.
• Some experts argue that silicone-based protectants (like Armor All) are not ideal because of the glossy shine and greasy film they tend to leave on surfaces. You can also find protectants that have a matte finish, block UV rays, and are free of silicone.

How To Detail Your Car

Detailing the Interior of Your Car

Start with the interior, so you won't mess up the just-cleaned exterior while you're vacuuming and wiping out the inside of the car. While the order of steps isn't crucial, here's a sampling of the type of areas you should clean:

• Carpets: Vacuum them thoroughly first, then remove any stains with stain remover and a brush. Let the carpets dry completely. For mild stains, dilute the solution with water in a spray bottle. Use as little moisture as possible to prevent mildew. Clean floor mats with a stiff brush and lay them outside to dry thoroughly.
• Upholstery: Vacuum seats and then remove stains using the same process as you did for carpets. Let the seats dry completely with the car doors open.
• Door jambs: Open the car door and wipe the metal and plastic parts with a soapy solution. Dry them thoroughly with a rag and then use your smaller tools (Q-tips or brushes) to remove any tougher stains and spots in the area.
• Door interiors: Clean the non-cloth portions of your door interiors with a soapy solution. Concentrate on all the little cracks and crevices that collect dirt and grime. Dry the entire area with a thick cloth.
• Windows: Use glass cleaner or soapy solution to really make the inside of your windows shine. Don't worry about the exterior at this point. Dry thoroughly, taking care to erase any streaks.
• Steering wheel column: Use a soapy solution to remove dust and stains. Dry thoroughly, then apply a surface protectant to the entire surface.
• Dashboard: Don't spray water or cleaning solution on your dashboard; instead, use your small-area tools and apply the cleaning solution to the tool itself, then carefully clean around knobs and buttons. Dry everything thoroughly.
• Center console: Use your detailing tools to make sure every seam and indentation in the console is thoroughly cleaned and free of schmutz. Dry with a thick cloth.

How To Detail Your Car

Tools of the Trade

Before beginning the detailing process, you'll need the necessary implements and cleaning products. Besides the normal car-washing tools (bucket, water, soap, sponges, car wax, chamois), you'll find that you need some more specialized tools when it gets down to the nitty gritty. While everyone develops their own tackle box of magic depending on their car and the level of detail they wish to achieve, here are a few suggestions to get you started:

• Vacuum cleaner - should be for wet and dry surfaces and should have multiple attachments, preferably a couple for getting into tiny areas.
• Variety of rags - include terry cloth towels and thin cotton rags for finer surfaces.
• Various sizes of small brushes - try toothbrushes or paintbrushes.
• Q-tips and cotton swabs.
• Plastic spray bottles.
• Canned air.
• Upholstery cleaner.
• Carpet stain cleaner.
• All-purpose cleaner.
• Surface protector (for vinyl and leather surfaces).

How To Detail Your Car

Washing the car has been an American tradition for decades, but more and more of today's cars are getting the deluxe treatment known as auto detailing.

Auto Detailing: What is It?

More than simply washing the exterior of your car with soapy water and a rag, or swiping the interior with Armor All and a vacuum, detailing means just what it says: focusing on and cleaning the tiny details of your car to take it from "clean" to "sparkling like new."
You can find professional detailers in practically every neighborhood, but if you like taking the time to make your car looks its best, you can get the same results right in your very own driveway. All it takes is a bag of supplies and your time and attention. Some experts suggest you dedicate 4 to 8 hours to the job to get it done right.

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How to Make your Own Car Wash Soap:

• Squeeze some liquid dish detergent into a bucket of warm water to make basic car wash soap. This will remove the dirt and won’t affect the car paint or gloss. This is a cheap and easy way of making soap that cleans your car and the process is not time consuming either. Since the clear coat of the car’s paint is quite tough, it’s not harmed by mild soaps such as dishwater detergent.
• If you want to make a soap that can remove grime along with the dirt on your car, you can make a car wash soap that is as effective as commercially manufactured car soap. All you need to do is fill a bucket with warm water, and add a cup of liquid dishwashing detergent and 12 tablespoons of powdered laundry detergent. If your car is very dirty, you might have to make more than 1 bucket of this mixture. You must also remember to rinse the car well and ensure that all the soap is removed to avoid soap streaks.
• Another way to avoid streaks is to add borax to the mixture of liquid dishwashing detergent, powdered laundry detergent and water. Borax ensures that soap residue isn’t left on the car’s surface.
• When choosing detergents, make sure to buy quality products that produce plenty of suds. You can also think of using biodegradable detergent, as the soapy water will be seeping into your yard and can adversely affect the environment.
• Alkali free soaps should be used, as alkali can take the paint and the dirt off your car. However, if the soap does have alkali, it’s best to wax the car after it’s washed.
• Soaps that have no phosphate or chlorine are a good choice as they are environment friendly. Phosphate can damage the finish of the car’s clear coat apart from damaging the environment. Such soaps are usually vegetable-based oil soaps and should be simply mixed with the warm water in the bucket.
• Alternatively, you can add a cup of liquid dishwashing detergent to a bucket containing warm water and add petroleum based powdered laundry detergent to it to get homemade car wash soap. The advantage of using petroleum based laundry detergent is that it’s free of phosphate and chlorine.

A soap that’s manufactured for cleaning cars is preferred by most people, but a homemade detergent that is free of alkalis and is mild is a convenient and cheap option quite safe for the car’s paint.