Since others are posting "how I wash cars" threads, here is mine

[c6 cowboy]

This noob got a whole lot smarter.



Thx for the great post!



jke

[SYDWAZ]

nice post Scott.. Thanks

[imported_Shea Luxury]

Just signed on and this is the first thread I read. What a great welcome to me. Awesome write up Scott!

[Inzane]

Awesome post Scott!!

2. Clean your wheels, tires and fenderwells using the ONR mixture and your brushes, wipe dry with the terry cloth towels.



3. Dress the wheels and fenderwells with your tire dressing-and don`t forget the fenderwells! Dirty fenderwells detract from an otherwise clean and shiny car!



Tire/fenderwell dressing:



Armor All Original Shine

Poorboy`s Bold N Bright Tire Dressing

Optimum Tire Shine

Meguiars Hyper Dressing (can be cut with water up to 4:1)

Noobish question, and one of my elusive holy grails of detailing my cars, HOW do you effectively clean really dirty wheel wells? Like for cars with those black plastic fender liners that have years of dirt and sandblasting effect, how do you get them looking really :xyxthumbs again? (ie. more specifics on tools & technique?)



Thanks!

[BigJimZ28]

Awesome post Scott!!









Noobish question, and one of my elusive holy grails of detailing my cars, HOW do you effectively clean really dirty wheel wells? Like for cars with those black plastic fender liners that have years of dirt and sandblasting effect, how do you get them looking really :xyxthumbs again? (ie. more specifics on tools & technique?)



Thanks!

here are some vids scott made to answer this question:

http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-det...ng-videos.html

[Inzane]

here are some vids scott made to answer this question:

http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-det...ng-videos.html

Thanks. A couple nice vids there on wheel cleaning, but I didn`t see anything specific on fenderwells.

[Bostonsfavson]

With spring coming up, I thought that I would bump this thread. Thanks again to Scott for sharing his knowledge with the rest of us!

[02zx9r]

glad you did.



Any one know of the site he is a mod on that you have to be a member of just to view the forums??

[Scottwax]

glad you did.



Any one know of the site he is a mod on that you have to be a member of just to view the forums??

Offtopic.com



The main forum (the off topic forum) is a pay forum but all the subforums are free to view and post once you register. Takes a day or two for approval and you are able to post in the initiation forum during that time.

[02zx9r]

thanks scott

[02zx9r]

Good tip about the WW`s for conventional drying, plush mf for onr.



Guess it does make sense that you want a plusher towel to pull the dirt into the towel and not just rub it on the paint.



Thanks for the tip!

[Scottwax]

Thanks. A couple nice vids there on wheel cleaning, but I didn`t see anything specific on fenderwells.

Ask and you shall receive...



YouTube - Fenderwell cleaning with Optimum No Rinse Wash

[Scottwax]

1st post updated with all my youtube detailing threads. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth?

[dheath]

1st post updated with all my youtube detailing threads. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is a video worth?

priceless. Thanks for the videos. After watching your ONR videos, I purchased some and haven`t used a hose since.

[gav'spurplez]

Scott,



How do you like / rate wolfgang concours ?? I use it on my camaro and love the results.

used it on my new black frontier, and after about a month and a 1/2 the water didnt bead after washes.... but beaded when it rained....



i just clayed, polished and applied CMW to the fronty :woot: