Everytime I wash, there is small dirt left over in the "corners" and "edges". It's too tidious to clay these areas so I just leave them be. Do you guys bother to spend the extra extra time to clean these inconvenient places? Should I just quickly deal with it using my drying towel? Any ideas?
Cleaning the details
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Dubbin1
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Detailing a car means DETAILING a car. Every nook and cranny has to be cleaned. For those tough to reach spots try a boars hair brush.
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shadow85 said:
Yeah, I'm an absolute *FANATIC* about that. Every bit of the vehicle, every wash. Yeah, usually even the undercarriages.
If you leave dirt in those spots, it can harbor moisture. Ever notice how cars often rust out in "funny little places" first?
Clean 'em *once*, really well. Polish too, so the paint is nice and smooth there, and apply a good, durable LSP. Then it'll be easy to clean them during subsequent washes.
Don't use the drying towel; it'll mar the paint there (OK, so who cares except me
) and the dirt on the towel might cause scratches someplace you *do* care about. I too use either small BHBs or plush MFs for areas like that.The doorjambs and corners at the inside/bottom of the doors, and the underside/etc. of the hood and trunklid are the kinds of places where a BHB works well. Remember to inspect/CD-test the BHB now and then as the flagged bristle tips eventually wear down and it then becomes a scratch machine.
A perfect example of where MFs work great is the area inside the front fender-front door gap. I soak a plush MF in my shampoo bucket, open the front doors, and use that MF to clean inside there, getting the inner/rear side of the front fender nice and clean. Heh heh, yeah...polishing/LSPing that area takes a while, but then it's easy to keep it nice and clean with the MF.