A detailers SECRETS to hand washing

welcome to Jason's detail tips everybody in today's episode you're gonna get an inside look on how we train a new employee how to wash a car [Applause] [Music] Jason's detail tips welcome to Chicago water pros is our newest employee on a welcome you here now you're gonna start off where everybody starts off and that's in the prep bait you're gonna learn one of the most basic but one of the most important things here at Chicago water pros and that's how to properly wash a car all right as a new employee here at Chicago water pros on a welcome you welcome to our team now one of the first things that all employees start is in the prep bait you're gonna learn the most basic but one of the most important things that we do here at Chicago water pros and that's how to wash a vehicle properly now one of the first things I like to teach new employees is to get in the right mindset and teach you why we wash cars the way we do there's a certain process that we like to stick to and we would like to stick to that process because we want to make sure that we're not instill in any scratches swirl marks are marring into the vehicle's paint now the paint surface is very delicate anything that we do when we touch a car could cause damage the paint so everything we do in the carwash process is to minimize the risk of damaging the paint surface also one of the hardest things for our new employees to understand is the difference between a maintenance wash & detailing prep there are two different things now it's only natural for us Detailers to want to clean the car as much as possible but there's certain things that just don't come off with normal washing you have tar you have SAP you have iron particles you have built-up brake dust now all these things are going to take additional time additional chemicals and different processes and we want to stay within a certain time frame when washing a car and we want to make sure that we're delivering consistent results on every wash that we do alright so the first step of the wash process is going to be to rinse the vehicle we want to rinse off all the salt the dirt anything that could potentially get in the mitt and scratch the paint we're gonna use this pressure washer the pressure washer is a great tool to rinse off the car we're gonna rinse the wheel well in the wheels at the same time but with any tool you want to make sure you know how to properly use it you want to keep this tip anywhere from a foot to a foot and a half off the vehicle surface we don't want to damage anything and you also want to be aware of sensitive areas on the vehicle any damaged stay away from convertible tops any soft convertible tops you want to stay far away you don't want to damage anything all right so the first step to the washing process is the wheels also wear gloves too now we're gonna have a wheel bucket you should have a wheel bucket on each side of the vehicle for convenience we have different types of tools in these buckets let me show you real quick so we have our mitt here this is used for cleaning the face of the rim especially black rims it's nice and soft so we don't damage it we have a couple different brushes that we use this is a bristle brush and then we have wheel Woolies this is my favorite for getting inside the barrel of the rim we also have just a regular microfiber that you can use sometimes I'll use that on the wheel wells in the face of the rim we have smaller wheel Woolies that you can use to get behind the caliper and then we have just your regular normal wheel brush here this is gonna be used for the rubber or for the face like I said again I don't like to use these bristles when it comes to black rims like this I just don't want to risk scratching it I'd rather use a softer material like this wash mitt or a microfiber like this so we're gonna start by using our all-purpose degreaser here we use this on rubber engines and tires we're gonna spray down the entire wheel the rubber part the barrel and the wheel well we're gonna start by cleaning the barrel I'm gonna use my favorite tool here the wheel Wooley and we're gonna clean the barrel of the rim making sure to get behind these spokes so you've got to kind of maneuver the brush back and forth a little bit get all the way back in there we're gonna clean the face of the rim I'll use this mitt right here to clean the face of the rim we have a couple different brushes that we use this is a bristle brush I use this brush here to clean the rubber part of the tire and then on a normal detail prep we would clean the entire fender well here but for when we're just doing our maintenance wash we're just cleaning the edge here so you can take that microfiber and just clean that edge we're gonna rinse the tire we're gonna work one wheel at a time we got three more wheels to do make sure you don't have that chemical dry on there so it's rinse it and move on alright getting you ready to wash the body of the car we have two buckets here we have one filled with just water and the other one is our soap and water and each of the buckets on the bottom we have these grit guards now these are gonna act like a barrier for the mitt because on the bottom of the bucket you're gonna collect all that dirt and salt and grime and everything and we don't want this mitt to pick up any of that and transfer it to the car so those grit guards will act as a barrier between that mitt and the bottom of the bucket all right if the vehicle has bugs on the front you can use the same degreaser that you used on the wheel cleaner and you can spray the front here this is gonna help loosen up all those bug guts and it's a stronger cleaner than the regular soap that we're going to use for the rest of the vehicle we're going to use our snow foam and just cover the entire car [Applause] all right grab your mitt and we're actually gonna start washing the vehicle now when you're washing the vehicle you don't want to pretty put any pressure on the wash mitt it should just be the weight of the mint back and forth and we always start at the top and our work our way to the bottom I'm gonna clean the half of the top here and I'm going to clean this windshield and then I'm gonna rinse the mid off when you rinse it bring it over to your water bucket rinse it nice you can rub it on the bottom there at the grit guard wring it out get it back in your soap and it can come wash another panel now when you're washing this panel you can see that I'm using kind of like a back-and-forth motion almost like a grid you can go back and forth here you don't want to do like the Crazy Eights where you get into washing like this you're gonna miss spots is just natural so use that kind of grid pattern and again no pressure just the weight of the mitt is going to be enough to clean that surface dirt off [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so the bottom of the vehicle is always gonna be your dirtiest part of the vehicle so that's why we always wash from the top to the bottom that bottom should be the last part that you wash and this is gonna be your dirt you're gonna have dirt in this mitt now you don't want to come back and wash anything now that you have a dirty mitt you want to make sure that you rinse this before you go to any other part of the car because all that dirt and all that grime on there if you come up to this panel and start washing now you're gonna start grinding in all that salt in that dirt and that's where all the scratching that's where all the marring comes from so best wash practices get back and rinse it rub it against that grit guard and you can continue washing from the top all the way down to the bottom if you want to make sure that bottom is really clean sometimes I'll just flip the mitt and I'll give it one more good cleaning all right for bigger SUVs or trucks or cars that you just can't get the roof you might be tempted to open up the door and to step up on the rocker panel but you definitely don't want to do that you could have rocks in your shoes that could scratch it the better idea is to bring over the stepladder that we have and you can step on it and then you can safely wash the top of the big truck or SUV or van or whatever you're working on all right after you wash the entire body you can now rinse the vehicle again make sure you're doing it from top to bottom all right when you're rinsing the vehicle and if you notice that the water on the panel is very flat it makes it hard to dry it because there's a lot of water to dry off the vehicle so a solution for that is to use our drying agent you'll just spray the entire vehicle real quick and then rinse it off this is going to make it hydrophobic and it's and make it a lot easier to wash [Music] all right now that the paint is nice and hydrophobic we can use our blower this is going to blow all that beating hydrophobic water off it's going to help clear all of the cracks crevices and the mirrors you can use it on the tires in the rims to again work from the top to the bottom all right when it comes to drying the vehicle use these nice big microfiber waffle weave towels you're gonna have two of them one is gonna be your main drying hand you want to get most of water up with this main one and that's going to be your first towel that you use on most the panels and then come back with this second one again just like washing the car nice and light there's no need to overuse excessive pressure or anything just nice and light first towel and then your second towel to wipe off any excess water all right we have two types of washes we have our basic wash which is the one that I just showed you we're just going to dry the vehicle we also have a signature wash and that's gonna add this spray sealant sio2 spray sealant on it and I really like this because one it adds some protection and two it adds lubrication between the the paint and the towel so you can spray just a couple sprays right on the towel and then you're gonna dry off the vehicle like normal and then use your second towel again to remove all the residue and it's that simple work panel by panel a couple sprays I'll work this fender I'll just dry everything off the fender there come back with my second towel and just wipe up all the residue and work your way around the vehicle the same way this can go on the windows after you finished drying the vehicle we're gonna clean the door jambs but we don't want to use these nice body towels and get them all gross with all the grease and everything that's in the door jambs we use these separate towels here these separate microfiber towels pretty simple open up all the door jams and wipe them all down now if it's a Tesla or a Porsche or something that has a rear engine we want to lift up that front and clean all the door jams and the trunk jams - all right if the customer wants tire shine you can apply the tire shine and then we're gonna bring it outside and make sure you double check the car if you find any small spots that you missed you can grab some onr and a nice microfiber towel and spray the towel and gently wipe any spots that you may have missed when you on the washing process bring an extra towel to to wipe off all the excess tire shine and that's pretty much it that's all you need to know about washing a car it's pretty simple if you have the right tools and the right process if you've got any questions let me know in the comments below but otherwise thanks for watching Jason's detail tips [Music]

Channel: Chicago Auto Pros

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Keywords: how to, how to detail your car, best detailing products, car detailing, car wash, car care, auto detailing training, how to wash a car, proper car wash technique, proper hand wash technique, how to wash a car with a pressure washer, how to wash a car with a foam cannon, how to wash a car at a carwash, how to detail your car like a professional, how to detail your car at home

Id: rZu09GXvJto

Length: 13min 57sec (837 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/drugaccount_]

Not a very good car wash, for the level of that shop he should be using a better soap and at least a foam cannon, that was basically a hose with some soap in it and didn't nearly use enough.