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How To: Eco Waterless Wash Your Car

Take a peek at this video I put together about waterless washing.  This method will remove dirt, water spots, bird droppings, dead bugs & road grime.  While using this technique remember the following tips:

  1. Spray plenty of wash solution on the vehicle.
  2. Work one panel at a time.
  3. Wipe solution off lightly. (no pressure)
  4. Turn towel to a new side often.
  5. Get a new towel when needed.
  6. Buff off haze.

Instructions Listed below.

  1. Start with a mildly dirty car (dust is okay, mud is not)
  2. Pull your car into a shaded area.
  3. Put your waterless wash solution in a spray bottle (or pump bottle like shown)
  4. Start spraying an upper panel of the car (work top of the vehicle down)
  5. Use a clean microfiber cloth, and gently wipe the solution away. (DO NOT wipe over dry areas)
  6. Buff off haze.
  7. Repeat until entire exterior is clean. (solution works on windows & wheels as well)

Items Used in Video

  1. Chemical Guys Eco Smart Waterless Wash – $20
  2. Pump Sprayer (available at Lowes) – $8
  3. ADS Premium Microfiber Towel – $1.20/ea

How To: Deep Clean your Carpet on a Budget

So imagine you are headed to work with your morning cup of Joe, and you hit a bump you couldn’t see. #@!**.

It’s okay we all have bad days, so you get home and call the first person you know can clean this mess up. Here I will go over the steps to clean the interior of your car, clean or not so clean.

Items Used
Shop Vac
Bissell Little Green Clean Machine – LGCM
Folex Carpet Stain Spray
Oxi-Clean
2 Buckets
Interior Scrub Brush
Microfiber Towels

1. (Optional) This step makes the rest 1000x easier. Remove the seats out of the car. Usually it only takes a couple of bolts.

2. Give the interior a through vacuuming.

3. Pre-treat all of the stained areas with your folex spray. Make sure to give the areas a liberal spray so that lifting and removing the stains will be easier.

4. While the pre-treatment is working itself in, fill your 2 buckets with HOT water. Water from the tap will do just fine, no need to boil it.

5. Take one of the buckets with hot water and add 1 ounce of oxi-clean/16 ounces of water. Let the oxi-clean dissolve into this bucket, and leave the other bucket just plain with water.

6. While the oxi-clean is dissolving, take your interior scrub brush and scrub the pre-treated areas. Give them about 15-20 second scrub each area.

7. With your hands, or a small bottle, scoop out some oxi/h2o solution and pour it into the affected area. Work one area at a time. Make sure you get enough solution in the area, and then start scrubbing. Once you think you have scrubbed enough, scrub some more, and then suck up all of the solution with your LGCM.

8. Now take some of your water only, and pour that in the same area, then suck up the water with your LGCM. This is your rinse cycle. If the water coming up from the carpet is totally clear, then move on to the next area. If not, repeat step #7. solution/scrub/rinse until you are happy with the results. The water coming up from the carpet will most likely never be totally clear, but it also shouldn’t look like chocolate milk, you be the judge.

9. When doing your final rinse cycle, suck up all the water you can, your carpet/seats should be moist not wet.

10. When you are finished with all of the areas spray febreeze under your seats, and under your floor mats (if applicable)

When you are finally done you should have something that looks similar to this.