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[YZ250]

washing with a bucket of soapy water

Can't beat a bucket and sponge, and fairy liquid .  Drives the Jaguar forum polishing brigade mental....

Oh lord, You’ve just brought tears of horror to anyone passionate about cleaning their car properly. 

Properly depends on whether you want a clean car before doing important stuff, or a new lifestyle that involves spending all your spare time and cash on equipment, stupidly named potions, complex techniques and endless arguments how what you're doing is just wrong. For the cleaning equivalent of a tyre thread, just ask if you clean from the bottom up, or the top down?

Nothing fancy required to clean a car. Something like Meguiars Wash and Wax in the bucket does a decent job and the bottle will last a good couple of years if used for a monthly wash. Screwfix No Nonsense Wash and Wax is cheap enough at £7.99 for 5 litres so not expensive at all.
It’s the wheel cleaners that I avoid, especially the likes of Wonder Wheels, as it appears to be like diluted patio cleaning acid and will get under the slightest speck of missing lacquer and tarnish the wheel. My car was ceramic coated, I say ‘was’ because it wears off. The car needs to be hologram/swirl free before I can top up the ceramic coat, hence why it does require cleaning properly, which I agree is time consuming.
I only have all of the fancy polishes as my Son used to do dent removal/unbroken paint repair as his job, so I’ve still got the stuff in my garage. He would get rid of high/low spots, swirls, holograms etc and the paint would look like a mirror.

Anyway, Opti has gone quiet on this so I assume he bought the powerful pressure washer and is currently ordering new window rubbers where his new pressure washer has blown chunks out of them.

[STEMO]

washing with a bucket of soapy water

Can't beat a bucket and sponge, and fairy liquid .  Drives the Jaguar forum polishing brigade mental....

Oh lord, You’ve just brought tears of horror to anyone passionate about cleaning their car properly. 

Properly depends on whether you want a clean car before doing important stuff, or a new lifestyle that involves spending all your spare time and cash on equipment, stupidly named potions, complex techniques and endless arguments how what you're doing is just wrong. For the cleaning equivalent of a tyre thread, just ask if you clean from the bottom up, or the top down?

Nothing fancy required to clean a car. Something like Meguiars Wash and Wax in the bucket does a decent job and the bottle will last a good couple of years if used for a monthly wash. Screwfix No Nonsense Wash and Wax is cheap enough at £7.99 for 5 litres so not expensive at all.
It’s the wheel cleaners that I avoid, especially the likes of Wonder Wheels, as it appears to be like diluted patio cleaning acid and will get under the slightest speck of missing lacquer and tarnish the wheel. My car was ceramic coated, I say ‘was’ because it wears off. The car needs to be hologram/swirl free before I can top up the ceramic coat, hence why it does require cleaning properly, which I agree is time consuming.
I only have all of the fancy polishes as my Son used to do dent removal/unbroken paint repair as his job, so I’ve still got the stuff in my garage. He would get rid of high/low spots, swirls, holograms etc and the paint would look like a mirror.

Anyway, Opti has gone quiet on this so I assume he bought the powerful pressure washer and is currently ordering new window rubbers where his new pressure washer has blown chunks out of them.

Nah. The pressure will have blown the old boy backwards and he'll be laid up with a sore coccyx.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If she ran a Bikini car wash the que would be longer than the first days of opening of Clarksons farm shop.

Tits very similar to a certain Canadian teacher.

[YZ250]

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Nah. The pressure will have blown the old boy backwards and he'll be laid up with a sore coccyx.

[STEMO]

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Nah. The pressure will have blown the old boy backwards and he'll be laid up with a sore coccyx.

That fella is far too young and handsome to be Opti, of course 

[biggriffin]

I must confess,, we have a full time wash man at work, Just park on wash, car gets snow foamed, Non caustic ali cleaner on wheels,, then all washed off.

[TheBoy]

for a monthly wash

Surely you mean annual?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

for a monthly wash

Surely you mean annual?

Twice a year seems about right.

Washed the M240i last week. First time since June or July.

It might be tempting to sip the 'illegals' a fiver to wash the car both inside and out but the gritty sponge approach puts me off.

[biggriffin]

for a monthly wash

Surely you mean annual?

Twice a year seems about right.

Washed the M240i last week. First time since June or July.

It might be tempting to sip the 'illegals' a fiver to wash the car both inside and out but the gritty sponge approach puts me off.

This every time

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm an 'up and over' man. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Start at the top and work down, paying attention to all the details... Doesn't matter if it's a car or a fine womanly specimen.

The only exceptions are making cheesecake or building work.