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Summary: Starting a car wash with a rinse of clean water removes dust and loose dirt and starts the cleaning process before soap or chemicals. Rinse a car well with a car wash owner in this free video on professional car washing.
Dowell Jones is the owner of Firehouse Car Wash and Detail Shop. He has been in the car wash industry for more than ten years and has owned the Firehouse for more than two.read more
"Hi, my name's Dowell, we've done a lot of previous discussions in this segment about the tools that we're going to need to wash the vehicle. We're now ready to move on to actually cleaning and the techniques to get the car or the vehicle clean. What I'm going to use here is a pressure washer, again, it's my favorite tool, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to start at the top of the vehicle and I'm going to work down. What I don't want to do is clean the bottom and get that rinsed, and then go to the top and start knocking loose debris and dirt off and then have it roll back down to the area that I've already cleaned, and then jump on it, and start rubbing that salt, those rocks, that mud, or debris into the the fine chrome, paint, clear coat cause damage to the car. So I'm always going to start at the top of the vehicle in everything I do, in washing, in rinsing, in drying, I'm going to start at the top and work my way down. I'm also going to turn the car into sections, I prefer to start with the front, spray it all down, and then I'm actually, that's, I'm actually going to do is going to wash the car in sections. But before I start washing, I'm going to go around the entire vehicle and I'm going to rinse the entire vehicle from top to bottom. So that I've knocked everything off, then I could set the pressure washer down, start on sections, I probably start on the hood, and the grill and the windshield. Then I'll move to the side panel, the rear and I'm always going to be rinsing after I've done some washing. What we don't want to have happen is we don't want to have soap dry on the vehicle, then we basically have to start over again."