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Summary: To clean the outside of a car, spray the car down with a rinse-less car cleaning product, which conserves several gallons of water, then wipe down the entire surface with a microfiber cloth. Wash the outside of a car in an environmentally friendly way with cleaning advice from the owner of a car detailing service in this free video on car maintenance.
Ezra Gipson is the owner of Reflections Automobile Appearance Care in Nashville, Tenn., a mobile car washing and detailing service provider. Gipson received his certification in auto...read more
"Today we are going to talk about cleaning the outside of your vehicle. The process that I am going to give you is one that I use and we are going to start with cleaning at the tires first and then working our way from the top on down. So right now I will demonstrate to you basically how you spray down your tire area and then we will start at the hood and then work our way down. You want to make sure you get into your wheel wells. Then after you have sprayed your tired area, start at the hood, I mean the roof. Side panels, mirrors, windshield, hood, and front bumper. Then what we are going to do is take our microfiber towel and in back and forth motion, move back and forth. As you can see I am not using the traditional bucket and towel method. I am using a rinse-less wash product. This helps you conserve water and also allows you to use about a quart of water to clean the vehicle. It is very helpful in todays time when people are concerned about environmentally friendly products and water conservation. Just a note, the typical car wash uses about anywhere from ten to fifteen gallons of water so with the process we are using here today we are just using about a quart of water. So you can imagine over the course of time the number of the amount of water we are saving in cleaning vehicles. And again constantly still using the back and forth motions. We wipe down each panel, windows. Then we flip our microfiber towel inside out. With the fresh side of our microfiber towel we continue to wipe down the driver-side panel and our mirrors."
eHow Article: How to Clean the Outside of Your Car