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How to Clean the Undercarriage for a Car Show

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Summary: In order to clean the undercarriage of a show car, get as low as possible and blast everything underneath to get rid of dirt and grime. Find out how to use a citrus-based degreaser on the undercarriage of a show car with help from the owner of a car detailing business in this free video on auto detailing and cleaning a car's undercarriage.

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Tim Duke is the owner of Premier Detailing, a mobile car detailing business. Duke has years of experience detailing everything from interior carpet and upholstery to outside waxing and...read more

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"Hi, my name is Tim Duke with Premier Detailing, we're located here in Orem, Utah and I'm going to show you how to clean the undercarriage of a show car. Obviously, this isn't your average show car, it's just a regular Caravan, but it's the same sort of thing any way. What we have is a little creeper, you can find them at Auto Zone or things like that, Mechanics Creeper. You're just going to want to get down as low as you can, to the ground, and blast everything underneath. You just want to get all the way underneath. All the dirt and grime and everything that settles underneath the car, is what you'll kind of blast out here. You're going to want o be careful to avoid spraying directly into the exhaust. Then it'll fill up with water, I mean, it's not going to do too much damage, just try and avoid it, just try and go around it. Get a, you can also try using a citrus based degreaser. What that's going to do is, it's going to help break down the dirt and the dust and the grease and things like that. Just soak it down real good, same sort of thing, just get underneath as well as you can and spray it down. Just so, you don't want it to dry, you just want to let it kind of sit there and just sort of break down the grease and oils, and just blast it off with a pressure washer. And that's how you clean the undercarriage of a show car."

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