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Summary: When washing a car cover, it's recommended to use mild soap and to avoid any harsh cleaners. Find out why a car cover should never be washed in the washing machine or dried in a dryer with help from the owner of a car detailing business in this free video on washing car covers.
Diesel is the owner and operator of 4U2C Detailing. He has owned his own business since 1998 and has been detailing cars for more than 20 years.read more
"Hi my name is Diesel and I'm the owner and operator of 4u2cdetailing.com. Today I'm going to teach you how to clean a car cover. Now car covers are usually used for cars that are high end cars or maybe a car that someone doesn't have storage for. So it's the best way to keep the car protected. One thing that I would recommend to clean a car cover is use mild soap, probably like Ivory, Woolite or something like that. You can actually put it in a laundry sink or a dish sink or maybe even a bathtub, place it in there, put a little Woolite on it, sprinkle some water on it, wash it with your hands and hang it out to dry. That's basically how I recommend, you don't want to use any type of real harsh cleaners, you don't want to put it in the washer, you definitely don't want to put it in the dryer. I would actually put it, you can either put it over a fence or what I would recommend is putting up a line like they used to do in the old days when they hung clothes out to dry with clothespins. That's how I recommend doing it."