Detailing door hinge area, and lubrication.

[Hoytman]

Obviously the door hinge area is an area of concern for different reasons: Cleanliness, and lubrication come to mind.

Often times the lubrication, or lack there-of, can present a grimy mess...either with excessive grease trapping dirt and who knows what, and/or the lack of lubrication of the hinge area allowing rust and corrosion to drop all over inside the jam. The latter, over the life of the car can cause doors to creak and pop when opening and closing, all of which can lead to premature door hinge failure.

1. Dirty door jams are nasty.
2. Ungreased door jams will cause problems.
3. Over greased door jams are nasty as well.

After cleaning these areas and ridding them of nastiness; What do you use to grease the hinge area (white lithium grease comes to mind)? How do you grease it without getting your product of choice all over the place and into the area of the hinge it needs to be?

My goal: To super clean door jams while leaving lubrication that can hardly be noticed, if at all.

I have my own way of doing this and was looking to possibly refine it. So, I ask; How do you approach this?

[dad07]

Bill I agree that is a problem area.....my method is while washing I'll spray with OPC and aggitate then sray it with pressure washer.

as far as lube I use a Teflon base made by Dupont,I get it at Lowes. It sprays on clear.

I'll hold a blue shop towel around the hinge and give it a good shot and wipe the overyspray off. takes me about 3 seconds a hinge.

[dcjredline]

I tooo like the Dupont Teflon stuff, I use it almost everywhere around the house and garage.

[NIS240SHU]

The DuPont Multipurpose Lubricant is awesome. We use it quite a bit on motorcycle chains. It goes on and stays clear and dries quickly. It actually smells pretty good too.

I'm a big fan.

For some reason, I can't attach or insert pictures from my iPad. Otherwise, I'd have one for you that I just took.

[Wors]

There has been other posts on this topic. One product that quite a few members mentioned was:

Würth HHS-K Spray Lubricant

[wangotango]

tri-flow

[mhphoto]

I leave lubrication to customers and just gently clean with APC, but for our cars I power wash the crap out of them and soak them in lithium grease. Doesn't look good, but I've never had a squeaky hinge in any of my cars.

[swanicyouth]

There has been other posts on this topic. One product that quite a few members mentioned was:

Würth HHS-K Spray Lubricant

Anyone have a local source for this stuff? Maybe a chain store? I'm thinking some place that sells BMW motorcycles may have it?

[FUNX650]

I have my own way of doing this and was looking to possibly refine it.

Hi Bill...

Don't know if I could possibly refine your way of cleaning/lubing the door hinge area
of vehicles without, at first, knowing your current products/methodology/etc.

Are you prepared to do so?




Bob

[y8s]

Looking at this from a car guy / car owner, I wouldn't want a detailer removing normal lubrication without replacing it with the right lubrication.

In some cases a lithium based grease would make sense and in others perhaps a molybdenum grease would. Depends on the car.