Just curious as to how many miles are on that Accord, since you said it was low mileage. My mom has a 2001 Honda Accord that is just hitting 40,000 miles.
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Just curious as to how many miles are on that Accord, since you said it was low mileage. My mom has a 2001 Honda Accord that is just hitting 40,000 miles.
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Mike,
Don't you change the water out when moving from wheels to paint? I always use separate buckets for the paint then i do for the wheels.
Also, i have yet to use ironX, but added it to my cart. In the description it says not to spray it on bare metal or calibers, but to cover these surfaces up. is this correct in the AG description because i never see (including your pictorial) anyone cover up the calibers?
I always enjoy reading your articles and looking at the enclosed pictures. Thanks for your time!
Last time you saw me and my wife when we came down for training, my wife was pregnant. We have a 1 year old running around now. im ready to have her start helping me clean wheels! lol
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Even if you can't break out the hose at home, you can:
- Visit a self serve wash bay
I did this just last week while on vacation. The hotel where are car was parked was home to some type of tree that was spewing out tree sap like nobody's business. I had just washed and waxed the car, so instead of letting the tree sap harden in the sun I took it to the local self serve car wash and $3.00 later all the tree sap was off the paint.
Just makes common sense to me. I'm confident all the authorities that state start at the top and work your way down and then wash the wheels and tires last probably aren't detailers or don't really understand how hard it is and what a paint in the rear it is to deal with water spots.
Don't know off hand but I'll check. Honda makes great cars. I'm a BBC guy through and through and pretty much only like trucks high enough they can't get door dings but it's hard to beat reliability and good gas mileage like you get from any Honda.
I didn't and don't use a bucket for washing the wheels if I have a source of free flowing water.
- Turn water on.
- Spray wheel with water.
- Spray wheel and tire with wheel and tire cleaner.
- Agitate wheel and tire with appropriate brushes.
- Rinse wheel and tire.
- Pad wheel dry.
- Spray wheel with Iron X.
- Scrub wheel with appropriate brush.
- Rinse wheel and tire.
- Move on to next wheel and tire.
You can use a bucket with car wash soap and dip your brush into it and wash wheels and tires and of course I've done this in my live, it's an option but in the outline I wrote and in the procedures I used to get this Honda clean to apply Gtechniq products to last night in the studio I didn't.
Good question though...
In order to cover the calipers and do a job that would actually protect them it seems like you would have to remove the wheels.
I can't see people jacking up there cars, placing safety jack stands under them, removing the wheels and then covering their brake components.
I'm really not sure how a person could cover their rotors, (that's bare metal), or rotors effectively without removing the wheels. So I just spray the wheels down and any product that gets on the rotors and calipers gets hosed off. I guess it is what it is?
Thank you for the nice compliment. I've never studied photography but I've taken a lot of pictures and learned how to frame up the shot, crop out the fluff and tell a story with pictures to help get "ideas" across to the reader.
The goal is always to help others to duplicate same type of procedures.
Congratulations!
Been there, done that and raising your children will be the most important job you ever do...
:)
If you've never washed a car using the approach shared above, give it a try sometime, see if it works better for you or for the car. (It's all about the car by the way, not you).
And here's another tip...
Best darn tire cleaning brush I've ever used!
Yep, the Porter Cable with a Cyclo brush mounted to it instead of the backing plate! Takes ALL the elbow grease out of getting old, slimy tire dressings off, blooming, (the brown residue that builds-up when antiozonants meet ozone in the air), and deteriorated dead rubber.
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Yep, the Porter Cable with a Cyclo brush mounted to it instead of the backing plate! Takes ALL the elbow grease out of getting old, slimy tire dressings off, blooming, (the brown residue that builds-up when antiozonants meet ozone in the air), and deteriorated dead rubber.
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:)
Blast from the past....
Info in the first post just as accurate today as when I wrote it.
:)