{"id":8524,"date":"2015-03-08T07:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2015-06-29T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T02:47:47","slug":"quick-detailing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallyways.com\/8524\/quick-detailing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Detailing Tips from a Car Detailing Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday night and you’re looking forward to your weekend. You’ve been driving your car all week but the weather had been fair to you. Your car isn’t dirty, but it’s not exactly clean either. What do you do?<\/h3>\n

I recently published a story about waterless washing<\/a>. However, since I love quick detailing so much I felt we needed an article with tips specifically about quick detailing.<\/p>\n

See, like I said in the intro, when your car is not perfectly clean but also not dirty enough it’s almost a shame to pull out the hose and perform a full wash. It’s kind of a waste actually. But at the same time you want the car to be perfectly clean for the weekend – specially if you are the car show or car meet type.<\/p>\n

\"Quick<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s when you pull out a bottle of car quick detailer spray and a dozen microfiber towels<\/a> and get to work. I always have a few bottles of quick detailer spray in my garage along with a number of small Rubbermaid containers full of clean, nicely folded microfibers.<\/p>\n

If you have a kit like this and you wash your microfibers immediately after, a quick detail session will take about 45 minutes to an hour if you take your time. A full wash might be just 15 minutes of sudsing, but it’s the entire process of getting the soap ready, the wash, the drying time and putting everything away that makes the process about twice as long as quick detailing. Not to mention, all the crevices of your car will be somewhat wet even after drying the car. Not good.<\/p>\n

Anyway, keeping it quick. The process is simple. Spray a panel at a time and wipe it down very slowly with a folded microfiber. The action of the microfiber towel wipe is done with a rolling motion to pull off each dirty section of the towel as you wipe. Never wipe the paint again with a used section of towel. That’s why you fold the towel and more importantly, why you must have many microfiber rags for the job.<\/p>\n

To top it off, you can do a final wipe with a clean microfiber to remove streaks or follow up with a layer of quick wax or liquid wax.<\/p>\n

There are many more techniques you can learn about quick detailing – Many of them come with experience. However, this story is strictly for quick detailing tips to get you going.<\/p>\n

What to use?<\/h3>\n

\"Meguiar's<\/a><\/p>\n

I talk about various quick detailing products in the waterless wash article mentioned at the beginning. For getting started in quick detailing you simply cannot go wrong with Meguiar’s Quik Detailer. Even though I use other products too, I still use Meg’s Quick Detailer very often.<\/p>\n