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How To: Wash Your Vehicle In Winter Months

Items Needed:
· 2 Five Gallon Buckets with Grit Guards
· Cobra Microfiber Mitt
· Autogeek Chemical Resistant Pressure Sprayer
· Optima No Rinse Wash and Shine or DP Rinse less Wash and Gloss
· Cobra Waffle Weave Microfiber Towels

Steps:
· Add 2.5oz of DP Rinse less Wash and Gloss or Optima No Rinse Wash and Shine to the Autogeek Chemical Resistant Pressure Sprayer and add water till it is completely filled.
· Now completely spray the vehicle down with this mixture to loosen all the salt, dirt, and grim.
· While the vehicle is soaking in this mixture Add 4-5 gallons of water into your 2 bucket. In one of the buckets add 3oz ofDP Rinse less Wash and Gloss or Optima No Rinse Wash and Shine (One of the buckets is your wash bucket and the other is your rinse bucket)
· Now dip your Cobra Microfiber Mitt into the wash bucket and wash your vehicle from top to bottom with little pressure (let the wash solution do the work).
· After your have washed one section of the vehicle, now take the Cobra Microfiber Mitt and thoroughly rinse it in the rinse bucket.
· After you have fully washed one section of the vehicle dry it with your Cobra Waffle Microfiber Towel.

Note: Some section might take more than wash application to remove all salt, dirt, and grim. Also After you have washed all the paint you can use the same solution to wash your wheels and tires. Also it would be best to wash the vehicle inside a garage.

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When I lived in Great Falls, Montana, I just got few buckets of very warm (not hot) water from the kitchen and wiped down my vehicle from top to bottom. My garage was heated so I had no problem with freezing. People always wondered how I kept my Bronco so clean in the winter. They didn't use salt on the roads which helped. Plus, it got so cold the snow was more like sand and didn't cling to everything.

Dusty

 

This process keeps you from scratching your vehicle. The No Rinse solutions are very lubricated

 

I wash my cars in the winter in my garage just like I do in the warmer months. THe water may be colder, but dishwashing gloves are cheap,
FF

 

optimum no rinse wash here

 

If you ride is real dirty, you should hose it down before using a rinseless wash product. I have used both (Optimum, DP) and they work about the same.

The wash mitts can get build of with grime due to the nature of the "encapsulating" attributes of the rinseless solution in combination of the microfiber to absorb everything so be prepared with extra mitts.

You may need to wash wash in sections like no more than 1/2 hood, etc and wipe more than once. I usually make at least 2 passes. Wipe, flip mitt, another wipe. I am pretty generous with the solution so I let solution drizzle on paint. If you mix up 3 gallons solution (I use 2oz per 3 gallons which is more than suggested) in *both* buckets, this will do a mid-size car. The steps here and above are not what is printed on the product labels -- extra precautions.

One key guage on how clean you are getting the paint is to watch your drying towel. If it is showing any signs of dirt, you are not washing well enough. The drying towel should just be damp.