GTDave
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Hi all,
Need some advice as i am perplexed at what went wrong!
So got my new shiney black Golf a week Saturday, so this Sunday I decided to give it it's first clean.
Bought myself the scratch-shield kit of 2 buckets, grit guard, wash mitt, cherry shampoo (which was rather good).
As I dont have a jetwash I simply hosed down the car to start with, paying special attention to the lower area of the car, around the wheel arches, wheels, lower door areas and sills.
Once I was happy that most of the dirt was gone I moved on to using the mitt and the 2 buckets.
I started on the roof and worked around and down, rinsing the mitt often.
Once I was down to the top of the doors etc I switched and started on the bonnet, drivers door, passenger door, rear and around.
One thing to note at this point is I thought the idea of the mitt was to bury any dirt within its fibres to keep it away from the surface, I noticed that even after a good rinse, I had to pick out pieces of grass and other such fibre type rubbish (no grit mind! or from what i could tell)!
Rinsed the car off and then started to use the microfibre drying cloth I had to dry off the car.
While doing the drying I noticed that when I got to the rear of the car there was some VERY small swirly marks/scratches, they are really faint and minor but in my opinion caused by the first wash.
I dont really want to repeat the process until I know what I did wrong.
Was it me? The mitt?
any advice most welcome.
Cheers
Dave
Need some advice as i am perplexed at what went wrong!
So got my new shiney black Golf a week Saturday, so this Sunday I decided to give it it's first clean.
Bought myself the scratch-shield kit of 2 buckets, grit guard, wash mitt, cherry shampoo (which was rather good).
As I dont have a jetwash I simply hosed down the car to start with, paying special attention to the lower area of the car, around the wheel arches, wheels, lower door areas and sills.
Once I was happy that most of the dirt was gone I moved on to using the mitt and the 2 buckets.
I started on the roof and worked around and down, rinsing the mitt often.
Once I was down to the top of the doors etc I switched and started on the bonnet, drivers door, passenger door, rear and around.
One thing to note at this point is I thought the idea of the mitt was to bury any dirt within its fibres to keep it away from the surface, I noticed that even after a good rinse, I had to pick out pieces of grass and other such fibre type rubbish (no grit mind! or from what i could tell)!
Rinsed the car off and then started to use the microfibre drying cloth I had to dry off the car.
While doing the drying I noticed that when I got to the rear of the car there was some VERY small swirly marks/scratches, they are really faint and minor but in my opinion caused by the first wash.
I dont really want to repeat the process until I know what I did wrong.
Was it me? The mitt?
any advice most welcome.
Cheers
Dave