Drying?
Many of you are well aware on how to take care and protect your ride, but others are still not too sure or a bit confused about what to use and what is best to use.
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Fact; Using a sponge to wash your car will mar/scratch your paintwork and is in fact one of 1 major causes of marring on paint! - Question; whats the second thing that causes marring?
Drying?
Chamois?
2013 Ford Focus ST
Calibra - The only car that will institutionalise you and send you broke in the mean time
Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.
This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....
Chamois = big no no.
Scratches your paint as you dry, or call it 2 in 1 if you like
Although on a serious note, yes it most definitely does cause harm to the paintwork. Drying with a Chamois (leather, synthetic is similar) will be one of the main causes of marring on your paint causing the "spider webs"
This picture below is from a Holden Monaro we did. The customer always washed with a sponge (single bucket) and dried with a chamois, the result was this;
A 50/50 (1 side corrected by machine, the other as you see it) - you can see how much colour, depth and clarity you're losing from those super fine marks! You'll notice these marks mostly in certain lights inc most especially your local service station fluros late at night!
That's a crazy difference, so what would you recommend using to dry the car? I was told a microfiber chamois
Waffle weave towel?
Compressed air and blow it dry? No contact with the paint what so ever
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^^ this.
I have one of these. Best thing ever. Dry the car, wash the towel, air dry, reuse
https://www.carcareproducts.com.au/p...le_weave_large
if you want a bigger one:
https://www.carcareproducts.com.au/p..._weave_x_large
Also compressed air isnt clean air so you could be blowing contaminants onto the paintwork and un-doing all of your work
Last edited by hazrd; 7th November 2014 at 08:25 AM.
Sure, we dont have to worry about viking raids or scurvy anymore, but instead we make a daily routine of sitting in flimsy, fibreglass (or metal) boxes full of gasoline which are propelled in opposing directions on the freeway at velocities matching that of low flying aircraft.
This is a roundabout way of saying that cars are dangerous....
Microfibre Chamois
Microfibre Waffle Weave
Microfibre in general is the safest to dry!
No synthetic or skin chamois is the key really.
Compressed air is fine.. bbbbbbbbbut! Coming online shortly are the Metro Vac blowers which are specifically for cars and are electric. More info will follow soon!
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