Welcome to Detail Garage. So today we have this Audi A4.
This car has a lot of bugs all over it.
This car drove over about 800 miles or so. So it has a lot of bugs that have been built up.
Not only that, the bugs have sat on this car for a few days so the bugs are starting to etch on.
They are starting to really work themselves into the paint.
So today we are going to remove them using Bug & Tar.
So Bug & Tar is a solvent which helps you remove those bugs.
So in order for us to remove these bugs, we're gonna start prepping using our professional spray bottle and our Bug & Tar.
So I'm gonna add about one ounce.
That's about an ounce.
So now bugs when they stick onto a vehicle,
they stick on there pretty good and it's pretty hard to get them out.
In order for me to save time, I'll be using the two bucket method and a spray bottle.
So while I spray down the front end of the vehicle, it's gonna help loosen up those bugs.
So let's start.
So while that's settling in, it's gonna help loosen a lot of the bugs that have been etched onto the paint.
So while that sits, let's start off with our two buckets.
So I got our little dirt traps here.
We are going to use our two bucket method to help remove a lot of those bugs and to make sure we don't scratch the surface.
That's one of the biggest problems when it comes to taking off bugs form the vehicle.
We'll have those settling in.
I have the Ultimate Chenille Wash Mitt. It has a chenille side on one side and it has a nice bug sponge on the other side.
So now...
We are going to put two ounces of Bug & Tar into the bucket.
So now...
While that sits in there,
this is loosening up, what i'm going to do, is get our Chenille Wash Mitt
dip it into the solution to help mix it up a little bit.
This is going to be our soap bucket.
Make sure I get it in there.
Alright, this is the tricky part.
So since there is a lot of bugs on here right now,
I'm not going to start scrubbing right away because I am going to scratch it if I start scrubbing and start agitating.
So I gently want to go over the surface and start removing a lot of the loose bugs.
It's very very important to you go in straight lines right here.
And work in small sections.
So as you can see here, these are all the bugs that have been coming off.
As you can see they came off very very easily.
And these are bugs that have been sitting on there for a while.
So i'm going into my rinse bucket, dip it in, use the Dirt Trap to loosen up a lot of those bugs.
And...this is pretty gross because there is a lot of bugs coming up on the water.
Normally I would rinse this out out of the bucket but since we are indoors I don't want to make a mess.
And the Dirt Trap does a very very good job not allowing any picking up any kind of contaminates or bringing them back up to the surface.
So I'll go back into my soap bucket in here and repeat the same process throughout the whole front end.
So again, ring it out.
See there is not bugs here anymore.
Go back into my soap bucket.
I'm trying not to get too much water onto the floor. That's more clean up after me.
Snakelike pattern.
yeah, most of these bugs are coming off pretty easy.
There is some areas where I have to get a little bit more aggressive
and use the bug net side which is perfect
to demonstrate how well this cleans.
So again, lots of bugs.
Dip it into my rinse bucket which is gross...
Alright so now I'm going to flip this over.
Flip this band over which is awesome because now I can start getting aggressive.
So again, back into my soap bucket.
And now we are going to start scrubbing.
Now when you scrub, again, you are doing it in straight lines.
Applying a minimal amount of pressure.
Because Bug & Tar does the job by itself.
As you can see it trapped all the bugs within these holes right here.
Perfect.
So what you do now is you repeat this process until you get all the bugs out.
If you still have some bugs that are etched on the surface itself,
you may want to apply a little of pressure, but again, you want to be rubbing in straight lines that way you don't scratch the surface.
So now that the Bug & Tar has been used to remove a lot of the bugs and tar off this vehicle
Take this wash sponge and leave it back in there for now.
And now it's time for us to neutralize the solution.
So to neutralize it, you can hose it down with water. Obviously we don't have access to water in here. We want to make less of a mess than we already have.
So we are going to be using a quick detail spray.
Grab any one of your favorite quick detail sprays to help neutralize this.
That way you get a nice slick finish and when you dry it off, it's also going to dry off nice, slick, very shiny.
just the way we like it.
Let that settle in for a little bit.
Grab your microfiber towel and start wiping.
Once you get enough on one side, flip over and pick up any kind of bugs or anything that may have
been hiding in between these grills
That I couldn't necessarily get my wash sponge into.
At the same time we are kinda drying it off.
There you go. The bumper is nice and dry.
It's bug free which is a great thing.
And again, if the bugs don't come off using the wash sponge you can apply a little bit more pressure.
Or if the bugs have been sitting on here for more than 5 days, maybe over a week,
they are going to embed themselves on there pretty hard so you might want to try a claybar method to help remove those as well.
So for the purposes of this video, this vehicle is bug free.
Bug & Tar did it's job and it did a great job.
It's very easy to use and very effective.