- Hey guys, welcome back
to the Chemical Guys YouTube channel.
I'm super excited, I'm Jen
and I have not been on the channel
for a couple of years probably,
the last car we detailed was the Autozam,
one other small car.
And then before that was the Honda S2000 that we picked up
and we were detailing the whole car
and showing you guys a great before and after.
But now I picked up a 2015 Mini Cooper S.
And what I'm excited to show you guys is,
we're going to show you everything you can do
when you pick up a new to you car
or a used car and the top tips to do,
to see what the true condition is of the paint.
So I'm not sure what we're going to do to it
the best first step to do when you're detailing the car
is to wash it first,
because we don't know what's underneath
the dirt that's there, that first superficial layer.
And then after that, we're going to do some clay bar
we're hopefully going to polish it.
And we're going to show you how to bring your used
or new to you car back to a great looking car
that looks almost brand new.
And so we're going to go through all the steps.
I'm going to bring in Joey
I'm going to bring in some of the team members,
I'm going to do it as a collaborative effort.
And I'm super excited to show you guys
and show you the full steps from one to 10 so stay tuned.
- Hey, what's going on you guys?
And welcome back to a brand new episode
of Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Today is a very exciting day, I'm pumped
because we're working on Jen's brand new Mini Cooper S.
Now, this thing is brand new to her
but it is a used car
so we want to make sure that we give it a deep clean
and get it hooked up for her.
So step one, we're going to start off with the engine bay,
'cause this thing is filthy so stay tuned.
So if you guys join me right here up close,
we'll inspect us engine bay and we'll just check it out
and you guys will see that this thing is very filthy.
It has a ton of dirt, dust, debris have of a bunch of leaves
and twigs all over the surrounding of the engine bay.
And you can definitely tell
that this thing needs a deep clean.
So to start off this process
I'm going to start off by cleaning out
the stuff that we don't need there
such as those leaves twigs
and all the stuff that's in the surrounding areas
of the engine bay.
Now, normally I would just grab my pro blow,
blow that stuff out and be on my way.
However, in this case, we are at the Detail Garage
I don't want to make a mess.
So the easiest way to not make a mess and clean it up
is simply vacuuming it.
All right guys, so the next step is cleaning.
Now, my cleaner of choice
is going to be our Nonsense All Purpose Super Cleaner.
Now, this is great because you can use it on virtually
any application interior, exterior, engine bay, door panels,
dashboards, carpets, fabrics, undercarriage, you name it.
This thing works on virtually all surfaces.
Now, the good thing about it
is that you can actually dilute it as well.
And that's why I have it in this sprayer
which you may not recognize this a 32 on sprayer.
And the reason I have it in here
is because I have a diluted to a 20 to 1 ratio
and that works out great
so that you achieve much of a more mild clean,
and you stretch your products so to go a little further.
So we'll start off clean process right now.
So the method that
we are going to be using with our Nonsense
is that we're actually going to be using a pressure washer
to help us clean the engine bay
from all those hard and intricate areas.
Now, to begin the process I am going to
and give the entire engine bay a pre-rinse.
Now, whenever you're renting engine bay
you do want to be careful
because there are sensitive electrical components.
There are areas
that you do not want to get any water in at all,
such as like your motor components.
So you want to make sure that the water
that you're in control of where you're spraying it.
Now, I'm going to start off
by giving this top area of pre-rinse
just to knock off allow to loosen the debris.
Now, one technique that I do like to use,
especially with the pressure washer
is I'll shoot from a distance
more so that it's not getting heavy pressure,
but you're getting a nice, fine mist of water
that's just going to help guide off into kind of that debris
that we knock off with our cleaner and our brush.
So now that we gave the entire engine bay
a nice little pre-rinse.
Now, we can begin the cleaning process with our Nonsense.
So start off as you guys can see,
this is a ton of little dirt and grime that's caught
within underneath the headlight housing area.
So to clean this, we're just going to go in
and grab our Nonsense,
spray directly onto the area that we wish to clean.
And you can just nicely saturated.
You know, Nonsense is
going to help you break down all the dirt
and grime and grease that's caught.
And I'm also going to spray my brush as well
for some attic cleaning power.
Now, once you spray your brush
and you've sprayed the surface with your Nonsense
you can begin by agitating
and wow, check that out you guys.
Right away, you can see all that grime
that's just simply breaking down
with the power of the Nonsense on this brush.
It's doing an incredible job
of breaking down all this years of built-up grime.
You know, this car is a 2015 it's not too old, not too new.
However, you can definitely tell that this engine bay
has probably only been cleaned
either once or twice in its life
or maybe not at all, you know, who knows.
And we're just going to just slowly and surely
work this brush and break down everything that we see here.
'Cause we want to make sure
that we're giving it the deepest clean possible.
All right, guys so now that we're done
cleaning the top area we can move on to this lower area.
Now, I did give it a rinse
just because I didn't want the dirt and the grime
that we've just cleaned up to stick back onto the surface.
And we don't really have to worry too much about it
because that all that water just kind of gets dragged
along to the sides and into the drainage areas.
Now, to clean up this area right here,
we'll start off with the cover.
Now, pretty straightforward cleaning
you've already seen us do it.
We're just going to go to spray the entire area
that we want to clean.
And in this case, I'm just going to grab my horse hair brush
just because I like,
achieving that nice little foaming action
whenever you clean to this.
That works out great especially,
so that you uplift the dirt and grime
from all these hard to reach areas
and making it a lot easier for you
to just rinse it right off.
So they're easy, very straightforward.
I mean, like I mentioned, the biggest thing
that you want to take away from engine bay cleaning
is just to not get into any kind of sensitive
electrical components.
Now, a lot of these areas they are sealed
and you know, a lot of car manufacturers
they do a very great job at waterproofing
a lot of these things right here,
but you still do want
to make sure to just keep your chemicals
and your water away from these areas
because if you can refrain yourself from $1000 of damage
then why not?
You know if I can prevent myself from doing that
I'm definitely going to take any precautions that I can.
Super easy, very straightforward.
You can clean all these areas that look the dirtiest.
Most of the areas that aren't so bad,
you can literally just spray them with some Nonsense
and the pressure washer
will end up doing most of the job for you
and the Nonsense as well it does an incredible job
at uplifting that dirt and grime
making all this cleaning very easy for you.
And it doesn't really matter
if I'm getting it on the windshield over here,
because we're still going to end up
cleaning the extra of the vehicle.
So we are going to foam wash in any way so,
you know, it doesn't necessarily matter the message make.
And that's exactly why we chose
to clean the engine bay first
because it's very dirty
and we are going to make a mess while cleaning here,
because we're going to get water all over the place.
We're going to get it all over the sides, the fenders,
maybe on top of the hood as well, the headlights.
So that's why I like doing the engine bay first
because you get that dirty stuff off the way.
And it's just kind of like,
whenever you're cleaning the extra rear vehicle
you clean up your wheels first
because they tend to be the dirtier part of the vehicles
and that way they're clean.
And then once you in your vehicle,
you just rinse it and then just dry everything all in one go
as opposed to washing your car, then cleaning your wheels,
making a splatter of dirt and grime
it gets back onto your paint
and then you're going to have to re-clean those areas.
So it's just kind of working against
how you're supposed to be cleaning.
So this case, it makes it very easy and convenient for us
so we can just clean the engine bay and get it out the way.
All right, guys so now,
that we are completely done cleaning it
we gave it a four rinse down.
We cleaned off all the dirt and grime
and the residual of the cleaner.
Now, that it's all rinsed down
we're going to proceed to drying it
and move on to the last step in this process
which is conditioning all the engine bay plastics.
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All right, guys, and their guys have it.
The engine bay looks great, it's clean and it's dry
and it looks incredible.
Now, we want to protect it
so the product that we're going to be using
is going to be our Factory Finish Trim Coating.
Now, Factory Finish is an aerosol dressing
that restores the original factory sheen
of any kind of exterior rubber and plastic surfaces.
So in this case, we're going to be using our engine bay.
As you can imagine, it'd be very tough
to get into all these little intricate areas
with an applicator and addressing,
trying to get into every single little intricate area
of this engine bay.
I'm going to be here literally all day with this product,
with this aerosol dressing,
it's going to allow it to coat your entire engine bay
in a matter of minutes.
In this case, my way and my personal favorite way
of applying it is apply the fine place
and then simply grabbing a microfiber towel coming back,
and then just working in whatever product
happened to land on the surface of the applying it to.
And just like that,
makes it very easy for you to just apply it.
And you can buff off any excess.
And as you guys can see, it does not leave a super wet look.
It does not leave it looking super shiny
it just gives it that original look
and that coat of protection.
And just like that, you've cleaned your engine bay,
you've conditioned it and you've protected it
to preserve it to look great for years to come.
And that pretty much wraps it up for this video.
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My name is Joey, this is Chemical Guys Detail Garage,
and I will see you guys on the next episode.