GRIMEY [EVIL LAUGHTER]
IN A WORLD OF FILTH
One guy will fight for shine.
We've got to keep this clay lubed up to maximum wetness,
or else the car is going to explode. Time to take out the contaminants.
Need more training noob.
A noob must rise up
and put his skills to the test.
Turn that grime
into a shine
It's grime time, baby.
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What's up, guys?
Welcome back to Chemical Guys.
Detail Garage Dirty Shorts.
I'm your host, Jason.
And in today's episode, we're going to do things
a little differently than the last Dirty Shorts episode.
If you want the long form, you've come to the right place.
If you want the short version, just click right up here.
We'll get through all of this instruction in just about 30 seconds to a minute.
If you caught the last episode, we washed the hood of my car with Rinse Free.
That really works well for people that are in apartments.
Or don't have access to a running water hose.
Today, we're going to go all out.
We're going to use the foam cannon.
And my favorite Maxi Suds II Extreme Grape Rush.
This is a deliciously smelling soap that provides tons of lubrication
to your vehicle and helps all the dirt and grime just glide off the surface.
So to get started, all we got to do is fill up
two buckets with water, which I've already done for us right here.
We're using deionized water because deionized water helps prevent
water spots when you're drying your car.
So that's the reason we use that.
I'm going to grab two Dirt Traps now.
The reason we have these Dirt Traps and what these do is these filter out
dirt and abrasive particles from the surface of our car.
When we're washing that,
we pull the dirt off the car and we place it right into our bucket.
And what happens is, if you've ever just use one bucket before,
you'll see that the bucket ends up after a couple of minutes of washing.
It ends up being filthy water inside there.
And that's not really what we want to use because if we grab that filthy water
and go back to wash the car, we're just taking gross water
and rubbing it on our car. And so we don't want to do that.
That's why we've got these Dirt Traps.
What these do is they've got a bunch of cyclonic filters here.
And when you place these inside of your buckets at a 45 degree angle,
it causes a little air bubble at the bottom
so there's a little like pressure seal down there.
And when you take your wash mitt and you place it into the bucket
and rub it on the Trap,
all of that dirt goes through the filters and stays at the bottom of the bucket.
It can't rise
back up into your wash water, so that keeps everything nice and clean.
We have two buckets because we want to even further filter our wash water, right?
So this one specifically is going to be our rinse bucket
where we take the dirty mitt and we put it in here.
And then this bucket is going to be dedicated
specifically just for clean soap.
So we know that only a fresh clean mitt is ever going to go in here.
This should never get dirty.
That way we're always pulling fresh, clean soap off of this bucket.
And putting only that on our car and leaving all the dirt into this bucket
to be filtered out at the bottom.
So to get started, you can grab your Big Mouth Max Release
Foam Cannon.
I've already filled this up with deionized water as well.
And you can grab your Maxi Suds Extreme Grape Rush.
This is a great smells so good.
It reminds me of like kind of a punchy flavor, like a Hubba Bubba
or grape bubble gum.
So we're going to grab our Extreme Grape Rush
Maxi Suds II,
which is one of my favorite soaps.
It's very high sudsing.
It lubricates the entire surface of your car, encapsulates
all the dirt and grime on there.
So it gently rolls off the surface minimizing scratches.
So that's what we're all about here, right?
Is minimizing scratches because the whole point of detailing is to basically
make your car look immaculate and scratches are the number one offender
to making your car look dull and just not very healthy overall.
So we're going to grab two ounces of this into our foam canon.
A rule of thumb for
this is typically one nice good squeeze on one of these bottles is about an ounce.
So we're going to put about two ounces, one and two in there.
And as you can see, the color is pretty cool.
Grab the head of our
Big Mouth Max Release Foam Cannon
screw that on there.
And this guy is ready to go.
Now, we want to mix up the soap because you can see here,
there's a little bit more soap on the bottom
than there is on the top.
So just stir it gently.
Kind of create a little vortex in there, little cyclone, you know,
because you don't want to shake it violently.
If you shake it too hard,
you're going to create foam in the bottle, as you can see on the top here.
And we don't want to create all the foam in the bottle.
We want it to come out the bezel in the front,
which is a nice Big Blow Bezel.
This thing is adjustable.
And as you rotate the bezel, you could see a kind of opens and closes.
And this is what
creates that fanning like motion when you're using the pressure washer.
If you're washing a very large vehicle like a truck
you can fan it out and cover the entire truck in one pass.
Or if you want some really concentrated sud action,
you can lower down and shoot just a stream of high density snow.
So the next thing you want to do is also add
about an ounce into your soapy bucket just to give that extra lubrication.
And we're off to the races.
What we're going to do first is grab our pressure washer and rinse down the car.
You want to give it a pre rinse just to knock off any loose dirt, grime or debris.
Then we're going to attach our Big Mouth Max Release Foam Cannon and get to foaming.
After that point, we're going to use our Chenille Microfiber
Wash Mitt.
Grab some soap out of our soapy bucket.
Wash the car from top to bottom in linear motions.
The reason we do that is because can anybody guess
three, two, one comment down below.
Let me know why we go in the flow.
Linear motions. Here we go. Where was I?
Oh, yeah. Linear motions.
So motions like the oceans. What?
I think I just lost my mind.
What's the reason why this is because we want to minimize scratches and swirls.
And if you happen to catch some debris or some crazy stuff inside of this
Mitt from your car
and you start swirling it around your paint, you're just going to create
swirl marks.
You're going to scratch that right into the clear coat.
So just in case this should always be clean and clear,
but just in case, if you go in a linear motion, you're guaranteed
to only cause issues in a straight line, which is way easier to polish out.
So with that being said, I'm going to put this down here, grab
our pressure washer, set this bad boy to stun and
let's get spraying.
Now, I don't know if you can tell from my car,
but it's got a ton of beading action going on here.
And that's probably because we've coated it a number of times with some protective
Chemical Guys goodies like waxes, HydroSpeed, HydroSlick.
It's got pretty much everything on here.
You can see how crazy the water beading is on my car.
That's from just layer and layer and layer of all kinds of different coatings
that we put on here over the years.
And this is how you protect your paint.
Essentially, if I were to drive right now, this would all just roll off my car,
which that step you can watch in one of the future episodes of this series.
We'll get there.
Right now, what we're going to do is we're going to attach the
Big Mouth Max Release Foam Cannon
and we're going to turn this all the way to the foam power.
Oh, and we're going to get going.
Awesome, guys.
That was so much fun.
It's always awesome to have a foam party here at
Chemical Guys. As you can see, the car is covered in foam
and it's already kind of pulling all the dirt off automatically.
We don't even have to really do much.
You can see it's pulling all of the dirt and debris off of the surface.
Without me even touching the car and pulling it down to the ground.
Now, obviously, there's going to be some left over, so we got to help it out a bit.
That's where we grab our Chenille Microfiber Wash Mitt and get going.
So first thing's first, I'm going to grab our pressure washer Torq Snubby
again, pop the little attachment on here.
And we're going to activate the soap that's already in this bucket
by giving it a little bit of pressure.
Look at that.
Tons of suds right here.
Grab our Chenille Microfiber
Wash Mitt.
Dunk that in here.
Get it nice and lubricated.
And we're going to grab some fresh, fresh suds.
Look at all of that and just start from the top of the car
and work our way down in a linear motion.
Straight down. Boom!
One pass.
Look at that beautiful.
Inspect the wash mitt.
It still looks pretty clean to me.
So we can go give it another pass and you can continue this process
as long as you feel like the mitt is still fairly clean.
About two to three passes, though,
you probably want to flip to the other side, which you know is clean.
Continue the rest of this, right.
Then you're going to take this and go to your buckets.
First thing you want to do is rinse out your wash it outside of the bucket,
get all that dirt and grime out of here first.
The second thing you're going to do is stick this into your clear rinse bucket
and rub this on the Dirt Trap at the bottom of the bucket.
This is going to release all of that dirt and grime that was on your car
from the noodles of the wash mitt and press it down below the Dirt Trap.
Once you look in and you see that your wash mitt is pretty clean,
you can take it out again, rinse one more time.
Now inspect,
make sure that you have nothing inside the noodles.
We're looking good, and then you just grab more soap and continue the process.
All right, guys
it's that easy.
The next step is to just grab your pressure washer wand or Snubby
and rinse down the remaining soap.
And we're basically done. We're on to the drying process.
So let me rinse this down and I'll come back and show you
a little bonus on how to dry this thing even faster.
All right.
That's basically it, guys.
Now, right away, you can just grab your microfiber towel.
In this case, we've got the Woolly Mammoth.
It's a giant towel.
This thing holds up to about a gallon of water.
Believe it or not, it's huge.
This will cut your drying time in half if you use this towel.
Now, my car is coated, as we kind of saw, right,
with all the beading going on here.
So it's going to be very easy to dry with just this towel.
But a little bonus for you guys if you don't have any coatings on your car
or you find that your towels dragging or leaving streaks
or something like that, grab yourself some After Wash.
It means that your car is probably not that coated.
So this is going to help lubricate and create
those little beads with the water just from spraying on there.
All you got to do is shake up the product a little bit to mix it up, make sure it's
good to go and then you just spray a little bit on to the surface.
And as you can see, even on my coated car as I spray, it creates
these microbeads and basically wraps everything in these tiny, tiny beads.
And the water you'll see just starts rolling off the hood.
So you just spray all the area that you want.
So you basically rinse or dry rather.
Grab your microfiber towel.
You can see the beads just coming right off already.
Place that towel gently onto the surface of your car.
Now you can either do the pat method, which I like,
or you can just start pulling it down off of your car.
But I like to pat everything dry a little bit
first make sure that I'm touching this as little as possible,
and then just grab the corners of the towel and pull down off the car
and you'll see it just dries it almost instantly.
Otherwise, you can wrap this into, I don't know, about quarters or something
and just go ahead and take care of each of these pieces
of your car.
Basically, you just pull your towel across the surface, nice and gentle.
The Woolly Mammoth has silk edging all around the banding here,
so even the edging of the towel is soft enough for your beautiful ride.
A little pro tip, when you
get close to the edge or the ground here, you don't want to touch this
to the ground. I've made that mistake as a noob many times.
So the best tip that I can give you is to use one hand
to hold the top portion of the towel, use a second hand to grab the bottom part,
and then you know that you're only in control of this bottom part,
and that will keep everything off the ground and still enable you to dry
the entire panel in one swoop, just like that.
All right, guys.
And that's pretty much the end of that.
At this point,
you could go to the next step, which if you want to polish your car,
you would clay bar first. We can tackle that in the next video, if you'd like.
If you want to see that comment down below that, you want to see that.
Also comment down below.
Your favorite soap to use on your maintenance washes.
As you can see, it wasn't that dirty.
And that's simply because of all the coatings that we put on here.
It actually helps out for future washes because your car actually gets less dirty
than it normally would if you didn't have those coatings.
So it just makes things a lot easier to manage.
But you can still see a huge difference on the paint.
This baby is shining now like it's supposed to.
The color on this car is a little weird.
It sometimes changes from orange to red
but either way, Maxi Suds
brings out the depth and the shine and the gloss of this paint like no other.
So it's looking really nice. At this point
you could choose to dress the tires.
We can hit that in another episode as well.
Hit the trim.
We'll take care of all that stuff in a future episode of
Dirty Shorts.
You stuck it all the way through and I'm proud of you.
But if you want the fast version, make sure to hit that link again
to the Dirty Shorts version and otherwise we'll see you next time,
here at Chemical Guys Detail Garage!