Today is a very special day in the Detail Garage
because we have this whole crew rolling in from Northern California!
This MOPAR car club is coming in from areas like Sacramento and The Bay Area.
When you're driving 500 - 600 miles on the highway, you're gonna get bugs all over the front of your car!
When you have a big, bright muscle car like this Dodge Challenger,
you can't be distracted by these ugly bugs all over the front of the vehicle!
You need to take them off.
Plus, if you don't remove them quickly, the bugs will stain and etch into the paintwork
causing permanent damage.
You need to take them off before they can wreck your paint.
I have a few of my favorite products here to deal with bugs.
I'm mainly worried about Bug & Tar Remover.
This is a specialty soap that you add into your normal car wash bucket or detailing spray
bottle
so you can take down the bugs and break them off the surface
so you don't have to resort to hard rubbing and scrubbing to get them off.
To get set up, I have my two bucket method already ready to go.
I'll set up my car wash soap.
I'm using Hybrid V7 Car Wash Soap, I'll put a couple ounces in,
then I'll add just one ounce of Bug & Tar Wash into my car wash soap bucket.
It looks like I want to pre-saturate some of these bugs with a solution of Bug & Tar Remover.
I have a detailing bottle here.
I'm going to make a 5 or 6:1 dilution of Bug & Tar Wash.
If you just want to spot treat a few areas without spraying down the whole car,
you can use the Professional Detailing Bottle with the pre-marked dilution slots on the side.
I'll pour in just enough to make a 5 or 6:1 dilution ratio.
That is 5 parts water to every 1 part chemical.
Once I have the product in, I'll add some normal filtered water.
I'll fill it to the top of the label...
These bottles are great because they hold more product.
These are also great to use whenever you want to dilute your detailing products like cleaners,
degreasers, and detail sprays.
And they come with these upgraded sprayers that pump out more product with every spray.
I'll just prime the sprayer... there we go!
Before I even rinse down the car or come at it with a mitt,
I'm going to pre-soak these bugs as I prepare the rest of my wash method.
I'll come down here and just spray down all these bugs.
I'll let the solution dwell for a couple minutes.
It's safe to use Bug & Tar Wash on any paintwork, plastic pieces, glass, or optical plastics
you might have on your car.
It's also safe to use on any clear bras or clear wraps.
Some of the cars here from the club have clear bras, so it's easy to treat a lot of these
bugs on any of these cars.
It looks like we have the whole front end covered here.
As that's dwelling, I'll set up the rest of my wash buckets.
I already have my soap solution mixed here in my wash bucket.
I'll just activate the suds with my hose.
To scrub down these bugs and guts,
I'm going to use the Premium Microfiber Wash Sponge.
Unlike normal wash sponges, this one is made with soft microfiber with a chenille side
and a microfiber woven bug sponge side.
This is great to gently scrub the bugs so I don't have to scrub hard and install a lot
of scratches and I rub the paint.
This has an elastic cuff, which makes it easy to use and almost impossible to drop!
I won't drop it on the ground, pick up rocks, then scratch the paint.
If I want to use the bug scrubber side, just flip the elastic over,
and now I have a bug scrubber sponge that I'm not going to drop.
I'm letting that dwell on there for a while,
I'll pick up some suds, and gently wipe off as many of these bugs that I can.
Just with the first couple wipes I'm already knocking off the bulk of the bug bodies,
they're just coming right off the paintwork.
This is the easy part; the hard part will be scrubbing out all the parts that are stuck in there.
I'll give this whole bumper a quick wipe.
With the Two Bucket Method, you have one bucket with your soap solution,
and the second bucket with clear plain water.
I'll scrub out any bugs and guts directly on the wash screen.
I have a Dirt Trap in the bottom of this bucket, which is going to help separate out
any filth and dead bugs from the wash water to keep my mitt nice and clean.
You see I've knocked out all the dead bugs and filth, I'll wring it out on the ground,
then come back into the bucket for more soap.
Now that I have my mitt prepared again, I can get a little more aggressive on these bugs and gently scrub.
You can see they're all starting to just melt right out of the paintwork.
They're all coming right out, and I'm not leaving anything behind.
It's important to get out all these pieces, because if you don't get out the parts that
get really stuck in there,
that's what will eat into your paintwork and leave you with weird spots and gouges.
Wow they're even stuck in the fog light! These are really in there...
Obviously, when your car has 300, 400, or 500 horsepower
and you're going down the highway at "highway speeds,"
bugs don't stand any bit of a chance!
I'll get more soap then come up here on the front valance and get this soapy water solution
all over the place.
You can see this mitt holds a lot of soap and a lot of water.
This is the perfect tool to use for any weekly wash or gut removal.
I've knocked out the bulk of the bodies, so I'll come back with the gentle scrubber to
take out the remainder.
There we go.
I can do this half of the bumper, and all these little black spots are just going away.
Bug & Tar wash also works great on road tar.
So if you ever drive through a freshly-paved road or construction site where they have
tar and fresh asphalt being laid down,
the tendency is for that stuff to fling all over the side of your car when it gets kicked
up off your wheels.
If you can get on it pretty quickly, use Bug & Tar Wash at a higher dilution ratio.
You might be able to cut through that before it sticks to your paint.
If tar gets really bad, you might have to use a clay bar or microfiber pad and a
machine polisher to get it out.
If you get on it quickly enough, you can get on it with some Bug & Tar Wash.
All this stuff is coming right off, so it's good that we got on these after she got off
the road to avoid any permanent damage or staining.
Alright!
Now the car is bug-free.
I'll rinse off any contamination so we can move on to drying it so we don't get any water spots.
Just take your garden hose and rinse it down.
Now you see we've taken off all the bugs and all the filth and grime off the front of the car.
We're ready to move on to any drying steps, so I'm gonna go ahead and dry off this car.
We have a few more cars with a whole lot of bugs all over the surfaces that we need to take off.
But you can see how easy it was to use Bug & Tar Wash
to remove anything that's bugging ya on the front of your car.