- Hey, what's up guys.
Welcome back to another video.
This video, we've got a serious case
of bugs on this front end on this Ram.
Now a little bit of backstory on this Ram.
This truck was just driven
through the desert all the way up to Utah.
The drive was about sixteen hours there and back.
Not entirely sure what part of Utah they went to.
But I do know for a fact that,
they went somewhere through the desert
and this truck is absolutely filthy.
So today I'm going to be showing you guys
how to clean the bug and tar off the front end
of this vehicle.
And then we're also going to give the entire truck
just a quick little cleaning
and show you guys how to do that
so stay tuned.
So before we begin,
I want to start off by cleaning off the bugs
on this front end,
simply because that's going to be
the dirtiest part of the truck.
As you guys can see, this thing has caked bugs on there,
you have whole chunks of bugs on there.
You have splatter, guts.
You have all that good stuff on there.
So we're going to be using our bug and tar remover
to go in and clean that up.
Bug and tar remover, it's our fast acting car wash solution
that works out great for breaking down all the bugs and tars
that are on the front end or any other parts of the vehicle.
Not only is the front end, kind of caked with it,
but you also have the side mirrors as well.
They do have a pretty good concentration
of bugs on there as well.
So I'm going to show you guys how to clean those areas.
So this product is great because you can
either use it as an additive to your soap.
So if you have a foam cannon,
or if you simply want to put it into a bucket
and wash the front end with it
by all means.
The way I love using this product is diluting it
to a six to one ratio in a secondary sprayer bottle,
spraying the front end.
And then I agitate it with my microfiber wheel wedge.
Now it's called the wheel wedge
but it works on more than just your wheels.
It also works on your paint as well.
As you guys can see
it has a nice kind of textured side on one side
that helps you pick up those bugs
and then another soft side, a microfiber side,
so that if you want to apply any kind of product
such as MAXCOAT wheel guard to your wheels
or any kind of tight areas, it's a multi-purpose tool
and you can use it for all those applications.
So before we start, like I mentioned
we're going to have to dilute this product.
So I'm going to take off the sprayer top
off my secondary sprayer here,
set that down.
I'm going to grab my bug and tar remover.
Take off that cap on there.
And with this right here
you want to dilute it to a six to one ratio.
So on this bottle, you have a twenty to one,
sixteen to one, ten to one, eight to one.
A six to one ratio is going to be pretty much in between,
or almost three quarters of that eight to one ratio.
So what I'm going to do is
I'm going to fill up my product
just a little bit above that eight to one ratio,
and that's going to be equivalent
to about a six to one ratio
and then I'm going to fill up the rest with water.
So now that we've finished diluting it,
now we can put our sprayer top back on it.
And we have our ready to use bug and tar remover
ready to go to a six one ratio.
So I'm going to set that down for a second here.
And I'm going to give the front end
just the light little rinse, just to kind of,
you know rinse off any kind of loose dirt,
debris, and any kind of grime and any kind of bug guts
that's on there that's loose,
so that we have a more filtered kind of clean
so that we have a less chance of,
you know installing any kind of scratches or swirls.
All right.
So now that we've rinsed out the front end,
I don't know if you guys saw, but I tried
to get up very close just to kind of show you guys that even
if I were to put the garden hose nozzle directly,
right almost onto the surface of the paint and rinse it off
they were still baked on there.
Now, the reason for that is because there was no protection
on this front end of the truck.
So before this whole sixteen hour road trip,
you know even before that, there was, you know
maybe the owner didn't apply any kind of waxes
or sealants or any kind of coatings for the matter,
which would have prevented
something like this from happening.
But unfortunately it did happen.
So we're going to going to have to clean it up.
So now that we've rinsed off,
most of the loose kind of dirt, debris
and grime and stuff.
We're going to grab our bug and tar remover
and we're going to spray the front end.
Now this product is so great,
all you have to do is pretty much spray it down.
And the reason I like using this product is
not only does it work great at breaking this stuff down,
but it also does have a slickness to it
so that whenever I use my microfiber wheel wedge on there
to clean it up, it's going to work out great
so that I don't scratch up the surface of the vehicle.
So now that we sprayed a coat
of the bug and tar remover onto the front end,
it's time to start agitating it.
Now I'm using the wheel wedge right here.
And remember it does have a nice
textured kind of surface on one side.
So if you check it out
it has this kind of textured kind of groove
which works out amazing at pulling contamination
off the surface of your paint,
but it's still smooth enough to be safe to be used
on your paint, your glass, your headlights, your plastics,
all that stuff so,
not only did I spray it on the paint
but I also sprayed it on like the grill, the plastic grill
the headlights and all those other plastic trim
around the surface of the front end.
So I do have a bucket in front of me here
with just a little bit of water and the dirt trap.
And that's just so that I can kind of, you know,
scrub my wheel wedge onto there to kind of remove
any kind of bugs and grime that gets collected on there
as you guys will see while I'm doing it.
You'll see a lot of those bug guts kind of end up on this.
So I'm going to kind of scrub it on the, on the dirt trap
while I'm doing it to kind of have a more filtered
and not go back and forth the same bug that's
on the actual wheel wedge itself. So now that I'm going
to do that, I'm going to get started here.
I'm going to spray the wheel wedge itself
just to get some added lubrication,
spray a little bit more product.
And all I'm going to do is gently glide left and right,
just as if you're washing your car,
and this is going to
and break down all that bug guts
that's on the surface of your paint.
If you guys see right here, it just pretty much erases it
from the surface of your vehicle
and it gets stuck on your wheel wedge here,
if you check it out,
you have a lot of bugs right there.
You have a lot of stuff right there that gets collected.
Now, the reason I have this dirt trap here,
like I mentioned is to kind of clean this out
as I'm doing this throughout the process.
So what I do here is I get my wheel wedge,
I stick it in and I just simply scrub it to the bottom.
And that's going to pretty much remove any kind
of loose dirt, debris, grime and any kind of bug guts
that accumulate on my wheel wedge here itself.
Check it out.
No more bugs.
It's filtered
It's clean.
Now I can go back to the vehicle
and not have to worry about scratching up the paint.
So I'm going to continue with cleaning up
the front end to show you guys those final results.
All right guys.
And there you guys have it.
So we just finished wiping down the surface.
We rinsed it off.
And as you guys can see, all those bugs are no more.
So if you look inside my bucket,
you can see that all those bugs,
all that stuff that was on there it's now in my bucket,
remember I was using the wheel wedge
with the filtered mesh right here.
That pretty much filtered all those bug and tar
into this little mitt right here.
And I filtered it through my dirt trap
on my bucket so that I wasn't going back and forth
and scratching up the paint.
You know, one of the main reasons
that I think I forgot to mention
and why you want to go out and clean these bugs
off your front end is it doesn't just look ugly
but it can also be very, very harmful to your paint.
As you can imagine, all these bugs
they have acids and stuff in their bodies.
So all that stuff, it stays on the surface of your paint.
And if you let us sit there, all that bug splatter
it's going to start etching the surface of your paint
potentially staining it and even causing clear coat failure.
So you want to make sure to wipe off and clean off
all these bugs as quick and as efficiently as possible
because you want to protect your investment.
We want to make sure that your paint doesn't go bad.
So clean them out as soon as possible.
And you shouldn't have a problem.
So now that we've finished cleaning the front of the truck
it's time to focus on the rest of the truck.
Now, as you guys saw, we did pretty much
end up kind of getting water all over the place,
but it's perfectly fine,
because we were planning on watching the truck anyways.
So we're going to be using
citrus wash and gloss to wash the truck.
So I'm going to go and get my two buckets set up.
I'm going to clean up these bugs
so that we can get ready for the wash.
All right, guys.
So before we get into washing truck
I want to share something with you guys real quick.
You guys saw all the bugs and stuff
that was floating in the water.
Now you guys saw, I also had a dirt trap in there.
I'm going to show you guys the reason why
you should have a dirt trap whenever you do this process
or whenever you wash your car in general,
check this out.
I've already pretty much, you know
threw out most of the water.
I'm going to remove the dirt trap,
as you guys can see all that
pretty much the surface water that was in there
we'd dumped it out,
but this is what I really want to show you guys.
When I take off my dirt trap, check out all that stuff.
Now, before I started this video,
I cleaned up the bucket because I wanted to make sure
to show you guys these amazing results
of what the dirt trap can do for you.
It filters out all that dirt, grime, and particles
through the dirt trap so that it filters all that stuff so
that you're not going back and forth with that same stuff
that's at the bottom of the bucket,
back onto your truck back and forth
and scratching it all up.
So that's why should always, always, always
wash and use a dirt trap during your wash process.
All right, guys, we're back.
Our buckets are clean,
and we're ready to start washing the truck.
Now we're going to be using our foam blaster today
just because I already had my garden hose nozzle connected.
So I figured, hey, you know what?
May as well take advantage of, you know, the convenience
of having that plugged in and just,
you know fill up my foam blaster and get foam in the car.
So before we do that,
I'm going to be using our citrus wash and gloss soap.
The reason I'm using this soap is because
it's a citrus based soap that's going to do wonders
for breaking down the heavy dirt and grime,
and also offer us that super, super slick lubrication
to safely wipe down the surface
without installing any kind of scratches or swirls.
So the way I'll be using this is
I'm going to open up my foam blaster here,
I'm going to take off the top as well,
so that I can put my soap in there.
Now with the vehicle like this, since it's a little bit more
on the dirty side, I'm going to apply about two ounces
which is equivalent to about two good squirts.
So I'm going to go one and two.
So two squirts, and that's all
I'm going to grab my foam blaster nozzle here.
put that back on.
Give that a little stir,
just kind of mixing the product with the water
and we're good to go.
So I'm going to set that down.
I'm going to give the car a little pre-rinse.
I know we've already kind of rinsed
the front end of the vehicle
but we're going to rinse the whole truck
all the way to the back.
Remove any kind of light dirt and debris
and then we're going to go to the foaming process.
All right guys.
So we just finished foaming up the truck.
Now it's time to
and wipe it down with our wash mitt.
But before I do that
I'm going to go to set up my bucket here.
I'm going to grab my citrus wash and gloss and
I'm going to apply about and ounce to my wash bucket here.
So that's pretty much equivalent to one ounce
and one good squirt.
And once that's set up,
I'm just going to get my nozzle here
and just activate those suds.
All right, now that we have that going on
I'm going to go to put my wash mitt on.
I'm going to dunk it into my soap bucket here.
It's going to collect that nice lubrication and suds.
And then I'm going to proceed
with cleaning the truck.
I'm going to start off with the hood.
As always whenever you're washing your truck
or whenever you're washing your car, you want to make sure
that you're working in straight linear motions.
This is going to prevent the chance of any kind
of dirt or grime that's on my wash mitt to inflict any kind
of swirl marks or scratches.
So make sure to go up and down left and right,
whatever your preference is
just make sure to work in straight motions.
And I always work from top to bottom.
So usually what I'll do with these trucks is
I'll try to wash the front end
little bit of the sides
and then I'll wait to come to the lower end of the truck.
Once I'm done cleaning the top ends of the truck.
So now I'm going to come back to my rinse bucket here
going to wring out my wash mitt here.
That's going to wring out any kind of loose dirt and debris
that's in the wash mitt.
Now I'm going to put it
just into my bucket,
just like with the bug and tar remover
and with our wheel wedge
we're simply going to scrub the surface of the wash mitt
onto the dirt trap itself.
And that's going to release any kind of
dirt and grime that's in the fibers of the mitt.
Wring that out, go back to your soap bucket
collect some more cleaning suds
and then proceed with the rest of the truck.
Now I'm going to proceed with clean the rest of the truck,
going to rinse it off, dry it
and show you guys these final results.
All right guys.
And there you guys have it.
The final result on the truck
is here and see it's nice and squeaky clean.
We got rid of all those bugs on the front end.
We gave the truck a full deep washing
in citrus wash and gloss.
The truck looks brand new again
and ready for another road trip.
Remember I told you guys at the beginning of the video
that there's a way to prevent bug and tar
from accumulating on your front end
and making your life much more easier
to clean up and maintain.
So I'm going to show you guys
how to apply a sealant to the truck,
get it protected, get a shiny
and give it everything we need to get it ready
for another weekend road trip.
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My name is Joey.
This is Chemical Guys, Detail Garage.
We'll see you guys next time.