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- What's up everybody?
Welcome back to this episode of
"Chemical Guys Detail Garage."
First of all, I know it's been a while
since I've been in a video,
so I wanted to say hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving
and you guys appreciated your time off
and you're thankful for what you have, but today,
we're gonna do something kinda fun
because I have my brother's Thunderbird over here,
and it's been sitting underneath a tree for a long time,
and it's collected dirt inside of the bra,
so we've already taken off the bra.
She's bare over there now,
and now we're gonna show you what's been lurking
underneath there, all the dirt and grime,
but before we do anything, we're gonna start by rinsing it
to get off the heavier, loose dirt,
so we're gonna jump on that right now.
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Okay, so that didn't work.
As you guys see, the water helped to knock down
the heavier stuff for the leaves or the spiders
or whatever that was left on the surface,
but there's a lot of the grime that still embedded
in the pores of the paint and also there's kind of
this yellowing effect which could be moss or mold
or something that was growing underneath the bra.
So now we're gonna move on to our scrubbing process
where we're actually going to lift off the dirt,
but before we do that, we're going to install
a dirt trap in each one of our buckets.
This prevents the dirt from returning back to the vehicle.
I know the car looks pretty clean already,
but that's because I washed it once before I picked it up,
and then also Mother Nature decided to wash it
with a heavy dose of rain,
and now we're going to thoroughly detail it
using some Citrus Wash & Gloss.
You can use your favorite soap,
but I like Citrus Wash & Gloss because it adds a ton of foam
which is going to help lubricate as you wash,
and the point of that is to prevent kind of
the swirls and scratches effect.
This will help keep your paint from looking
like a spider web basically
and also to help us remove any of the old coatings
and really get down to the surface of the vehicle.
We're gonna use some Clean Slate.
This will strip away any of the old layers
of glaze, wax, and sealants,
and you'll only need a couple ounces.
We'll also add some to our foam gun.
(liquid gurgling) (plastic thudding)
We'll retouch the top, and then what I do is I'll,
instead of shaking it violently, I'll just stir it together.
Shaken, not stirred.
Stirred, not shaken, and this will mix
the whole solution together rather than
creating foam inside of the canister.
You guys have probably heard me say before,
but if you're new at the channel,
if you use warm water inside of your foam gun
or your foam cannon, this will help improve
your foaming action.
This'll give you that really thick layer of suds.
Now we're gonna attach it back to the garden hose
and start by foaming from top down to the bottom.
Normally, we start with the wheels,
but the wheels are in pretty good shape because,
as I mentioned, this car's been sitting for a long time,
and when I mean a long time,
it's probably been at least a year underneath that tree,
and it shows because of all the dirt and leaves
that have collected inside of it,
but also the clear bra, or the bra itself actually.
Not the clear bra, the Le Bra, has been on the car
for as long as I can remember,
which has been at least 10 years now,
so this is the first time that the front
of this Thunderbird has seen daylight in almost a decade.
So as you can see,
it's got a lot of dirt and debris on there,
and we're going to properly remove it,
and also we're going to clay the whole vehicle
so that we can polish it,
which is gonna be in our next video,
so stay tuned for that. (funky techno music)
So now that we're done rinsing down the vehicle
and also foaming up the vehicle,
we're going to go on to our two-bucket method
which we have one clean bucket
with the dirt trapped in there to rinse off our wash mitt,
and then a secondary bucket full of soap which is going
to help us lubricate as we scrub
so we're not causing any scratches,
and I'm also using one of our
microfiber chenille wash mitts which helps to trap
a lot of the dirt and debris,
but it also traps a lot of foam,
so we have a lot of lubrication as we wash,
and this is a blue one.
They're all made of the same material,
but a blue one just to kinda coordinate
what you're working with.
This is a fresh one because I know
that this car is gonna be really grimy,
so we don't wanna transfer that to any of the
other vehicles that we detail.
Just grab some of this soap.
We're gonna start at the top and work our way down,
but I really wanna get to that bumper
because that's where all the dirt's at.
We're gonna start at the top and work in layers,
starting on flat panels using linear motions.
Come on Octavio. (water dripping)
And what I do is I work from the center out.
This way, I'm not reaching across a vehicle
that's got a lot of soap on there or also
that I'm not dragging my belt or my shirt
across the vehicle as I try to scrub.
It's just a precaution to kinda prevent any kind of
imperfections being added to the vehicle
like scratches or swirls or falling on the vehicle
and causing dents, who knows.
And like I said, the vehicle's obviously not super dirty
or filthy because I did wash it before I picked it up
or brought it over here.
Wow, that's a lot of dirt.
Let's go back to the second bucket.
And also because it rained recently,
so that took care of a lot of the dirt that was remaining.
You see we've got all this dirt
on the face of the wash mitt.
Now we're gonna push it down against the dirt trap,
and as we scrub, this is loosening it from the fibers
and it's also forcing it down underneath
the cones of the platform of the dirt trap,
and then we're gonna bring it back out, nice and clean,
wring it out on the ground,
(water splashing) (men chatting)
and then get some more foam.
We can keep on washing, but the whole point of this
is to prevent as much of the dirt
from returning to the vehicle 'cause as you see,
the front end is very grimy,
and that's just because it's been trapped
underneath that bra for years now.
We'll start here, scrubbing away to give you guys
a little before and after here,
but I'm not heavily scrubbing or putting
a lot of pressure down.
I'm just basically letting the soap and the wash mitt
do its job because if you do force the dirt
or if you're pressing down in it,
you have the ability to scratch the surface
which would require polishing.
Even though we're gonna polish this car already,
if you don't wanna polish or you don't have access
to a polisher, you don't wanna cause
any kind of imperfections,
so this is the safest way to do it.
Go back to the second bucket where we're gonna
wring this out, and we'll continue the wash process
on the rest of the vehicle. (funky techno music)
So I finished the washing process
on my brother's Thunderbird,
and now we're going on to the drying step,
but I wanted to show you guys a little before and after
of what it looked like where the bra was at
and where oxidation and years of accumulation
have stained and oxidized the paint.
You see he's got a nice gloss over here.
We even clayed it just to show you guys
what was gonna be underneath here.
Nice and slick compared to the rough,
oxidized look over here which is why
we're going to be polishing it,
and if you're wondering why the headlights look so nice,
it's because I already polished those
in a video that we did previously,
so they've restored a lot of clarity
and some headlight restorer,
but we're gonna show you guys how to properly clay,
polish, and protect your vehicle in the next episode,
so be sure to stay tuned for that.
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right here in the Detail Garage.
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