in today's video i'm going to be sharing my own personal tips for washing your car
in the summer months and more importantly in direct sunlight and i'm going to be sharing
the best methods to help you guys reduce the risk of getting any water spots
so here is my top 10 tips for helping you wash your car in the summer without looking like
an idiot and believe me you might want to stick around till the very end because i am going to be
sharing the most important one of all and believe me this is a game changer tip number one pick your
time ideally you need to be washing your car first thing in the morning or lasting in the evening but
if you are doing it on a built-up area make sure you don't pee off the neighbors first if you do
have to do your car in the middle of the day make sure you've got a perfect amount of shade to keep
the car in and keep it cool if you do choose to clean your car in the middle of the day
in the middle of the summer when we've got crazy temperatures then the least you can do is get
yourself a little pop-up marquee they're going to cost you about 50 to 70 pounds on amazon or if
you want to go up market a bit you can get them for around 150 pounds plus and they are really
important because if you do it in the direct sunlight without any of that or without any shade
it is going to slow you down by 50 percent at least so you could be spending so many more
hours working on your car doing something that you really might not feel up to tip number two
be organized now this is one of the most important things as well if you've got everything all laid
out so you've topped up your phone bottles you've done your buckets you've got all your clothes all
organized everything is all clean and prepped and ready and it's next to the car where you can get
it and where you can familiarize yourself with where everything is it will make your life so
much easier you're washing your car and there's nothing worse you've got the heat coming down
you start getting tired your brain gets frazzled you're trying to work out where you're going to go
believe me it is really important that you've got a system in place now i know it sounds crazy but
i keep all my buckets on one side i keep my vacuum cleaners and everything on the other side and
it just helps my brain when i'm trying to run at like 100 miles per hour and like right i'm washing
right everything's over there get my step get my buckets get this get that everything is so much
easier for you to do so make sure you get properly organized and have all your equipment laid out
first and another top tip if you go to a shop like the range you can get a decorator's table
for 10 pounds now it's only going to be one of those cheap flimsy cardboard slash wooden tables
but it will do the job and you can lay everything out on it and i think it's going to be a brilliant
idea for those of you who are starting out and you haven't got a lot of space you don't want to
put everything on the floor you can get a fold up table for 10 pounds it's an absolute bargain
tip number three clean your car in stages and the first thing you really have to do is tackle the
wheels first and you don't start tackling all the wheels at once i know on cooler days you can sort
of do two at the same time and come back to it while the other one's dwelling it's very different
in the summer i focus on one wheel and one arch at a time and i do not move on to the next one
until i've successfully completed that wheel first tip number four tackling the door shuts
now once you've completed the wheels it is equally as important to tackle the door shuts after that
and once you've got that out of the way it's going to free everything up this is what i mean about
cleaning your car in stages you can tick off the wheels once you've done them you can then tick
off the door shuts and then it gives your brain a lot more chance to focus on the main area at
hand tip number five calling the car down now this is something that i learned from back in the day
when i first started working on four courts and i had an old hose and i was trying to call the
cars down because i used to do like 30 or 40 cars in one day when i very first started one of the
things i noticed when i had like a pressure washer and i was washing the car now i know you do get a
lot of water that comes out a pressure washer but the aim of those machines is to reduce the water
coming out and replace it with pressure so what's happening is while you're covering the whole car
it's actually more like a light mist whereas if you've got a garden hose now i'm not saying that
it's not going to waste water because it is going to waste a lot of water but i'm saying the volume
and the density of holding a hose over the car with the water is actually going to cool it down
a lot faster you will ultimately get a larger coverage of water instead of it being like a thin
mist which is something that a pressure washer would do and that's why people say well i'm trying
to rinse the car and it's burning dry that's because there's not enough water on it because
the pressure washer has to make sure that it doesn't use as much water to be economical so just
give it a go anyway tip number six it's really important to work fast work smart and work hard
now a lot of people will always argue the fact that if you work very quickly you're not going
to be able to do a good job but i want to counter argue that i believe that you can certainly work
quickly and still do a good job think about it this way if you're working in the direct sunlight
and you're going slow i think you're going to be 10 times more likely to do more harm from working
slow than if you work quick so by breaking the clean down into those sections such as wheels
arches and then the bodywork you'll still be able to work quickly and safely tip number seven
picking the right shampoo now you may get tempted to go for one of those cheap five pound bottles
you can see them in every sort of supermarket the thing is a lot of them aren't ph neutral
a lot of them are alkaline based or they can be very thick and very foamy and that's not always
a good thing for the summer ideally you like to be using a ph neutral shampoo something that is
very safe and it's going to reduce the risk of getting any streaks on your car especially when
that sun is out and that's why i tend to use yum wash i've been testing this for about 14 months
i've never had a bag wash and it's always been a game changer for me when i've been working
out there in those terribly hot months and i've just had no choice i've never had any damaging
streaks or anything like that where for all that doesn't look right it's a really good very safe
shampoo so do go check that one out i'll also put a link to that product in the description below
tip number eight using a quick detailer or drying aid will help you speed up the drying process as
soon as you rinse that car simply spray the panels and then towel dry it as quick as possible tip
number nine make sure you have plenty of drying towels to hand don't just rely on one or two make
sure you got some for the wheels some for the door shuts and some for the body work and always start
on the sunny side first and leave all the shady parts and the door shuts on the wheels till last
because they're going to get less impact from the sun's intensity and they're going to be the
last parts that are going to need to be dried tip number 10 and this is my single biggest tip of all
and it's all about cleaning the glass because that is one area where everybody tends to get it wrong
in the direct sunlight and i see it so many times they're cleaning the glass oh dave i'm getting
streaky windows how do i fix it there is a simple answer do not use any chemicals no glass cleaners
nothing whatsoever there is one thing that you can use that definitely works and i will put
my life on this i can guarantee this work now in other videos i've done about glass cleaning
i've done some big ones by the way do go check them out and i'll put links in the description
below i talk about cleaning your glass using a bucket a synthetic flunky and a few microfiber
towels now that's all you need but when i normally do it i always talk about the fact that you've
got to have warm water with a flunky to get the car looking great the glass that is for this in
these horrible conditions when it really does go over 25 degrees and it is scorching and burning
you need to make sure you have a bucket of ice cold water yep that's what i said ice
cold water now you can either use microfiber towels or you can use synthetic flunkies now
make sure that those flunkies or one of those towels at least is completely submerged and it's
holding plenty of water so you're going to have one towel which is going to be soaking wet you're
then going to have your other towel which is bone dry now this is really important you do one window
at a time and we're talking instant here we're not going to say you wipe it and then leave it
for a few seconds no you don't have a few seconds you will have literally two seconds tops to wipe
the glass before it burns dry and this is where it gets really important so you've got your soaking
wet towel or flunky that's been dipped in that bucket and that's holding a lot of water and
we're talking a lot of water here go over the glass and within one second once two seconds
switch to your drying one so have one in one hand ideally have your wet one in your left hand if
you're right-handed and then keep your dry one in your right hand because that's the one that
you've got to be super quick on what that's going to do is that's going to cool the glass down it's
going to keep it at a good temperature and you can buff it dry straight away while it's cool
if you try doing it when it's hot that's when you can get fluff and things like that will
come off the microfiber towels it will be an utter nightmare so this is the best solution simply use
cold water use a flunky or a microfiber towel and finish it up with a dry towel within two seconds
and i promise you if you can do that you will get perfect glass in the direct sunlight and believe
me when you're trying to do this for a living this will be the biggest game changer for you
you don't always need glass cleaning chemicals you do want some jobs but not every job is the same
and i think most of these jobs that you do you can get a way of just using a bucket of water as
well so please do go give it a go and like i said do go check out that video that i will put a link
in the description below anyway i hope that has cleared up loads of different things for you and
i hope you can go out there and clean your car with peace of mind look you're not going to get
it perfect if you're doing it in those horrible conditions you're going to see all sorts of marks
it's not going to be easy for you and sometimes it can be a little soul destroying but i really want
you to take these things on board because every little trick will help you get a better clean
as for my next video i've got something brilliant coming your way very soon i'll see you later bye