so welcome back to another episode of stauffer garage and today we're going to be deep cleaning
the exterior of this 2010 range rover sports supercharge that is covered in road grime salt
dust dirt anything that you can imagine that is on the roads of ohio during the winter time
and it needs a complete deep clean of the exterior so let's go ahead and get started
with this detail and the first thing obviously is to go ahead and give you guys some amazing
pressure washing shots and getting as much dirt off as possible using just the pressure washer
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now if you live in the northern states where they salt the roads you understand
how fast your car can get dirty and how important it is to protect the paint because
one you're trying to minimize how much of the paint gets rusted how much of that stuff
sticks to it when you wash it and having a nice ceramic coating or a nice layer of wax
is definitely a necessity when you're trying to protect your paint in the wintertime
now that also goes to say when it comes springtime for summer but definitely each
season it has its own importance when it comes to waxing and protecting your paint
now typically i always get asked why don't i have one of those under body roller sprayer things and
to be honest it's more of a pain in the butt to use those because you can never get to every
single surface area what i actually do is i go to those local drive-through car washes and i
specifically go up through the drive-through and say hey i just want an underbody wash and spray
and what you can do is when you drive through those they have so many more spray nozzles and
so much more water pressure and flow than what a pressure washer could ever do that it just does
a much better job with protecting it and getting all that so all that dirt and road grime and salt
off the bottom of your car than you could ever do on your own unless you got the car on a lift
and that's a whole different story but if you're just trying to do it quickly and especially in the
winter time if you live up north definitely look at that as an option to help protect your body
so
now with the outside completely rinsed off of just using the pressure washer which did
an incredible job on its own as you can see here there is still quite a bit of grime and
dirt on the car and we're going to be using the foam cannon to go ahead and aid again
with getting all that soap off the surface by letting it drip down the outside of the body
now if you use a foam cannon and it's cold outside you will notice that it doesn't do as good of a
job with creating a thick layer of foam that is partially why you don't see it caked on as much it
has been in the last several of my videos but it still does a good job it's still a good step to do
and it does still help with kind of helping loosen up some of that caked on debris
now after rinsing off all of the foam cannon soap i like to use my iron remover on the body
and the wheels before i use my wash mitt method to finally clean it and you'll see here with how much
iron is removed just from the surface of these objects without having to do any scrubbing this is
a great step if you're going to do any sort of you know clay barring or you know any sort of waxing
afterwards it's just a nice added step to remove some of that oxidation and some of that you know
foreign debris on the surface of your paint one thing if you've never used an iron remover before
is that the actual smell of this stuff is really really bad it's got a really strong sulfur smell
and that's due to the ammonium mercaptoacetate in it that gives it that bad rotten egg type
smell
now for washing the paint i just use my wash mitt and i have a bucket that is full of just
fresh clean water and then i have another bucket that actually has my soap solution
both have grit guards at the bottom which is more of like a screen at the base
so that way when you dip your wash mitt after washing a panel into that bucket
all of that dirt and debris sinks to the bottom kind of making sure that you remove as many
contaminants as much dirt as possible from your wash mitt when you move it from panel to panel
now for my wheel cleaning regimen i have several tools that i use i
have this one which is a more flexible bristle brush that allows you to get
inside of the wheel drum itself around the brake caliper behind the actual uh spokes on the wheels
it does a really good job of doing that plus it's flexible and it doesn't scratch the surface
then i have a stiffer bristle brush that i use for actual the tire surface itself
and then i have a brush that i use that is actually a soft bristle brush for the face
and kind of the painted areas of the rim and then i use my detailing brushes for inside the
lug nuts and around the air fill nozzle and then i use those same soft brushes for inside the wheel
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now the car completely washed off i'm pulling it into the garage and one thing that you're
not going to see in this video is i'm not going to be drying the surface of the paint
and the main reason why i'm not drying it is because now we're going to clay bar the surface
to remove all of the contaminants from the paint surface and to be you know to make sure that the
clay bar slides across the surface i'm using a quick detailing spray which has a lubricity to it
and allows that clay to glide smoothly across the surface after it removes any contaminants from it
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shots like this is exactly why you clay bar because this is just road debris
you know dirt stuff that gets caked into a paint especially on a white car
you would have never expected to find this much dirt on the surface
and it's a fairly quick process i would say it probably takes you know max 20 minutes to do a
whole car but it is extremely crucial because all of that stuff on the surface of your paint
is not allowing the wax and protective coating that you put on it to actually bond with the
painted surface it's bonding to this dirt and not allowing your paint to shine as much as it could
uh now after i'm done clay barn i'm just going to be going back over the car again with my quick
detailing spray spritzing the surface and using my clean microfiber towels to wipe clean the entire
surface and this is why i mentioned earlier why i didn't dry the car because you're going
to be doing this process anyways and there's no reason to add an extra step if it's not necessary
now i'm going to be using my polisher in my microfiber pad with my ceramics coating wax to
put onto the surface and to apply it in a smooth even coat evenly across the surface of the paint
after going around the whole vehicle now i'm going to come back to the
very beginning which is the hood where i started and using my clean microfiber
towel to remove any of the dried on residue after the wax has dried and flashed over
for the tires i'm going to be using my uh this is actually a ceramic coating
microfiber applicator pad i've found that they work extremely well and they're like
the perfect size for applying a tire gel to the paint and i'm going to be applying it liberally
to the surface of the tire but then i like to also go back with my detailing brushes
and to get into that line between the rim and the tire and then also sometimes with the lettering
and the grooves of the actual tread sometimes you miss some of those spots and it just
you know it helps make sure that you get a complete coverage with a detailing brush
all right now here are the before and after shots of this dirty range rover and to getting it to a
clean state and you know making a white car shine and making it look like it is dripping wet is a
task that is only you know up to certain waxes can actually make that accomplished and this one
did a really good job and plus clay bar in the surface just removes any of those contaminants
so it makes the paint shine a lot more than it typically would if you didn't do that step
but you can see here that some of these rims are scratched still but there is one rim that
is not scratched at all and that was from a previous video that i had done where i
showed you guys how to fix and repair curb rash on your wheels where we repainted it
and sanded down all of those scratches and i will say after several months and after
putting new tires on it so after a tire changer ripped apart you know took off the old tire
it is still not chipped it is still not scratching um so if you're looking to re fix your wheels and
remove any curb rashing definitely check out that video i'll have a link in the description box for
you guys or as an icard up above so that way you guys can check it out and repair your rims as well
and thank you guys for watching today's video and be on the lookout for this saturday's upcoming
detail it's another disaster deep clean and the car turned out amazing as well as always
on stauffer garage so make sure you subscribe hit that bell and i'll see you guys in the next video