Welcome back to Detail Garage!
Today, we've taken delivery of a special purpose-built race car!
We need to do a full detail to prepare this car for a customer up in Canada.
But as you can see, it came in on a trailer truck and it's raining in Southern California!
The car is covered in water, but it's dirty underneath the water.
If it rains and you want to wipe all the rainwater from your car, but there's dirt underneath,
you can't just wipe it off with a towel because you're going to install all kinds of swirls
and scratches with all that dirt.
You need to take care of it like it's a normal car wash.
It's a little more of an extra step and extra time to remove rainwater from your car properly.
But you can just use quick detail spray, but since there's a lot of dirt here,
I'm going to use EcoSmart!
EcoSmart is a waterless detailing system that lifts and emulsifies dirt from the surface,
lubricates it so it doesn't scratch the paint when you wipe,
and protects the paint with natural carnauba wax.
To get started, I'll mist down the paintwork on the front bumper.
You can see the EcoSmart is already starting to lift and separate the dirt from the surface.
So when I wipe in one direction with a microfiber towel,
it picks it all up very quickly and very easily.
Now that I have the dirt off the surface,
it's safe to buff it dry with a second clean towel.
Now that the surface is clean, there's no dirt to push back and forth and rub in like sandpaper,
and I'm not going to damage any painted finish.
You're only adding one small extra step when drying off your car:
hit it with a few sprays of a quick detail spray or EcoSmart.
Same deal on the roof: I'll add a few sprays on the roof and a couple sprays on the windshield
to help release the water.
But this side of my towel is dirty, so I'll go to the other side so I don't push any of
the same dirt back onto the car and cause any swirls.
When I wipe one way, I'm not grinding any dirt in;
I'm picking it up in the towel, and I'm continuously rolling the towel
so I'm not wiping with any of the same dirt.
I'll even wipe off the windshield...
We have a special decal up here that I don't want to damage.
There's all kinds of signatures up here... This is a well-loved car.
Now that we have all this dirt removed, and the bulk of the water removed,
I'll come in with my second towel and buff it off to reveal a dry, clean surface.
You can use this technique whenever you're wiping off any rainwater from a car,
or if you just detailed your car and it got hit by the sprinklers outside,
or if there's a lot of extra morning dew and you want to get rid of the water on the car.
Use some detail spray unless the car is completely clean; only then is it safe to wipe off any water
without installing any swirls or scratches with the dirt on the car.
You can use EcoSmart on any part of your car that's painted, shiny, or clear.
You can use it on your paintwork, glass, clear optical plastics like headlights and tail
lights, and polished metals.
Anything that you would wash with soap and water, you can clean with EcoSmart.
We're getting a nice clean finish here and we're able to see and assess all the areas
that will need to be prepared in our detail.
I can see there's a big rock chip and crack right here in the windshield...
the vinyl wrap on the roof is pretty scratched up and swirled already,
the paintwork needs some attention,
so we do have our work cut out for us on this car,
but we're starting it out with a gentle cleaning and removing the rainwater with EcoSmart.
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You've got a nice car, let's keep it clean with Chemical Guys!