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I am waiting for my 911,but have cleaned many a toy car of mine. My method is hose down the car, apply car wash soap with a mitt, hose down again, dry with several towels. Takes around 30 minutes. The wheels I hose then clean with a wet towel and dry with fresh towel. I use windex and a towel for the windows. Nothing fancy as I do not need "concourse" clean.
If I use my pressure washer - iron remover on wheels, spray foam, rinse, 2 bucket for paint, wheels, pressure rinse, dry with microfiber, detail spray - It takes an hour.
If car is mostly clean - hose rinse, 2 bucket for paint then wheels, hose rinse, dry with microfiber takes me 20 minutes.
I have full PPF and ceramic coating. I've switched most of my products to polish angel.
Takes me about 30 minutes. Wheels first with P&S Brake Buster and pressure washer rinse, rinse car and wash with McKee’s N914, then rinse again and blow dry the car. Only use about 5 gallons of water with using the pressure washer and 40 degree tip with DI spotless water.
I'm at about 40-45 minutes.
Rinse with pressure washer.
Foam gun (Chemical guys farming soap).
(Real) sponge with two bucket method. With the foaming it's more like Rinse/Rinse buckets.
Rinse with pressure washer.
Blow dry with Worx cordless leaf blower.
Touch up with clean microfiber for retained water.
The turbo wheels are awful to clean but the car has full PPF/ceramic and the wheels and calipers are ceramic coated.
Aventurine Green does a pretty good job of hiding light soiling.
I normally do the wheel wells twice a year when changing winter/summer wheels but when I put the winters on last week, the wheel wells looked surprisingly good so I skipped it this time. I'm sure spring cleaning won't be a pass.
$60 plus tip in SF Bay Area for hand wash. Amazing the cost of living difference between places in the US.
Do not get me wrong; there are places here between $30 -$50 but I found a little gem that I am happy with. I used to be **** about my cars earlier in my life but now I realize it is just another car but I would never use a drive thru car wash.
But yes- San Fran expensive. I have a vacation home in Napa so I get it.
No the bend-over tax is the high cost of living in that area. The people washing your car need to keep a roof over their heads too.
if you've lived in the Bay Area long and own your own home then that home appreciation has generally wiped out the higher cost of living, figure 100K plus in equity per year.
As for car washing........15 minutes by myself, 45 minutes when my daughter helps.
Building the wash set up was a whole new level of PIA and I lost track of how much time it took.
$60 plus tip in SF Bay Area for hand wash. Amazing the cost of living difference between places in the US.
I pay $45 but that’s because I have them do 5+ cars at a time so the time spent on travel, getting everything out and ready and then cleanup after is better absorbed across multiple cars.
if you've lived in the Bay Area long and own your own home then that home appreciation has generally wiped out the higher cost of living, figure 100K plus in equity per year.
As for car washing........15 minutes by myself, 45 minutes when my daughter helps.
Building the wash set up was a whole new level of PIA and I lost track of how much time it took.
Be happy when she wants to help you and have fun! Once they got older and moved out, the only time my kids come around or call is when they want/need something; and they for sure have lost all interest in keeping their vehicles clean. Stinkers that they are. I'm exaggerating of course, but you get the idea.
It takes me no less than an hour to do my weekly "quick wash" (which always includes wheels and tires). Much to my wife's chagrin. ("Let me just give the _____ a quick wash and I'll be ready to go out!" Cue major eye roll....)
I don't use any of the newfangled foam gun thingies or pressure washer -- just an old school sheepskin mitt, bucket of soapy water (Griot's brilliant finish), and a clean rinse bucket. For the wheels, I use a small sheepskin mitt for the faces and a wheel wand for the barrels and Griot's wheel cleaner.
I'll hit the interior mats with a quick vacuum and any dirty or dusty interior panels with a damp microfiber just to touch up, and it's ready for another week....
11-15-2022, 11:26 AM
