NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Sponges are awful for car cleaning, they hold all the grit and dirt (that you can't see) in the holes of the sponge, then rub them across the paint, you need a microfibre or lambswool wash mitt, cleaned after use and never dropped on the floor, plus ideally 2 buckets so you can rinse the dirty mitt in fresh water before re dipping in suds - otherwise your sud bucket gets filled with dirt you're trying to clean off!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Sponges are awful for car cleaning, they hold all the grit and dirt (that you can't see) in the holes of the sponge, then rub them across the paint, you need a microfibre or lambswool wash mitt, cleaned after use and never dropped on the floor, plus ideally 2 buckets so you can rinse the dirty mitt in fresh water before re dipping in suds - otherwise your sud bucket gets filled with dirt you're trying to clean off!
Trev that's what I was eluding too just couldn't be bothered to write all that out. :lol:
My point is doing it yourself and taking the time, effort and care is always going to be better than paying someone or something else to do it for you that doesn't car about your car.
I agree with this in principle, but i've lost count of the amount of people i know who will just take a sponge (even using the 2 bucket method) to a DRY CAR!!!! It actually makes me cry inside to see this.
I'm glad that people have found the video useful though.
Iv got a confession to make it was a moment of lazyness and madness, I used a bp Car wash the other day and it has left scratches and swirl marks everywhere. I know what you guys are going to say, I should have known better its left marks all over the car. If anyone is planning on using one (weather its 50p or not) PLEASE DONT USE THEM, ITS REALLY BAD, and now IV got the task of getting all the nasty scratches and swirls out. So please don't use them, IV learnt the hardway
tell me about bro... man talk about marks on the body....and the weather aint helping,i wanted to clean the cruiser up but its sunny the gloomy then sunny........