I decided to go all out with my car and get everything clean, decontaminated and ready for a polishing job at some point this week. Not my first wash and clay, but i was paying attention to everything.
I'm going to be looking for cost effective product suggestions because i went through a ton of stuff getting things clean.
First, There was baked on brake dust from the winter that was the worst i had ever seen (EBC brakes getting replaced with hawk ceramics next go). I'm glad i have chrome rims because i would have absolutely destroyed a painted surface getting this stuff off. I sprayed duragloss chrome wheel cleaner on there, let it sit and it did nothing but smell caustic (stuff worked fine on my buddies stang). Steel wool along with the occasional spritz of wheel cleaner eventually took care of the stuff after stepping up several steps in abrasiveness and getting nowhere. Fortunately, chrome is hard as all hell and there isn't any marring that i see.
Next was the engine compartment. I need to find something a little better than greased lightning for this task. Got it looking good, but I'd like something with a little more brute force to power through gunk in areas i can't reach with a brush. There's lots of nooks to get clean since i leave my engine cover off because it's a giant heat trap for the supercharger.
Next was the door jambs. Some mechanic decided to eliminate squeaks with a liberal application of white grease from a sprayer of some sort. It was absolutely disgusting and EVERYWHERE. greased lightning FTL, it wasn't touching it. I had a bottle of duragloss all wheel cleaner for painted rims, tested it in an inconspicuous spot (the door jamb) and it wasn't hurting anything, but was breaking up the grease slightly better, so i used that and a toothbrush and finally got the jambs clean. Used a lot of product though since i kept needing to flush dissolved gunk out.
Alright gentlemen, I need to replace these products and hopefully consolidate. I need a heavy duty cleaner that i can use for all that stuff. Wheels of all sorts, greasy engine compartments and door jambs. I want to consolidate products and I never want to go through that again, even though on another car at some other time, i probably will. Hopefully it comes in gallons.
I'm going to be looking for cost effective product suggestions because i went through a ton of stuff getting things clean.
First, There was baked on brake dust from the winter that was the worst i had ever seen (EBC brakes getting replaced with hawk ceramics next go). I'm glad i have chrome rims because i would have absolutely destroyed a painted surface getting this stuff off. I sprayed duragloss chrome wheel cleaner on there, let it sit and it did nothing but smell caustic (stuff worked fine on my buddies stang). Steel wool along with the occasional spritz of wheel cleaner eventually took care of the stuff after stepping up several steps in abrasiveness and getting nowhere. Fortunately, chrome is hard as all hell and there isn't any marring that i see.
Next was the engine compartment. I need to find something a little better than greased lightning for this task. Got it looking good, but I'd like something with a little more brute force to power through gunk in areas i can't reach with a brush. There's lots of nooks to get clean since i leave my engine cover off because it's a giant heat trap for the supercharger.
Next was the door jambs. Some mechanic decided to eliminate squeaks with a liberal application of white grease from a sprayer of some sort. It was absolutely disgusting and EVERYWHERE. greased lightning FTL, it wasn't touching it. I had a bottle of duragloss all wheel cleaner for painted rims, tested it in an inconspicuous spot (the door jamb) and it wasn't hurting anything, but was breaking up the grease slightly better, so i used that and a toothbrush and finally got the jambs clean. Used a lot of product though since i kept needing to flush dissolved gunk out.
Alright gentlemen, I need to replace these products and hopefully consolidate. I need a heavy duty cleaner that i can use for all that stuff. Wheels of all sorts, greasy engine compartments and door jambs. I want to consolidate products and I never want to go through that again, even though on another car at some other time, i probably will. Hopefully it comes in gallons.
