Do it yourself: 8 tips to make your car cleaner

Your prized vehicle needs to be cleaned well for a better performance.

She's your baby, your companion, your means of escape, your means to reach your destination, your means to keep you moving forward. 

Yes, we are talking about your car. For a lot of us, our car is one of the important lifelines, allowing us to reach office every morning on time, drop our kids, take us out on a weekend to a fine restaurant and finally take us back home with comfort and ease.

But to get all that from a single machinery requires a give and take relationship and by that, we mean providing your baby with nice clean up regularly that not only keeps it pleasing to eyes, but also top notch as far as performance is concerned.

So here are a few ways by which you can accomplish the same.

Do it at the right time and the right place

Making sure that the surroundings does not act as an obstacle in cleaning your car, is very important.

The sunlight should not be too strong that it dries up the exterior while parking place should not have dust particles or mud lying around making the cleaning process counter productive.

Also avoid having trees close to the car as it sheds off leaves, twigs, etc. to stick to the car which would again be difficult to remove.

Keep the supplies ready

This is not a hard one and all you need is access to a lot of water (that should be used judiciously), car soap, a decent sized sponge, hose, a couple of buckets and you are good to go.

Start with wheels

Always start with the hardest part first. With dust and mud being stuck in the wheels, cleaning can become tedious but your energy level would be high in the beginning, so it would be smarter to get those areas out of the way at the very start before your tiresome body works on the remaining exterior.

et working on the body

Start rinsing and cleaning the exterior till you get the desired level of shine on the car. You might want to apply more pressure on selected areas that are more susceptible to dust and mud including front bumper, rear bumper or areas near the lower portion.

Careful with the lather

You do not want to get overly enthusiastic with application of pressure and lathering.

Apply appropriate pressure and skilled maneuvering so that you do not end up placing scratches on your car but get the desired shining and neat look and nothing short of it.

Soak and continue

Do not try to clean the soap bathed sponge with water but squeeze the sponge and get that mud and other impurities out in a more accurate manner. Once done with that, repeat the process for cleaning other parts of the car.

Dry it off

This is again an essential part where you are required to take away the moist and water bits after the required level of shine is achieved.

This also makes sure that in case any kind of impurity is available nearby in the form of dust, leaves, twigs, etc. that can travel via air would easily stick to the exterior moist of the car.

Therefore grab a clean rag and start wiping off the car. Make sure that you constantly squeeze out the water as and when you make those wipes and dry off the car.

Go inside

The inside portion is as important as the exterior since that is where you would actually be spending your majority of time during a journey.

Take out the floor mats before anything along with all the important and unwanted items so you have an empty interior to work with.

You cannot use water treatment here as there are electrical consoles around, plus the interiors can be difficult to dry. So bring out a vacuum cleaner sucking off all the dust and impurities.

Don't be afraid to go under the seats and reach the corners. Other areas like dashboards would also have to be cleaned up nicely. If insides really need some water cleaning, do it in a gentle way as mentioned above.

Thus you finish giving your prized vehicle its much necessary and deserved spa leaving you all sweaty and tired.

So when you are done, go back and get a shower yourself and get ready to ride your car that by now, looks like a new one right out of the showroom.

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