Car Care Advice

Microfibre cloths are nothing short of amazing.

If you don’t know what they are, Marc Brady wrote a good article on them over at the Clean Image website, with diagrams by me!

In short, they are better for drying than a chamois leather, and better for cleaning than any other sort of cloth –by miles! The microfibres really do work, and for what extra money they might cost you over normal cloths, they are well worth it for the results and the fact that they make your life easier.

There are all sorts of microfibre products about now… unfortunately they aren’t all made equal. You can buy a packet of three down at Tescos for a couple of pounds, but they really aren’t very good. It’s far better to have a few good ones. At Clean Image, we have worked out that having two large towels is enough for the whole car (But having a couple of extra small ones wouldn’t hurt).

Basically, once you have washed the car, you dry it with one of your towels, which becomes wet in the process. This then becomes your wet towel - although it’s probably best if we describe it as ‘damp’. As you work around the car, there are some jobs that are best done with a damp towel, such as washing the insides of the windows and dashboard, and some best done with a dry towel, such as the final finishing and any job that involves drying.

Once you get good at detailing your car, you can find you can time things so that your wet towel is only slightly damp by the time it comes to taking off the polish/wax.

The other advantage is that should you drop one of your towels on the floor, you won’t be so tempted to carry on using it if you have another.

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