 What is up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am GoldPote, this is Stangasource, switching things up once again today for a little something different, but before we get started, there's one thing I've been dying to take a look at. Haven't even looked at it yet, so I wanted to show you guys while I see it for the first time. Let's take a look at the oil separator, see if it actually caught anything. All right, so I will say these things are a bit hard to unscrew when it's actually latched up in there, so I just took the whole thing off and like I said in my previous installation video, it really only takes like 30 seconds. So let's open this thing up and see if the JLT oil separator actually caught anything, and again, this is only after a couple hundred miles, so let's see what we got. Oh, it actually works, that's kind of cool. Not a whole lot in there right now, but again, it's only been a couple hundred miles, but that is pretty sweet. For anybody wondering if these things actually work, I think that's your proof. Okay, so as I told you guys before, back in the day when I used to go car shows like crazy up and down the East Coast, I had my normal routine, of course, for completely prepping my car for the show I was about to go to, so today I thought it'd be a fun little idea to switch things up a little bit and actually go through my particular car wash technique at least, maybe you guys learned something, and of course everybody does this completely differently, so if I don't do something like you do it, doesn't necessarily mean you or I are doing it the incorrect way, it's just everybody does this differently, and we all have different little idiosyncrasies when it comes to washing our cars, but per your request today, I'm going to show you guys how I actually wash mine, and there are a couple little tricks I can tell you guys, but you probably already know them, but if you do not, stay tuned and we are going to get started. And so the first thing I always like to do, of course, just do a quick little rinse off the car. And for anybody wondering what I actually use, I got a little bit of everything, I'm not partial to any one particular brand or anything like that, believe it or not, I did have this organized at one point, but I do wash my car pretty often, so sometimes I just feel like throwing it back in there at random places, so that's why it's complete chaos right now, but anyways, these are the products that I use and I'll go over more of them as I continue this video. Yes, I do use the two bucket method as expected because if you think about it, it makes sense to put the clean water in the one side and then once you're done washing the car, you rinse it off in the other bucket so that you're not putting the dirt back on your car, so obviously that makes sense, but today we are using the Zip Wax Car Wash and Wax all in one step and that's what I've been using lately, I had like three or four of these things, so that's what I've been on, so we're gonna use that today, I'm gonna pour it in here and we're gonna get all suds'd up. Next thing I wanna mention, I do actually use two sponges, this is basically for the majority of the car and then I have this thing, which is mainly to get the bugs off of the front, so you guys drive a lot at night, you probably notice there gets to be a lot of bugs on the front bumper and this doesn't always get them off, especially when they start to get caked on if you haven't washed your car in a while, so that's what this for, it's got the little netting to help grab the bugs off the front bumper in case you guys are curious. Okay, so a couple other tips as I remember them here, for one, best time of the day to wash your car, any time when there is shade, you guys can see I got a lot of shade going on right now, sun is behind the clouds, it's getting later in the day, so this is really the most opportune time. This is especially important when it comes to the drying process because if it is too sunny out, that is basically gonna dry all those water spots right to the windows and to the car as well, so you don't want that. Also, let me show you guys another little trick when it comes to getting all these little beads off of the car, so you don't have to dry them all off by hand as much, for one, my car is ceramic coated, so if you did have one of those giant leaf blower things for your car, you of course could just blow it right off of there, but let's assume your car is not ceramic coated, let me show you guys a quick little trick on how to get the majority of those small little beads off of the car before you actually go and dry it. So that's one of the little tricks that I do, maybe you guys didn't know that one, but if you take the nozzle off of the hose and you just run the water on whatever part of the car you want to, it basically comes off in a sheet, kind of just pushing all those little droplets off the car all together, so you don't have to actually dry the car as much as you otherwise would have if you didn't do that. And of course, whenever you're detailing a car, you always wanna go from the top down because if you think about it, generally the car is gonna be less dirty on the top anyways because the bottom of course is closer to the road. Another train of thought is if you wash the bottom first and then you do the top, all the dirt that you're then pushing off the top is then gonna go right back onto the bottom and you're gonna have to rewash the bottom again. So that is why you want to wash from the top to the bottom of course. So let me push you guys on another time lapse and we are gonna continue that process. All right, so another little trick you guys, I keep remembering this stuff as I go, but you guys could probably see, I'm wearing a jacket with this zipper on it. I also have jeans on. Really what you wanna do if you have a choice is wear sweat pants, a sweatshirt or something that is not gonna have metal on it that could scratch up your car. It is 40 some degrees in Pennsylvania when I am doing this right now. So I have to wear some sort of a jacket or I could have wore like three sweatshirts which I'm not gonna do because that would make me look stupid but you guys have probably been seeing I'm actually tucking my jacket away when I'm washing stangosaurus here. So if you have the choice, do not wear anything metal that could possibly scratch up your car. Just wanted to mention that. All right, so we wanted to stop you guys once again because once we're around back, the exhaust tips I always like to clean as well. However, I do of course use a older sponge or a different sponge I should say than I would use on the car of course because exhaust does tend to get a little bit dirtier than the rest of the car. Usually don't actually clean inside the exhaust tips of course but I will get the outside with a different sponge. So that is what I'm gonna do now. All right, back like I was saying you guys, in the front, if you needed it, I don't even know if I needed it honestly because there's not too many bugs because I don't typically drive at night but if you did need it, that little sponge with the netting is definitely gonna be a must have. If you do drive at night and you tend to get a lot of bugs in your front bumper. Again, just wanted to mention that. All right, so as you can probably see the rotors there are slightly rusty looking or a little yellowish. So to get rid of that, honestly, the easiest way is to just go for a quick drive and I'll show you guys the difference but just go for a quick drive, use the brakes and that is what's gonna get that yellowish off. A few minutes later. So you guys can see now that yellowish gross looking color is all gone by simply a 30 second drive around my neighborhood. All right you guys and soon now for the wheels a couple different things I use for this one. This is gonna sound probably crazy and a little obsessive but I use a separate sponge for the tire and this is actually the same sponge I use for the exhaust but tires tend to be a little dirtier so I'm gonna do that first. I'm gonna use a different sponge for the actual wheel and then to get inside the wheel here I am going to use this thing and that's gonna allow me to get a little further back and get inside there. So this is one of the reasons I like double five spoke wheels as opposed to the multi spoke wheels because they are so much easier to clean. Part of the reason I got this and of course they're 10 pounds lighter than the stock wheels that came with the performance pack and they are wider as well but I digress. Let's clean the wheel. It's a before you the rest of the tires I'm just gonna show you guys this first. I do shine the tire as well and I'll alternate between different things. There's a tire foam where you just spray it around and just let it sit basically and it shines the tire and it disappears on its own and then there is the extreme tire shine and again you spray it around the tire and then you use an old towel and you just kind of rub it into the tire so I'm going to do the so-called lazy way today and do the tire foam just to show you guys it is honestly just as good in my opinion at least to get the tires to shine up nice and good so let's do that. I'm gonna do the other wheels and tires and then I'm gonna show you guys what the tires and wheels all look like in the end here. And so the next stage of the process is we're going to go ahead and dry staying a source. We're going to use our very own sham wow. Hi it's Vince with sham wow. You'll be saying wow every time you use this towel. Okay so at this point I think it is time to clean the door jams as you guys can see there is a ton of water built up in there because we watched the car so that is definitely something you want to do before any show and of course we'll get the interior as well. Who's doing that to my car? Eddie here. Definitely want to clean these up and make sure they are no dirt or anything gunky or yucky underneath of here and gosh darn this green is looking bright right now and some of this stuff might be unreachable but I'm definitely just gonna try to get as far back as I possibly can and I am using a microfiber towel because they are super soft. And so the last thing then I will do is I'll go over with that microfiber cloth anywhere where there is green paint on the car and then I'll get a different rag to go over any of the engine pieces that I want to get clean. But I will say this car only has like 1500 miles on it right now so it's not gonna be all that dirty to start with but I am going to go over it because you guys know if you let things go too long it will get to the point where you are not really able to clean it without a ton of hard work so I am all down for preventative maintenance so now let's clean the engine bay. And so there it is you guys. This is how I prep my vehicle before any car shows before any cars and coffee and like I said Stengosaurus herself hasn't been to too many shows since I just got her a couple months ago but with my old vehicle, my old show vehicle that I took across the US definitely got in my fair share of car washes but we of course are all learning all the time so if you guys have any tips for me feel free to put them in the comment section but hopefully maybe you guys learned something as well maybe there was a trick that you didn't know before but yeah that is how this one turned out. Definitely somebody asked me on Instagram I believe it was and that's where this request came from on how I get my car so shiny and I think part of it probably is that glass coating the Simon S glass coating that I put on it but another part of it is I don't wait a decade to wash Stengosaurus I usually wash her every other week at least before it started getting cold and now she just kind of sits in the garage for the most part but yeah there she is looking all shiny and so that is about it for this one you guys hope you guys enjoyed something a little different on this channel be sure to like the video if you enjoyed this one feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there and I will see you guys in the next video stay gold