 Hi, my name is Patrick and I know nothing about car care. Welcome back to another video. Welcome back to detailing one oh One in today's episode. We are going to be taking on the beast that is cleaning my BMW E36 now Just for your knowledge. I haven't cleaned this car in about three months. So it is absolutely minging I physically couldn't take the dirt off with a slight wipe I had to really press my good trusty guru Dale here It's going to help me along the way and give you guys and me a lesson in how to really clean your car Obviously, I don't think yours is going to be this dirty. This is disgraceful What we're really covering on here is the basics and again if you are well into your detailing and You know the basics of car care. Maybe it's not the video for you But if you are new to this you're new to my guise new to our process and products This can be a great introduction to our different shampoos different processes a little things like to bucket method and grit guards Absolutely. So without further ado. Let's crack on. Let's introduce the shampoos different kind of mits to bucket method like delger said Let's crack on so the shampoos that we currently have at the guise Follows first one is our gold class shampoo now this contains conditioners They feed the gloss into the paint, but also they sheet off the car So when it comes to rinsing the car off that water is going to go straight off So it makes drying time really nice and quick lovely then the next one is her next and XT get it? So yeah, yeah, yeah, so we've got the NXT car wash now This is fantastic for hard water area So this contains softener that break down those kind of white residue particles you'll get from cleaning the car in the hard water So if you live in a hard water area, this is the shampoo for you. Should we do wash and wax or should we wash? Let's do wash and wax do wash and wax so this is our this is our only wash and wax So this is going to put a layer of wax on the car now. There's no kind of sediment in there You can't see it separated because dispersed into the shampoo So you're going to get a consistent wax protection from the car on its own on a single wash talk about two weeks worth of protection Okay, so it's not mega long But it's enough to really probably enough time for you to wash your car again exactly that and all of our shampoos are pH neutral as Well, so they're nice and safe lovely and the one the final one that we're going to be using today In fact to wash plus what is wash plus so this is our newest shampoo So this contains a polishing agents micro polishing agents So essentially it's giving the car a deeper scrub if your car needs a good renovation And you really want to kick start fresh detail for in a fresh start This is a great product because what it's going to do is going to give it a deeper clean But also kind of scrub any contaminants that may be sitting on the surface. So it will act as a kind of a clay Okay, and on harder surfaces it may need claying afterwards, but it's a great way to start It's a deconstructed process. So we're going to show you later But instead you can put it directly into the bucket but to get the most out of it You want to apply it directly to the mitt and then wash the pan up? Yeah, so we're going to give you a Real good guide about how to use this stuff how to apply it how best to get the best out of the products I've said best about seven times right without further ado. Let's crack on with introducing you to the wash mitts because I'll go get them you go get them There's a couple of wash mitts that we can use we do the microfiber wash mitt and the lambs wool wash mitt now Me personally I know absolutely nothing About either of them Like I don't know which one to use with my paint which is best to use with other paints So how do you differ between the two? You'll notice that we don't have sponges in the McGuire's kind of catalogue So so we don't like using sponges solid because it's such a flat surface now as you kind of wipe the surface with a sponge And it's our flat kind of contact with the paint anything that gets in between the sponge and your paint is going to get Scraped along and scratch it and so using a deep pile wash mitts such as our lambs wool or a microfiber It's much safer way of cleaning your car and reducing the chances of swirls and scratches now We do have two wash mitts. We have the microfiber now This one has got a good pile on it But the the big kind of the big point of this is the longevity now This can be machine washed like your microfiber towels and drying towels So you're going to get way more use out of it The lambs wool is a deeper pusher pile and it also has the gauze on the back for kind of stubborn areas around the bottom of the bumpers This is pusher and it is softer on the paint But because it's natural you cannot machine wash this you rinse it out and hang it to dry like that never machine washed them So for me personally I use this on wheels because I can machine wash it and I use that on my body work Okay, so you use both mm-hmm, but for yours because it is so heavily dirty and heavily grimy We're going to be using the microfiber. Perfect. Next very important tool when cleaning is a grit guard So this sits in the bottom of your bucket whether or not you have two buckets or a single bucket We're going to talk about that when we wash in the car. Yeah Once you've washed the panel Go in with your wash mitt and rub it against the grit guard And what's going to happen is this these fins here will trap that dirt and grime and stop it swirling back up into the Water right so the point is that the water circulates around the bucket and therefore the dirt gets circulated Yep, and it just gets trapped in these fins here. Now these will just sit nice and tight in our yellow bucket Yeah, if you've never used or never heard of the two bucket method before you have a single bucket Both you can have grit guards in both but some people like to put a grit guard in their rinse bucket Now you'll have a one bucket that just has water in it right nothing else Okay, then you have one bucket that has soapy water in rice now once you've gone over a panel with the soapy water You then clean the the mitt in your rinse bucket with just the clear water in it Clean it out and then when you go back into your soapy water. It means you haven't got contaminated, right? Yeah, so you're not you're not contaminating it. Yeah, so if you just use the one bucket You're constantly making that water in your clean solution. Yeah dirtier fine So having a two bucket method is a great way of keeping your water nice and clean that's interacting with your paint but the first thing we need to do is evaluate how Dirty the surface is and whether we can use any extra products apart from the wash plus and the wash mitt and stuff like that to Help clean the car. Now, what would you suggest for stuff like maybe the seals which are really muddy exactly that So just walking around the car and evaluating love We just said you also want to choose the right product as well So we can see down here that the side skirts and the kind of lower sections of car are really dirty and grimy Now to go straight in with your wash mitt is just kind of kind of it's going to contaminate it way too much And you get way too much dirt and grime in you and it's going to ruin it So what we want to do is want to try and help ourselves as much as possible So I'm gonna use the multi-purpose heavy duty cleaner what I want to do is Kind of just loosen up this dirt and grime that's on the lower end sections of the car So this is a great cleaner for kind of inner arches interiors Kind of lower sections of the car engine bays. It's a great all-rounder really Okay, I find it really effective for removing dirt and grime. That's pretty stubborn and what it's just going to do It's going to loosen it up Don't I gonna go around the car clean all the dirty stuff off the bottom Jet wash the car down and we'll catch up with you when we're back with the wash plus A golden rule when washing your car Patrick if you can't hold your hand on the panel for more than a few seconds It's too hot. Don't bother cleaning it Right always make sure it's in cool conditions and in the shade if possible I know in the UK we get a lot of shade Yeah, so pretty look on that but the temptation to do it on a gloriously sunny hot day It's just going to dry the product way too quick fine. So I always do it in cool dry conditions It's freezing today. Hence why we're both wearing jumpers and coats, but right. So press wash the car off and we'll join back with you in a second Have a tip and see heavy-duty cleaner is literally the best thing in the entire world I can't actually believe that that's just one product that we've used out Yeah, that's unbelievable I look at all the dirt that was once here that has now gone can really see the purple actually coming out in the car Which is great. So what is this a tough degreaser? So it's just removing all that kind of dirt grime all the kind of traffic film If you ever do use this on kind of paint work always be sure to wax the car afterwards because it may strip off a bit of wax But for a kind of dramatic kickstart to a detail like this is it's the perfect product. So Onto the next one which is using the wash plus. Sorry. We I was gonna but that's okay You go you can do it off time do it now Okay on to the next stage. Yeah, that was cool. That was a little bit much for me So next step is gonna be using the wash plus so we mentioned this earlier about it being a deeper scrub for the car now Cuz we've got off that kind of loose contaminants So before washing the car always hose away loose contaminants whether that's with a pressured hose attachment or the jet wash It's always good to get that kind of dirt and grime off. Just say not pushing it around with your wash You don't need to film that it 20 minutes later 20 minutes left here seven years later Just quickly while that Laurie's doing its thing Yeah, so we've all done just kind of address a little bit of a myth and people have about clean my car now back in the day I'm sure would never own up to it I'm sure people have done it in the past they've used washing up liquid on my car She's a big no-no really it's the best way of describing it is you know how easily it takes hardened food off a plate Imagine if that hard food is your wax protection It's gonna strip it right off and it's just kind of kind of leave the surface bare So if your car's red or a lighter color you're gonna get those UV damages Way easier. Yeah, you'll see faded paint. So the high salt in this you definitely don't want to be using on your car So resist all temptation to use washing up liquid. Don't use this. Don't use one It's not a good thumbs up. It's a bad one safety precautions down give us your watch Okay, great on to wash plus let's do this thing cool So we've already talked about it having the micro polishing agents We talked about it being a bit of a deconstructed wash in this bucket We just have plain water and our grit guard. So this is sitting nice and tight at the bottom of the bucket So that's going in there. We have our microfiber wash mitt And we have our wash plus now in the bucket. We just have plain water We've not put any shampoo in it or anything like that now the microfiber is wet We're gonna get our wash plus we gave it a good shake and we're just gonna put a ribbon of product on there So we're not putting it directly onto the paint and we're not also putting it in the bucket You can put it in the bucket if you want But if you want to get the most out of this shampoo, then you want to put it directly onto the wash mitt We've got the panel nice and wet and all we're going to do just give it a nice Rubbed out so the polishing agents are just kind of Giving it a deeper wash and removing any of those contaminants that may be sitting on the surface of the paint But it'll also Remove like scuffs and scrapes. Okay, and any kind of deeper scratches and marks you may need to compound Which we're gonna cover later. Yeah, and but I'm kind of smaller edges of bumpers. It will remove life scraped Perfect, I'm gonna get my hands dirty because I want to have a go at this. This really has been filled in It's been three months of being filthy So it'd be interesting to see how the wash mitt kind of keeps up with the with the dirt And also how the wash put wash plus makes a difference to the panel Does it make any visual difference like straight away? It is gonna slightly polish the surface So you will see a glossy finish. Okay, but because of the polishing agents that are in this Solution you will need to wax the car afterwards, which is great because we're doing every process with this car That's right. So after each panel Patrick just lay down before we let you loose on the car Let me lose always rinse the panel wash it down then rinse again then move on perfect And in between each panel you're on reason of grit guard and washing out your mitt. Lovely So like Dale mentioned just a small ribbon of product like that Onto a wet panel So right mr. Dale, so so the cars clean you've cleaned the car. I've cleaned the car You've cleaned up so what we're gonna do We're gonna just give you a final rinse off to remove any kind of blue soap or any residues or anything like that But we're not gonna we're gonna be using the jet wash, but we're not gonna be using full power Now when it comes to hosing off the car always use a steady stream of water Because what happens is if you use way too much power and water from the jet wash or a pressured hose or anything like that You're actually encouraging more water to sit on the surface, okay? Now if you use a low pressure or just an open-ended hose you'll find that the car the water sheets up the car quicker Okay, so it's gonna give it a little tip So I'm just gonna quickly mention now that in a separate video to this one So the next video that we do this will be with Tom We're gonna give you some little cheeky top tips about how to dry your car a bit quicker in the next video That's what we're gonna see, but just for the moment. We're gonna introduce you to The ultimate drying towel, the big fluffy supreme towel that is drying. Look at my hair, no carry on that was great So as time technology moves on so does our products So we started out with your traditional chamois, which people know as the chamois lever I call it a chamois and then we moved on to our kind of first delving to microfiber drying towel Which was the water magnet which was the porous kind of waffle woven towel and then as time moved on We wanted something softer and way more absorbent for the car I'm gonna show you a few different ways of using the towel, but before you do anything a Give it good old shake when you get it in case there's any kind of loose fibers or anything like that Yeah, be always remove the tag always remove before flight like that. That way. It's not gonna be dragging on the paint work Yeah, good job. Cool. So we're gonna have a go on the bonnet My go-to is to get the towel and fold it several times this way my one drying towel It's turned into about eight. It's gonna put it on the paint and just slowly drag it like this Now some people like to kind of put the towel Nice and flat and pat it down and lift or some people like to pass put it down and drag Really doesn't matter. It's just personal preference now me I like to fold it like this because every time I move to a new section. I unfold it I've got a brand new drying towel. You can just keep keep going until it's really exactly dried the whole whole car Yep. Nice. Well, I'm gonna grab a second towel and give you a hand So I'm just gonna quickly show you the car because I'm super chuffed at how it's come out The wash plastered an insane job of kind of giving it a really deep scrub and the heavy-duty multi-purpose cleaner was insane to get that dirt and grime off So that is going to conclude this video. Thank you again Guru Dale for helping me out The car looks actually mega the products that we used have done an insane job Just a little quick recap of what product we used the first one was heavy-duty multi-purpose cleaner This was a wicked product really helped out all the dirt and grime that was on the bottoms of the sails and all sorts like that Next product was the wash plus. This did an insane job of really giving the paint a deep scrub Really actually reviving how it looked we're yet to kind of really go into the detailing of the car So this did a mega job of helping that along the way and get the car really nice shine as well final product that we used The big fluffy supreme drying towel really helped me with drying the car made it really quick and easy For all these products you want any more information about them I'm going to leave some links down below so click the links in the description to each of these products if you want to learn Some more about them so if you feel like you need a bit more information We want to speak to one of us probably not me because I don't know anything But one of the guys one of the team Dale or Tom then you can contact us directly through our website Or you can DM us at Instagram or Facebook anything like that like share and subscribe to the McGuire's UK YouTube channel And I shall see you in the next video for the next episode on detailing 101 One I need another hand Dale can you know no, okay? But you guys Now I'll wait until you get back. I'm ready clean your lens. Have you cleaned your land for this but this done So what would it? Oh, oh, we're walking into it. No, I don't like Go to the car Gotta be great