Winter Washing - Salt Removal Tips.

Winter - Salt Removal Wash and Protect services offered at our location.

Helpful Winter Tips:

• Keeping your vehicle as clean as possible during the winter will go a long way to cut down the damage done by salt and sand.
• Take your vehicle to the car wash as often as possible. Many car washes in the "snow belt" offer steam cleaning and undercarriage cleaning as well as traditional car washing.
• Have your car re-waxed and sealed when you have it washed.

Make sure the car is completely dry

• Carefully dry the edges of the doors inside and out, including the undersides of door handles, all hinges, plus the hood and trunk edges. This helps keep them from freezing shut.
• Use a good quality spray protectant on all exterior rubber or vinyl surfaces. It may be best to spray they applicator you are using instead of spraying the product directly onto the surface. This will avoid any overspray onto the paint.
• After a winter washing, apply an additional coat of wax to all exposed metal, using a hand-held hairdryer to warm the metal surface a bit before applying the wax.

This BMW 435 X Drive receives a salt removal wash and protect.

Salt Removal - Wash and Protect



Our special pre-soak was designed to chemically remove the majority of the salt and road grime off the paint, with our touch less approach we are preserving the condition of the paint.



After shot



Just as important make sure your interior is free and clear of salt as it can cause long term damage to your interior bit and pieces.
Interior Mats - Salt Removal

Before


After

 

What do you guys use on the floor mats - I've read vinegar/water but I've tried this and the salt stains keep coming back

 

What did you use to clean the salt from the carpet?

 

I would think he shampood the mats vacummed then used a carpet extractor.

 

I have read that Whip's Wax Road Salt Remover works great on paint and carpets.

 

sorry for the delay.

we vac'd them first then we used

On the Porsche mats for the Cayenne Turbo we used

1Z einszett Plastic Deep Cleaner
Uber Leather and Carpet Brush
Metro Vac
Uber Interior MF Towel

Vac ---> Spritz 1Z einszett on the mats --> use brush to agitate the salt ---> use the microfiber towel to pull the salt off --> vac ---> repeat if necessary

If you have a steamer it will do a great job as well.

Phil

 

Phil, what's your recipe & process for the touch less wash?

 

do you mean bringing it to a touch less wash...?

 

No, sorry. Wondering what your process is in your wash bay when it comes to these salt removal wash & protect services - as well as your foam cannon recipe if you're using it for this.

 

our presoak is done so we don't "touch" the car as much.

that being said we do a traditional wash after we remove 70% plus of the salt and grime.

Presoak is a combo of

P21S Total Auto Wash
Sonax Fall Out Remover

Then a final foaming with Auto Finesse Avalanche if your foam gun/cannon.

After a good spray wax/sealant - for this service at the shop we use Sonax Brilliant Shine Detailer

 

Firm believer in the less you touch the paint the better! I see some of these rinseless and waterless guys taking 1 or 2 MF towels, a gallon of water and rinseless/waterless wash to wash the entire vehicle including wheels on a vehicle that is parked outside 24/7 :shakehead: :shakehead:

 

ditto

 

what product use for a pre soak

 

Great info, thank you!