Debugging the myth of car wash detergents
As usual, my brothers weren’t home to help me wash the car when I called back. Luckily, i was advised by my colleagues that we have a long hose with spray gun at the back of the office. Hee hee…
Taking some dish washing detergent from my office and an old cushion sponge in my car, I started. Can’t imagine that its so easy. Well, this is my 2nd time washing the car since I took over. Wahahaha. Worked up a bit of sweat though.
The only thing that I’m not satisfied is that I can’t get the glass windows to be smudge free.
Being no veteran in this area of car washing, I consulted the net to find out if we can use normal detergents for our car wash, which my father uses. There is an on-going debate about the usage of normal detergents, i.e your dish washing kind, versus specialized car wash detergents that are specially formulated and expensive.
Those who swear by normal detergents maintained that its really the same as those specialized car wash detergent. The other party offered 2 counter arguments : Normal detergents strips away the wax and any salt content in it will destroy the paint job eventually.
As any paint will deteriorate and dull in time, a long long time, the purpose for waxing cars is to protect the car paint with a transparent barrier, i.e from UV, other stray paints, dirt, birdshits etc, which will also make the car look shinier and hence the whole car will look better. The wax will usually wear off around 90 days or so, even some products claimed 5 months of protection. Yeah right.
But I dun intend to wax this car. Ever. The way I look at it is that as long as the whole paint dun crack or be stripped off using normal detergents and that I dun intend to do any waxing, normal / cheap dishwashing detergents will be my choice. I should also be accurate in thinking that any car would look dull if the dirt is like 1 mm thick.
I am going do this experiment on this car, and by the time that this car can be scrapped, i.e 5+ years, I will lay to rest this question once and for all. Ha ha ha.
Taking some dish washing detergent from my office and an old cushion sponge in my car, I started. Can’t imagine that its so easy. Well, this is my 2nd time washing the car since I took over. Wahahaha. Worked up a bit of sweat though.
The only thing that I’m not satisfied is that I can’t get the glass windows to be smudge free.
Being no veteran in this area of car washing, I consulted the net to find out if we can use normal detergents for our car wash, which my father uses. There is an on-going debate about the usage of normal detergents, i.e your dish washing kind, versus specialized car wash detergents that are specially formulated and expensive.
Those who swear by normal detergents maintained that its really the same as those specialized car wash detergent. The other party offered 2 counter arguments : Normal detergents strips away the wax and any salt content in it will destroy the paint job eventually.
As any paint will deteriorate and dull in time, a long long time, the purpose for waxing cars is to protect the car paint with a transparent barrier, i.e from UV, other stray paints, dirt, birdshits etc, which will also make the car look shinier and hence the whole car will look better. The wax will usually wear off around 90 days or so, even some products claimed 5 months of protection. Yeah right.
But I dun intend to wax this car. Ever. The way I look at it is that as long as the whole paint dun crack or be stripped off using normal detergents and that I dun intend to do any waxing, normal / cheap dishwashing detergents will be my choice. I should also be accurate in thinking that any car would look dull if the dirt is like 1 mm thick.
I am going do this experiment on this car, and by the time that this car can be scrapped, i.e 5+ years, I will lay to rest this question once and for all. Ha ha ha.
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