This is a good example of the need for two buckets when washing a car.

The one on the right,  which was for rinsing the sponge, is actually clear plastic!

 

 

Maybe you should have used clean water for rinsing the sponge. 

 

Hold on. 

Did you say sponge! 

5 minutes ago, john999boy said:

Maybe you should have used clean water for rinsing the sponge. 

 

Hold on. 

Did you say sponge! 

Sorry, a throw back to my earlier days. It was actually a wash mitt, the one with the dangly micro fibres on.

I really should have changed the rinsing water but didn't realise how dirty it had become. Been so cold lately I haven't felt the urge to get outside and clean it, so it was filthy.

Edited 14 February, 20197 yr by facet edge

 Also looks like a good example on the importance of a proper "prewash" before any wash mitt/sponge touches the car  And yes, sponge - it's actually preferred by a lot of detailers, you just have to buy the correct type of sponge 

Those sponges can be quite deep in the sea and hard to get too. 

7 minutes ago, Danny 57 said:

Those sponges can be quite deep in the sea and hard to get too. 

There's a proper name for those sponges...

 

 

 

 

 

....Bob

 

 

 

1 hour ago, facet edge said:

This is a good example of the need for two buckets when washing a car.

The one on the right,  which was for rinsing the sponge, is actually clear plastic!

Very good demonstration of something we don't necessarily think about. This is something my Dearly Beloved has been wittering on to me about for a while. He uses this method fastidiously and I do not.  It must help keep the paintwork in better nick though... 

13 hours ago, Dumsey said:

Very good demonstration of something we don't necessarily think about. This is something my Dearly Beloved has been wittering on to me about for a while. He uses this method fastidiously and I do not.  It must help keep the paintwork in better nick though... 

Disgraceful behaviour 

 

Not using two buckets and grit guards should be a punishable offence.  Seriously though facet edge's picture shows why using clear(ish) buckets is great, you can see when the water needs to be changed.  I've been using some 20L plasterers/mixing buckets for years, they are great for the job and look exactly the same as the ones which detailing companies sell for £20+ each.  I paid £11 for two. 

How about three buckets?

 

I'm OCD with cars but have never used the 2BW.  My bad. I do however usually powerwash the car first to remove most of the crud, and as they are washed every weekend they are never that dirty.  But I really should start.

Not sure how you manage to get that water so dirty.

 

I use the water hose to rinse out a dirty sponge.

 

As for transparent buckets, I don't have an issue with looking in a bucket as I stick my hand in it.

 

So why the lid, are you going to use the water again?

16 hours ago, facet edge said:

 

I really should have changed the rinsing water but didn't realise how dirty it had become. 

 

So the transparent bucket didnt really help....

11 minutes ago, Steviedakota said:

I do however usually powerwash the car first to remove most of the crud

Powerwashing?? I’d be hung out to dry if I did that. It is one of the trilogy of car washing sins according to my OH 

1) power washers

2) single bucket method

3) warm / hot water 

Not that I pay much attention...

 

14 minutes ago, Dumsey said:

 

3) warm / hot water 

 

Do you love taking cold showers...

 

 

My buckets are cleaned out 10l emulsion paint buckets - free (once you have used the paint).

 

I generally don't use the 2 bucket method but a brush on the end of the hose, if feeling very lazy the long handled brush I have for the conservatory on the end of the hose.  Does everything but the wheels where I have a collection of domestic washing up brushes, an autoglym wheel brush (the straight plastic bristled one which is good) and an old Mothercare bottle brush (plastic core rather than metal so doesn't leave marks).

4 minutes ago, IJWS15 said:

My buckets are cleaned out 10l emulsion paint buckets - free (once you have used the paint).

 

 

Wondered about that Magnolia coloured Superb I saw the other day 

Tried it on the car, it washes off in the rain ;-)

I think I’ll go to the car wash this morning. 

 

It hasn’t been washed since the last service   

 

Edited 16 February, 20197 yr by daveo138
Photo edit

Looks clean to me! Don't let this OCD crowd play the guilt trip on you......

Edited 16 February, 20197 yr by xman

Pressure washed, snow foamed, rinsed, washed with lamsbwool mitt and two buckets, rinsed and dried with a microfibre cloth.  Previously cleaned and polished before Christmas

 

Looks good from this distance. On closer inspection though it's swirl city and someone's taken to the bonnet with a shotgun full of gravel 

Get a good glaze and it will look immaculate to the untrained eye until it is washed again... or it rains!

Looks beautiful in red 

I agree ^^^ , that's an excellent colour!