Most of those tips were great! Do not use ANY OIL on your dash pad because is soaks in and eats away the foam padding inside and will eventually cause the bubbling from the inside. Anything you use on your interior should be water based. There are inexpensive water based interior cleaners.
Ok, it's been years since I worked as an auto detailer, here's my spin.... Tooth paste can work on headlights that are fairly clean. Not so much on ones that have been neglected. Fur on seats, easier if you just take a dry brush to it, then clean it. Even easier for Dirty air vents? Just get the hose that fills your tires and shoot the air into the vents. Coffee filters are a great idea. A lot of your tips are great tips but they are superficial. A Detailer will do a deep clean not just surface clean.
Thank you so much for great tip to keep car clean and stain free. Question - you mentioned to use Dawn dish soap to clean wheels. Does it have to be Dawn or any other dish soap would work the same? Thank you again.
As a car detailer myself, i can tell you how absentminded the creator of this video is. Glass cloths cost $1 and are reusable. There is no need to use newspaper because 1. It doesnt actually work well at all. And 2. Its less practical in the long run to use newspaper than just having one dedicated cloth. Aside from the vent cleaning tip, these are all ill-advised. Using inappropriate (savvy) ways to make your car look great for less money is lovely. But in the future you will wonder why your dash is heavily stained and warped (hint: they werent made for olive oil, and olive oil wasnt made for cars) if you care enough to clean your car, care enough to buy a $20 wash kit. It wont be the same as a detail, but it will prevent you completely ruining your car.
Olive oil may not be very good but u know whst is? Baby oil, it is a skin conditioner and im 44 and i dont ever believe anything else not only makes it beautiful but keeps it that way for the most part i use baby oil scrubbing bubbles liquid fab.softner and bleach for everything just about...
I learned never to use armor all on the dashboard, I always get this fog on the inside of the windshield and wondered why cause I don’t smoke or have smokers in my car...I found out the chemical breaks down and creates the foggy mist especially in the heat! So I just wipe my dash with a microfiber cloth and it’s never been foggy for years 👍🏻
I clean out my car every Friday when I get home, then go to a good carwash sometime over the weekend. I live in Los Angeles. Our cars are our home away from home, so it makes sense to clean the car at least as often as changing your bed sheets
Crud in carpet along edges of vinyl doorsills, especially years worth: Scrub with dry stiff scrub brush in one hand, which loosens dry bits. Suck up the loose grit with shop-vac vacuum cleaner with crack tool. That's 90% of dirt but doesn't get stains out. Do that first phase dry so that wet carpet cleaner doesn't dissolve it. Next step spray wet liquid or foam carpet cleaner onto edge between carpet & plastic doorsill, soak in, scrub a bit, sit a minute, vacuum up wet residue, then wet carpet cleaner again plus a bit of extra water mixed in to dilute dirt, a bit of scrub, vacuum up that dissolved crud. Finish with dry absorbent cotton rags. Use shop-vac because they are made to suck up water.Not your house vacuum.
Another trick for removing a foul odor from the car…charcoal briquettes. Depending on how bad the odor is, place a few in a plastic bowl inside the car near where the odor is the worst and close up the car overnight. I once had two quarts of milk break in my cargo area during summer. It was everywhere and the smell was horrible. I bought a small bag of charcoal, opened it and placed it in my suv. Closed up the car around dinner time and the next morning the smell was almost gone. One more overnight and the smell was completely gone.
Yep, a leaf blower not only is a great way to get rid of dust and small debris, but after washing, it's a great way to quickly dry it - especially the trim and wheels!
You can use WD-40 to remove stickers but Goof-Off works much better. It also helps if you have a plastic razor blade to help with your scraping. A plastic putty knife works, too.
for odors, there is a better way than baking soda, which doesn't always work on some smells. go to walmart and spend $18 on some odorban. you can use it mixed with water to clean your entire interior - from floorboards to even around the rubber seals. it will kill germs and deodorize even the mildew from a leak. you need to have the leaks fixed though, but if you left a window cracked during a rainstorm, this is a lifesaver. then you can use odorban in your laundry, on your floors in your house, and for smelly jobs all around your house. put some with water in a spray bottle and keep in your car for spills and stains. and about the goo for cleaning switches, you can make that at home. do a search for recipes
I've found that the best thing to use on chrome (especially wheels) is an ammonia-based glass cleaner, like Windex. The ammonia will remove any fingerprints, or any oil, dirt or grease from the road. Not to mention any water spots or "dried soap marks" left behind after washing it. I mean, if you think about it, since you use Windex to clean glass/mirrors, and chrome is smooth just like glass and it reflects just like a mirror, then why wouldn't it do the same for chrome too? Well, I decided to try it on my chrome wheels one day and I was definitely surprised at how much shinier they looked. I even had people ask me how I got my wheels to shine like that. At first, they thought I was joking when I told them I clean them with Windex. Lol
Use a chamois for flawless shiny windows, and Cut & Polish for headlights - brilliant! NB: The ink on the newspaper (not the newspaper itself) used to be great for cleaning windows but they removed the toxic mustard type ingredient many moons ago so newspaper is no longer effective on windows.
Maybe something was removed, but newspaper still works just fine. Use it exclusively on all our car windows and never have an issue with streaking that isn't self imposed. Polishing compound or plastic polish works great on headlights.
I always use dryer sheets to dust with. As far as cleaning the windows, newspaper is good but so are coffee filters. A dryer sheet under each of the front seats keeps your ride smelling nice.
1. Clean headlights with toothpaste (non-gel) 2. Take stickers off with WD-40 3. Clean dog hair off seats with a spray bottle of water & a squeegee. 4. Clean vent with small foam brush, then use the vacuum to suction it out. 5. Clean dash dust with coffee filters. 6. Carpet stains clean with 1/3 hydrogen peroxide, rest of the spray bottle with water. Spray on your carpet let it soak, wipe it up with a clean towel. 7. Floor Mat's: use previous cleaning solution on your floor mat's, or put the mats in your washing machine on the gentle cycle. 8. Window streaks: use news paper on Windows. 9. Shine dashboard: pour a dab of olive oil on your rag/coffee filters to shine your dash. 10: Bad odors: sprinkle baking soda over seats/carpet. Let it sit a few hours, then vacuum up. 11. Removing stains from vinal/leather: use a Mr. Clean magic eraser in the stains, or use 1/4 cup of olive oil, 1/4 cup of vinegar mix, gently rub it on the stains. 12: Wheel cleaner: half a cup of baking soda, one tablespoon of Dawn dish detergent, two cups of warm water.
You can clean off the oxidisation spots on your windows using a product that is normally used to clean kitchen glass hot plates. It seriously works brilliantly. Might need to do it twice then clean with a normal glass cleaner. They will look brand new.
Wipe your tires down with Mop & Glow. It looks like you used Armor All except, it doesn't attract dust/dirt, it repels it instead. (An old truck show trick).
Been using the newspaper trick on the windows for years and it’s better than anything I’ve tried before. Now I’m going to try the coffee filters on the dash.
I am guessing this person has NEVER cleaned a car. Olive oul on the dashboard!!! Really!!! Great idea until the sun comes out magnifies the sun, traps the heat and ages the plastics quicker. Micro fibers are designed to hold onto small particles and will remove the dust and not "push dust around". They are also very good at cleaning windows although if you use cheap glass cleaner the can smear regardless, tooth paste is only a temporary fix and not a permanent one to the point where your car will use more toothpaste than you. There are just so many things here which are bs it is unreal as anybody with any experience cleaning cars will know.
Headlamps have a clear coat uv protection on them the minute you polish them with anything gritty the uv protection is removed so they will go yellowy very fast, for best results sand the whole lamp with 1500 then 2000 grit wet sandpaper then clean, dry, mask the car, degrease and paint with clear coat/lacquer, that’s the right way to do it.
1. If you own a drill, there's a headlight polishing kit that works well, and it's cheap. You can also do it by hand with sandpaper and polish for almost nothing, it just takes some work. 2. WD-40 won't remove a vinyl decal, just the adhesive that's left behind. Use a hair dryer to heat the decal to peel it off. 3. A rubber glove works much better than a squeegee for removing pet hair from your seats.. 4. A paint brush actually does pretty well at cleaning the visible dust out of the vents, but not a foam brush. Use a chip brush. 5. Coffee filters don't leave lint, but they also don't grab and hold dust unless you're wiping off excessive protectant that's taking the dust with it. If you don't treat your dash, use a microfiber cloth. 6. Get a can of Tuff Stuff for bad upholstery stains. 7. DON'T put your floormats into the washing machine. You will destroy either the floormats or your washing machine. (If you use washable bathroom mats in your car, it's fine to wash them.) The best way to get them clean of dirt and pet hair is to just run an upright vacuum over them. 8. Newspaper really does work for cleaning windows, but not for what was said. Streaks are from the cleaner drying, or it's too strong. So still bullshit. 9. Don't shine your dash (It will let the sun reflect off the dash and you won't be able to see as well). Don't put olive oil on your dash either, that's just idiotic. Use Armor All matte finish protectant, it blocks some of the UV that damages the dash. 10. Foul odors are caused by something. Baking soda may make it smell better for a while, but you have to remove whatever is causing the odor or it will just come back. 11. There are special leather cleaners for stains. Tuff Stuff or mildly soapy water is fine on vinyl. Or mix an anchovy and an egg with the olive oil and vinegar so your car will smell like a Caesar salad. 12. Wheel cleaners are cheap and much more effective on brake dust than baking soda and soap.
I watch a lot of car detailing videos and some of the pros use (1) a general degreaser to clean almost everything inside. (2) car wash soap (not expensive) to clean the exterior without stripping off the wax. (3) I use polish intended for paint and sandpaper to restore the headlights, its far more effective than toothpaste. (4) I use carpet shampoo, a drill brush and a Bissell Green Machine to clean carpet and it works on fabric too.. People say I do a great job cleaning a vehicle and don't buy all the crap sold at the auto parts store.. I really like ONR to wipe down any surface (inside & out), Turtle Wax Ice Spray Wax is one of the best products I have used to detail the paint.
use Murphy's oil soap multi use cleaner on vinyl seats, steering wheel and entire dash. It takes off stickiness and does not leave residue. Even safe for clear and black plastic parts of the dash!
Thank you about the plastic parts. Where my gear shift sits Iade a mistake and wiped with wipes made it dull. It's not too far gone that I cannot restore it. Have been trying to find a solution
@movingonandup773 they are a bug in Florida that is the devil incarnate!! They fly slow, a bit bigger than a mosquito, snd they stick together......but...in certain months they become insane!!! The whole front of your car will be covered in them!!!! And on top of these awsome issues, they smell!!! And if you leave them on the paint too long they mess up your paint!!!
Here's a great method I use every time I clean my car. I open all the car doors and remove floor mats and any other stuff. Next, I get my ELECTRIC leaf blower and start blowing all the duct from one side out the other. The accelerated air finds and removes dust you just can't get to. After I'm content with my leaf blowing air cleaning job I start with my regular cleaning method. Cleaning is now easier because loose dust has been removed! You will be amazed by the results of the leaf blower method to start your car cleaning tasks. People may think your nuts. But, your car will be cleaner and you actually save time during your cleaning process! You are welcome. ;) Jeff. Let me know if this works for you!
Many professional detailers use an air compressor for this same task. I'm just now diving into the world of auto detailing and several youtubers I watch do this, either with a leaf blower or a compressor. Its solid advice. Thanks for sharing.
Same here - leaf blower for the car. Mine is electric and far easier than gas. I also use it in the house - placing a few window fans in the windows and blow everything. Also hit the curtains with the blower. And since I run a pellet stove I also run the blower through it from inside and it cleans everything out.
I have found that after washing your car, instead of drying everything with towels or shammy, use a squeegee on the entire car. It's fun and saves allot of towels.
I ued to be a smoker. I sprayed my vents and wiped my car down with white vinegar and non smokers could not detect a cigarette odor in the car. to remove insect gunk stuck on my car, I also use a used dryer sheet and spray peroxide on them. Takes them right off with a single wipe. I imagine a coffee filter would be just as good.
This is likely just not true, and your perception of your non smoking friends "not detecting" a cigarette odor in your car is just them being polite. Cigarette smoke attaches to literally EVERYTHING, not just your vents. Did you shampoo the fabric on the ceiling in your vehicle? Doubt it. It's embedded in there too. Did you unbolt your seats and shampoo the carpet around where those bolts attach? Likely not. Shampoo your seats and the seat backs? I have a knitted football doll my grandmother made me over 30 years ago. She was a smoker. She's been dead for 16 years now, but that doll STILL smells like how I remember her and her house, laden with cigarette smoke.
@@RichardTurlington well I spray vinegar around house on curtains and drapes carpets and furniture. Stinks like vinegar for 30-60 mins. But after the smell dissipates your left with fresh clean smelling house or car. Try it. It's pretty amazing
@@jeanna7851 No I agree, vinegar is absolutely amazing and kills pretty much all smells. However it only works 100% if you get it physically on the actual source of the smell. For smoke, that means literally everywhere. Unfortunately in a car you cannot possibly wipe the insides of where your AC air blows out of. It's unlikely you'll unbolt your seats and clean the carpets thoroughly where you can't reach without unbolting. You can likely do a great job with vinegar but your mileage will vary depending on how medieval you get in your regimen. Some people think simply spraying vinegar in the air is going to eradicate smoke smell. Not gonna work that way.
1. Tooth paste is technically an abrasive it’s just a weak ass compound. 2. Rubbing hydrogen peroxide and water doesn’t remove a stain it just spreads it out use a water extractor. 3. Say you put olive oil on your dash, your said olive oil gets heated by the sun what happens to the leather dash? Put 2+2 together.
1) I have no cavities on my headlights 3) It becomes an extra virgin sun reflector on the windshield...except for when I'm making paninis on the dash.😁
@@767darthmaul Truth be told, I work in a meat department, and the unusable scraps are stored in barrels until it gets picked up by an outside company for processing. Pick ups are bi-weekly, and that stuff can really start to smell. Ground cinnamon is a trick we use to negate any odors coming from the barrels. But we always joke that if any us ever needed to hide a body... it would probably negate that odor as well...
Keth F it’s ok mate I wasn’t be nasty, it’s funny ain’t it working in different industries how we gain certain knowledge, my dad who served in the army in ww2 knew how to make explosives using the things we had in our cupboard. The stuff he told me blew my mind
So I must admit my kids have slime. A lot of it. I just grabbed a glob and used it as seen on the ad. It worked. Picks up all the hard to reach stuff. Coffee filters seemed to work too.
To get all the bug guts off of your windshield (and clean your windows in general) use 000 or 0000 steel wool. It takes all the bugs and grit and grime off, but is fine enough that it won't scratch the glass.
One great option for those folks who have stickers inside the windshield, such as old State Inspection stickers. Once you tear off most of the sticker and are down to the nasty adhesive... have a roll of clear postal tape handy. Roll it around your hand and keep pressing and pulling the tape on the adhesive. The gum will stick to the tape. This can be a tedious, slow process, but is easier and less frustrating that scraping with a razer blade. You will need to keep turning the tape and using new pieces rather often, but can remove all of the adhesive
Industrial Dawn is the way most spills are cleaned because it works and so far its safe for the environment. Dawn works and it is cheap. Baking Soda is so fine its relativity a scratch-free abrasive and super cheap to buy. Check out liquid Sandblasting.
Baking soda is also great for the body too, it's the easiest way to alkaline the body and has helped people w/cancer and kidney problems. Hope I'm not arrested for that...
It's an interesting trick, but why not just use a cheap paint brush while vacuuming to work dust out of tight spots. The same trick works well on vents and all the nooks and crannies in the dash too.
@@Siggydawg @dark force @08FayFay Simply cleaning with any of these methods won't typically last very long. UV rays are the culprit on plastic headlight lens. Buy a headlight cleaning kit containing a UV-resistant spray, or the UV spray by itself. This will keep your headlights nice much longer, so less work for you!
1. Keep vegetable oil OFF your dash. It will collect dust and make a mess. 2. Use any window cleaner and cloth on glass, and after wiping them down, turn cloth over and give a final wipe, no streaks, no problem. 3. Keep vegetable oil OFF your dash!!! WTF, who thought putting oil on your dash was a good idea? Stay away from Armor All as well, its a dust collector and will lead to a dry/cracked dash
same one that will spray water on dog fur, wd40 on paint [some commenters said nail polish remover, or rubbing alcohol....ppl will do this and then be sad forever bc they were novices
Newspaper works great for streak free windows, especially with aerosol/spray window cleaner (Home Depot). Haven't used paper towels, cloths and Windex on a windshield since trying that combination...
Toothpaste is a micro abrasive. So it may work kinda like a light cutting compound. Clear headlamp housings use a UV protectant to stay clear. So you have to recoat them or use a film after to keep from repeating. Don't use peroxide on carpet or cloth. WD-40 is petroleum based and is safe for modern urethane paints as long as you wipe it up. Good for removing bugs and other dried on dead stuff.
If your headlights are foggy, the scratch remover for paint works well. Clean the headlights and apply it like wax. When it is hazed , wipe it off. It may take a few applications, but it will make a difference.
Magic eraser works great on windows, especially the windshield and rear windows which are always hard to get clean. Put a little warm water in a bowl or? Wet the magic eraser, squeeze out the excess water, but not all of it, run it all over the window with a little bit of pressure against the window, then, use a lint free, microfiber towel to dry the window and the glass will be crystal clear. Put down a regular towel on the dashboard or rear deck when you do it to catch any drips from the magic eraser though. You can use it on all windows inside and out, better than window cleaner.
Magic Eraser on windows, then hot soapy (Dawn Dish soap) water. Wash the windows then squeegy! WORKS EVERYTIME! I also have a can, or I should say, MANY cans of Invisible Glass Cleaner! That stuff is great!
Many years ago I switched to the INVISIBLE GLASS cleaner (manufactured by Stoner Inc.) and it's the very best glass cleaner I've come across. It's a must have for impeccable glass.(ALSO the company offers a money back guarantee if you don't like it)
Use Aerospace 303 on all plastic, vinyl and rubber, especially wiper blades, belts, weather stripping and your plastic headlights (Do NOT use toothpaste!). Apply once per quarter. You're welcome!
After you degrease and clean your engine and engine bay, Spray Tire shine in your engine bay and lightly on your engine and rubber and plastic pieces to leave a like new shine.! It will not hurt your motor. I particularly like to use the foam tire shine spray for this trick. It spreads a lot further and you don’t have to rub it in. Good Luck This is how the used car lots make those cars look like new when you pop the hood. Remember just because an engine looks clean and new, doesn’t mean it’s been well taken care of. 👍🏻
I'm pretty sure the Detailers don't mind if people know their secrets. People still pay to have their cars washed and everyone knows the "soap and water trick".
I figured as much! Any tips for getting dirt/dust out of the tight seams on leather seats? the vac nozzle doesn't get in tight enough. I'm thinking blue tack (what you stick posters up with) might get in to the nooks and crannies.
One trick I read about that works wonders is to remove paint from your car by dampening a rag with gasoline. Once backing out of a super old garage I accidentally skimmed the old white paint onto my champagne Toyota Camry. It worked great. Rinse well when done.
Gasoline can damage your paint, well the clear coat. It should work but just go real light with the gasoline, but i think you should try WD-40 before the gasoline
1. No car detailer has ever used toothpaste on a customers car. 2. Don’t use WD-40 on your paint, use a adhesive remover. 3. Buy a pet hair removal brush, no water needed. 4. Foam brushes for air vents work well. Good job. 5. Just use a microfibre towel with a bit of multipurpose cleaner. 6. This would work for surface dirt but won’t be very effective, use a carpet extractor machine. 7. Use a pressure washer on floor mats if your that despite. 8. Put water on a glass towel then clean the window, then follow up with a waffle weave towel 9. DON’T PUT OLIVE OIL ON YOUR DASH! Use a proper plastic dressing. 10. Remove bad smells by cleaning up the actual source. 11. Magic erasers work awesome but be careful you can easily damage the surface. 12. For wheels, again just use multipurpose cleaner.
Scrubbing genuine leather seats with a magic eraser or even with a cloth and detergent can easily remove the color finish. If you use these, be careful.
Celeste S most automobiles now have a combination of leather and vinyl. Usually the leather is on the seat faces with vinyl trim. You most likely have aniline leather with a flat or semi gloss finish. Aniline finish is repaired with special paint...yes, paint. The finish must be flexible enough to resist cracking. So it’s not nearly as durable as your kitchen wall. Magic eraser with mild dish detergent will likely remove dirt. But DO NOT scrub hard. If you do, you will likely remove the paint finish. If they still do not look like you think the should, matching leather paints are available online.
it showed Balsamic vinegar LOL...use white distilled, works wonders on any cleaning task, drys no residue and smell goes away in 10 min. NEVER SHINE your dashboard, that's a huge NO NO, you don't want it to shine, it will give off a glare and disturb you while your driving. Air compressor is KING for any cleaning, blow off, seats, carpets, vents, filters, I use mine all the time, can't live without it!
@Edgar Smithingston what's the problem whit some little help? Also handed to you? I bet you've been given something once in life whitout having to do anything or atleast doing something very simple that takes seconds like opening yt and clicking on this video
@Edgar Smithingston .... excuse me Mr Smithsonian!! He who has all the greatest and most obvious things to say...!?! Listen here you pilchard!! I wasn't aware that you knew so much about me...and my incessant need for things to be handed to me without doing any research myself, oh ye who has a museums sized head full of knowledge! Let me guess...? Your that person who always has an answer for everything!!?? Must be hard being a charming bugger like yourself.
@Edgar Smithingston who mentioned the word everything?? Huh? I just said a little help doesn't hurt also it's a like a tutorial video it's meant to help people what's the problem whit that?
Do not recommend washing the floor mats in your washer, the black rubbery under side of the mat leaves black streaks it will stain the inside of the washer and even in your dryer, how i know cause it happen too me smh, had to spend like a hour cleaning the inside of the washer amd dryer, learned my lesson
Too funny but true since in some of the comments are coming back like don't use olive oil since it made my dash stink or olive oil will go rancid, etc.