DIY car wash equipment

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Silly question but I've never done it. What do I need! Obviously some sort of special car wash? Or fairy liquid?

Sponge.... Anything else? Is there particular brand... Auto glym?

Anything works really we use a sponge, hose and whatever soap we find

Don't use Fairy liquid, it'll strip the coating off the paint! You could end up damaging the paintwork. Best to use proper car wash or car shampoo.

A hose or pressure washer makes things easier but it's not essential. Otherwise, you'll need a couple of buckets (one for soapy water and one for clean) and two wash mitts (some people use microfibre cloths, the ones with the big wiggly fibres). You need one mitt/cloth to wash and one to dry the car off (to avoid streaky paintwork).

Autoglym is alright, it's quite expensive though. TBH I buy whatever I can find at a good price on Amazon or at Halfords. Turtle Wax and Carplan are cheap but they're a bit crap. I usually get Autoglym, EZ or Simoniz.

Christ, never Fairy Liquid!

You need uber expensive car shampoo, and wheel shampoo/cleaner, and special car washing mitt, and a wheel brush, and a filter to put on the hose to get some kind of water that doesn't leave spots, and a special towel to dry residual water, and stuff to put on the tyres to make them look shiney and new, and waxy/polished stuff along with things to apply it, and stuff to do the seats...

You need shit loads of stuff which fill up a shelf in the garage. And then spend practically a whole day 'washing' your car.

🙄🙄🙄 One of the many things I've learning since meeting my husband.

I once bought a bottle of car cleaner for my pressure washer and used the whole lot in one go. End result: it cost more than one of the top washes at a car was and the results were dreadful. Never again.

I don't want incredible results and shiny tyres just clear windows really...

We are hard water area so it is streaky.

*You need uber expensive car shampoo, and wheel shampoo/cleaner, and special car washing mitt, and a wheel brush, and a filter to put on the hose to get some kind of water that doesn't leave spots, and a special towel to dry residual water, and stuff to put on the tyres to make them look shiny and new, and waxy/polished stuff along with things to apply it, and stuff to do the seats...

You need shit loads of stuff which fill up a shelf in the garage. And then spend practically a whole day 'washing' your car.

🙄🙄🙄 One of the many things I've learning since meeting my husband.*

ditto

The car towels are thicker than our bath towels, and we have special buckets with filters in them and then there's the snow foam