Many people don’t realize how important it is to keep your car clean, although many car lovers always keep their cars clean and perform this exercise at least once a week. There are reasons why you should have your car cleaned from time to time.
Paint: All cars depreciate, but you can preserve their market value and extend their life by keeping them cleaned. Dust, dirt, and smoke from the environmental damage not only your car paint but also its metal.
Safety: Clean cars are safe from road accidents. It has been seen that quite a good percentage of accidents is your car’s dirty glasses and windows which reduces the visibility of your car. You will find many blind spots when you are driving where even the smallest dust decreases your visibility.
Repairing Costs: Due to the car’s dirty exterior, some parts are damaged and depreciates the value of your car. You have to get damaged portions replaced, which requires a lot of money.
Making you Proud: It has been seen psychologically that people who keep their cars clean are generally happy. People admire your cleanliness habits in their minds or sometimes by their tongues.
Health: If you keep your car clean, you remove harmful germs accumulated on dashboards, steering wheels, and seats.
Power (Pressure) Washer:
A power washer is a machine that can clean your car by removing dust, grime, and dirt by flowing pressure of clean water efficiently and quickly. It is important that use the best power washer in an open area to protect your valuables. These are easily available in electronic markets in different price ranges with numerous features.
Characteristics of a good Power Washer:
You can study the features in its user manual, or the salesman can guide you. Each power washer has a PSI setting by which you can set a value before you wash your car. It consists of various nozzles by which you can use the most appropriate spray for washing, soaping, and rinsing, whose water spread pattern can be changed. The nozzles of a pressure washer have different colors. For example, the red color shows maximum pressure of water, which may be dangerous for your car paint. Power washers are also available with wheels, making it convenient for you to move around the car from one place to another. You should also make sure you have a long pipe to move easily.
Advantage of Power Washer:
A power washer makes the washing process of a car much easier. It is much faster than washing manually by your hand. The washing quality is much better, and less water is consumed when you use a pressure washer.
Cleaning Tips:
- Set the power washer at 2,000 PSI which is recommended, but you may change it according to your requirement)
- Make sure that the car’s windows are completely closed so that water should not enter the car. Otherwise, seats may become wet.
- Also, properly shut down the bonnet of the car’s engine so that water should not enter the engine area.
- By using a pressure washer, first, rinse your car with plain water.
- Your car should be on a hard surface, cemented or concrete.
- If you are washing on the ground having pebbles and stones, they can fly and hit the body of your car, damaging the paint.
- When you wash the car on the dusty or muddy ground, in the end, rinse the water on the dust which was finally covered the body of the newly washed car.
- Now apply detergent to the car. Most power washers have the facility to store detergent, but if your machine does not, use a soft piece of cloth with a detergent.
- The detergent should easily be dissolvable in water; there should not be any solid particles left. Otherwise, those may scratch the exterior of your car.
- Keep the detergent on the car’s body for about five minutes.
- Use a car brush or a soft cloth (if car brush is not available) to clean any grime, dust, or dust.
- By using a power washer, rinse off the detergent from the surface of the body of your car.
- Use the washer with a wide spray pattern because a narrow spray pattern can damage your car’s paint.
- Wash fragile parts like lights, windows, etc., from a proper distance to avoid any damage.
- Do not spray inside the engine because water will enter parts like spark plugs, battery terminals, or current supplying wires.
- Once the car’s body is dry, apply good and well-known car polish to the car’s exterior.
- It is always advisable to cover your car with a car body cover (made up of parachute or soft cloth) when your car is not used much in the daytime or cover the car before you go to bed. The cover saves the car’s body from dust, dirt, grime, or bird’s shits.
- Wash car body cover every week by using a detergent. If the car cover is dirty, there is no point in washing and cleaning a car.
Conclusion:
Most of us believe that if we owe a car, we must keep it clean. There are several logical reasons why you should keep your car clean, but not only is it important for the long life of a car, but a neat and clean car creates a good impression of your personality. To keep a car clean, apart from rubbing its exterior with a clean cloth daily, you must wash it at least once a week. To wash a car, the best way is to use a power (pressure) washer. A large variety of these machines are available in electronic markets. Depending upon your financial position, you can purchase one by looking at its characteristics. You can wash your car at weekends, on holidays or half days of your office.
