{"id":784,"date":"2018-08-13T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=784"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:54:57","slug":"waterless-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Waterless Wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The window seals on the car have not aged well, in addition to that, the boot seal was always terrible. As a kid I washed the car for my dad once and the entire boot got soaked when I was a little too enthusiastic with the pressure washer.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, and the drivers side window being stuck down, it had to be a waterless wash to get the dirt and dust off, letting me get a look at how the paint is underneath.<\/p>\n<p>Bit of YouTube research and I was good to go, the detailer&#8217;s favourite: quick detailer spray and a micro fibre towel (or two)<\/p>\n<p>The dirt was proper stuck to the paint, hence I went a bit heavy with the QD spray but it all came off quite well in the end. Used 1 microfibre for the dirt removal, folding regularly to minimise the amount of dirt getting wiped over the paint. Then used a second microfibre to buff off the residue and clear out some of the more fiddly bits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9492.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9490.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I appear to have entirely skipped pictures during the process since I was mucking about videoing it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9520.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_9510.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>Also have the glass a going over with glass cleaner on a jay cloth then buffed with another microfibre.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video of the process\/stages:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"627\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eWqYhrGZGs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The window seals on the car have not aged well, in addition to that, the boot seal was always terrible. As a kid I washed the car for my dad once and the entire boot got soaked when I was a little too enthusiastic with the pressure washer. Given that, and the drivers side window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}