Car Valet and Car Cleaning Services: How to Keep the Paintwork of your Car in Good conditi...

Car Valet and Car Cleaning Services: How to Keep the Paintwork of your Car in Good conditi...: In the first installment of exploring how to keep the paintwork of your car in Good condition , we looked at how to wash your car effectivel...

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Car Valet and Car Cleaning Services: Interior Car Valeting Tips

Car Valet and Car Cleaning Services: Interior Car Valeting Tips:  Tips for successful Interior car valeting or auto interior valeting tips Have you ever taken a lift from somebody and regretted doing so?...

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Interior Car Valeting Tips

 Tips for successful Interior car valeting or auto interior valeting tips

Have you ever taken a lift from somebody and regretted doing so? Or have you got into somebody’s car and felt like you want to throw up? If not, then probably, you hardly accept lifts from mates and others or, you have never worked in the car industry before. There are many cars driving around with the interior in such a state that you would not want to have a drink when you are sitting in them. Apart from the embarrassment leaving your car in such a state gives, it can also be a serious health hazard.

It is quite important to keep the interior of your car in very good condition all the time, not only when you want to sell it. Leaving your car in a dirty state will open the interior up to gems and other diseases. We would like to give you a few tips on how best to keep the interior of you can in a very clean state

Hoovering or Vacuuming

The first stage of any valeting process is to vacuum the car thoroughly. To make things easier for you, especially if your car is a complete mess, is to get rid of all loose items. This will include any papers, wrappers, drink cans etc. This should be done not only in the main driver/passenger compartments, but also in the boot.

Most cars have floor mats. If yours have one, then it will be necessary to remove all the mats as well, either at the same time or separately. This gives you the opportunity to get to all the hidden or obscure areas of the car, including under the seats, the central console and the pedals. Hoovers or vacuum cleaners come with various attachments, some of which can be used to reach those tight areas. Ensure you hoover the mats and the seats as well. A hard brush can be used to agitate the carpets to make it easier to hoover out any embedded dirt. A car valeter or a professional car valeting company, for example, will use a small detailing brush to clean the air vents, around the radio etc.

Leather car seats need to be treated with car when hoovering as they could easily get damaged by using the wrong hoover attachment or applying too much pressure. It is better to slow down the movement of the vacuum cleaner in such delicate situations

One area of the car that that many people tend to ignore very often is the boot. It needs to be given the same attention. Apart from being used for the weekly shopping, many people tend to turn the boots of their cars into a junk house; dumping a whole lot of rubbish, etc periodically. For a detailed interior valeting, a professional car cleaning company will also remove the spare tyre, if your car has one, to ensure that the area gets the same treatment as the rest of the car interior. Be careful when lifting the spare tyre as they could be heavy.

Once the hoovering is complete, you will then proceed to the next stage which involves the washing and removing of any stains in the car. We will look at this in the next instalment. As we have always advised, some of these jobs can be done a lot better if you have the proper equipment and using a professional car cleaning company could be the answer to any doubts or headaches you may have

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How Keep the Paintwork of your Car in Good condition

In the first installment of exploring how to keep the paintwork of your car in Good condition, we looked at how to wash your car effectively and the sort of chemicals and equipment you may require to make your job very easy. We will look at what other steps you need to take to ensure that the exterior of your car is continuously enhanced

Safety measures:

Unless you are washing your car in very air-tight and controlled environment, there is a high possibility of water, chemicals and other agents, getting into your nostrils, your clothes and your eyes. To avoid any damage to your eyes, in particular, and to avoid inhaling toxic chemicals, it is highly recommended you wear protective gloves and safely goggles.
Protective gloves will ensure that your skin, in particular, your hands, are adequately protected from any harmful agents in the cleaning materials you are using. Some cleaning agents used in the car industry, especially those used in the cleaning of wheels are known to contain various acids which can cause skin irritation, blisters and even burns when they come into direct contact with the skin. Wearing gloves, especially those classified for industrial use, will give you adequate protection from these. Safely goggles will protect your eyes in the same way as gloves protects your hands.

Drying your car after washing

We do not intend to take you through step-by-step processes of how to wash your car to get the best results. This is because we assume many adults can do this with a fair amount of results. We will concern ourselves however at what happens after washing your car.

One mistake that many people make after washing a car is to leave it to dry on its own. The effect of this is to leave deposits of car shampoo and other cleaning agents, dried watermarks and streaks of dry water and washing agent on the car. Apart from the unsightly nature these leave on the car, negating the car cleaning objective, the deposits of car shampoo and other cleaning agents can penetrate into the paintwork. This can damage the paintwork, create oxidation, cause the paintwork to lose its shine and quality and eventually help to speed up the deterioration of the paintwork

It is therefore recommended that you dry your car thoroughly after washing. To do this, you will need a bucket of clean water and chamois leather or microfiber car drying cloth. This will help you thoroughly dry your car off and help you remove any left-over deposits of car washing agents. Such cloth, rinsed continuously with clean water, will ensure you do a very good job and also help you protect your paint work from any scratches, that is assuming you did a very good job during the washing process

It is very easy to pick up all the above listed items in most diy shops or those selling car cleaning materials. Where in doubt, always seek professional advice or better still, use the services of a professional car cleaning company for the purpose. A professional car valeting company have both the expert knowledge and highly trained professional car valeters to sort out all your guesswork.  They could also save you lots of headaches

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