Car wash technique for black cars

For black cars I do the following.

Pressure wash the car well, try to get most of the crap off.
Foam the car twice, again, hit it with the pressure washer.
Next I spray one panel at a time with a mixture of ONR and start washing using no pressure on my 600g towel, I carefully drag my towel along then rinse.

Drying the car causes most of the swirls IMO so what I do when it comes to drying is to mist one side of the car at a time using a DS and then dry but carefully, again no pressure , I just drag my towel from one side to the other until the entire side in done.

My wife's RAV4 is the worst, it's black single stage paint.
Hopefully I'll coat her car soon, that should help.
 
All great comments and suggestions and i practice a good many of the same with my black car. Very light pressure was mentioned and is my #1 recommendation. Was this your first real good substantial wash for the spring, bonedr? If so, it certainly and most likely accumulated some fine scratches over the winter. If that is the case don't despair...happens.

My favorite "light" compound still remains to be M205 for cases like you describe.
 
It's been a while since my black Camaro owned me, but the things I remember most are:
1) You can't use too much soap & water.
2) Make sure your stuff is CLEAN.
3) You can't rinse too much.
4) Use a damp cloth to dry off the car ... this was back in the day before using leaf blowers had been thought of and we used diapers, not MF towels, but still a damp cloth has the lubrication of the water to help assist in not swirling the paint, I don't have a leaf blower, so I go heavy with Ultimate Quik Detailer in combination with a damp MF to dry the car.

I loved my Camaro, but I don't think I'll ever own a black car again, even with all I know now compared to then.
 
I had a chance to finally wash by Black sapphire metallic X5 after being coated with C1 and EXO v2 last February. Here are my steps and guaranteed did not induce any scratches or marring, panel by panel ensuring clean mitt and water

1. Foam, pressure wash, foam, then pressure wash
2. Foam, with high quality sheepskin mitt, lightly, top to bottom, 2-bucket
3. Use water bottle to sheet water
4. Shop-Vac with tiny nozzle extension to blow dry

Rinse and repeat on each panel, inspecting paint work every panel

I had a hard time correcting the paint work on this BMW paint and took me at least 20 hours to do it so I am avoiding any swirls and marring as much as possible
 
I've ended up with two black cars in the last year and I do nothing but rinseless and waterless (easier with my disability). Fingers crossed but so far I've not noticed any marring to speak of. It'll be interesting to see if that continues.
 
Pressure wash and follow with any:
rinseless
waterless
2bucket

:D
 
Out of all the color I owned, black is the most addicting and visceral in my eyes. Something sinister about having black with metallic flakes to show off on bright sunlight

I regret nothing!
 
That's why you get silver in a car. Ha ha ha. Easest color to keep clean and looking clean even when its not clean. Hides majority of a paints imperfections. This coming from a guy who owns a kona blue car and is almost a PITA as black.
 
The boar's hair brush is a great cleaning tool, but always leaves micro-swirls. I only use it when I'm going to follow it with polishing, even fine polishing will take care of it.
 
if I had a black car, I would without a doubt have a foam gun if I were doing traditional washes...
 
opti-coat 2.0... anyone have some left? Corected then coated my brand new black mitsubishi (sickening dealer installed swirls!) and been using Garry Dean's IUDJ for washing. So far so good.
 
Yep foam gun pre-rinse and knock as much dirt off without touching it as possible Keep the lubrication up and at the end of the day a daily driven car will get scratches. But with proper technique nothing more than a minor polish should be needed yearly or so.

I've got about 8-10 cc's of OC 2.0. Not sure if I'll ever get to it. Should probably trade it.
 
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