Mike Phillips
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Jay Leno’s Garage Vehicle Wash - Review and How-to by Mike Phillips
Jay Leno is a genuine Rock Star in the car hobby, no ifs, ands or buts. And now... Autogeek is the exclusive distributor of his new car care line, Jay Leno’s Garage Advanced Vehicle Care.
So now it's time to start using and testing out Jay's new line of products and first up is his Vehicle Wash.
For most of us, washing our car is the most common car care procedure we do. We wax our cars once or twice a year but we wash are cars often to keep them clean and shining. To test Jay's vehicle wash out I wanted a really dirty car. So I called my wife's daughter Coral and asked her if I could use her 2013 Camaro.
Coral loves her car but she's not what I would call a car enthusiast and certainly not an enthusiast detailer. Sure she appreciates a clean shiny car and while new generation Camaros are modern versions of days-gone-by muscle cars... at the same time this 2-door Chevy is simply transportation to Coral.
The car is driven as a daily driver and parked outside 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. It never sees a garage. It's also parked under a tree when she's at home so you're gong to see a tree leaves and actually branches scattered over the car. She lives in Stuart but works in West Palm Beach so she puts a lot of miles on the car and as such the front of the car has a pretty good collection of dead bug splatter. There's also tree sap and all kinds of other crusty stuff on it.
This makes it a perfect test car to test the cleaning ability of Jay's Vehicle Wash.
As is my norm when doing any type of write-up over the last 20+ years, I like to fully document my projects. Take a look and I think you'll see that the pictures of the Camaro match the description I just shared.
This picture was taken around 7:45am on Monday, March 27, 2017. You can see how the sun is shining on the side of the car it's early morning and the sun is low in the sky.
Look at the door around the sun and you can see a dirt film over the paint...
Same dirt film and tree sap splotches on the window are on the paint it's just this crud shows up better on the glass...
The Camaro has a great looking, aggressive design...
But this car is ugly with dead bug splatter all over the front clip....
On the back of the car there are leaves and tiny tree branches trapped between the rear wing and the trunk lid and also in the gap around the rear window.
Yeah... she's dirty....
Jay Leno is a genuine Rock Star in the car hobby, no ifs, ands or buts. And now... Autogeek is the exclusive distributor of his new car care line, Jay Leno’s Garage Advanced Vehicle Care.
So now it's time to start using and testing out Jay's new line of products and first up is his Vehicle Wash.
For most of us, washing our car is the most common car care procedure we do. We wax our cars once or twice a year but we wash are cars often to keep them clean and shining. To test Jay's vehicle wash out I wanted a really dirty car. So I called my wife's daughter Coral and asked her if I could use her 2013 Camaro.
Coral loves her car but she's not what I would call a car enthusiast and certainly not an enthusiast detailer. Sure she appreciates a clean shiny car and while new generation Camaros are modern versions of days-gone-by muscle cars... at the same time this 2-door Chevy is simply transportation to Coral.
The car is driven as a daily driver and parked outside 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. It never sees a garage. It's also parked under a tree when she's at home so you're gong to see a tree leaves and actually branches scattered over the car. She lives in Stuart but works in West Palm Beach so she puts a lot of miles on the car and as such the front of the car has a pretty good collection of dead bug splatter. There's also tree sap and all kinds of other crusty stuff on it.
This makes it a perfect test car to test the cleaning ability of Jay's Vehicle Wash.
As is my norm when doing any type of write-up over the last 20+ years, I like to fully document my projects. Take a look and I think you'll see that the pictures of the Camaro match the description I just shared.
This picture was taken around 7:45am on Monday, March 27, 2017. You can see how the sun is shining on the side of the car it's early morning and the sun is low in the sky.
Look at the door around the sun and you can see a dirt film over the paint...
Same dirt film and tree sap splotches on the window are on the paint it's just this crud shows up better on the glass...
The Camaro has a great looking, aggressive design...
But this car is ugly with dead bug splatter all over the front clip....
On the back of the car there are leaves and tiny tree branches trapped between the rear wing and the trunk lid and also in the gap around the rear window.
Yeah... she's dirty....
