Newbie: '13 GS Vert Seeking Wisdom

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Loooking for tips on how to keep my car clean while at the beach? Hardly enough room for luggage, cant bring washing supplies. My car gets coated with salt and sand film you can actually see it rolling acoss hood. To make matters worse, it is Night Race Blue Metallic, shows everything.
Tips from the pro's?
 
Loooking for tips on how to keep my car clean while at the beach? Hardly enough room for luggage, cant bring washing supplies. My car gets coated with salt and sand film you can actually see it rolling acoss hood. To make matters worse, it is Night Race Blue Metallic, shows everything.
Tips from the pro's?

Sand is a problem...IMHO your asking for scratches trying to get it off without doing a proper wash.
 
Welcome to AGO by the way. Hopefully someone will have a solution that might work for you.
 
When we travel thru Florida and visit the many beaches and sites, I do a couple things.

1. Carry small bottle of Bug Squash and several MF towels --Love Bug Removal
2. Mix up a small bottle of rinseless wash, and several MF towels -- doodoo, and other cleanups.
(keep them in small zip lock bag, in cubby)

I tend to use a lot of those quarter self washes especially in evening or early morning when no one is around. A good rinse is often ok until I can get to a traditional wash when back home, just getting the salt water off the finish. You can even spritz with the rinseless wash, and then rinse w/out scrubbing. Drive fast to remove any excess water. Just make sure the car is well washed and waxed prior to your travels.
 
Welcome to autogeek begin that sand is so abrasive I would gently rinse the paintwork it a soapy mixture though once you get comfortable with detailing look into opti coat paint coating its literary your paints friend
 
Nice looking Corvette :xyxthumbs:

Besides the already mentioned safe removal
methods of the beach-environs...

Another way of keeping it looking nice:
Keep taking up more than one parking spot! :D

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I can tell you how I have "done it on the road"...However, you will need to bring some supplies. There is no safe way to wash a car without using some detailing supplies, so if you have zero room - just wash it when you get home. Better to do that, leave it dirty, than to take it to some Swirl-O-Rama-Wash-O-Matic.

First thing, just pressure washing the car off as "good enough" is no good. Your car is dark (black?) and your in Florida I believe - this will likely lead to horrendous water spots and etchings. Just ask anyone down there whose black car got blasted by a sprinkler and dried in the sun.

The way I did it in FL is I brought a few supplies:

-32oz bottle of wheel cleaner

- Daytona mini wheel brush

- Montana Boats Hair small wheel brush

- 2 collapsible buckets. These are great in a pinch... I got mine for $10 on EBay:

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They fold up virtually flat and take up little room.

- a 22oz bottle of UWW+ concentrate

- some towels

- a sample bottle of tire dressing.

.... And that is pretty much all you need. You can hit the Pay-N-Spray EARLY in the morning (like 6:00). Nobody is there and it's cooler out - you can work in the bay and nobody will bother you at that hour (shelter).

Use their water supply to clean the wheels conventionally and fill your folding wheel bucket. Pick a wheel cleaner that works decently on tires as well. Then, pressure wash all the sand and dirt off the car and do a waterless or rinseless (GDWM) wash there (car is still wet in bay). Dry as you go along.

That's it - pretty easy. Worse part about it is you will have to lug around wet and dirty towels. Bring some plastic bags to put them in. I always use DI water to waterless/rinseless wash. You can pick that up anywhere while you are there.

When you are done, dress the tires. On the road I'll just use blue paper shop towels as applicators folded up in 16s. Then when you are done, just throw it out. One less thing you have to carry dirty back with you. Or, you could just bring a few pieces of grout sponge and toss them out as you use them.
 
Welcome to AG my friend. You came to the right place to get good tips and tricks.
 
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