two bucket process

cena

Came across this on your tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09r6m6sRCA. only part one.

he does talk alot.

Northern Monkey

The junkman is a legend in the detailing world!

cena

Really

Northern Monkey

Yup, have a look on detailingworld.co.uk. He does quite a lot of video tutorials.

andyseadog

i'm mr fussy when it comes to my car and keeping it swirl free, but the two bucket method is just overkill i reckon.

if you just have one bucket, surely anything hard enough to scratch your paint grit/ stones etc will be for the most part rinsed off before you begin scrubbing with a sponge and even in the unlikely event you do pick up some grit on your sponge then surely gravity will allow it to sink to the bottom of your bucket where the sponge never goes.

anything that is light enough to stay suspended in water and not sink to the bottom cant be hard enough to damage your paint.

i cant remember the last time i emptied my was bucket and found anything at all in it. :pac:

cena

Can you buy them grit guards here. His vids are really good too watch. wish my car haded so many stone chippings on it. I would try the removing swrils off the car. Do ye use snow foam. would love too get my hands on a pressure washer and use it. May clay the car some time and do my mothers as well. How long does a clay bar last

Northern Monkey

If you were to use clear buckets you would see a reason for it. The rinse bucket also removes all the dirt from the sponge/mitt so you aren't reapplying dirt to the car

Northern Monkey

cena wrote: »

Can you buy them grit guards here. His vids are really good too watch. wish my car haded so many stone chippings on it. I would try the removing swrils off the car. Do ye use snow foam. would love too get my hands on a pressure washer and use it. May clay the car some time and do my mothers as well. How long does a clay bar last

I personally don't use a grit guard but use the two bucket method. There are a good few UK sites that sell them who will deliver to Ireland. On the snow foam front, there are a couple of Irish sites that sell all the kit for that. Not sure what the rules are about posting their names, so will drop you a PM.

andyseadog

well if your using as little quantities of water as above then your running a risk alright :pac:. honestly, i always check as i'm emptying my wash bucket down the garage sink, i very scarcely if ever find any debris. if the paintwork is well protected all the heavy particles should fall of during the pre rinse.

a full 20 liter bucket and you should be as safe as a house, or stick a grit guard in that bucket if you feel paranoid, but it takes me well over and hour to wash and dry my car as it is... 2 buckets, nah

each to their own though, i can appreciate the 2BM but its not for me

cena

Does he work from his house. He msut make a good living from the jobs as he seems too be really good. Wonder how much he costs too clean a car

Atlantic Dawn

Anyone know where to buy those buckets?

VolvoMan

I just totally ignore this and use one bucket. It's a load of nonsense.

Lord Nikon

I use the 2B method, and while I think it's overkill, it actually makes sence. Why wash the car with the same mitt dunked into the crap you just cleaned off.

Actually, this guy doesnt even pressure wash his car, only the wheels and under the wheel arches. Makes me wonder why I pressure wash the areas that need taking care of instead and blasted with water. Your only washing on the wax you pit on the previous week.

andyseadog

neuromancer wrote: »

Why wash the car with the same mitt dunked into the crap you just cleaned off.

why dunk it in a different bucket, particularly if your using a microfiber sponge/ mit dunking is going to remove sod all of the contaminents its picked up regardless of whether its in fresh or very very mildly soiled water :P

Lord Nikon

Rinsing the dirt into another bucket, not better than the bucket with clean water and suds?

andyseadog

neuromancer wrote: »

Rinsing the dirt into another bucket, not better than the bucket with clean water and suds?

ever so marginally, to the extent that the effort of the second bucket outweighs the possible gains from doing so (in my opinion anyway).

as i said i feel gravity will do a good enough job at separating the grit (if any) in the bucket, and i'm looking at the car as i rub it with a sponge so if i see a large patch of grit i will avoid it with the sponge and look at other means of getting it off.

Nothing as spacktarded as one of those threads where someone lashes up pics of their freshly DIY valeted car and starts off the speel with "firstly I washed it using the two bucket method" :pac: making it sound like a fecking revolutionary process altogether.

.Longshanks.

Total believer in the two bucket method here.
I've my car almost 3.5 years and not one swirl mark

Lord Nikon

RoverJames wrote: »

Nothing as spacktarded as one of those threads where someone lashes up pics of their freshly DIY valeted car and starts off the speel with "firstly I washed it using the two bucket method" :pac: making it sound like a fecking revolutionary process altogether.

Nothing as spacktarded as someone who bitches and moans about a topic they know nothing about, and has nothing valuable to add to the thread either.

Troll.

-Chris-

neuromancer wrote: »

Nothing as spacktarded as someone who bitches and moans about a topic they know nothing about, and has nothing valuable to add to the thread either.

Troll.

If you have an issue with a post, report it. Don't go around calling people Trolls.

RoverJames wrote: »

Nothing as spacktarded as one of those threads where someone lashes up pics of their freshly DIY valeted car and starts off the speel with "firstly I washed it using the two bucket method" :pac: making it sound like a fecking revolutionary process altogether.

If you've no interest in the process, you've no interest in the thread. Don't post in this thread again please.

Lord Nikon

My bad. Peace out.

vectra

kev_Longshanks100 wrote: »

Total believer in the two bucket method here.
I've my car almost 3.5 years and not one swirl mark

Is that to the naked eyer or are they no swirls using special lighting to check?

My last car I could very well say there wee no swirls on it after 2.5 years using one bucket and a sponge

Curran

The two bucket method is a way of limiting the possiblity of scratching your car! Sure the one bucket method works alright once you dont let the dirty water dry onto your car. However with the 1BM the chances of dragging some large dirt particles back onto your car is far greater than with the 2BM.
And to say that the 2BM is too much hassle for what its worth, I find a bit hard to believe. You have to fill a 2nd bucket with just water and every time you rinse your mitt or sponge (if you dare use it) you have to rinse it in a different bucket, before dipping it into your fresh bucket!

Theres no way off washing your car that can be 100% guaranteed not to swirl the paint. There are only techniques that the limit damage you do. There are also techniques that are very high risk....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjWkB_q2lE

It would be interesting to see some pictures of the cars that are washed with the 1BM - and by that I mean of the paintwork, in direct sunlight or with a very good light source!

Anways, I'll take my chances with the 2BM and a good quality drying towel and a bunch of microfibres for doing any other jobs, like removing wax etc etc

.Longshanks.

vectra wrote: »

Is that to the naked eyer or are they no swirls using special lighting to check?

My last car I could very well say there wee no swirls on it after 2.5 years using one bucket and a sponge

The naked eye method, on a very sunny day, is good enough for me!

Voodoomelon

If your car isn't given a chance to get dirty like mine, then the two bucket method is overkill. When I finish, the water still looks nearly the same as it did to start with.

Curran

I dont know if you noticed over the past few weeks the sand thats been coming down in the rain! You could wash you car, not drive it off the drive way and there could be something on your car that will do enough damage to swirl the paint!

I wash my car on a regular basis and yes at times it seems that its not dirty, but Ive yet to wash one evening and wash it again the next, even after a small amount of driving on dry urban roads and pre washing the car with snow foam and rinsing with a power washer, and not found that there is something at the bottom of the rinse bucket that could do damage!

Different standards I suppose, each to their own!