Winter washing routine?

DaveyDave

So after spending two hours cleaning the car only to have it covered in brown splashes the next day, I'm trying to workout what I'll do over the next 3 or so months...

Walking into work today I was staring at how clean my wheels look, despite the body already being dirty. After 2-3 weeks of heavy buildup, it's easy to not notice them getting dirty when the body doesn't look too bad.

I'm half tempted to clean the wheels every week or two, then the body every 3-4 weeks along with the wheels...

What's everyone's routine for the winter months? I don't really want to spend 2 hours washing and waxing knowing Winter roads are particularly dirty while at the same time, it will be tricky to find that time with the worsening weather conditions.

Curran

Most people will apply a durable protection prior to the bad weather setting in. Then just a decent wash whenever temperature / daylight allows. Snowfoam, Rinse, Clean Wheels, Rinse, Two Bucket Wash, Rinse, Dry
Towards the end of the bad weather, around Feb time, you might need to top up protection to get you by for a few weeks until the better weather and a chance to strip back and re-apply your summer coating, and spray on buff off type products are quite handy then!

MetzgerMeister

Once you have the car protected, just wash it and drive it. You'll get to wash it again down the line. The biggest thing with winter is that you just have to make peace with the fact that it's not going to stay clean for long, end of story.

The most you can do is protect it and make it as easy to clean as possible.

Curran

Once its well protected you'll be fine - will be worse for the paintwork if you do a half arsed rushed job on it

JoeA3

I haven’t touched mine in about 6 weeks. It’s never been as filthy. I’d rather leave it that way than do some rush job and with it being as cold and miserable as it is now, it’ll stay that way another while!
If you work Mon-Fri and don’t have a weekend afternoon to spare then there just isn’t the time to do it at this time of year.

onewinger

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Once you have the car protected, just wash it and drive it. You'll get to wash it again down the line. The biggest thing with winter is that you just have to make peace with the fact that it's not going to stay clean for long, end of story.

The most you can do is protect it and make it as easy to clean as possible.

Hi MetzgerMeister - just curious when you say 'protected' - do you just mean a standard wax or ceramic coating ?

Or do you mean a separate coating specifically designed for Winter ?

Ta

vectra

onewinger wrote: »

Hi MetzgerMeister - just curious when you say 'protected' - do you just mean a standard wax or ceramic coating ?

Or do you mean a separate coating specifically designed for Winter ?

Ta

Thread is two years old,
You should really start a new one.
But to answer your question, protection can be any of various products,
ie,
Wax~Sealant~ceramic etc.
A lot depends on your budget and how much work you want to put into it.