nberry:

Surprisingly I'm impressed with the result. A labor of love.kiss

But I can't help but to feel you must stress out driving the car because it's exposed to the elements. All that work for naught.surpriseindecision

Thanks Nick Smiley Well living where I live I accept it's going to get dirty, just means I get to wash the car again which I do enjoy.  Since people seem to like it, I'll chronicle a typical 'maintenance' wash of my vehicles.  This time using the Macan.  First post will be wheel cleaning (which takes as long as washing the whole car) and tomorrow I'll post washing the car.

First off, I rinse off the wheel / wheel well.  And scrub the wheel well to try and get any debris out of there.

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Next is to spray on wheel cleaner.  They recommend letting it sit for a little bit, but I just go ahead and start cleaning, starting with the barrels of the wheel.


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Then clean off spokes and face of wheel.  Making sure to get the lugs / bolts and behind the spokes of course.


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Then rinse off again before spraying on rubber cleaner onto the tires.  I clean the tires every other car wash.  This just helps with keeping them from getting that dingy brown color.

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Spray off the tire / wheel again and that is it for cleaning them.  Not many steps but it does take quite a bit of time.  Oh and mustn't forget the exhaust.  Rinse it off, spray on same cleaner as used on the wheels and scrub clean.  Then rinse.

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Here is a pic trying to capture the before and after.   I used the flash as it was dark and it shows how much brighter then wheel is than before.

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That was painful to post with the strange orientation of photos that can happen here.  So hopefully you all got something from it.  Like I said, will post the actual car washing procedure tomorrow.