If you exhibit your car at car shows, you will know the tension that exhibitors experience in the final 20 minutes before the judges are due to come around to look at your pride and joy. It is the same type of stress that animal breeders and would-be beauty queens feel when it comes to the final moments.
It does not matter how much effort you have put in during the preceding twenty-four hours, the last twenty minutes is invariably the worst. You absolutely do need to have detailed your car the day before the show, but here are some quick detailing tips to keep you occupied during those last couple of minutes when you are at car shows.
Glass: check all the windows and the paintwork around the bottom of the windows. Little boys love cars, especially unique cars and one of them might have pulled himself up on your car door's 'window ledge' to have a better look inside. If he has dirty fingers, you have smudges.
Inspect your wing mirrors as well, because teenage girls will assess their make-up in them and may even pull them off line.
Judges are impressed by sparkling glass, so keep one of those cloths for cleaning glasses in a plastic bag in your pocket so that you can take care of any last minute smudges in a tick.
The cleaning cloths that you can get from opticians are perfect for this work as they clean without smearing and dry almost immediately. They are fairly cheap as well.
Chrome: the shiny chrome bumpers are just the correct height for kids to lay a hand on, so walk around the car with your optical cleaning cloth and just take care of any little finger prints. Likewise check the door handles and the boot lock, because they could all have had inquisitive hands on them.
Tyres: you will obviously already have washed your wheels, tyres and wheel arches, but you might notice a nick in a tyre at the last moment. You could fill an old nail varnish bottle with black paint (and one with white paint, if you have white-wall tyres), then if you see a mark at the last moment, you can paint over it using the tiny brush affixed to the top of the nail varnish bottle.
Rubbish: check the region for rubbish like plastic and paper bags that could blow under your car. Of course, it is not technically your fault if someone has thrown their polystyrene hamburger box under your car or if a crisp packet gets blown against one of your wheels, but it still does not look good, so pick up any papers up wind of your car and check underneath for litter louts' rubbish.
When you see the judges on the car next door, stop fussing and calm yourself down. Take a couple of deep breaths and get ready to be genial and helpful towards the judges.
They will almost certainly have a couple of questions about your handiwork and this is your time to bathe in the glory of all your hard work.
It does not matter how much effort you have put in during the preceding twenty-four hours, the last twenty minutes is invariably the worst. You absolutely do need to have detailed your car the day before the show, but here are some quick detailing tips to keep you occupied during those last couple of minutes when you are at car shows.
Glass: check all the windows and the paintwork around the bottom of the windows. Little boys love cars, especially unique cars and one of them might have pulled himself up on your car door's 'window ledge' to have a better look inside. If he has dirty fingers, you have smudges.
Inspect your wing mirrors as well, because teenage girls will assess their make-up in them and may even pull them off line.
Judges are impressed by sparkling glass, so keep one of those cloths for cleaning glasses in a plastic bag in your pocket so that you can take care of any last minute smudges in a tick.
The cleaning cloths that you can get from opticians are perfect for this work as they clean without smearing and dry almost immediately. They are fairly cheap as well.
Chrome: the shiny chrome bumpers are just the correct height for kids to lay a hand on, so walk around the car with your optical cleaning cloth and just take care of any little finger prints. Likewise check the door handles and the boot lock, because they could all have had inquisitive hands on them.
Tyres: you will obviously already have washed your wheels, tyres and wheel arches, but you might notice a nick in a tyre at the last moment. You could fill an old nail varnish bottle with black paint (and one with white paint, if you have white-wall tyres), then if you see a mark at the last moment, you can paint over it using the tiny brush affixed to the top of the nail varnish bottle.
Rubbish: check the region for rubbish like plastic and paper bags that could blow under your car. Of course, it is not technically your fault if someone has thrown their polystyrene hamburger box under your car or if a crisp packet gets blown against one of your wheels, but it still does not look good, so pick up any papers up wind of your car and check underneath for litter louts' rubbish.
When you see the judges on the car next door, stop fussing and calm yourself down. Take a couple of deep breaths and get ready to be genial and helpful towards the judges.
They will almost certainly have a couple of questions about your handiwork and this is your time to bathe in the glory of all your hard work.
About the Author:
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on lots of subjects, but is at present involved with auto interior detailing. If you want some tips on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.
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