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Originally Posted by rellascout
When I wash my M3 or M550iX I rinse it first with a pressure washer. This removes a lot of the heavy debris. From there I foam it with a foam cannon. I let it sit for about 5 minutes and make sure not to let it dry. If it is hot out I do it in sections not the entire car. I then rinse the foam off. The foam in theory frees up and coats the particulates on the car. I then rinse them off safely with a pressure washer.
From there I do a 3 bucket wash. I start with the wheels. I spray them down with the cleaner of my choice and let it dwell. I then go back to the first one I sprayed and use wheel woolies and a rinse bucket, bucket #1, with a grit guard to clean the wheels. I get in the barrel, spokes etc... I then spray off with the pressure washer and move to the next wheel. Once the wheels and the wheel wells are done I then move on to the car body. My wheels have been ceramic coated so the scrubbing is minimal. The cleaner and the pressure washer are doing most of the work because the brake dust does not stick to the wheels.
I use the standard 2 bucket method and wash the car. I use a separate mitt for the rocker panels and lower bumpers. The other mitt never touches those lower surfaces. I then rinse it with the pressure washer and dry it. It take about an hour or so to do the M3. Both cars have their high impact areas wrapped and then coated with Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra Black. Both make cleaning the cars easier.
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This sounds almost exactly like my routine, except no pressure washer so it's just garden hose spray and that cheapo "foamer" I have. Sometimes for the wheels I just spray it with the soap mix and then brush everything off vs. using a dedicated wheel cleaner - mine is not a DD and gets washed every 200 miles or so; so getting brake dust off is still pretty easy even without any coatings.
Also takes about an hour to do my M550 including a quick vacuum and dust-off of the interior. I don't mind the time really, but it's hot as balls outside right now so I have been looking for ways to make it go a little faster. Also every other time I'm also washing the wife's car and my 4Runner, so it turns into an entire morning and shade from the house/trees is gone by the time I'm on the last car.