Washing a White car

[PHILLIE PHANATIC]

I was planning on detailing my wife's white Mustang today. Last week someone at work told me that he knows some detailers that will wash a white car with bleach ! Has anyone ever heard of this? By the way I didn't use bleach, I didn't want to put that on her decals.

[LDM]

I've never heard of anyone doing it and it just sounds like a very bad idea to me.  Besides, the part you're washing on a white car is the same as on a black car: the clear coat.  For what it's worth I have a white car and would never use bleach to wash it.

[scociny]

This sounds like it started out as a joke and someone took it and ran with it as truth.  Do yourself a favor and wash your car with Adam's shampoo.

[Len]

Trying to picture what bleach would do to the tires and rubber trim...  Not pretty.

[PHILLIE PHANATIC]

This sounds like it started out as a joke and someone took it and ran with it as truth.  Do yourself a favor and wash your car with Adam's shampoo.

I do use Adams shampoo, but he wasn't joking. He said they wash paint only, not the whole car. Lets face I use bleach on my deck furniture it does clean well. Once again, I would NOT use it on a car. I will admit I use to use it on my camping trailer but after awhile it did a number on the decals. 

[Baron_Von_Awesome]

Bleach doesn't belong anywhere near a car - if you need some extra kick while washing, mix in some APC

[Mongosg8]

Wow!!! Never heard of that.

 

I leave the bleach for socks and whites. Not cars paint. The bleach will deteriorate the rubber & plastic.

[JBlack151]

Eeeek! Can you imagine how strong your vehicle would smell with that.

[Doug123]

Yeowch.  A wash, a good claying, and a polishing session ought to do wonders for white.  As said above, it's the clear coat that gets the work, not the underlying pigment.

[Team Adam's]

LOL... seriously? I'd love to hear the methodology behind his thinking. Thats like saying you should wash with Woolite Dark if you have a black or dark colored car... ya know, so the color doesn't fade

Edited July 5, 2013 by Dylan@Adams

[gencoupe3dot8]

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If your car is covered in white fabric

[LDM]

Makes perfect sense.....

 

 

 

If your car is covered in white fabric

 

[GerryC]

Does he also use whiteout as touch-up paint?

 

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[Rich]

As the owner of 2 white cars...............DON'T DO IT!

[CMDChase]

Guess that answers your question, Bob!!

[DeDonDeRosa]

The only thing I do if I have a very dirty stained white car is use a mixture of car shampoo and adams apc. Helps removed tough stained dirt easily, but never bleach lol

[Hot_Wheel]

There was a good thread about severe de-con of white cars with deep wheel cleaner, but I think that's as far as I would go...

[PHILLIE PHANATIC]

Guess that answers your question, Bob!!

Ed, I agree with everyone here, I didn't & won't do it to a car. I have put some bleach in the wash for a camper, worked good except for the decals. This was just something that I had heard from someone at work, and I was wondering if others have heard it. I'm a Chevy guy and I wouldn't even do it to my wife's Mustang. LOL. Certainly not my Corvette. Hey Ed "GO IRON PIGS"

[BRZN]

Now that's how to get your whites white!

No bleach added...

[gencoupe3dot8]

For white cars decon with DWC makes sense, as all normal claying, washing, polishing, etc... I do wonder, Rich, anything special you do for white to "pop"?  BG? What do you use as  you LSP?

[THE Mook]

For white cars decon with DWC makes sense, as all normal claying, washing, polishing, etc... I do wonder, Rich, anything special you do for white to "pop"?  BG? What do you use as  you LSP?

 

 

Making white "Glow" isn't all that hard with the new Polish Duo, QS, BG/APW combo.  I've had the pleasure of hitting a number of white vehicles lately, the Tundra specifically still just gleams in a dark warehouse...

 

Edited July 9, 2013 by Mook@Adams