How To Make Your VW Show Ready!

Mark shows us the best way to clean your VW. Removing all the grime & giving it that extra sparkle!

(00:00) Welcome to Just Kampers, in this video I'm going to go through a few basic cleaning and detailing tips, so the first thing I've done is rinsed off the van I've rinsed off all around underneath the wheel arches and off of all the loose dirt around the side, get that removed first and then we'll make sure we've got two buckets, one bucket for soapy water and one bucket for clean water and one sponge. My bucket of soapy water with our car shampoo is obviously for cleaning the van, a bucket of clean water is for rinsing our

(00:27) sponge this helps prolong the life of our soapy water for as long as possible, also helps us prevent putting grit and dirt back on our panel, so that's the van washed and dried. You may think that's it finished, further work to do on some of the panels .I can still feel some roughness and that's ground-in dirt or Fallout that's actually attached itself to the paintwork so the way to remove that is by use of a clay. So I've got a small piece of clay here, I'm just going to use a squirt of lubricant on the panel and then I'm

(00:59) going to rub the clay across the panel and this will pick out all the dirt and Imperfections off the top of the paintwork you can actually hear it picking up the dirt you just have a little fill to fill it's nice and smooth nice and smooth this will also help pick off um tar residue as well over what we thought was a clean panel just picked up a load of dirt so now we use a compound or a polish, so the difference between polished and wax polish has an abrasive in it, wax is just a nice shiny coating so we need something with a bit of cut in it with a

(01:39) bit of abrasiveness and this will help take out some of the marks that possibly the claying has left in we can now buff that compound off or polish. Next stage is to apply a wax now we let that dry off and haze up and then we can buff that off we continue that process panel by panel all the way around the van. We'll end up with some really beautiful smooth paintwork and sealed in with a nice wax and that will help prevent the water and the dirt sticking to it. so next time we wash it you'll notice how easily everything beads off of it.