🚫 Top 5 mistakes to avoid when washing your car

1. Wash in direct sunlight

Why this is a mistake:

• Water dries too quickly → traces of limescale
• Shampoo can "cook" onto the bodywork
• Poor application comfort

Solution :
🚗 Work in the shade , on a cold body , ideally early in the morning or at the end of the day.

2. Use a regular or dirty sponge

Why this is a mistake:

• The sponge retains hard particles (sand, dust)
• This creates micro-scratches from the first pass

Solution :
🧤 Use a soft, clean microfiber glove dedicated to car washing.
👉 The ProShineAuto glove picks up dirt without letting it slide onto the paint.

3. Wash without pre-washing

Why this is a mistake:

• If you scrub a dirty body, you also scrub... the grains that cover it.
• This causes micro-scratches that are invisible to the naked eye but very real .

Solution :
🧼 Apply active foam with a foam cannon or sprayer.
It removes dirt before any manual contact.
🧪 Our ProShineAuto Fresh Foam Active Foam is ideal for this step.

4. Use only one bucket for washing

Why this is a mistake:

• If you rinse your glove in soapy water, you reintroduce the dirt onto the bodywork.

Solution :
🪣 Adopt the two-bucket method :

• 1 bucket with shampoo
• 1 bucket with clean water to rinse the glove

💡 Bonus: add a grit guard to prevent residue from remaining on the surface.

5. Let air dry

Why this is a mistake:

• Water droplets leave traces of limescale
• In summer, the effect is even worse

Solution :
💨 Always dry with an XXL drying microfiber , ultra absorbent, clean and soft.
👉 At ProShineAuto, our microfibers are designed to dry quickly without leaving any traces .

✅ Summary: mistakes to avoid