Cleaning Residue

[MadAsToast]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to actually cleaning my cars (previous car washing was giving a tenner to the 6 guys staning on a garage forecourt) however since I got the clio I seem to actually care about cleaning it.

I'm having a slight problem with a milky sheen being left behind, this sheen doesn't seem to be doing any harm but would really like to get to the bottom of it - I use the same cleaning routine (see below) on both cars (my Clio and my partners Fiat 500) the sheen isn't a case of wiping it over to remove, it seems to be quite resilient.

The cleaning routine is (bodywork, ignoring the wheels etc as that's not relevant to the sheen):

Rinse car over (Jet Wash)
Snowfoam
Rinse (Jet Wash)
Wash car - Using DoDo juice (Born to be Mild, diluted using directions) & Wookie's Fist (long haired version)
Rinse Car (Jet Wash) - at this point the sheen is visible on area's that water had run off)
Dry using drying towels.

When it first happened on my car I thought I might have got the snowfoam mix to rich, and turned the mixture right down on the lance, I might be completely wrong but not 100% sure on whether to dilute the snowfoam in the lance, or let the lance mixer control the dilution, the instructions aren't actually helping with that issue either.

So guess the questions I have are:

What is leaving the sheen behind?
Do I mix the snowfoam with water in the bottle (on the lance) or does the lance controls take care of that enough?

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

MadAsToast

 

[The Boosh!]

Take some pictures of it next time mate, as it may be easier to tell you what it is.

Regarding snow foam, in my experience it doesn't matter dilution rates wise. I just kinda guess. Fill the bottle up from empty and put about2-3 cm of snow foam in followed by warm water.

My only GUESS is you are leaving the snow foam on too long. But even then it only leaves a white thin foam type residue, not a sheen as such!

Seems odd!

 

[MadAsToast]

Cheers for the reply, I will take photo's next time.

I'm only leaving the foam on for 3-5 miunutes tops, but guess I might have to try removing one of the steps at a time to see which step is leaving the sheen.

 

[DrR]

Try using just the hose to rinse off? I find jet wash crap for that.

 

[MadAsToast]

Indeed, I turn the pressure almost off - it's almost like a shower rinse.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Marc.]

I had the same issue - turned out that by diluting the snow foam with warm water solved it.

 

[MadAsToast]

ahhh - excellent, I will try that next time around.

Thanks alot for the comment, hopefully that should resolve it then