Clio cleaning care package?

[bvnditi]

Backstory time. Up until my Clio, car ownership for me has generally been about 99% modifying the tits out of a car's handling, 100% neglecting the car cosmetically save for a once-a-year valet, and 110% thrashing the s**t out of it late at night.

My Clio's grown on me to the point I've even turned down an ultra-rare Honda Fit 1.5RS AWD as a swap, and I'd even quite like to keep the thing not just "clean enough" but actually presentable and ideally well-put-together to the point I'm moulding in a lip kit and relacquering a carbon bonnet for it purely for looks. Unheard of.

As a complete newcomer to car cleaning (don't laugh ) , I'd be keen to put together a bit of a care package for the Clio. What would you guys recommend as the essentials? Any products, brands, etc you lot swear by?

Only bugbear is that I live in a city centre flat and thus don't have a driveway/hosepipe etc, it all needs to be stuff I can keep stored in the car.

Cheers, looking forward to both the learning experience and a squeaky-clean Clio.

 

[Matt Cup]

Sounds like a PITA with no water supply etc. I’m sure there are people on here that do it somehow.

But for example not too far from me is a car valet place where you pay a relatively small monthly subscription and you get unlimited washes, I’d probably just do that for convenience sake instead if they were a decent outfit.

 

[bvnditi]

Sounds like a PITA with no water supply etc. I’m sure there are people on here that do it somehow.

But for example not too far from me is a car valet place where you pay a relatively small monthly subscription and you get unlimited washes, I’d probably just do that for convenience sake instead if they were a decent outfit.

It's a little bit of a faff. Thankfully I've got a permit for a decent carpark, so other than the walk up of one of Bournemouth's many colossal hills to get to my car, it's a fairly bird poo/pollen/contaminant/idiot free space.

I'll do some digging to see if Bournemouth has something of the sorts RE paying for somewhere with unlimited washes. Google unfortunately comes up empty-handed but I know a couple of people fairly obsessive about keeping their motors clean (as is the case in a town full of conspicuous consumption) so I'll see if they know anywhere/anyone. Good shout, that.