Quick Detailing Tips For Car Shows If you exhibit your car at car shows, you will know the tension that exhibitors experience in the final 20 minutes before the judges are due to come around to look at your pride and joy. It is the same sort of stress that animal breeders and would-be beauty queens feel when it comes to the final moments. It does not matter how much effort you have put in during the preceding twenty-four hours, the last twenty minutes is invariably the worst. You absolutely do have to have detailed your car the day before the show, but here are some quick detailing tips to keep you busy during those last couple of minutes when you are at car shows. Glass: check all the windows and the paintwork at the bottom of the windows. Little boys love cars, especially beautiful cars and one of them may have pulled himself up on your car door's 'window ledge' to get a better look inside. If he has dirty fingers, you have smudges. Inspect your wing mirrors too, because teenage girls will check their make-up in them and might even pull them off line. Judges are impressed by sparkling glass, so keep one of those cloths for cleaning spectacles in a plastic bag in your pocket so that you can take care of any last minute smudges in a jiffy. The cleaning cloths that you can buy from opticians are great for this work as they clean without smearing and dry almost instantly. They are fairly cheap as well. Chrome: the shiny chrome bumpers are just the right height for kids to touch, so walk around the car with your optical cleaning fabric and simply take care of any little finger prints. Likewise check the door handles and the boot lock, because they could all have had inquisitive hands on them. Tyres: you will obviously already have washed your wheels, tyres and wheel arches, but you may notice a nick in a tyre at the last moment. You could fill an old nail varnish bottle with black paint (and one with white paint, if you have white-wall tyres), then if you see a blemish at the last moment, you can paint over it using the tiny brush attached to the top of the nail varnish bottle. Rubbish: check the area for rubbish like plastic and paper bags that could blow under your car. Of course, it is not technically your fault if someone has thrown their polystyrene take-away box under your car or if a crisp packet gets blown against one of your wheels, but it still does not look good, so gather up any papers up wind of your car and check underneath for litter louts' rubbish. As soon as you see the judges on the car next door, stop fussing and calm yourself down. Take a couple of deep breaths and prepare to be genial and helpful towards the judges. They will almost certainly have a couple of questions concerning your handiwork and this is your time to bathe in the glory of all your gruelling effort.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is currently concerned with auto interior detailing. If you want some tips on detailing cars go over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.