How do you wash your R8 ?

[Rob A]

Some of us use their car on weekends only, while for others it is their daily driver.

Now how do you wash it?

[imclueless]

You should add a jetwash to your list

[Rob A]

I don't think that I can change the list unfortunately.

[R8RUNNER]

Lucky me... I have a "by hand" non-mechanical car wash less than one mile from my house. I typically do a quick detail to it when I get it home. I don't think I'll ever have some extra-detail it for me.

Silver w/darker silver blade - Light grey full leather - Manual - Magnetic Ride - Cruise control - Heated seats - Lumbar support - Auto-dimming heated outside mirrors - Auto-dimming interior mirror - Parking system - Nav - B & O - under seat storage - engine lights

[Mainy]

For me its :-

Jetwash to get rid of most of the crud

Foam to soak into any grime

Jetwash again

Hand wash using 2 bucket method

Jetwash again

Leaf blower to dry

And then theres the wax............

[randombloke]

There is only one local-ish hand car wash some 30 miles away and they aren't much cop so I decided to get off my backside and do it myself for this car (the m6 was silver and very forgiving). My routine is pretty much exactly the same as Mainy. The powerwash foamers are great - I use a mix of super snow foam and autoglym shampoo in mine.

I bought a leaf blower (ryobi RBV2400VP) but that turned out to be useless, so I bought a rinsepimp water filter which takes the tap water down to sub 20 parts per million meaning a final sheeting with the hose of that allows it to air dry with no residue - then I go over it with a quick blast of quick detailer to give the shine a bit of pop.

For main waxing I've been using some swissvax carbon but fancy giving the dodo juice supernatural a whirl.

For a really quick wash even just a non-touch jet, foam, jet, rinsepimp rinse leaves it looking better than the old hand car wash did.

The biggest ball-ache is the water in the engine bay/front boot - I can see why people suggest the carbon engine cover just for that.