Step 1 - The Two-Bucket Wash Method Setup
Before rinsing your car, it is essential that you use two buckets when washing your car. This method is called the "two-bucket wash method". Why two buckets? Just stop and think for a moment how most people wash their car. Yup, your assumption is correct, most people wash their car with just ONE bucket. They most likely put soap it it, fill it water, get a rag, spary their car down, and start washing.
You may be asking yourself, what is wrong with that? Well, by doing that, you are repeatedly putting the rag into the wash bucket, rinsing it out and getting more suds (aka foam). Using a single bucket implies putting a rag into dirty water and using that dirty water/soap mixture to wash. This "Single-bucket method" will lead to inevitable scratches on your cars paint!
Fortunately, there is a solution! An easy and effective fix to this is simply to use two buckets (aka two-bucket method). One bucket for water only (a rinse bucket) and the other bucket for a soap/water mixture (a wash bucket). 5-gallon buckets are highly recommended for this method as two-gallong buckets are simply too small. Click on the video for more details!
Step 2 - RINSE!
Thoroughly rinse your car with a decent strength spray of water from your garden hose with a nozzle to remove as many initial contaminants as possible. Pay particular attention to the wheel wells and the wheels as these areas are breeding grounds for dirt/grime/oil/tar etc.
