Bri

Whoa!!! Great job!!!

So you just put dawn in a bucket of water and wash the undercarriage like washing the paint? Or do you put the dawn directly on a damp microfiber and scrub? Did you rinse it or just let it be afterwards? Thanks.

MyBrainHeadache

Hi…I mix dawn in a bucket…drop the microfiber in….wring it out….go to detail town…remember…if you don’t touch it…it wont be clean…every detail and cranny needs to be wiped…a bucket with fresh water and microfiber to just wipe rinse….then apply Wd40 / Fluid Film on Micro and wipe it all down…still looking great…you may have to take more time and use a spray degrease if you got some of that prior to the whole process. Good luck…work slow and one component at a time…don’t rush to another component until you are happy with it…seeing the completed component gives visual motivation to continue

SheDrivesIt

I'd rather drive my car. To each his own, I guess.

USN_MSC

I think the OP said the car has 80K+ miles. Clearly it is driven...

MyBrainHeadache

Well aren’t you a special kind of sweetness….I drive the shit out of it lady. I also am smart enough and talented enough to take care of it so someone will get a very nice car someday….just a different view of the world we have….to each their own.

SheDrivesIt

Actually, he gives no real idea of how much he drives the car. Just sounds like he bought it roughly a year ago and is obsessed with cleaning the under carriage. I, personally, would think that there might be value in cleaning up and treating the rubber bits under there but it's not really worth the effort since I don't have my own lift but would consider that if I did. I don't clean or polish my stainless steel cat back exhaust either by it doesn't hurt anything. I find that the under carriage gets rinsed pretty thoroughly when driving in a rainstorm but it does leave a bit of grit and road grime but that's really unavoidable if you travel hundreds or more miles away from home.

SheDrivesIt

Look, bud, you're the one who labelled it as Obsessive Compulsive behavior. Not me. I agreed with that and stated that I'd rather drive the car than clean it (especially the under carriage). It's just the kind of guy I am.

Look under my car and you will find a nice light coating of road grit, road oils, brake dust, driveway gravel dust, mud splatter, you name it. You will find after 19 years and 150K miles or so that the unprotected iron bits have some surface rust and that the painted, coated, plated, and aluminum parts are merely grimy but they do get washed off by under spray from the roads.

Honda did a really nice job of protecting the bottom of the car. Most S2000s I've seen the bottom of look similar. The only times I've seen any real corrosion is in pictures of cars that were winter driven on salty roads or that live near the sea shore.

How about you do you and I'll do me. Then again, this IS an obsessive compulsive kind of subforum so I'll just finish with " Looks very nice (and it really does) but it's not for me. "