Hello All, 

I have recently acquired my new car. An S5 in the stunning Navarro blue. It looks great and I’m already enjoying putting some mileage on it. That said, I’m having trouble keeping it in clean and shiny, largely due to where I live, the types of road and the occasional good dose bird crap. 
 

Has anyone got any tips for what I can keep in the boot for a mobile cleaning kit? 
Any advice is welcome 🙏 

Welcome Michael and thanks for joining.

It’s great that you want to keep a nice car in nice condition. 
For me, the first requirement would be - what not to use? - and that would be a pressure washer. I’ve seen too much lacquer degrading through using that method. 
Bucket, sponge and a hose pipe is my method, using a quality wax shampoo.

Keep the car well polished (after cleaning) and in case it helps, I’ve always used Autoglym resin polish. Tried many others but always returned to that.

Mobile cleaning kit?? Any degree of ‘spot cleaning’ when the car is in use, is likely to lead to lacquer scratching. If it were mine, I would simply carry a bottle of water and gently wash off any bird poo before giving it a good wash once home. I also use Autoglym glass polish, and their tyre dressing, together with interior cleaner as necessary.

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Hope some of this helps, 

Kind regards,

Gareth.