Car Detailer Reacts to Tiktok Nightmares
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We asked a real car detailer to break down some of the worst car cleaning nightmares we could find on TikTok.
Huge thanks to our experts!
Kevin -- / steves_detail
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Surprised Sandro isn’t a detail expert too
He was busy doing a detailing job
But you know is
right 😂
+1
November is
“My name is Kevin. I own Steve’s.”
Bro what hahahahaha
Probably bought it off someone because the same was already known
@@ZaWrldo100% it was just funny as hell when he said it
Should change it to steevs of something
I had the same reaction 😁
He hiding from someone 👀
0:48 People are going to say, _"Whoa, you're going to use a motor fuel as a cleaning solvent?"_ when in fact we use a motor that happens to burn cleaning solvent as a fuel.
raw diesel works wonders on removing asphalt/tar from equipment also
@@widdly-scuds so does butter
you're gonna put solvent on paint? what's wrong with this picture
lighter fluid works really well too.
@@TheRealSykx I mean if gas damaged your paint, wouldn't filling up be a car ruining maneuver.
Kevin touches on the most important thing several times in this video - be patient and let the chemicals do the work. My grandfather, a product of the 50's, does not understand this concept. In his mind a chemical either works immediately or not at all, and it's absolutely infuriating.
Your grandfather feels that way because chemicals in the 50s did work right away. They were not watered down or made to protect the user or the material. His degreaser would melt the fat off your hand if you didn't respect it. Products today are made as safe as possible for human use. The shit in the 50s exposed you to everything short of gamma radation.
You’re blessed you have a grandfather bro
My father was the same way with tools. If it didn't do what he wanted right away it was a pos, didn't matter if he was using it wrong. He destroyed an expensive bit of a rotary tool because he jammed it into the work surface instead of slowly cutting it away, even after I told him not to do it that way. I knew how his mind worked.
@@ranwolf7650 cheers dude hope we don't slip into that sort of state 🍻🍻
@@TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd Tell me about it. My old man born '49, thinks there's a pill to fix everything. Any time someone has a debilitating issue his first words are always, "oh the doctors will prescribe a pill for that".
No dad, they're paralised from the waist down, there are no "pills for that".
Y'all missed Sandro. I know that man detailed some cars too.
I'd be surprised if he didn't know how to rebuild jet engines at this point.
he's built a turbojet....for the boys
@@zeroelusI can hear him saying this in my head
Didn't you know? That why he's not in this video. Got jets and jetpacks to engineer, man.
Is this cause he claimed to be a welder?
he rebuilt my low bypass turbofan recently. for the boys
Donut crew needs to have this guy detail their cars especially Jeremiah's Camaro! 😂
Found Jeremiah's alt
The civic gets my vote 😅
I been spraying my cologne in my cabin air filter since high school and it lasts anywhere from 15 mins to a few days only really worth it before a date
nsh they need him to give the jetta some love haha
@@someperson7their username checks out that’s for sure.
Mold isnt bacteria. It is a fungal growth. As a professional detailer myself, you need to choose the right products.
And a lot of anti-microbial may not be anti-fungal.
Thanks for mentioning this.... If he's thinking it's a bacteria he's going to treat the problem with the wrong methods. Not saying he's not good in other other areas but that's a bit of a lack of clear understanding.
Ammonia and water 50/50 in a spray bottle. Wait 10 minutes. Wipe down with moist rag.
Mold is NOT bacteria, its fungus. Still nasty in that amount in a car
That was really bugging me lol, glad I’m not alone
Same.
Who gives a fuck I was eating😂
@@BayAreaMike99 People who got past grade 6 give a fuck...
bacteria can grow into a mold spore stage which can look like mold
I appreciate Kevin talking about asking the customer regarding scents in a car. Personally I prefer to make the cars I clean smell like nothing other than the original components. It should be clean and odorless as much as possible. There are people who are very allergic to Febreze, as well as scented products like the Little Trees and wafers.
As a scent sensitive person I really appreciate him mentioning it.
Also as above. I have a difficult time even going near the isle in a store with all the cleaning products. Get light-headed from them too quickly.
BONING!
Those skeletons were BONING.
Ba dum tsss
Thank You!
What a missed opportunity for Nolan!!
100% this guys right about taking apart someone’s interior. He’s going to break clips and possible whole panels and then charge you too much??? Hell to the eff no. Most computers are under the seat so spraying water in them like they did in the last video is a great way to total your car
like watching those videos where someone is "cleaning" a video camera and dunks the whole thing in water
or a computer tower... electronics aren't dirty dishes
I've actually done something similar to the perfume on the air filter.
If you lay a little trees air freshener on top of the cabin air filter, you can get a similar effect for much longer.
maybe a laundry dryer sheet
I’ve done Febreze in my home AC filter and it works great. I would imagine this is better because it’s a smaller space.
I wouldn’t use the little trees just because that’s almost like buildup in the filter blocking the flow
Dryer sheet gang!
Little trees cause cancer.
Using a pumice stone works wonder for getting hair out of a car carpet.
As someone who works at a used car dealership (as a detailer), we see/smell some nasty vehicles, but make them as close to new as we can and as time is permitted. Worst we've been dealt is a mid-2000s chevy tahoe, it was rat infested. The boss man wanted to make a quick buck, rather than spend a little and replace all the seats that were breached, clean out the hvac "box", and just remove all traces of rat existence. Even after a dozen air fresheners and being ionized multiple times, it just stinks so bad. It's gonna be on the lot for a loooonngg time... 🤢
Worst I had was a cockroach infestation. Easily over 1000 roaches in that car and had like a quarter inch of grease melded solid to the carpet on both passenger and driver's side. Also had a bizarre smell to it, never smelt anything like it. 1 week we had a shipment of like 30 cars which all had piss on only the driver seats. That was really annoying. Seemed like someone was targeting those cars.
@ChillinHD 🤢, lol. Did you end up gutting the interior with all that grease? Also, the shop is finally gutting the tahoe and cleaning it up properly.
My 99 4Runner with 1 billion scratches/pin stripping from offroading: no fear I'll use that microfiber wash mitt I just dropped on the driveway
My 2024 Corolla I picked up yesterday (it is black): absolutely terrified to wash/detail
That guy rocks! Clearly an expert and fun to watch. Would like to see him again.
Speaking about using correct solvents, me and my mate tried to tint the windows on my car. We used way too much soap in the mixture, diluting the glue. What we ended up with was these awful (but hilarious) tinted curtains, hanging from the windows. We drove around town with those on for a day or two, with the boys peeking out at passersby. 😁
Lol
Mold is not bacteria -a bio major.
Pedantry aside, that old VW looked absolutely nuts
The dude in the vid was outright wrong multiple times lol. Lots of opinions that arent the only opinion
Even the “animal expert” was wrong in calling a groundhog/woodchuck a beaver.
And yet it won't grow anywhere without bacteria... hence you can clearly see it is the worst at the touch points in the vehicle where hands have been.
It's basically biohazard at that point.
@@cenciende9401 Mold will grow anywhere where its very humid and there is some sort of "food source". It will grow on insect eggs if its humid enough. (I unfortunately have first hand experience with that with a research project)
While you aren't wrong, things that also could be on the wheel that could probably provide food would be things like oils (like from your fingerprints and any products that the previous owner applied), dead skin cells and bacteria, but there's bacteria on basically everything.
Had an old car I was going to repair with my teenage boys. One parked it under a tree with the window cracked. I didn't know this. Two weeks later in the summer rain and heat...it was covered in mold on the inside. I sold it for scrap. The difficult thing about mold is that the spores are everywhere in there and mold can run the gamut from a good thing, to a deadly thing.
More Angelina and Sandro please.
I love videos like this. There's info I did know but it expands into info I didn't know. Any explanation given ties basic knowledge with a more specific breakdown
i have spent my time in detail before being a bodyman and i gotta say automotive detail is under rated and under appreciated... ask anyone to detail his/her own car and then they almost understand
A couple of youtube detailers I watch have done flood cars in the past and pressure washing is the best thing for it - can't make it any worse!
I've heard many hand car washers talk about the damage done by auto washes, but I've only ever seen one time where those kinds of claims were put to the test.
Car show "Fifth Gear" took three identical cars and had an expert detailer prepare the hood to the highest standards. They took one through a traditional automatic car wash, one through a self service jet and brush wash, and the last to a hand car wash.
Afterwards they had the detailer inspect the vehicles; and the one with the least damage to the paintwork was the automatic car wash. The hand car wash and self service jet wash cars were scratched to hell and back.
A really good hand detailer will of course be better than a car wash. But I wish they would stop telling people that hand car washers are the best option, because the majority of hands car washes are just like the clip with the guy dropping the sponge.
(You can find the video of that show on TH-cam, it was titled: "How Car Washes Damage Paintwork", and the channel name is Fifth Gear.)
The high pressure touch less are the way to go but you have to use them religiously. Serious grime needs a hand was
Why do "professional" detailers act like they've never heard of a touch-free automatic carwash?? They always always always default to smack talking the soft touch ones
A true touchless automatic car wash, as the word implies, doesn't actually touch the car with any kind of brush or scrub tool. It "cleans" with pressurized jets of water and foam guns. Personally I will never believe that such a wash actually cleans the car completely. I work in car rental cleaning cars, and you cannot clean a car with only a pressure washer and soap. A pressure washer strong enough to do that would damage the car. Even the pressure washers I use will damage a car if used incorrectly (window/door seals and some plastic parts are fragile). We use brushes to actually clean the car; pressure washing only rinses and helps remove major debris like mud.
So yeah, we smack talk automatic car washes in general because they are either not cleaning the car, or damaging the clearcoat. I have personally seen the damage caused by automatic "soft touch" machines used at airports.
It’s simple. No touch car washes “clean” by using a chemical that is strong enough to melt dirt off your car combined with ungodly pressure. Neither are good for any area of your vehicle and they were not made to withstand a high pressure acid bath thus the breakdown of components on your car.
@@annehaight9963 I'm not saying it's a good wash, I'm pointing out that all they ever talk about is the soft touch washes.
Interesting idea for the cabin filter. Home depot actually sells a spray for your furnace filter also, so it's not a new idea but it is a clever crossover.
I was about to say this
I was about to say this
I'd be cautious with that. Some dude sprayed cologne into his and ended up on just rolled in cause it melted his air vents somehow😅
@@neruwu it melted his air vents because it has alcohol in it.
@@samholdsworth420 ah ok thanks for the clarification. Do you know why\how the alcohol would do that?
I love this crew. They make every video entertaining, and as informative as possible! And I haven't found another channel like this!
You're so good at finding delightful and insightful professionals for these videos! Always a joy to watch!
Spraying the cabin filter will make it sticky, collect dirt, and clog it up.
That's what I was thinking. The spray will block the mesh in the filtration medium.
11:41 Have the AC on Not Circulate, spay scent on the plastic air intake just below windshield. Will make a hotbox smell like parfume quick!
Funny, I'm no detailer but I use the two buckets wash but also have tried that spray on cabin filter... lasts about a week lol
Yeah this guy is full of it
Very educational stuff man thanks alot donut!! 👍👍👍
Kevin is the real deal and after doing this for 14 years he has help me understand alof of things I didn’t really understand…
Thank you Kevin!
8:45: I go to automatic car washes when I get my car washed. But I go to touchless washers. Those are the ones the don't use brushes and just use water jets and air jets.
Yup. People are so proud of themselves for washing their cars by hand and shame automatic carwashes. But touchless have been around for years and are harmless
I'm an amateur detailer. I love it. I prefer detailing the outside of cars, rather than inside... But I do enjoy it.
I’ve had to dismantle three rat vehicles.
The worst was pulling the carpet and underlay and finding whole cookies!
Ppl spend ~$50k plus and treat the vehicle like a dumpster.
One vehicle had pooled liquid that looked like soya sauce…no idea what it actually was.
Wish I still had the video clips of this stuff.
Btw a tip for detailing acrylic windshields such as motorcycles:
If you have to get glue off like from duct tape, use a milder solvent like lighter fluid to get the glue off without damaging the acrylic. Acetone destroys it, gasoline makes it hazy, Goo Gone might not be enough, lighter fluid is just right.
But if that glue got baked on by the sun, it might be too late for the windshield though. Duct tape glue chemically bonds to acrylic over time, so even if it comes off you’re stuck with scars.
Just was on TH-cam searching for new episodes thanks guys !
I've used a dryer sheet over the cabin air filter, it worked for a day or so.
As someone that details vehicle other detailers won't the mold in a car isn't that bad to remove. You need some extra PPE and a few different chemicals especially something that gets into the HVAC system to kill the mold and replace the cabin air filter if it has one. I've cleaned several mold cars in my career and the mold has never come back.
The detailing videos can be some of the best tips and knowledge out of all the vids. Keep making them
5:10 so obviously most people dont know this; but mold is NOT bacteria, its fungus, antibacterials often dont work on fungus.
I once had a rather large jar of pickle juice dump out all over the floor of the front passenger seat in my car. It completely soaked the floor to the point of getting an actual puddle. My method of cleaning was as follows:
Soak up the pickle juice.
Use a shop vac to vacuum the juice in the carpet.
Soak carpet in water and soap.
Use a rag, sponge, and brush to scrub at it.
Suck it out with shop vac and more rags.
Repeat for like two hours straight, leave it overnight with windows cracked to dry (it was summer), repeat the following the day to get any remaining pickle juice that had dried.
Hang an air freshener to counter remaining pickle smell.
As far as I know, it worked. I haven't smelled pickles in there in a long time. How do y'all think I did?
Son got his cal "Professionally detailed" before a car show a few years back, and it came out pretty much like the second car. Took me 2 days to get the swirls out when he got back.
0:50 in the Netherlands you can buy cleaning gasoline in most grocery stores. It's a fairly popular cleaning liquid over here.
Less tutorial and more fails
Couldn’t click faster love these!!! Love you Donut Crew!!
for real man
100%, I love their videos
That bubble hood had me.. beluga whale
Great video, would love to see him back!
Can Sandro just be a permanent host at this point!
I was just out of high school working at a car dealership cleaning cars over the summer, and more than once I found a pile of bones from chicken wings under seats......more than once! WHY!?!
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at the hood wrap "bubble"!
Yes i needed this it made my day
I absolutely love detailing content
I put a Febreze small spaces air freshener in my glove box. The scent builds up in the glove box and gets pulled into the cabin air filter, distributing it through the vents.
I knew a lot of things that Kevin mentioned in this video but also learned a lot.
We need more shop dogs at donut
James isn't enough loud, chaotic energy?
I was in collision repair school. About 5 months in I tear a hummer h3 done all the way inside. It was leaking and flooding so I ripped the carpet up all by myself and put it all back together. Twice 😂
The second clip reminds me what my mom did with a Green Scrubbing Pad on the Family Van and telling me, "see it works", I just shook my head and had to tell my dad what my mom did, and oh yeah, he was pissed.
Always rinse your car before you car wash especially if you live in a dirt/sand environment. As the car wash starts to flush out these items it scratches your paint. Can’t see the stuff until you start rinsing the vehicle. I learned the hard way
This is the reasoning behind using a foam cannon on a handwash. Foam soap encapsulates those grains and makes them slide inside the very slippery soap preventing the “sandblasting” you are talking about.
Guys got unshakable confidence
im defo guilty of droping the sponge more than once in my life
Great video. Love the knowledge this guy has on his trade and super funny to see all the fails. Am I the only one who finds it funny/interesting that KEVIN own's STEVE'S Detailing? lol
Someone needs to tell Gramps that mold is not bacteria, it's a fungi, just like him! 😄😉
My dad was a detailer and my brother and I both worked for him as a kid. It makes me tear up a little that I know what this man knows.
Genuinely helpful advice 👌
Where my boy Sandro at?
Very informative!
Squeezing more value outta those graphics, love it
YES! Kevin you the man! thank you for being scent-sensitive minded.
I always hands wash my cars, they don’t accept it anyways in drive in car washes. But me washing it is very therapeutic
I get this. Hand washing after using a foam cannon, while listening to music is very Zen.
Me not getting notified was a fail.... luckily I opened TH-cam literally a minute after uploading lol
Same !!!
$200 and he says “you get what you pay for” 🤯
$200 “detail” gets you quick in and out, sloppy work that liable to damage your paint. To properly detail a car takes a lot of prep, no way you’re gonna get quality work for that price.
Yeah, and the point was that Nolan paid $200 to have his car look worse than when it started. Dude is kind of annoying.
When I was a detailer a coworker asked me what I'd charge to detail his truck.
I said "$75 per hour".
He laughed at me, and I told him to go find someone cheaper. he tried. He couldn't. His truck never got detailed.
You should see what a $75 "detail" gets you (silicone dressing all over the interior, without cleaning first, and applied haphazardly).
I did that kind of full vehicle breakdown with stereo and av installs. Crossed over to the detailing industry well.
I've removed seats to carpet clean under them, I've done this in my own vehicles, despite never being approved by a single factory.
Very nice episode, cool guy, with lots of expirience
Growin up on a farm we always got told "dont let stuff sit and if you do check the air filter and so on for mice." Or acorns or whatever.
no bullshit, i did the cabin air filter trick a couple years ago, and *soaked* it with a spray scent. popped it back in and let it sit overnight. Next day turned my a/c on and it smelled great! That war right before bubbles started pouring out of my vents haha.
With the dropped sponge part, I remember in a club in high school we wanted to do a car wash fundraiser and they said no specifically because the concern that a rock could get into a sponge/rag and scratch up a car. And this was back in the 90’s (I wonder if the school said no because someone in the district already scratched a car)
I bought an old k5 blazer a few years ago and when we opend the dash up there were wunderbaum vanilla trees in every went .
I'm not a detailer, but i know pretty much everything he knows.
I just use that knowledge on my own car, rather than charging others to do theirs.
Yup. I love how he acts like it's industry secrets when any decent detailing tutorial on TH-cam tells you all the same info. And a lot of it is just connon sense. this guy is full of himself
@bAc0nBoY755 it's business to them. They want to make people feel like they're going to wreck their car, so they spend hundreds, sometimes thousands for them to do it.
11:10 this cabin air filter "hack", I've done it before. I had an 05 Altima at one point, and I was going to change the cabin filter, but until then, I took the old one out, blew it all out with compressed air, then in the detail bay, he had this strong cherry scented freshener in a spray bottle. So I sprayed down my filter with that, let it sit for the afternoon and dry into the filter, then sprayed it down again after work when I put it back in the car. Lasted about a week or so tops, but it does indeed work. Dont spray it too much or you'll be damn near choking on it and cant crank the fan to get fresh air 😂
On a car that it's easy to access, sure. But like a Nissan Versa where you gotta pull the pedals out of the car or half the dash to get to it, no thanks lol
That mold happened to my VW Bug, too. Never could get rid of it all. :(
I stick the new car scent tree on my cabin filter too 😅.
It does work but you don't want to do a whole fresh tree otherwise the smell becomes so strong it's almost sickening. I just do the standard little snip of the plastic and leave a section showing and shove it in there.
No, it doesn't last long. You'd have to adjust the plastic every couple weeks. For some cars that's harder than others.
"go with the body lines, do not go up and down"
2 minutes later "3 stripes you'll go this way, then up down....."
That last car was the moldy Volkswagen from the beginning!!! You can just barely catch a glimpse of a VW logo in the car that's getting sprayed 😅
"You're going to leave that car looking like you can walk into it" goes hard
I cleaned out an old Porsche that had some mold all over the interior, wants nearly as bad but still took a long time to get all the spots
The scent on the cabin air filter is an old trick.
At Christmas, my dad would spritz some evergreen essential oil on the filter for our forced air furnace, so the whole house smelled like a freshly cut Christmas tree, long before cars had cabin air filters.
It's a neat 'hack' for a custom air freshener scent for sure, but it wont last for very long as pointed out.
Ohhh for that last clip. First two seconds.
"Well you're losing your speakers now, you're just soaking them. Doors aren't THAT hard to clean my guy."
Next 2 seconds.
"OH DEAR GODS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?"
NGL, that hood wrap blown up like balloon had me rollin'! 🤣
I’ve surprisingly never picked a rag or any washing material off the ground while detailing my car. Not a single time in my life. The first day my dad taught me to detail my car he told me, if it touches the ground, it goes in the trash. Not the washer, but the trash.
I like how he shames Nolan a couple times. That was very funny 😂😂😂
Pineapple juice could work well for specifically American cheese. It has an enzyme that breaks down proteins
Best detergents/solvents ever. Gas, diesel, and ATF. Good show fellas
Hey man to speed up the process I run my car through a touch less automatic wash and then I detail it after my paint is still perfect from the factory and it’s a 2007 🤷♂️
We have a company that comes once a week to clean our fleet, and they use a pressure washer. Every Ford has chipped paint from it, and heaven forbid you ask them to degrease the engine bay. You'll have to change out your spark plugs because of water in the coils.
the bubbled wrap on the audi made me laugh out loud
As a mechanic, detailing something I just can’t do well. Really enjoyed this more than the rest of the material for some reason.
C'mon Nolan, you missed it - the 2 skeletons were boning
Putting a single little tree on your cabin air filter last longer than a couple sprays on it, but it doesnt work on all cabin filters like the dodge challengers where the filter sits under the hood cowl on its side. In that case it would just fall out.
Wasn't said in the video for the video with the balloon but a charged plastic bag can pick up hair too, I replace garbage bags at work and they like to stick to my jeans and work shirt when the bags are charged from walking in the hallway or up and down the stairs.