Here’s Car Care Tips to protect your car from Hard Colour Stain this Holi

Holi, the festival of colours! 

Car Care Tips

So, one day of fun wrapped with a touch of tradition!!

As everyone is known about the fact that Holi is very near or say just knocking at the door. Every Indian are super excited about this huge fest cum festival. It is that part of the year when the colours and water balloons are the instruments of fun. But what if you need to go somewhere on your love, here comes the tension part of Holi. Taking the car on road is always a nightmare for the car owners and they are sure enough to get ugly green, blue, pink and red stains all over the car. In short, its time when your love is at risk of getting abundant of colour stains. No matter how good you are in car care, these colours hamper your car anyways. Water and dry colours are not the real problems, it’s the chemically composed liquid colours that are not only pain to scrub off but can even end up in damaging the car coating along with the paintwork. 

Not just your car exterior is prone to hard Holi colour stains, but even your car upholstery, steering, wheels and everything that you come in contact with after getting coloured.  Nevertheless, you still have time to take precautions to ensure car safety as you enjoy your festival of colour. So, this The Detailing Mafia Blog bring few basic car care tips that you can go for to protect your prised asset.

Pre-Holi Car Care Activity: 

Pre-Holi Car Care

•    The first car care tips start from sorting out the parking space for your car. if you are lucky to have closed parking for your beloved, then your tension automatically lessens. However, if you are sharing the parking in the building, complexes, apartments or on road, then you need to act bit smart. It will be a wise idea to get a quality car cover for your car that covers up all segment of your car. Properly use the cover from roof to the car wheels and ensure that you tie up the knots tight so as to firmly maintain the cover over the car. this is the basic and fundamental and thumb rule to protect the car body from any Holi colour torture.

Isn’t it so easy, so waiting for what?

Go and have one good quality of car cover to protect your car. Avoid using fabricated cover, in place go for plastic or water-resistant one so as to repel coloured water from the sheet. Fabricated cover absorbs the water and down it will make coloured patches over your car coatings.

•    Next, what if you need to take your car on the road and everyone around is playing Holi. So, it is always a wise decision to prepare your car and kick up the car care before you hit the road. You might be thinking about what you can include in car care preparations to tackle colour bombardment over your car. the answer is car wax. You can easily get car wax in local auto stores or even online so getting car wax is not a tension but how to apply is bit issue and you need to think over it. You can easily apply car wax yourself by going through the instructions described in the manual provided. If you have doubt on yourself that you cannot apply yourself then don’t experiment. take your car to the hub of detailers and get your car professionally waxed. The idea of going for car wax is simply to ensure that the colour irrespective of tags like chemical free or eco-friendly, don’t end up causing harm to car paint or interiors. 

You might invest in car waxing to protect your car from Holi colours, but this investment will protect your car even after till 6 to 7 months. So, it is a long run preparation to protect your car from Holi colours for now and environmentally caused damages like swirl marks, marks and other for long terms. Remember, summer heats are just around the corners and is about to pop up so this wax will protect your car from harsh sun rays that comprise even UV rays.

•    No doubt, a fresh coated wax over your vehicle goes long way, but ceramic coating; part of car care can make things better for your love. If your car is new then, the professionals of The Detailing Mafia recommends you to get Teflon coating immediately for your factory shinning car paint. Yes, no doubt it will increasingly weigh on your pocket but being a car owner, you will thank us in the long run. Remember this. We are providing you temporarily to permanent car care options for your love.

•    While preventing the exterior of the car which seems to be the first action line for Holi, most of the car owners forget about the interior cleaning. Interior cleaning is an equally important part of car care like exterior car cleaning. The common mistake is overlooking the interiors that go dirty as kids, family or friends gets into the car with coloured hands and clothes, leaving nasty stains making car cleaning tough. So, cover the ever part of interiors with plastic as a protective measure. Not just seats, or carpets, you need to cover up the door handles, switches and infotainment systems. You can easily protect your car from the exterior by getting ceramic coating all over but you need to be conscious about interior even more in Holi.

Coloured patches over seats destroy the complete look of the car no matter how shiny your car is from outside.

•    It is recommended to rub less quantity of wax or protective oil lubrication over the dashboard or other plastic segments of the car. So, in case if you get colour marks over them, you can easily wipe them off using a clean microfiber cloth or if stains are bit tough, you can use a mild shampoo and a soft bristle cleaning brush and clean off the colour mark.

It is an easy car care tips, don’t you think so?

•    Keep the windows and door locked and glass should be raised. Right from colourful clouds to balloons filled with colourful water can get into your car through lower down glass sheet of the window. So, to avoid staining, better to lock up your windows.

Taken all precautions, but still, got marks over your car? Don’t worry.

•    That’s why there exist professionals and you should be heading to them. It’s always advisable to take your vehicle either it be car or bike to detailing outlets to get deep cleaning service after Holi. This recommendation is important as professionals exactly knows what to clean and how to clean the tough stains using the proper quantity of car cleaning products. From cleaning floor mats to cleaning car exhaust, they know exactly what treatment your car needs to remove stains from the car immediately after Holi. It’s always appreciated to get a prior booking so as to save your time and effort.

Post-Holi Car Care Activity:.

                           Post-Holi Car Care

The first thing that you need to consider as the post-Holi clean-up is to not allow the colour sit over the car for too long. Immediately wash the car using suitable car shampoo and then vacuum and dry-cleaning the interiors. For cleaning the interior, you can use household stain remover but avoid using to leather part.

If the colour stains get embedded in the car painted surface, don’t try to wash it off yourself. Get the car professionally detailed. They will start the process from preparing the car from preparing it by washing it thoroughly. Then moving down to the next step of rubbing and polishing. Your stains will be removed by this process but to get proper protection to your car, you can invest your money in getting a ceramic coating. The car wash is the initial process of getting your car completely cleaned.

Conclusion:

No matter how hard you try to protect your car in Holi from getting patches, you will always end up having a few minors to major marks. So, enjoy your Holi to fullest and leave the tension of the car to our professionals. The detailing Mafia is there to be the doctor of your car after Holi and consultant before Holi.

If you have better options to protect your car this Holi, we will be happy to know the suggestions.

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