Everybody wants their car to be freshly detailed - after all, who doesn't love the shine, the factory-new tire & wheel look, the fresh smell, the clean interior and, of course, the looks your ride gets. But is detailing really optional or is it a fundamental need- something you've really just got to do like changing the oil and checking your tire pressure?
It turns out that detailing isn't just all about looks - or higher resale value. It's about the basic health and safety of your car and avoiding very expensive exterior and interior repairs. Check out these 5 key reasons to Keep On Detailing:
1. Restoring or maintaining headlight safety and visibility. There's nothing more important than your family's safety. Yet over time, UV rays, road salt and grime make today's plastic and polycarbonate headlight lenses become all yellow, cloudy, and faded. This creates a real nighttime driving safety hazard that can cut your visibility distance by 60% or more. Using an Enthusiast Grade® quality product like the Surf City Garage Ultra-Clear® Headlight Restoration Kit gives you maximum visibility and safety, because your eyes are only as good as your headlights.
2. Stopping faded, cracked, ruined interiors. Summer sun really does a number on your interior. UV rays combined with intense interior heat dry up your expensive leather seats, eventually causing unsightly splitting and cracking - and permanent fading. Plastic dashes don't fare much better. Our Enthusiast Grade® interior products, Dash Away® Interior Detailer and Voodoo Blend® Leather Rejuvenator, have powerful protectants to stop UV rays from causing this expensive damage. Dash Away's cleaners prevent spilled food and dirt from being baked into your interior surfaces. Voodoo Blend actually replenishes the natural oils in leather to keep it all looking like new. So avoid that embarrassing interior that looks like Leatherface and costs thousands of dollars to refurbish - and get one that looks factory new season after season.
3. Saving The Clearcoat and Stopping The Rust. High quality #1 carnauba wax sure does leave a great shine, but its most important function is protection. A wax is really a sacrificial coating that sits on top of your clearcoat, so instead of losing part of your clearcoat, you just lose a little bit of easily replaceable wax. Without wax, UV rays and environmental contaminants - and even things like bushes and tree branches - will keep damaging your clearcoat until you ultimately need a new, very expensive paint job. And without protection, road grime, salt, tar and bugs increase oxidative damage (better known as rust). The solution is to make our wax feel the pain, not your clearcoat. Start with our #1 Enthusiast Grade® carnauba wax like our Barrier Reef® (available as Paste Wax, Liquid Wax, Spray Wax) 3-4 times a year and then take 5 minutes a week with Speed Demon Wax™ Detailer. And here's a Speed Demon secret: weekly use means you can skip that expensive car wash entirely. Your car can actually last even longer because it won't be exposed to the very aggressive chemicals that commercial car washes use.
4. Extending your tire life. Who likes buying new tires and laying out a hundreds of dollars at a time? But you may not know that UV rays can actually cause rubber to degrade, so your tire ages faster. Sure, eventually you'll have to replace your tires due to tread wear, but using the right dressing and protectant - Beyond Black® Tire Pro Dressing (use it right after Beyond Steel Tire & Wheel Cleaner) - will help them last as long as possible.
5. Preserving your paint from the onslaught of summer's paint-etching bugs. "Bugs" and "favorite" don't go together for most people, but the worst thing about insects is that even after they're dead, they keep harming your paint. That's because they contain acid (some, like the infamous Love Bugs in the Southeastern USA, are considered the most paint-damaging insects known to man), acid that permanently etches and ruins your paint. Now you can't stop bugs from hitting your car - but what you can do is not just remove the bugs but neutralize that acid. That's the key to Road Trip™ Grime Destroyer - it totally destroys grime and neutralizes acid, making it a favorite among enthusiasts who live in Love Bug territory. Road Trip is literally the difference between a new, expensive paint job and a beautifully aged paint job untouched by all of those bugs.
For a lot of people, times are tough. But the right detailing can actually extend the life of your exterior, your interior and your tires, saving you thousands of dollars and even keeping your family safer. So this summer, remember that there's a lot more to detailing than just shine - although that's a pretty good thing, too!
Surf City Garage™ Premium Car Care Products. If you love your ride, treat it to the best car care products on the planet with waxes, polishes, exterior and interior cleaners from Surf City Garage. We're the only company in the business that restores and maintains its own collection of over 125 vintage muscle cars. Every single one of our products is formulated to our specs and manufactured by us right here in the USA. Put us to the test on your Hot Rod today. Try ours on one-half and your favorite product on the other. Then, if our products aren't the best you've ever used, we'll give you your money back and pay the shipping, no questions asked. At Surf City Garage, Your Ride's Worth It.
Surf City Garage
5872 Engineer Drive
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
1(866)970-SURF(7873)