Favorite method for spot cleaning?

[Airtrade]

A few days in with a black car and fingerprints and smudges are driving me crazy!
What products and methods would be optimal?

I have followed and purchased quite a bit of items from the beginners thread. Is ONR a good spot cleaner as well?

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[Magic88]

A few days in with a black car and fingerprints and smudges are driving me crazy!
What products and methods would be optimal?

I have followed and purchased quite a bit of items from the beginners thread. Is ONR a good spot cleaner as well?

You bought a black car, there is no such thing as spot cleaning...

 

[Alan Applegate]

When you live in SE New Mexico, one does not buy a dark-colored car! Unless if course you think they're cool? They are not! Especially so when the outside temp is 100°+ in the shade and there isn't any shade!

Oh, and finger prints don't show.

 

[Supraman]

I remember an interesting news story from 30 years ago. A local junior high science class convinced the local Ford dealer to let them conduct an experiment. They placed thermometers in 100 Ford Taurus where they could be observed through a window and monitored them on a Sunday while the dealer was closed. The kids recorded the temperatures hour by hour throughout the day and crunched the data in class the following week. They found that the exterior color of the cars made no difference in the interior temperatures. There was however only a difference in temperature based on the color of the interior. Darker interiors would heat up much faster and peak out a couple of degrees higher, but within their margin of error so it wasn't conclusive.

I used to like silver back in the 80s until they figured out a formula that would last out in the sun and then it became popular with all the non-car-people who never wash their cars. So now I won't buy a silver car. Had a black Lexus for a while and that was really maddening for me, trying to keep it up. Only way I'd have a black car would be as a show car that only gets uncovered for a few hours at a time. My Jaguar is called "Caviar" which is like a really dark metallic purple. Just enough metallic that it can tolerate a little dust but still frustrating here where in Texas where we get all our rain in like two big storms a year, one just in time to spawn pollen season. I wished for lighter metallic blue Mustang as a daily driver color, but I didn't really like the Grabber blue or that more grey-than-blue color that I forgot the name of. Also have a white Jaguar that's hard to keep clean so I didn't want white again.

So I feel with you in Atlas Blue here. No way to really close the trunk without fingerprints. Try to reach over and push on the little horsey but I'm short. Bad enough around the door handle. Never had a ceramic coating before so I thought I'd try and see if it would help on the Mustang. Had a professional ceramic coat which actually seems to have made it fingerprint worse and attracts dust just as bad. Keep a spray bottle of diluted Ech2o as recommended by the guy who did the ceramic in the trunk along with a microfiber towel and am frequently wiping. Next thing you're going to see me wearing white gloves.

What you and I probably need, rather than a new cleaning product, is a psychiatrist to treat us for OCD.

 

[DFB5.0]

A few days in with a black car and fingerprints and smudges are driving me crazy!
What products and methods would be optimal?

I have followed and purchased quite a bit of items from the beginners thread. Is ONR a good spot cleaner as well?

Any of the rinse-less wash products mixed at the waterless wash rate will do the job.

I use ONR for this role myself, either at the quick detailer or waterless wash dilution ratio. Just make sure you use plenty of product and flip your towel often.

 

[Magic88]

I remember an interesting news story from 30 years ago. A local junior high science class convinced the local Ford dealer to let them conduct an experiment. They placed thermometers in 100 Ford Taurus where they could be observed through a window and monitored them on a Sunday while the dealer was closed. The kids recorded the temperatures hour by hour throughout the day and crunched the data in class the following week. They found that the exterior color of the cars made no difference in the interior temperatures. There was however only a difference in temperature based on the color of the interior. Darker interiors would heat up much faster and peak out a couple of degrees higher, but within their margin of error so it wasn't conclusive.

I used to like silver back in the 80s until they figured out a formula that would last out in the sun and then it became popular with all the non-car-people who never wash their cars. So now I won't buy a silver car. Had a black Lexus for a while and that was really maddening for me, trying to keep it up. Only way I'd have a black car would be as a show car that only gets uncovered for a few hours at a time. My Jaguar is called "Caviar" which is like a really dark metallic purple. Just enough metallic that it can tolerate a little dust but still frustrating here where in Texas where we get all our rain in like two big storms a year, one just in time to spawn pollen season. I wished for lighter metallic blue Mustang as a daily driver color, but I didn't really like the Grabber blue or that more grey-than-blue color that I forgot the name of. Also have a white Jaguar that's hard to keep clean so I didn't want white again.

So I feel with you in Atlas Blue here. No way to really close the trunk without fingerprints. Try to reach over and push on the little horsey but I'm short. Bad enough around the door handle. Never had a ceramic coating before so I thought I'd try and see if it would help on the Mustang. Had a professional ceramic coat which actually seems to have made it fingerprint worse and attracts dust just as bad. Keep a spray bottle of diluted Ech2o as recommended by the guy who did the ceramic in the trunk along with a microfiber towel and am frequently wiping. Next thing you're going to see me wearing white gloves.

What you and I probably need, rather than a new cleaning product, is a psychiatrist to treat us for OCD.

This would make a great Christmas present for you

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1437764215/2015-mustang-diy-trunk-pull-tab-only

I had the same concern with my ocd about fingerprints. Works like a charm

 

[Illini4]

Any detail spray will work.

 

[souljer]

I use Chemical Guys speed wipe and detailer. Works really well.

 

[goodlettjr]

This would make a great Christmas present for you

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1437764215/2015-mustang-diy-trunk-pull-tab-only

I had the same concern with my ocd about fingerprints. Works like a charm

I got one of these. Don’t regret it one bit.

 

[Rick W]

This would make a great Christmas present for you

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1437764215/2015-mustang-diy-trunk-pull-tab-only

I had the same concern with my ocd about fingerprints. Works like a charm

I bought the pull tab from Etsy and that was one of the best things I could have ever bought. Vapor Blue is horrible for fingerprints and OCD as well. I'd recommend it all day long to anyone that will listen!

 

[Airtrade]

I bought the pull tab from Etsy and that was one of the best things I could have ever bought. Vapor Blue is horrible for fingerprints and OCD as well. I'd recommend it all day long to anyone that will listen!

Just recieved one of these pull tabs yesterday!

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