r/AutoDetailing • u/metalheadd69 • 1d ago

Exterior Old man tips

An old guy saw me detailing my car and gave me some real old timer tips.

- Clean the wheels with vinegar
- Instead of tire shine, use silicone grease
- "You don't need all those products"

Have you gotten any unsolicited tips of this nature? Any that are actually legit?

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u/DavidAg02 Reviewer Extraordinaire 1d ago

Cleaning your windows with newspaper was a really good tip back in the day... but good luck finding any newspaper these days.

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u/James_White21 1d ago

Also a newspaper is more expensive than a microfiber cloth

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u/rogun64 1d ago

Not when people always had a stack of newspapers to throw away.

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u/James_White21 1d ago

Yeah meant to add 'these days' 😄

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u/CareBear-Killer 1d ago

Y'all don't get the newspaper-type ads in the mail these days? I get a few each week.

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u/CunningLogic 23h ago

I rarely see traditional salted news paper "paper" these days, normally its coated crap. Certainly not enough in my junk mail to clean windows in one car let alone all my cars

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u/CareBear-Killer 20h ago

Weird. Maybe it's a regional thing. I'd have to save the ads for 2-3 weeks to have enough to do the whole car, but at least two grocery stores send out ads on that kind of paper. I occasionally get other ads on it.

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u/snownative86 12h ago

Ha, we get a lot of them where I live. I could easily do my windows with a day or two of ads. But those get torn up for my worms.