Streaking

I washed the MINI on Saturday (yesterday), and overall it went pretty well.  I was in no rush and took my time.  I washed the wheels, washed the car, dried the car--all according to that article I referenced in an earlier post.  The biggest issue?  WINDOWS!

Just like all of the other products I bought, I purchased the Sonax glass cleaner to do the job, and noticed a waxy film on the windows I had cleaned.  Granted, I used new, unwashed microfiber (MF) cloths to do the job, so there may have been some remnant chemicals on the cloth from the manufacturing process.  But I assumed this was not the case and had also bought this Invisible Glass cleaner from Lowe's Home Improvement.

Invisible Glass seemed to do much better; although even it wasn't completely streak-free.  I got as much of the streaks as possible addressed before I declared my efforts complete.

Shortly afterwards, I got back on the computer and found this article on How Do I Get Streak-free Windows? and this very detailed article on Car Window Cleaning.  Basically what I was doing wrong was attempting to wash all of my windows, inside and out, with a single MF cloth.  No wonder!

Next time I'll attempt it with something like 4 cloths.  :)

One little touch I added:  I used my wet/dry vac to both vacuum out the interior carpets and seats as well as to suck out all the water from the honeycomb grills in the front and rear of the car:

PS - I also finally got a peek at my engine for the first time.  (I was opening everything up to wipe out all the water from the crevices.)  Sexy, huh?