Worried that dry car wash will scratch your car or otherwise produce sub-standard results? As long as you avoid the following 8 mistakes, you’re sure to achieve amazing, lasting results anytime you use a waterless wash and wax product on your vehicle.

1. Using any old rag to wipe your car

To maximize the results of spray on car wax and wash, use a 100% cotton terry cloth to wipe the formula after you spray it onto your vehicle and then use a microfiber towel to buff the wax haze that’s left. Other types of cloths or rags simply don’t perform as well.

2. Rubbing too vigorously

After you spray the waterless wash onto your vehicle, rub it lightly and in a circular motion with a terry cloth. Don’t rub too vigorously because you could end up scratching the surface of your vehicle. For the best results, wipe and lift.

3. Using waterless cleaning products on an excessively dirty vehicle

If your car is caked in mud or sand, rinse off the dirt first before applying dry car wash. Waterless wax is effective on light to moderate dirt, but you cannot realistically expect the formula to remove an extremely heavy coating of dirt.

4. Not letting the solution soak long enough

Are there scuff marks, tar, sap, or bugs on the surface of your car? Let the spray on car wax soak on the surface of your car for a few minutes prior to wiping it off with a terry cloth.

5. Not changing towels

For the best results, have a few extra terry cloths and microfiber towels handy in case the ones you’re using get too wet or dirty while you’re working on your vehicle.

6. Not saving your microfiber towels

One of the perks of using dry car wash is that you can save the microfiber towels you use to buff the wax haze in a sealed Ziploc bag. You can reuse the microfiber towels in between washes to wipe your car and keep it looking nice and shiny.

7. Washing your car once in a blue moon

For maximum results, you should aim to wash and wax your car once a month. Cleaning your car regularly will protect the paint and prevent it from getting damaged by road salt, bird droppings, dead bugs, and other harmful elements.

Fortunately, washing and waxing your car will only take you up to 30 minutes if you use spray on car wax that also serves as a waterless cleaner. The more frequently you use a waterless cleaning product on your car, the shinier and stronger its protective coating will be.

8. Using waterless detailing products that don’t contain carnauba wax

There are a variety of waterless wash and wax products out there, and their active ingredients vary widely. For optimal results, use a dry car wash that is made with carnauba wax. Carnauba wax is the preferred ingredient among auto detailing experts because it protects paint, creates a hydrophobic surface, and deepens shine.

When you find out that you have oil leak problems it can be very disconcerting. Apart from the fact that it takes valuable time to be topping up your engine all the time, if you’re not careful it can lead to additional mechanical problems. Also, it can lead to quite a mess accumulating beneath your vehicle, especially if you park it in the same place each night.

It’s quite possible that you won’t be able to notice you have an issue with leaking oil until one day you walk into the garage when your car is not there. You’ll discover a mess on the floor which is approximately the same place as you happen to park the vehicle. Remember that you almost never go into the garage when the car is not there and this is why it has taken some time for you to notice it.

The first thing that you need to do when you determine that you have oil leak problems in your car is to find out exactly where they are coming from. A tried and tested way of doing this is to get a large sheet of cardboard and place it underneath the vehicle overnight. The following day have a look under there without moving the cardboard and you will be able to tell exactly where it’s dripping from.

Cardboard is a great way to help you determine where the oil leak problems could be coming from, but we should remember that they could be dripping down from a particular component which is higher up. Using a flashlight may help you to determine the exact position..

If you had some work done on your vehicle recently, it’s possible that some of the components were not put back together properly. If the oil pan or sump, for example, was removed for this service and wasn’t reinstalled properly it can leak. Remember that it has to be tightened correctly or the gasket won’t be able to prevent oil coming out under pressure.

It’s often difficult to determine exactly where oi of l leak problems are coming from and it may be better for you to have access to a jack in order to raise the vehicle up in the first place. If you don’t have one of these devices you might have to assess how much of a problem it is for you and whether you need to go to an auto mechanic or not.

You don’t have to live with a particular oil leak problem causing stains on your floor any longer. You should know that there are specific products available to put beneath your vehicle to help you. Look for oil absorbent pads, excellent choices when it comes to getting rid of that evidence.

Oil can be an expensive commodity and you don’t want too much of it to leak out causing significant issues for your mechanical components. It’s important to understand the gravity of your oil leak problems therefore as soon as you can.

The year was 1980 and Gary Numan’s Cars was at the top of the Music charts. In Britain at the time and throughout Europe, fast cars and so called ‘Yuppys’ were the order of the day in what becoming an increasingly competitive and socially divided world, prior to the technological advances brought by the infant information age.

At the Geneva Motor Show in March that year a car was revealed that was to technically change the future design of most road cars – The Audi Quattro.

The four-wheeled drive turbocharged road car, rally car and angular designed coupe, stole the show and proved that Audi with the new Quattro really had made ‘Vorsprung Durch Technik’ a massive advancement through technology.

The original or Ur Quattro as it became known, as opposed to subsequent quattro models with a small q, was not the first 4×4 road car; this honour is held by the Jensen FF.

However the innovative four-wheel drive system that Audi developed for the Quattro, did away with all the previous problems of additional driveshafts and extra weight. The Quattro team had produced a practical solution that amazed the motoring world of the day and led the way for the development of all modern 4×4 road cars.

Audi in the 1970′s was not the most avant garde of the stoic German manufacturers, however they had a young and enthusiastic research and development team and more importantly, since 1969 the financial backing of owner Volkswagen, which was needed for the Audi Quattro to be born.

The seeds of the Quattro had sprouted three years before the car was launched in 1977 when chassis engineer Jörg Bensinger and a team of Audi engineers were visiting Northern Scandinavia to evaluate the performance of another Audi car, the front wheeled drive 100 series saloons.

While there, Bensinger was highly impressed by the performance of a protype of Volkswagen’s Iltis military vehicle which was also being tested under extreme conditions.

The Iltis had new four-wheel drive technology and superb handling which easily outmaneuvered all competition in the snow and ice.

Jörg Bensinger was impressed and on his return to the Audi factory at Ingolstadt, with the encouragement of Walter Treser, a former rally driver and head of advanced development at Audi, in March 1978 the Quattro project commenced.

The Quattro design team started out by taking the worlds first 5 cylinder engine from the highly successful turbocharged 170 mph Audi 200, which was in parallel development at the time.

To the 2144 cc engine the team added a single overhead camshaft with two valves per cylinder, which boosted the engines output to 200 bhp at 5500 rpm.

This gave the Audi Quattro a top speed of 137 mph and the car could do 0 to 60 mph in just 7 seconds.

What took the world by storm though was not the power of the engine but the ingenious configuration of the new four-wheel drive system. Based on the Iltris concept, the design reconfigured the transmission and did away with the cumbersome and heavy traditional transfer box and driveshaft.

The Quattro team took the new engine and mounted it on the car in line, rather than in the usual transverse layout of the time. This allowed the gearbox to be attached to the back of the engine in a usual rear wheel drive manner. On the Quattro, power was transmitted through the gearbox in the usual manner, to a small grapefruit sized differential box immediately to the rear. From there it was conveyed by a typical rear axle.

But what made the quattros configuration so special was that it also transmitted power forward, using a hollow gearbox output shaft, to a similar differential that drove the front wheels!

The cars unique handling and sensational road holding that won so many Rallies throughout the 1980′s in its sporting configuration, was further enhanced by the Macpherson suspension, all round disc brakes, and low profile radial tyres.

When the World Rally Championships changed the rules to allow four wheeled drive cars, the future of the Quattro was certain. In order to comply with the World Rally organisers rules of homologation, Audi had to produce a minimum of 400 cars per year to be considered a production vehicle. The development project was pushed forward and Audi attempted to build 10 new cars per day or 2000 per year.

All in all, Audi managed to produce 11,452 Quattros over the period 1980-1991. The rally versions the A1 and A2 evolutions, went on to win multiple World Rally Championships between 1981 and 1983.