Review and How-To - NEW BLACKFIRE Wet Diamond Glass Cleaner

My wife Stacy used and reviewed the new BLACKFIRE glass cleaner here,

The House Detailer - Review: NEW BLACKFIRE Wet Diamond Glass Cleaner

The above is her take on this new BLACKFIRE glass cleaner... the below is my accept...

I don't do windows...
Yes I know, that saying is an quondam clich� that comes from Maids in the house cleaning manufacture. And the truth is I really practise clean windows when detailing cars but the plainly fact of the thing is... like most of you lot... I don't similar cleaning windows. At least not the within windows.

Why?

Because when it comes to the forepart and back windows yous have to some kind of contortionist to motility your body effectually in the car in a way to navigate your artillery and hands into simply the right positions to effectively make clean the windows and not leave any streaks. (that'southward two things).

The outside drinking glass is easy. If I'k going to machine polish the paint, so before I wash the motorcar I simply machine buff the exterior glass to remove water spots, road grime and traffic film because,


A: These types of congenital-upwardly contaminants don't wipe off with any glass cleaner.

B: Machine polishing restores a glossy surface to the drinking glass so the glass will match the pigment later I motorcar shine it.

C: I automobile polish the glass before I launder the automobile thus when I launder the car I remove whatever splatter left by the machine glass polishing process.

So the outside is easy peasy... it's the inside that'southward a pain in the rear .

I hate doing things twice
Only read plenty of my posts about car detailing procedures and it'due south pretty easy to see that I like to do things once and do it right. That'south just i of the reasons whatsoever of y'all reading this that also read my other posts and articles know I harp a lot on using acme notch annoying engineering when doing paint correction, paint polishing or even using one-step cleaner/waxes. If the abrasive applied science is junk non only will the results NOT look expert only to fix the problem you'll take to buff the motorcar out a second time. And taking the fourth dimension to tackle a machine all over once more is frustrating and a huge waste of time, energy and resource.

The same thing applies to cleaning glass and not just getting it clean but leaving it articulate and streak-gratis.

In that location are hundreds of glass cleaners on the market. Even here at Autogeek we carry dozens of them and most of them, if not all of them are VERY Practiced. This makes information technology very difficult to introduce a new product that'south as good or better than the currently available glass cleaning options.

That all said, this new glass cleaner in the BLACKFIRE line rocks!

That'south right. Simply put... it works Nifty! It cleans all the clay, oily road film off the outside and it also removes all the gunk that builds up on the inside of automotive glass like smoker's flick and vinyl fog .

Smoker'south Motion picture - Smoker'due south Film is the oily residue in the fume exhaled past the smoker that coats everything with an oily film. Smoke from ciggerettes fume contains carcinogens. My guess is the smoker's moving-picture show created by the build-up of ciggerettes smoke also contains carcinogens.

Vinyl Fog - Vinyl Fog is the oily residue that builds upwardly all surfaces on the inside of a new machine including the glass when all the NEW vinyl, plastic, rubber and another artificially manufactured parts, fabrics, cream, insulation, etc. outgas or give off fumes. The affair out vinyl fog is that you only run into it on the drinking glass just think almost information technology? When all these new components outgas the fumes are touching all of the within of the car not just the drinking glass. It's but your eyes only encounter it on the glass.

A little trivia tidbit - vinyl fog tends to exist made upward of carcinogens , that is cancer causing substances. Some of you may recognize vinyl fog from its other well known name, New Car Smelll.

Performs as promised...
The formula works every bit promised. The only way you'll find out how cracking of a glass cleaner this formula is would be to put the production to a test yourself. But don't take my word for it... take my wife Stacy'southward give-and-take for information technology because she's a lot pickier than I am when it comes to glass and mirrors. I'one thousand confident you'll agree and it will become your new favorite glass cleaner.

When I first tested this product I tested it on a 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL 550 AMG. While a cool motorcar, the drinking glass on the within and the outside only had light dirt - and so later on looking at the pictures I knew I needed a improve candidate auto to really test the production and to write this review and how-to.

Here's my demo machine - a BMW Z4

The biggest safe issue with windshield glass is the glare caused by the sun causes when it's low in the sky, like early on in the morning or late afternoon as the sun is setting. Headlight glare from oncoming traffic at night is another fourth dimension when muddy glass can exist chancy to your health. To re-create glare from the sun I positioned ii spotlights at depression angles to shine onto the glass in the same fashion the sun or oncoming headlights would crusade.

The windshield is just as dirty as the residual of this machine and for the record, this car is dirty!
(Stay tuned for another commodity on exterior blackness pigment detailing)

Peradventure the worst condition windshield I've ever cleaned!
Hither's a few more than Earlier shots showing the heavy accumulation of smoker'due south film plus normal dirt and dust build-upward on the inside of the windshield

Here yous can see where I've used my finger to write the words Smoker's Moving-picture show on the inside of the windshield

Here's the greasy finger smears looking at them from the exterior...

Aye... those are on the within!

This windshield is and so dirty on the inside it's a existent safety result.

How To Directions
Hither'south a few tips and techniques to make you a more effective window washer!

Make at least two wipes per window using two glass towels. 1 for the showtime or initial wipe and i for the follow-upwardly or secondary wipe.

1. For the initial wipe, use plenty of glass cleaner to break-up and make it easy to remove the majority of dirt and film off the glass. Spray the glass cleaner onto ane side of a folded towel to avoid getting drinking glass cleaner overspray on the dash pad or surrounding surfaces.

Showtime - Focus on the corners of glass, along the outer edges of glass and effectually anything mounted to the glass like rear view mirrors, electronic transponders for toll roads or glass mounted radar detectors. Since these areas are naturally more difficult to become to and wipe make clean they volition tend to accept more than dirt and oily residues built up next to them and if you don't get these areas clean during the initial wipe they volition exist the cause of streaks during the final wipe.

2nd - Focus on the major section of glass. The gunk yous loosened our of the corners will now be mixed into the smoker's film, clay and dust on the larger more open section of glass and information technology is during this wipe that you lot'll remove the majority of these residues. Again, use plenty of glass cleaner to break-up the dirt and oily picture show to make it easy to get the majority of this gunk off the glass.

ii. For a secondary wipe of a single window, assuming you removed the bulk of whatever dirt or oily films with the offset wipe, reduce the amount of glass cleaner to a light mist onto a make clean dry towel. As you work around the window, continually fold to a fresh, dry side of towel or swap out to a fresh clean towel, continue to mist the glass cleaner onto the towel instead of the glass.

3. Optional step - Utilize a Drinking glass Chief Pro for the final wipe on the inside glass for the finishing touch.

Technique tips

A: For your final wipes on interior drinking glass use an up and downward directional movement. For the final wipe on exterior glass use a side to side motion. Then if you do run across a streak after cleaning the glass you'll know which side the streak is on.

B: When making the final wipe on either side of the windshield or back window, accept a friend play the office of Streak Sentry. That is while yous're on the within cleaning the glass have someone on the outside inspecting your piece of work and pointing to any areas where you need to go on wiping for perfectly clear glass. This fashion, if there is a streak you won't have to get in and out of the car to inspect our work.

C: Re-inspect the glass at dusk or dawn when the sunday is low in the sky and casts a glare on the glass.

D: Have a drove of drinking glass towels that are Defended for ONLY cleaning glass and always wash them with themselves and no other fabrics, towels or other laundry items. Besides utilize a dedicated microfiber cleaner to maintain the functioning of the microfiber.

Let'southward clean some drinking glass!

BLACKFIRE Wet Diamond Glass Cleaner and lots of microfiber drinking glass cleaning towels

Step 1: For the outside, simply spray BLACKFIRE glass cleaner direct onto one half of the windshield.

Step 2: Spread the glass cleaner over the glass.

Pace 3: For the last wipe, fold to a clean, dry out side or section of towel and make your final passes using a side to side direction like the arrow shows below.

Outside dirt and road grime = blackness

Here's the dirt I remove from just the driver'due south side. I took a motion-picture show of this to testify the color of the clay and road grime removed off the drinking glass. Note the colour is predominantly blackness.

I have multiple articles that share and explain how the paint on your car considering stained and cloudy over time due to the fact that airborne dirt and road grime accumulate on your auto's cease and impact onto it to the point that it volition not launder off. The simply way to get impacted clay stains and road grime of your car's paint is to periodically use a paint cleaner, a pigment shine, a combination of chemical compound followed by a smooth or a quality one-footstep cleaner/wax also called an AIO or All-in-I. A product with some type of cleaning or abrading activity is needed to remove the clay stain and road crud that builds up on your car's finish.

See these two commodity for more data

Road Moving-picture show - If you drive your machine in the rain your auto has road film Hither's why y'all demand to polish paint... Clay in Paint or DIP - Stained Paint - Clay Embedded Paint How to remove stains and embedded dirt out of paint

One time the outside is make clean, it's time to motility inside...

How to remove smoker'south film, vinyl fog and other oily films on the within of your car'southward windows

Smoker's film and vinyl fog are the nigh difficult types of oily films to remove from interior glass. Follow these directions and use a loftier quality glass cleaner with dedicated microfiber glass cleaning towels and you'll make a hard job easy.

Step 1: Spray glass cleaner directly onto microfiber towel. The reason for this is to avoid getting drinking glass cleaner overspray onto the nuance or any other nearby surfaces.

Tip: For the initial wipe, utilise a lot of glass cleaner so you have a lot of liquid cleaners on the towel to transfer to the oily flick and thus intermission information technology upwards and deliquesce information technology so it volition wipe off the drinking glass and onto the textile.

Color Change
Here's just one side of the offset microfiber glass towel I used to wipe the driver'southward side of the windshield clean.

Annotation the color is more of a BROWN colour, different the black color of the dirt and route grime removed off the outside of the windshield.

Two very different kinds of clay - one glass cleaner takes care of information technology all

The towel on the left was used on the exterior of the driver's side windshield and the towel on the right was used on the inside of the driver's side windshield.

Repeat the initial wipe to the passenger side
Remember to spray the glass cleaner direct onto the towel, (not onto the glass), and use enough of glass cleaner to break-upwards and dissolve the oily smoker'southward film to remove it off the glass and transfer it onto the microfiber glass towel.

Technique tip: For the final passes when cleaning the within of glass windows, use an up and down management for wiping.

Motion sequence shots -showing the direction to motion your towel

Don't fight yourself and avert frustration

Smoker's pic is very oily and to avert fighting yourself , you lot must employ lots of towels. After yous have made the initial wipe using lots of glass cleaner, if you don't switch to a fresh, make clean dry out towel - all y'all're going to do is cantankerous-contaminate the glass. That is you'll take oily smoker's film removed from ane section of drinking glass and transfer it to another section of drinking glass. This volition cause y'all to become frustrated considering the more than you wipe, the more you simply move the oily film over the drinking glass . You MUST get rid of these first or initial towels that you lot used for the get-go wipe because they are going to have the bulk of the oily smoker'south moving picture or vinyl fog on them from the first drinking glass cleaning footstep.

Optional Step - Drinking glass Main Pro

I beloved this tool only well-nigh people use information technology the Wrong way. The Glass Master Pro is a unique tool that enables you to practise four things ameliorate than you can do using only the homo hand.

one: Make the final wipe for streak gratuitous results.
2: Go shut to the drinking glass where it meats the dash pad.
3: Get into corners.
4: Become around rear view mirror brackets.

So first, permit me share the wrong way to use the Glass Principal Pro and that'southward for the INITIAL wipe. It's easy to see why people would make this mistake. The tool is for cleaning drinking glass right? Why non just get after information technology and so?

The reason why is considering if you spray a heavy concentration of glass cleaner onto the Thin microfiber bonnet (over the Glass Master wedge-shaped head), you'll brand information technology wet and soggy. Using this tool like this volition loosen and dissolve the oily smoker'due south film but you'll end up pushing it all over the identify.

What works ameliorate is to the grunt piece of work by hand using a microfiber glass cleaning towel exactly like I show to a higher place. Save the Glass Master for the last wipe or for getting into corners, close to the dash pad or around rear view mirror brackets.

How to utilise the Glass Master Pro for the final wipe

Mist a picayune drinking glass cleaner onto a clean bonnet
Call back almost it... you already removed all the oily films off the glass. All yous need at present is make a final wipe to get any of those terminal remaining streaks or smears and to do this all yous demand is a Lilliputian liquid. In other words, a little drinking glass cleaner . Remember, microfiber past itself excels and removing oily films off smooth surfaces. So for this concluding wipe yous take 2 things working for you, the glass cleaner and microfiber.

Make clean corners and glass around brackets first
To get into the corners and effectually the brackets, once more but use a light mist of drinking glass cleaner and so use the pointy tip to get into the tight corners and effectually rear view mirror brackets.

Cleaning the major sections of glass
Side by side, work the Glass Master Pro over the inside glass using the up and downward directional passes.

1: For the major portions of the drinking glass, first install a clean, dry out bonnet as the kickoff bonnet will likely have clay and smoker's film on the edges and the tip from cleaning the corners and around brackets.

2: So flip the caput of the Drinking glass Master Pro and so that that flat edge will contact the glass next to the dash pad.

iii: Use up and downward directional passes to make the terminal passes and go out behind perfectly clear, streak complimentary glass.

To get beyond the top of the windshield you tin can turn the Glass Main Pro sideways and make a finishing bear upon pass or just requite it a wipe past hand.

Motion sequence shots -showing the management to motion your towel

Just like looking through glass....

In this offset shot the focus in on the pack of cigarettes - the words Smokers Moving picture are no longer visible because the glass is crystal clear and streak-free.

In this second shot the focus is on the back wall. Because at that place'due south no longer a motion-picture show or any dirt on the windshield, my camera has cipher to focus on and that's a sign of perfectly clear glass.

The more than important end results?

The driver can see where's going no matter the position of the sun or when driving at dark when the headlights from oncoming traffic are beamed at his motorcar's windshield.

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BLACKFIRE Wet Diamond Glass Cleaner

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