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It's great on heavily oxidized gel coat, like an RV. Removes a lot of the loose surface oxidation. This way you aren't clogging up pads as quickly.

It never dawned on me to try this 😂

I worked in restaurants for over two decades. Regular old Dawn is the best dish soap out of all of them, including all the restaurant style detergents.

I've been a show car painter/bodyman for 25 years. You NEVER use dish soap to wash a vehicle unless you plan to reapply protection such as wax

thanks 🙏 they’ve used dawn as well for those wildlife animals that were victims of oil spill, and worked perfectly 👍

Dang in 1994 I was 16 washing my dad's car with dawn. That's how I got into detailing lol. Obviously I've moved away from it. Then this video pops up. This may be a good option for degreasing, road grime and salt.

Right on! I used Dawn quite a bit way back in the late 90s / early 2000s and still do every now and then. A Dawn wash was part of the whole Zaino application process 😂. It does a great a job at removing crud and is fairly cheap. It is a little hard on old school wax and sealants but today's ceramics *laugh* it. The fear of Dawn is somewhat of a dramedy...the same haters are willingly and frequently throwing down some high-alkyl ph 13 or high-acidic ph 2 soaps to wash the paint. My only complaint of Dawn is that it's not as free-rinsing as traditional car soaps --- Not a big deal if you use a pressure washer but its "stickiness" can be annoying if you are hose-washing.

Swan is the best dish soap plus is the only soap detergent to clean the animals after any oil disaster.

Great video. I use Dawn for my spring wash. It cleans winter road film off just like grease from dishes.

In years past I always used liquid TIDE to wash my car and once a year I would use DAWN to basically strip away everything on the paint and the use a good paste wax.

Dawn and Tide laundry detergent were my grandaddys go to car cleaning kit. Dawn on car. Tide on the wheels and tires. The tide did a nice job of keeping his white walls and white lettering clean. He also used Nu Finish wax religiously. But back then you could probably only get it or Turtle Wax. That was just his little formula he used to keep the family vehicles looking nice. I dont ever remember any of it causing a problem and they all looked great for the life of the vehicle. Ive got his last car a 2000 Pontiac Bonneville SSEI that looks brand new with the exception of the reflector on the trunk lid which you cannot buy anymore because no one produces it any longer.

Nice video! I believe CarPro Reset is pH neutral at 7 not 9. Reset will still be my maintenance soap but nice to know about Dawn for prep washing.

20 years ago , before most of the modern detailing companies existed, we used dish soap alot. Using dish soap for every wash, i saw quite a bit of clear coat failure with repeated use. But at that time, the quality and availability of various protection products wasn't great either. I will never know what exactly caused it , as the state of detailing products overall has improved dramatically maybe it isnt as important. Maybe clear coats have improved, clearly detailing products have come a long way, and heck maybe the dish soaps have different formulas today than 20 + years ago. Interesting video

I told all my customers that after I’ve coated their car they could even use Dawn to wash their cars if they wanted to😂…it’s better than the soaps at a drive thru car wash.

It’s the best!!!! That’s all I have ever used to wash my car since my first car in 89. It’s the best!!!!

I dont personally use it as a soap, but DO use it as a presoak for dirty sides and for wheels, diluted 15:1. I think using dish soap got a bad rap back in the day before ceramic coatings and hybrids came out with good ph chemical protection.

Lemon Scented Dawn works best and leaves your interior smelling amazing afterwards.

YOU can buy Ph test kits to test the Ph of dawn

I used Dawn when I first started driving in '77 and continued to use up until about 10years ago. Never had an issue with my Mustang II, then a 79 camaro, followed by an 88 IROC. I did switch to dedicated car wash soaps for all our cars.

If you do this around Dawn not Dusk it supercharges it. Maybe wouldn’t hurt to just do to other foam soaps to boost the foaming action. That really did foam well. I’m thinking about putting it in my foam cannon and spraying it all around my front porch area with a tick of bleach and let stick to the house walks and loosen everything to get it off easy-likes like it could work good.

I've been using Dawn for years to clean tires and wheels. I put it on undiluted straight to the tire brush though. I use it on the entire car when I'm intending on stripping the wax off.

In the winter I use Dawn to wash my tires and winter rims . It 🇨🇦👍👍does a really nice job and seems to keep them cleaner longer.

I use dawn to wash my car and then clay bar it before paint correction it works great for that.

Thanks for sharing, very interesting, must admit that's something I've never even thought about myself. I don't think we have Dawn in the UK so have never seen any of the discussions on it.

I have been saying for years Dawn is the best all around cleaner for cars, house/business carpets, vinyl, kitchen walls and floors.

I have a 2002 maxima and in the owners manual it instructs to wash with dish washing liquid…👍👍👍👍👍👍

ummm, merci pour le video Francois, another good one for sure, good to know about it's Ph level too. Cheers from Edmonton,Alberta

Fun video! One idea for maybe a future episode or podcast, how and when to use the SDS sheets.

Could be a good prewash. Great stuff

Thanks for the video. A lot of detailers on KZfaq are just pushing products

It’s a degreaser just like super clean and purple power. It clean wheels really good. Great share!

Blue Dawn is like Marvel Mystery Oil and Windex. It's just magic and works for pretty much anything you want to do. Wanna get fleas off an animal? Blue Dawn freezes them for a bit so they can be picked off.

Palmolive was my go to dish soap washing my 83Chevy Caprice and impala. Cost 89cent

I knew someone who swore by Sunlight Laundry detergent for washing their vehicles.

I like to use dish soap for the first wash after winter

Considering Geon tells you do a Dish soap wash to prep the paint for their coatings after polishing to get all the oils off, I think it's safe enough to use as a part of a decon wash. Helps break up all that road grim. I'm not sure if it'll be as good as some higher ph soaps like Bilt Hamber, but it's cheap and it'll do a better job then a ph neutral shampoo

It's always been thought that to "strip" waxes and most sealants you'd use dish soap / washing up liquid - I use a squirt of it (actually generic dish soap) if I'm doing a wash and going to re-wax or seal afterwards. I also use Purple Power Vehicle wash which is even more cost effective. Again if I'm going to re-apply I don't really care if it's going to "strip" the previous stuff off - I'm looking for max clean with min contact... Honestly for most in between washes a good car soap isn't much more expensive and adds back in some level of protection...

As a strip wash that will be followed by a protective of some kind it’s fine. This also assumes that the paint is already in good condition (no oxidation or clear coat failure). My auto insurance policy specifically calls out that it will not cover damage from using dish washing detergents or other non-automotive specific soaps and cleaners.

Dawn soap the blue stuff works great doesn’t hurt anything

Been thinking about using dawn for a strip wash before putting a new coating. It’s better than spending more money on a separate strip wash shampoo imo

Dawn removes wax from the paint so as long as you wax it afterwards using dawn wont hurt anything

Pretty much all I used as a kid was dish soap, then hand polish with mcguiars deep crystal polish and follow with deep crystal wax.

Hy. This is the first vid i saw as someone uses only dawn to clean the car and it is interesting. Keep up the good work. (btw i don't wanna be a jerk, but if you have a 1l foam canon and you put 100ml of solution in it, that is 1:9, not 1:10😅)

The problem with dawn is it leaves a film that hard to rinse off.

If I am using a 1 liter bottle foam cannon on pressure washer how much of that should be Dawn and how much water to make it super foamy like that??? Thanks!

My problem when he did the door I could not really tell any difference between the door he sprayed dawn on vs the rear door with just power wash spray. Could it be there is no difference? spraying on soap does nothing?

If you want to remove everything off your paint, yes, Dawn is a good soap to use, but you should expect to see all the swirls in your paint job afterward.

Lower ph than some car wash soaps like Bilt Hamber Touch-Less which is 12 I believe.

better than running it through a tunnel wash or if you have no dedicated automotive soap. honestly you coups dolute it even more and be even safer and do an extra rinse after. i alllways use dawn for decon on destroyed folthy neglected cars that haven't had a wash in years. theres definately a time and place for vit sure. should u use it all the time..no. but honestly there are worse soaps in the detailing market that ci world use Dawn over so that's something to think n about. as long as u use safe wash metjods and clean quality microfibers 8n the shade you'll be good no matter what u do just take precautions and be gentle. happy detailing. great video 💪

Great video my friend as always! Dawn is a hidden gem 💎 You should try it as an interior cleaner if you haven’t already, it’s pretty impressive !

Why do you rinse bottom to top? Thought top to bottom was the understood best way.

Omg I’ve been doing this 😮no bs

I never understood why everyone gave dawn, or any dish soap, a bad name, outside of those marketing their car shampoos. There’s nothing really wrong with it aside from not rinsing as pure as some other products. I would say it looks like it did well as an inexpensive prewash, and is definitely more environmentally friendly than presoaking with an apc or degreaser.

Will dawn remove any hydrophobic properties that have been applied?

When i wanna know about a product, i go straight to the data sheet. Dawn has the same protective polymers as car wash. It wont hurt anything more than car soap does

My god father that was ex military showed me this trick back in the 90s lol

I have used dawn twice to washing my brand new car because I ran out and lazy to go to the store to get a car shampoo. Am I ruining my clear coat?

I use Dawn for my Rims , I have Method 305nv Double Black Matte rims works great...

Worth noting although ph’s can be the same numerically , however the chemicals used to get there can have a long term detrimental affect on protection, example sea water only has a ph of 8, however I wouldn’t be using it…not all ph’s are equal.

I used dawn soap before to wash my car and works great! The only detail is that after that you need to wax your car again because the soap wash out any wax in the paint and the metal fills like a clean dish after you dry it, overall is a great grease cutter and good to remove bugs in the front.

I only use dish soap if I plan to clay and wax.

Utiliserais tu dawn sur n’importe quel peinture ? Exemple une tricoat

I enjoy real unbiased experiments. I've used dawn in the spray bottle on tires and find it removes dirt better than some of the brands influencers suggest. A local reputable body repair guy said there is nothing wrong with using Dawn to wash your car. Will I use it always? No. Now that I've learned what PH means. Quality with low cost is what I see here for decon or heavy crust on cars. Thanks for sharing

Is it true that it can strip the clear coat? Or, is that false?

For anyone in AUSTRALIA, 'Dawn' is called 'Fairy' its sold at coles and wollies, and yes its the same company and chemicals.

So is not true that it damage the paint, right? It might streetstrip waxes,and sealant right?

Thank you. I'm cleaning my sailboat and needed the dawn ratio for my pressure washer.

Dawn is the only soap I wash my car with. I've been using dawn for over 20 years and my car paint looks amazing and way better than some newer cars. Look at it this way...If dawn is safe for little ducks, it's safe on your paint.

There's nothing wrong with using Dawn dish soap for washing your car. You don't want to use others though because dishsoaps are abrasive and will hurt your clear coat over time. Dawn is ph neutral and non abrasive so it will work just fine on your car.

Dawn is a GREAT degreaser and wax remover. It can strip wax off a car in a heart beat. If you uae it then rewax is necessary.

Many of those 'horror stories'' about dawn (or any other dish soap for that matter) are brought into the world by the companies who try to sell their own products. My great grandfather and grandfather were both in the car business and all they used was dish soap. Of course a lot has changed products, chemicals etc. There's nothing wrong with using it as long as you rinse your car well and wax it. I've seen cars which were washed with dish soap for over 20 years or more. No dullness oxidation or what so ever.

I just dont understand. I put about a tablespoon of dish soap on the mitten, lather, and go over my whole car, rinse, and dry with blue absorber, done. Cost me $0.20 of soap and car comes out clean as new. I see people using massive amounts of soap to make more foam than the next neighbor, almost like theyre competing. I just dont understand why sooo much soap and then just to rinse it off.

I only use Dawn as body wash. Car soap? That's crazy

Not for me, but interesting test.

Yall see the size of the spider on the back of that car around the 10 minute mark?

I don't think the manufacturer maintains that this car is dishwasher safe 🤔🙃

I thought that dish soaps (known as washing up liquid in the UK) has too much salt for it to be safe to use on cars.

I was always told that dish soap would take the wax off cars.

Dawn cuts grease, and it cuts wax also.

Pretty sure you did this test cuz you would ceramic coat your bmw after but good content

You do not want to use dawn on your car. It will eventually destroy your clear coat on your car. It is very good for you’re dishes just as it was designed for.

Not a great idea to use dish soap on a regular basis. It strips protection and will eventually damage the finish. Most details will use something like this to intentionally strip protection when they want to decon, correct and then add protection.

I was using Dawn in 1993 because I was a broke kid!!!! a professional should never be using a $.99 soap on a client vehicle!!!!!! Have fun telling a young mobile detailer to use this in the middle of the summer

Of course dawn is gonna clean if it could take crude oil off a duck It will definitely clean your interior and your exterior on your vehicle instead of paying high price for all these cleaners these detail guys try to push off on you

Dawn strips the clear coat off your car. Painters use it to help strip oils and other contaminants before they start wet sanding the car. Do not use regularly because it will strip your clear coat.

Will dry your paint within a couple years & you will see the clear coat fail!!!

That is one way to fet rid of clearcoat.

3:30 rinses soap from bottom to top… please do not take any detailing advise from this guy

If Dawn was or is the Holy Grail of Car Wash Soap, then everyone would be using it. Truth is, Dawn is great on grease and grime but will eat away at your Clear Coat. Do not ever use dishwashing detergent/soap on your vehicle. Again, if Dawn is the Best, then why has it been pushed away for decades?

Unfortunately, this video misses a few key points. 1. Have a look in the safety data sheet of Dawn, and then gather some information on „sodium salts“ and „sodium hydroxide“. The statement that Dawn is „fine under any circumstances“ is just plain and factually wrong - there is no other and no nicer way of saying this. 2. In the video is was said that Dawn doesn‘t scratch paint and that the video provided proof for that. Well, again, it doesn‘t. Proof would have been to wash a panel with Dawn and with regular car soap with the same mitt and then see if there are more or less scratches on one panel or the other. See for example: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpengaSGr5O6nYU.htmlsi=Egftn2SX9Pz5pZTm 3. Using Dawn on ONE car with ONE ceramic coating and ONE ceramic detailer and the concluding that it is safe on any LSP is just factually incorrect. That‘s not how testing works. Unfortunately, the video does NOT show nor proof what is claims to show or proof.

If you use Dawn go to Home Depot and get the big bottle but make sure you get the original Dawn the old-school blue what he’s using there’s so many uses that dawn is for washing dogs and kids fleas kills any car bugs that get on your dogs you can use dawn soap and kill the ants in your garden I make a spray bottle with Don and water and he kinda Fliser any, inside comes in the house in the summertime with the flyswatter if you go to smack a fly they will all fly away I flies love to sit in the window where the sun is coming in especially my bay window or in my family room where I have a lot of sun I will take a spray bottle with the dawn of water usually when I spray them if they don’t fall right away they’re stunned but I don’t waste no time I spray them pretty good and they drop to the floor and it kills them there’s things that I do to treat the outside of my house and the Dawn soap water and a Home Depot spray bottle I will spray the windows outside of my house like anywhere I see any ants on the foundation of my home but I also boil honey and sugar and I use one of those sprayers like he is using to wash his car but I get the one that you use for plants from Home Depot where are you when I boil the honey and sugar and water I fill up a Home Depot bucket with that stuff and I use boric acid and I put certain amount in each bottle and spray the whole foundation of my house and the foundation and the where meet ground at my house and then I use the Home Depot spray bottle on the stream and I will spray it all up under my front deck and back deck and the honey and sugar attracts them in the forecast it for like five weeks six weeks then I do it again but usually the first time I would do it once a three or four weeks later I do it again then maybe five weeks six weeks and do it again I don’t really good and it keeps the ants out of my home but you can look on KZfaq there are so many uses for Dawn soap you can wash your dogs Chihuahua Evelyn I wash her with baby soap but I seen the other day because she’s not biting her paws she gets yeast in her paws and giving her baking soda with baking soda and the bathtub and washer real good and it kills the infection they used in her paws but I gotta do it like once a week for a little while so I can kill it all but you can look on KZfaq there’s so many things for Dawn soap is great for washing animals because it kills any fleas mosquitoes anything I don’t really keep my dog outside I’ll take her out and bring it right back in she’s a little she’s got a puppy pads rubber mat so I only take her out just to make her happy and try to keep her out of the grass

I'd been using Dawn soap to wash my hands daily, been wrenching full time mechanic for well over 20 years. I used it to wash my vehicles for many many years already, it's good stuff. When washing your dirty hands after wrenching 8 hours, use a brush and dawn soap, works better than any product out here to clean your hands. I tried it all already, none beats Dawn.