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Car Wash Buckets & Dirt Traps

The easiest way to tell a professional car detailer from a beginner when you watch them washing a car is to see how many buckets they use, and if they have a grit and dirt trap or mitt slide in the bottom of their car wash buckets.  

It's so simple, but makes such a big difference.  The reality is most scratches on your car come from washing your car!  As you wash your car you are removing dirt from the surface, this ends up on your wash mitt, and then goes into the wash water.  Without grit and dirt trap or mitt slide, that dirt and grit ends up swirled up ion your wash water, and back onto your wash mitt, where you rub it across the surface of your car scratching.

If you do one thing to improve your car detailing and car washing it is to address this:

  • Use 2 buckets, one with clear water, one with soap, rinse your mitt in the water, wring it then put it into your car wash soap bucket.
  • Have either grit and dirt traps or mitt slides in the bottom of your wash buckets to keep the dirt and grit at the bottom.
  • If you want to step your game up more, get a dedicated wheel bucket as well, again with a grit and dirt trap or mitt slide.  
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Rockcar Clear Bucket & Black Dirt Trap

RockCar
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Step up your car wash and detailing game.  Reduce scratches and keep your car wash water clean with this bucket and dirt trap kit. You get one of t...

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Rockcar Clear Bucket & Red Dirt Trap

RockCar
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Step up your car wash and detailing game.  Reduce scratches and keep your car wash water clean with this bucket and dirt trap kit. You get one of t...

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Rockcar 2 Clear Bucket & 2 Dirt Traps (1 Red, 1 Black)

RockCar
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Step up your car wash and detailing game.  Reduce scratches and keep your car wash water clean with this 2 bucket kit.   You get two of the new Roc...

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Rockcar Clear Bucket & Blue Mitt Slide

RockCar
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This is the ultimate bucket set up.  The Mitt Slide takes the Grit and dirt trap design and steps it up, not only does it have V shaped filter...

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Rockcar Clear Bucket & Black Mitt Slide

RockCar
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Rockcar Clear Bucket & Orange Mitt Slide

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Rockcar 2 Clear Buckets & 2 Mitt Slides (Orange & Black)

RockCar
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Best Car Wash Bucket - Rockcar Totally Transparent

RockCar
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This 17 Litre bucket is total transparent, with no logos or markings.  You can see completely though it.  It fits the Chemical Guys Dirt Traps, Roc...

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Heavy Duty Ultra Clear Detailing Bucket 4.5 Gal (17L)

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Car Wash Bucket Filter Dirt & Grit Trap - Red

RockCar
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This high quality filter sits inside your standard wash bucket like Rockcar and Chemical Guys and traps and holds dirt and grit at the bottom of th...

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Cyclone Dirt Trap-Car Wash Bucket Insert

Chemical Guys
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The Cyclone Dirt Trap is a car wash filter that uses nearly 300 cyclonic funnels to trap dirty wash water under the filter and keep abrasive parti...

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Mitt Slide - Mint Blue

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Mitt Slide - Forest Black

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Two Bucket System with Dirt Traps, Mitt & Mr Pink

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