Your car has been washed, polished and waxed. It is gleaming and couldn’t look better. Or could it? Wrap your hand in a plastic bag and run your fingers gently over the paint. It may not be as smooth as you thought.

Anyone can wash a car however detailing a car is a different matter. You may have hosed the mud flaps down but did you scrub them clean? A detailed car will not only have clean mud flaps, these flaps will be shiny!

Soap, wax, clear-coat finish—you can keep your car clean and looking good whether it’s old or new, expensive or dirt-cheap. And, no matter how much you know about cars, anyone can keep a car clean and apply the products it needs to gleam.