Car wash etiquette please

[JaxGtc]

Mitt on a stick is a microfiber wash pad on a handle. Bring your own with a bucket and quality car wash soap. Just use the self serve car wash for high pressure rinse water and spotless rinse.
Their brushes are bad and their soap is bad, but they do serve a purpose if used strategically.

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[Bronco21Maybe]

Maybe I will search for it, but without me searching, anyone have a good suggestion for removing insect remains? I travel weekly for work about 4 hours each way. There's this migrating yellow butterfly close to where I work that is "active" this time of year, and I think I've single handedly wiped out most of this year's crop. Poor fellows. If they only would fly a bit higher.

I used to be one that rarely washed my car, but at the rate I've exterminated South Texas Yellow Butterflies, I am washing it once a week. I've tried different bug washes in the windshield reservoir, and they all suck. They just turn 400 bug dots into a gigantic bug smear.

 

[RR25HB]

Maybe I will search for it, but without me searching, anyone have a good suggestion for removing insect remains? I travel weekly for work about 4 hours each way. There's this migrating yellow butterfly close to where I work that is "active" this time of year, and I think I've single handedly wiped out most of this year's crop. Poor fellows. If they only would fly a bit higher.

I used to be one that rarely washed my car, but at the rate I've exterminated South Texas Yellow Butterflies, I am washing it once a week. I've tried different bug washes in the windshield reservoir, and they all suck. They just turn 400 bug dots into a gigantic bug smear.

Is your concern only the windshield or the whole front end of your vehicle?

https://www.chemicalguys.com/products/clingshot-bug-tar-sap-remover

https://www.autozone.com/p/turtle-w...OdXQifgLC4K0UaAtkwEALw_wcB&new_store_set=true

 

[Bronco21Maybe]

Is your concern only the windshield or the whole front end of your vehicle?

https://www.chemicalguys.com/products/clingshot-bug-tar-sap-remover

https://www.autozone.com/p/turtle-wax-bug-tar-remover-t520a/231314?spps.s=5529&cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:ALO:GOO:TRS:SHO:OTE:GEN:NA:ALA:NA:NA:NA:NA:NA:NA:NA&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22356757832&gbraid=0AAAAADkcoVuip_oc9_B7WF1QNV9EVVmuW&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2MbPBhCSARIsAP3jP9yONlCFnVK3odfTJJ2JXA1NDbZlCxBtgPcFUSVN3wOdXQifgLC4K0UaAtkwEALw_wcB&new_store_set=true

Mostly the windshield cleaner fluid. I don't stop for car washes just because I drive through a flock of thousands of migrating flying insects. All my wiper washes have done is smear them into a quarter circle smear on the windshield. If I were an entomologist, I could probably tell you which bugs' guts are harder to clean than others, but yellow butterfly guts suck, lol.

Thanks for the links, sir!

 

[Desmolicious]

When I used to ride street motos, I got rid of bugs by putting paper towels over the bugs on the bike's fairing, and wet them down with a spray bottle of water. Let it sit for about 5 minutes and the bugs cleanly wipe right off.
Could do the same on your Bronco.

 

[BroncoChallenger]

Maybe I will search for it, but without me searching, anyone have a good suggestion for removing insect remains? I travel weekly for work about 4 hours each way. There's this migrating yellow butterfly close to where I work that is "active" this time of year, and I think I've single handedly wiped out most of this year's crop. Poor fellows. If they only would fly a bit higher.

I used to be one that rarely washed my car, but at the rate I've exterminated South Texas Yellow Butterflies, I am washing it once a week. I've tried different bug washes in the windshield reservoir, and they all suck. They just turn 400 bug dots into a gigantic bug smear.

I've had good luck using some of the higher-end washer fluids that claim to be formulated to remove tough bugs...but June Bugs are no joke and put up a fight. When it comes to those, nothing beats elbow grease.

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