IceDetail: Rinsing & Washing

Wash day collapses when hose, foam, and half-done panels fight for the same moment. This exists to keep DIY detailing as an ordered ribbon of phases—pre-rinse, foam contact, wheels and arches, body, optional bay work, rinse, dry, protect—so you finish what you start without body and engine-bay jobs colliding out of sequence. Place deliverables on each stage, feel the gates lock until the work ahead is settled, and let gap review surface what you skipped before you coil the hose. Quick rinse or full detail, fork a leaner shape, then split-compare two sessions to see where the minutes and empty cards actually lived. Soil tags, product notes, vehicle paint and bay cues, and tips tied to the phase you are standing in keep the pad honest. Duplicate a ribbon that worked, archive the experiment that did not, and walk the driveway knowing the next unfinished stage is already waiting—not buried…