What products do people use to clean there cars?
What is the best brand of cleaning products?
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What is the best brand of cleaning products?
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As you'll see from the links above there are a million answers and nearly as many products. I'm not into the whole detailing scene, but do like a clean car with some protection and minimum effort. You can probably get away with 4 or 5 products for the outside, Wash, bug/tar remover, sealant, drying aid and wheel cleaner unless you want to spend a day detailing your car in which case you need clay bars, mits, snow foam cannons... there are plenty of good products but also a lot of BS imo
A month ago I started using the new Turtle Wax Ceramic Hybrid products and so far I've been really impressed. Extremely easy to use, reasonable cost and effective. Currently its £18 per product, but various offers pop up, I paid £14.40 for each on a Halfords deal.
A month ago I washed the car (had some CarPro valet wash left) then polished with the Ceramic Polish & Wax, then applied the Ceramic Spray Coating. Still looks to be working well, and I'm expecting to get 5-6 months out of it, although I have bought the Ceramic Wet Wax subsequently. Its a drying aid which adds/rejuvenates the existing ceramic coating. 3 procucts should be enough to wash, protect and maintain.
I had some CarPro Valet wash left over, its just a decent normal car wash. A couple of those Noodle style microfibre sponges, a wheel brush for the Wheels & Seals and a selection of Microfibre cloths plus my new favourite car thing... detailing brushes. Only a few quid and they make it so easy to clean all the difficult bits, it really stands out when all the nooks and crammies are cleaned and only takes 5 mins with those little brushes.I love a bit of turtle wax, I've always used it but never seen the new ceramic hybrid, I will have to look out for that.
What do you use to wash the car?
I think also as said above, it depends on what you want. I have liquid waxes that take seconds to apply and buff off. But in a fortnight the wax coat will be all but gone. But that's fine if I'm in a massive rush and plan to do it again shortly. Then there are other waxes like Fusso and Collinte which are more difficult / time consuming to apply and more care is needed to buff them off correctly and in time. But they last for months.
The TW UK store currently has 15% off and free delivery, so three of the above would be about £46. The amount you use and the bottle size mean they'll last years, by which time there should be no-scratch robot car cleaners.
I'd guess they are broadly similar, from the tests and reviews I looked at the TW was a bit more durable, but they are using various detergents and cleaners to accelerate the tests, real world conditions may have different effects. Mine's been on a month now and no visible change to how it's beading etc I'll see how it goes and update as winter progresses....Be interesting to see how these compare to the Meguiar's hybrid Ceramic products I've been using.