Your Own Product Recommendations.....

[Alex225]

I thought I'd start a thread on products that you think are really good and why you'd recommend them.

I have tried so many shampoos, Dodo Juice, Bilt Hamber, Chemical Guys, Gyeon, Meguiars etc. But I recently looked at the Car Chem range. For those who don't know, Car Chem make a number of ranges for other brands. You can go to them and ask them to produce bulk products for you to sell as your own and only fairly recently started their own range.

This shampoo is the best I've used. Slick, foamy, inexpensive and concentrated.

Next up is Chemical Guys Inner Clean. It smells like bananas and claims to have UV protection for your interior trim. Cleans nicely and leaves a nice matt finish.

Over the last 17 of getting into detailing, I have gone through many brands. The snobbery, the unusual brands, the expensive and the cheap. Turtlewax was never a brand I'd have even looked at. If I was in Halfords I'd overlook it for Meguiars or Autoglym. Yet this stuff is bloody brilliant. Beads well but sheets water better, leaves a nice shine and is totally forgiving. Can spray on a wet car and simply dry, even spray on a panel on a hot day and wipe it off. And, it's cheap!

Right, who's next?

 

[SpikyMikey]

Wow, this thread could run and run......
My go-to product that I've used for years because of it's combination of cost, effectiveness and ease of use:

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Gyeon Wet Coat. Remarkable beading and protection which can last for months. Wash the car, and before doing the final rinse spray on a small amount of Wet Coat and rinse off (ideally with a jet wash). Witchcraft.

 

[Alex225]

Wow, this thread could run and run......

Hopefully. Could become a handy repository and real world testing by people of different detailing experience is great.

Often people recommend high end products, often very good ones but is the average person who's just started showing an interest going to want to dive straight in with a full detail. All handy info.

Gyeon Wet Coat. Remarkable beading and protection which can last for months. Wash the car, and before doing the final rinse spray on a small amount of Wet Coat and rinse off (ideally with a jet wash). Witchcraft.

It is very good stuff. First spray on and rinse product I ever tried and couldn't get over how well it was beading. Like a fresh layer of carnauba wax!

 

[BlackPearl09]

Bilt hamber touch on - I absolutely am a bilt hamber fan, but this for less than £2 a go is great. After my usual routine a quick spray over and wash off.

 

[mioba]

shampoo - mguires gold class

Polish - Autoglym super resin polish
Wax - Autoglym extra gloss protection

Leather - gliptone liquid leather cleaner and conditioner.

 

[Alex225]

Polish - Autoglym super resin polish

I can vouch for this stuff. Every detailer needs it in their ****nal!

 

[L80OUS]

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[Alex225]

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That's beading from Turtlewax Seal n Shine on top of a hand polish with Super Resin.

 

[AMGeed]

For a dark coloured car, especially black, Poorboys Black Hole Glaze followed by Bilt Hamber Double Speed Wax.
Give a great finish.

 

[RogerSausage]

Like others, I've tried all sorts of snake oils and "magic" products over the last 20+ years of amateur detailing, but have a pretty consistent go to list now...

Degreaser; Good old-fashioned Elbow Grease from B&M Bargains or similar! Great for use in the wheel arches and on suspension components etc for cutting through grime.

Pre-wash; Bilt-Hamber Surfex HD to dissolve the bodywork grime if it's particularly bad, or straight to their Auto Foam. Gyeon's Q2M snow foam is good too. For any fallout, again Bilt-Hamber offer a very effective product with their Korrosol.

Wheels; Bilt-Hamber Autowheel, or Meguiar's Ultimate wheel cleaners are brilliant. Gyeon Tire Express is the only tyre dressing I've found that doesn't sling all over the bodywork too.

Wash; Gyeon Q2M Bathe is the slickest shampoo I've ever used, the wash mitt literally glides over the bodywork!

Rinse-aid; As mentioned above, Gyeon Wet Coat is so effective it's almost like magic, although not overly durable when it comes to prolonged effectiveness in my experience. You can forgive it though for how easy it makes drying off, especially in conjunction with an electric drier/blower. Auto Finesse Aqua Coat is a good option too.

Correction; A bit of a minefield this one, and after trying all manner of different compounds and polishes, in recent years I seem to find myself coming back to Meguiar's Ultimate Compound. Really good when it comes to ease of use and effectiveness for swirl correction etc (as long as they're not too serious), and then Chemical Guys Black Hole or White Diamond polish/glaze dependant on the paint colour.

Protection; Wax and synthetic sealants always tend to be a bit of an emotive subject when it comes to what's the "best", and you can obviously get carried away and spend 1000s on an LSP if you're so inclined. Certainly since I've had a silver car I've not found anything better from a costerformance ratio than FinishKare 1000P Hi-Temp paste sealant. It's a bit of an "old-skool" product, and been around for years, but I really like it and it lasts forever! FinishKare's 425 is a great alternative to to Sonax's BSD quick detailer spray as well.

 

[SpikyMikey]

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Collinite 845 (old skool!) and Sonax BSD on Mrs S's motor.

 

[mioba]

That's beading from Turtlewax Seal n Shine on top of a hand polish with Super Resin.

Super resin alone is half the job tbf. It looks great and makes a huge difference.

When you apply the extra gloss protection after you will fall over in amazement. The transition on top of the super resin polish is not to belive.

 

[SmartAmg]

Needed some car Shampoo so nipped to Halfords this morning, to buy some Autoglym conditioning shampoo, which I usually buy, it was £18 for 2.5L, so I had a look around and spotted this -

It was £6 for 2.5L so I bought that instead, is there really, genuinely, going to be much difference, apart from £12, between the Two?

 

[Alex225]

Collinite 845 (old skool!) and Sonax BSD on Mrs S's motor.
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Collinite 845 is excellent stuff. Beads and lasts easily as long as 476 but so much easier to apply. Just not forgiving on a hot day.

 

[ALFAitalia]

Another vote for Autoglym Super Resin....and so easy to apply.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Collinite 845 is excellent stuff. Beads and lasts easily as long as 476 but so much easier to apply. Just not forgiving on a hot day.

And you have to dunk the bottle in a bucket of hot water in colder weather to get it to flow!

 

[Alex225]

And you have to dunk the bottle in a bucket of hot water in colder weather to get it to flow!

Yeah or pop it on the radiator indoors whilst you do the rest of the work! haha

That's where Dodo Juice nailed it for wax application, really cold or really hot makes no difference. Their waxes are a pleasure to use, especially the Supernatural range.

 

[SmartAmg]

Pinched this off Detailing World, thought it was a good idea, if you happen to have this in your kitchen.

Don't throw it away when empty, use it for your car Shampoo, squeeze it, put it back, self seals, ready for the next wash!

Works great!

 

[badgx]

I have used ceramic coating in the past, however have switched back to traditional waxes.

I currently use Farecela G3 compound for hard correction, then Meguire Ultimate compound for light correction and finishing off with Meguires Ultimate Polish and for top coat protection i use Colinite