Cleaning Corner, Cleaning tips for the Q-Tip crowd Options

[Ferg]

Thought it would be nice to have a thread about tips, products and advice for us that keep the cars highly detailed.

I'll start by listing a few of my favorite products:

Maguiar's Quick Detailer Spray

Mothers Chrome polish

Maguiar's car wash (gold stuff)



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[tod914]

PS21 carnuba wax and cleaner. Excellent products. Other waxes that I have tried (mothers, mequires) have a certian "brownish tint" to them. They work well with most paints, but it's noticeable on a white car like mine.

Vinalex for the interior, not greesy like armoral. I just spray it on a damp cloth and wipe down the interior that way. Doesnt attract dust.

Glass Pluss great cleaner for window. I have some wurth products too that I used, a rubber preseverative etc.

PS21 wheel cleaner I would avoid... If you leave it on for more than a couple minutes your asking for problems. It can stain alloy wheels. Their Orange degreaser I would avoid as well. It leaves a film and you can "glaze" your rotors.. dont ask how i know lol

Blue magic is another good product, excellent metal polish and can be combined with the ps21 cleaner to work out tough spots on the paint.

Oxyscrub for cleaning carpets works amazingly well. My car when I got it, had all this red Texas dust in the carpets. After soaking them in the tub for about 5 minutes, they turned out looking like new.

First Concours for the NNJPCA on Saturday.. looking foward to it. Should be a fun day.

[Pat Garvey]

Blue magic is another good product, excellent metal polish and can be combined with the ps21 cleaner to work out tough spots on the paint.

Oxyscrub for cleaning carpets works amazingly well. My car when I got it, had all this red Texas dust in the carpets. After soaking them in the tub for about 5 minutes, they turned out looking like new.

First Concours for the NNJPCA on Saturday.. looking foward to it. Should be a fun day.

I like the Oxyscrub thing. Haven't tried but will. Been using a steam cleaner for years, but there's always slightly gray water left (I hope it isn't dye). Will try it.

Since my first days of concours I've used Simichrome for many things - works really well on bumpers so long as you give one final go-over of something like Glass Plus.

More importantly, let us know how the concours goes this weekend!

[KELTY360]

Since my first days of concours I've used Simichrome for many things - works really well on bumpers so long as you give one final go-over of something like Glass Plus.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) For chrome that out shines the rest, clean with a glass cleaner - I use Windex - after polishing. It gets the surface ultra clean so that light just bounces off it. Really makes a difference.

This forum is a good fit on the site. I love all the details, colors, textures and shapes that a finely prepared car presents. While that applies equally to stock and non-stock cars. There is a real elegance to an 'as delivered' car. Unfortunately, it's not pratical to drive one of those on a regular basis. Bottom line is that the temt is big enough to hold all viewpoints. JMHO