Car Cleaning

Just wondered what products you all you use for cleaning and polishing your cars?

Ive been using Autoglym products for years but fancy a change

Usually use 

Autoglym shampoo, Super resin Polish and then the High Gloss shine.

 

 

for a quick going over i use a karcher pressure washer with turtlewax wash/wax solution, by hand its turtlewax triple wax shampoo usually

polishing -  usually turtle wax extreme paste or autoglym super resin

plastic trim -  simoniz back to black spray (very quick to apply but lasts about 5 mins) or halfords trim cleaner which lasts much longer but is a pain in the neck to apply

wheels - "wonder wheels", rinse, then normal car polish (see above)

tyres - turtle wax (do you notice a pattern here? ) extreme gel

windows, lights etc. - autoglym fast glass spray

Edited by stephenperry

what the price for that wax Mike ����

I spent 60 bucks on Maguires stuff the other week.. got some nxt (next generation) shampoo and wax. Got the quick clay stuff too. Also bought a decent shammy and got some maguires scratch x too. The scratch x is real good as well as the wax....waxed it a good couple of weeks ago and even with all the rain it still shines and the rain just beads off the car. heard good stuff about zymol products as well ......HTH

I used to use autoglym, & I would use it again, definitely, but I find Meguiars good too, easy to apply & get off again. The 3 stage stuff is good, but I have never yet used the first stage, or the clay.

Just normal BMW shampoo for washing, does a good job, & do the wheels with it too, since they are powder coated, very easy to clean, apart form the tar & asphalt I recently picked up driving through road works, but that's another story  .

I also recently bought a Hozelock brush that you attach to the hose, put shampoo through, & clean away without a bucket or anything. Works really well as it is constantly clean shampoo & water you are puting on the car.

Turtle Wax Extreme Tyre Gel, works ok I guess, & various black trim products, yet to find a really good one.

Autoglym glass polish is the best thing I have ever put on my windows, & Rainx for the windscreen.

I have just bought a proper electric polisher with some Farecla products to improve my old 7 series.

Mighty Happy I tell you. Cut the whole car with a very fine (Q3?) paste, topped off with Meguiars (correct spelling !!) Carnabua wax.

Will post some pics once it is all finished!

Edited by cliffwilliams

jerry318 wrote: what the price for that wax Mike ����

 

i think its quite cheap

 

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Maguires for everthing it really is that good

The Meguires Clay Bar comes in a kit with a Quick Detail Spray.

You just need to keep spraying the detailer on, to lubricate the Clay. After that it is fairly easy to use.

I'm currently using Autoglym. However, I watched the demo for Swissoil when I was down at Gaydon for the BMWFest - I was tempted to get it. However, it was a tad expensive at �140 for the kit - maybe another day? 

I've got dings and small scratches all over mine - last owner was a woman I think (not her fault I hasten to add, more likely shopping car park trolley dings etc.).

Power wash and some Autoglym car shampoo does mine, with the occasional trip to the monster wash (which does my head in as the wax smears the windscreen, but washes the underneath)

Are those colour match polishes any good, and those electric buffer things - do they not put swirl marks on the paintwork?