What is in your car care arsenal?

[87gtVIC]

I am all excited about having new paint and such and would like to know what others are using to make their car look as fresh as can be come clean up time. I purchased quite a few items but would like to hear what other people use, what a particular product is used for, and how they like it. Don't be shy!

[P72Ford]

-Purple Power Cherry car wash soap
-Power America fleet wash soap
-Wax as U Dry
-Absorber chamois
-Meguiar's 3
-Meguiar's 27
-Busch aluminum polish
-Sometimes a cheap 'tire shine'

[sly]

a garage to park the car in

[Pesty351]

The best stuff in the world hands down.

http://www.jaxwax.com/

[packman]

I purchased a Griot's Garage starter kit (car wash, speed shine, paint cleaning clay, window cleaner, wheel cleaner, polish, wax, and an assortment of microfiber towels). It works well on the cheap Maaco paint job on my S-10. I hope to one day have one vehicle that is worth the time to do all of that.



Packman

[Sign of the Cat]

Carbrite industrial autooive products, butter wax for a quick deep wax look for shows, 303 rubber and vinyl treatment for the various plastics rubber and vinyl.

[87gtVIC]

Damn a lot of this stuff I never even heard of! It seems like the stuff that is not mainstream really is liked by people.

Me..I just have pretty generic stuff.

Watered down Simple Green in an industrial spray bottle to clean my wheels of brake dust and clean the engine down.
3m Rubbing Compound
A bunch of microfiber towels for cleaning, drying and polishing
An absorber car chamois to dry the car
Microfiber wash mit
Wheel brush to clean the wheels
Tooth brush to get into tight places
303 aerospace protectant for vinyl top, weatherstripping and engine bay plastics
Meguiar's Cleaner Paste Wax
Meguiar's Gold Class Clear Coat Paste Wax
Meguiar's Ultimate Quick Spray Wax
Meguiar's Ultimate Quick Detailer
Meguiar's Quick Interior Detailer
Meguiar's Gold Class Shampoo and Conditioner
Armorall Extreme Tire Shine
20 year old Armorall bottle of spray for the bumper rub stripes
California Car Duster (Detailers Series)
20 year old Ford Aerosol Glass cleaner. lol

I have in mind to pick up a grill brush, some Rain X as well as Turtle Wax Premium Chrome and Metal Polish...looking into glass cleaner as well. Any recommendations?

I need a bigger box to store all of this stuff and I haven't even got to use much of it yet.

[chitownvic]

Pfft My trunk is Like a detail shop

Duragloss #901 Car Wash Soap (The Best stuff I have ever used, can onlt get at Car Quest)
Shit load of Microfiber and terry cloth
Absorber
Wash Mit
Suft City Garage Spray Wax (Best Shit Ever)
Meguiars tech Wax (Paste)
Mothers California Gold Wax (Paste)
Nu Finish (Paste)
Glass Cleaner (aerosal)
Mothers "Back to Black" trim care
Turtle Wax Chrome Polish
Meguiars Endurashine Tire Shine (Awesome shit cus it doesn't run or sling)
WhiteWall Bleach
Rim Cleaner (Turtle Wax F21)
Various Brushs for the rims (Fawkin Turbines)

Ummmm That's pretty much all I can think of at the moment

[Sign of the Cat]

the simple green does do a nice job on white walls, sray nine in the white bottle cleans staines out of upholstrey very nicely.

[87gtVIC]

Meguiars Endurashine Tire Shine (Awesome shit cus it doesn't run or sling)

This is a problem I have experienced with my armorall extreme tire shine. Going around town you are not driving fast enough to have it sling but anything faster..forget about it. Endurashine comes in a nice kit right? I may switch over to that after scrubbing down the sidewalls good with simple green and trying 303 aerospace protectant first. That product says it can make the tires look like new so I will give that a try before spending more.

What type of glass cleaner are you using?

[johnunit]

mine is kinda pathetic:

Turtle Wax Rubbing compound (paste)
Turtle Wax Polishing compound (paste)
Invisible glass
RainX (liquid/bottle)
Autoglym Vinyl and rubber protectant (spray bottle) for vinyl roof and all exterior rubber
Mother's carnuba cleaner wax (paste) for if I haven't waxed in a while
Mother's gold class wax (paste) if it's been waxed recentlyish
Some tire-shine that never worked too well
Spray nine (this+scrub brush=spotless whitewalls)
Invisible glass spray
Mother's instant/spray wax - REALLY touchy to apply, smears easily
Silvo/Brasso metal polish
lots of microfibre towels for detailing
shop rags for cleaning wheels
big high-quality beach towel for drying the car

[sly]

mine's really short. besides the keep it running stuff (aka oil, coolant, tools, etc)

Rain-X windshield treatment and anti-fog treatment (outside and inside stuff respectively)
car wash sponge
bucket
dish soap

I usually use 91% isopropyl alcohol cut 50/50 with water to clean the glass inside, if I don't just use the soapy water and a well rung rag.

I need to get something to help with the Mark VI interior upkeep (like the 303 cleaner or some leather treatment).

[johnunit]

Dish soap will remove anything resembling wax.

[Pesty351]

Dish soap will remove anything resembling wax.

Yup.

[sly]

never wax my cars... so no biggy there