What WAS your favorite product/methods

[Vegas Transplant]

before realising that there was something better. My curiosity got the better of me since reading every post on the...wish you had never bought thread.

Back in the day I felt like Rain Dance was the best product that ever hit the car care market. I'd wager that it was my go-to LSP for at least 15 years. All of my extended family and my neighbors utilized my services.

My best method for ridding windshields of build-up and water spots, I learned from my dad, who learned from his dad. And that was the Coca-Cola trick.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

My best method for ridding windshields of build-up and water spots, I learned from my dad, who learned from his dad. And that was the Coca-Cola trick.

Yuck, that sounds like a sticky mess. My secret was using Meg's Mirror Glaze products that I had to go to an auto paint store to get. Too bad this was before forums and I really didn't know how to get the most out of those products.

Although it gets drowned out with the product push in forums like this, the real secret is not really the products but in understanding the process. Great products always make things easier, but if you don't understand what you're trying to do and how to do it, you're still going to have trouble.

 

[tw33k2514]

back when I got my truck (16yo), I watched the Meguiars Deep Crystal system videos. I then rushed right out to the Autozone and picked up the whole system. As well as some applicators and some very crappy towels.

When I got done with my truck it was a white stained trim mess. That is when I decided I needed to learn more..

 

[kjimpressions]

i like this thread haha, i remember when i used to think Meguiars had the best product for everything.

i used to telll everyone in my family i was a professional when really i didnt even know what a swirl was. but to me the new nxt 2.0 wax was the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

back when I got my truck (16yo), I watched the Meguiars Deep Crystal system videos. I then rushed right out to the Autozone and picked up the whole system. When I got done with my truck it was a white stained trim mess. That is when I decided I needed to learn more..

It's really a shame that most of those Meg's products stain trim so badly. How many people who are working by hand (or one of those terrible orbitals), who would never know anything about taping trim off, have had this happen to them?

 

[kjimpressions]

i know i basically ruined the trim on my first car because of all the staining

 

[Vegas Transplant]

Yuck, that sounds like a sticky mess. My secret was using Meg's Mirror Glaze products that I had to go to an auto paint store to get. Too bad this was before forums and I really didn't know how to get the most out of those products.

Although it gets drowned out with the product push in forums like this, the real secret is not really the products but in understanding the process. Great products always make things easier, but if you don't understand what you're trying to do and how to do it, you're still going to have trouble.

My dad was from down South and that's the way alot of people in that area cleaned problem glass up until they reformulated coke.

back when I got my truck (16yo), I watched the Meguiars Deep Crystal system videos. I then rushed right out to the Autozone and picked up the whole system. As well as some applicators and some very crappy towels.

When I got done with my truck it was a white stained trim mess. That is when I decided I needed to learn more..

I stained the trim on my dads car once and he whupped the stew outta me. I learned quickly.

i like this thread haha, i remember when i used to think Meguiars had the best product for everything.

i used to telll everyone in my family i was a professional when really i didnt even know what a swirl was. but to me the new nxt 2.0 wax was the best thing since sliced bread.

That's how I felt about Rain Dance.

i know i basically ruined the trim on my first car because of all the staining

I remembered the whuppin'. My 1st car was a MGB - the only trim was a stainless piece down both sides.

Thanks for the memories.

 

[FUNX650]

Dad taught me...When He said I was big enough to: Drag a bucket of water, soap, and towels...To at least try to keep a vehicle clean as possible, inside and out...With a "Simonizing", of whatever wax he'd picked up somewhere, a couple times a year on his vehicle.

Later on...When I said I was big enough...I guess I thought I was using the best of what was available back then...Along with some "tips&tricks-products" I was picking up from the guys down at "Ohio" George Montgomery's and Brockman's Speed Shops.

I slopped a lot of stuff (too numerous to mention) in those days!
{But this was before BC/CC introduction. I just wish that 'detailing forums', from any type of media source, would have been available then...Would've kept me from mucking-up CC so much at first.}

But I always remembered to at least keep the interiors as clean as possible...The young ladies seemed to appreciate it.
And except for cleaning the windows with some Tri-Co washer solvent or ammonia-water...No worries about interior dressings or air fresheners...We didn't need 'em...We wore 'em:

Us "Men": English Leather;
The Young Ladies: Ambush

All the while sharing, perhaps, a: RC Cola...Listening to "Stax of Wax" on the AM-Dial.

Memories...a Blast from the Past...

Thanks, VT, for the Rearview Mirror....




Bob

 

[Vegas Transplant]

Dad taught me...When He said I was big enough to: Drag a bucket of water, soap, and towels...To at least try to keep a vehicle clean as possible, inside and out...With a "Simonizing", of whatever wax he'd picked up somewhere, a couple times a year on his vehicle.

Mine was a little more adamant.


But I always remembered to at least keep the interiors as clean as possible...The young ladies seemed to appreciate it.
So true.
And except for cleaning the windows with some Tri-Co washer solvent or ammonia-water...No worries about interior dressings or air fresheners...We didn't need 'em...We wore 'em:
Did similarly. Could buy a gallon from the ESSO station product mountain cheaper than what was found at the 5 & dime.

Us "Men": English Leather;
The Young Ladies: Ambush

All the while sharing, perhaps, a: RC Cola...Listening to "Stax of Wax" on the AM-Dial.

For us, a different generation, it was a 6oz Co-Cola with a 15 cent pakage of peanuts poured into the drink. WBT, WRHI, WGIV-all AM.

Memories...a Blast from the Past...

Thanks, VT, for the Rearview Mirror....







Bob

AS always Bob, Thanks for sharing

 

[Stang Man]

In high school, around 2000-2002, I used whatever I got my hands at the auto parts store.

Once my parents got their 2002 Z28, I switched everything over to the Zaino setup....hey, they were paying!

I really liked the Zaino, and actually still use it quite a bit. I love the Z2, their Z6 spray detailer, and the tire shine. I have ordered some new products within the past couple of months so I am slowly broadening my horizons, I just like consistency and I have a hard time trying anything else once I've found something that works.

[I am really excited about the Collinite 845, though! It just came in Wednesday, and I'm waiting for a test subject!]

 

[Hoytman]

...And except for cleaning the windows with some Tri-Co washer solvent or ammonia-water...No worries about interior dressings or air fresheners...We didn't need 'em...We wore 'em:

Us "Men": English Leather;
The Young Ladies: Ambush

All the while sharing, perhaps, a: RC Cola...Listening to "Stax of Wax" on the AM-Dial.

Memories...a Blast from the Past...

Thanks, VT, for the Rearview Mirror....




Bob

Made my day ha ha! I suspect your about 10-15 years older than me (39) as a result of using English Leather. I own quite a few high dollar cologne's now but ol' Leather still smells good to me. I must have been too yound to get close enough to the amBUSH at that time, or to darned ugly ha ha.

RC huh..maybe a moon pie too? Brings back memories (when I was 3-10)from Clay County. Wakin' up with the roosters to the smell and rattle of a Warm Morning coal stove, and listenin' to the last of the ol' steam engines roar through them hills at day break with that cool mountain air comin' through the window. Yes siree...thanks for the memories. You just made my day.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

Made my day ha ha! I suspect your about 10-15 years older than me (39) as a result of using English Leather. I own quite a few high dollar cologne's now but ol' Leather still smells good to me. I must have been too yound to get close enough to the amBUSH at that time, or to darned ugly ha ha.

RC huh..maybe a moon pie too? Brings back memories (when I was 3-10)from Clay County. Wakin' up with the roosters to the smell and rattle of a Warm Morning coal stove, and listenin' to the last of the ol' steam engines roar through them hills at day break with that cool mountain air comin' through the window. Yes siree...thanks for the memories. You just made my day.

And you have made mine also

In high school, around 2000-2002, I used whatever I got my hands at the auto parts store.

Once my parents got their 2002 Z28, I switched everything over to the Zaino setup....hey, they were paying!

I really liked the Zaino, and actually still use it quite a bit. I love the Z2, their Z6 spray detailer, and the tire shine. I have ordered some new products within the past couple of months so I am slowly broadening my horizons, I just like consistency and I have a hard time trying anything else once I've found something that works.

[I am really excited about the Collinite 845, though! It just came in Wednesday, and I'm waiting for a test subject!]

I spent a small fortune at Western Auto and then later at Crazy Joe's.
Gotta go -Have a great Friday all.

 

[FUNX650]

I suspect your about 10-15 years older than me....

....from Clay County.

Thank you, my good man, for your kind words (and age-underestimation)...
You made my day, also!

Which State (Clay Co.)?

In my more youthful days, mine were:
Boyle/Garrard...KY.

More Memories:
Walking in the tobacco fields behind Grandpa's plow-mule; bloody hands from removing "suckers" from the Burley; sneaking a few chews while hanging "baccer" in the barn...

Tough on a kid...But it taught me the meaning of hard work and its rewards.

[BTW... Ever have to "Detail a Mule"?? LOL]



Bob

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Ah...RC Cola when the cans were steel and the tabs came off...those were the days...

 

[crash93ssei]

Back in high school (around 1999 - 2000) I had a friend that went all out on his early 90's Grand Am - new paint job, custom interior, air bag suspension... the car looked really good and was tastefully modded. He once talked to me about he was going to spend the whole weekend doing a Mothers three step to the car and I laughed at him telling him how much of a waste of time and money it is for him to do all that. I remember telling him that my car is just as clean as his (I had a 1989 Bonneville, never polished, hit it with turtle wax once in a while, almost 200,000 miles on it) and all I ever do is go to the local coin op car wash and use the brush on mine to clean it up. I had no idea about swirls and holograms and oxidation and stuff back then so I figured a clean car was a clean car and that's all there was to it.

Now I have a UDM (does anyone still have or use these anymore? LOL) Menzerna polishes, Souveran, Fuzion, tons of LC pads and Cobra towels, as well as an order about to be placed soon for a Makita rotary, more pads, more towels, more polishes, and other goodies as well. I am so happy I found this site and it has allowed me to take my passion for cars a giant leap forward as well as make money in the process!

 

[Hoytman]

Thank you, my good man, for your kind words (and age-underestimation)...
You made my day, also!

Which State (Clay Co.)?

In my more youthful days, mine were:
Boyle/Garrard...KY.

More Memories:
Walking in the tobacco fields behind Grandpa's plow-mule; bloody hands from removing "suckers" from the Burley; sneaking a few chews while hanging "baccer" in the barn...

Tough on a kid...But it taught me the meaning of hard work and its rewards.

[BTW... Ever have to "Detail a Mule"?? LOL]



Bob

Detail a Mule ha ha ha! Nope. Can't say I have.

Manchester...Hima, KY...Horse Creek, to be exact. My Grandpa pastored at Horse Creek church many moons ago. They left in the '60's.

No I'm not from there, but I spent a tremendous amount of time there as a kid, and on in to my upper teens...where Momma's from. Bought many an RC from Sibers' Grocery store, and drank water from my aunt's spring out back...she kept it cold in the fridge in Prestone jug ha ha. Hey, it didn't kill me, but it's a wonder it didn't.

My folks were from a couple hollers named Crawfish, and Greasy...where you lived hard and died easy. Wish I had of been from there though. Life was certainly slower and more laid back there. I'm not a full blooded briar hopper, but I are half one...and proudly so.

Never did work in the tobacco fields, but I've slipped in my share of Beech-Nut and Red Man from off of an ol' black an white TV...watchin' rastlin'...Don Eagle, Wahoo McDaniel.

Ah...RC Cola when the cans were steel and the tabs came off...those were the days...

 

[FUNX650]

I'm not a full blooded briar hopper, but I are half one...and proudly so.

Don Eagle, Wahoo McDaniel.

-Job opportunities are the reasons I'm a "Buck-Hopper".

-At the school house we were taught the three "R's":
Readin', 'Ritin', and the Road to Dayton (or Detroit).

-Along with Chief Don Eagle...Handsome Johnny Baron, Magnificent Maurice, Coco Brazil, Haystacks Calhoun...Bouncing Beulah was the ring-side girl.

"Old-Man's-Butt" Syndrome:
When the "Good Wife" says I'm getting a little too old...
I tell her I have just one wrinkle (as opposed to hers)...And I'm sitting on it!



Bob

 

[SRTSean]

My favorite product used to be the OTC Megs 3-step system. Didn't know what I was doing so I always used too much product that was horrible to remove, and I had one of those lousy 10-inch oscillating buffers that don't accomplish anything. Didn't even know about clay bars back then (12 years ago).

 

[timaishu]

About 4-5 years ago when I got into washing my first car. I had my best friend over one day and we were washing our cars. When it was time to dry. I would grab the biggest bath towel I could find, me on one side, her on the other and we each have two corners of the towel and we would start at the front and basically drag it flat against the paint it from the hood to the windshield, roof to back window and trunk lid all in one go.

We thought it was the best idea ever! It worked pretty good to.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

[BTW... Ever have to "Detail a Mule"?? LOL]

:laughing::laughing:

Ah...RC Cola when the cans were steel and the tabs came off...those were the days...

I stepped on one at Myrtle beach as a kid- Actually I think it came from dad's Schlitz.

Now I have a UDM (does anyone still have or use these anymore? LOL) I am so happy I found this site and it has allowed me to take my passion for cars a giant leap forward as well as make money in the process!

What's a UDM?

Detail a Mule ha ha ha! Nope. Can't say I have.

Manchester...Hima, KY...Horse Creek, to be exact. My Grandpa pastored at Horse Creek church many moons ago. They left in the '60's.

A little white wood frame church, with the bell in the front yard? I remember Wahoo- The Chief, and some years later, Ricky Steamboat.

- Haystacks Calhoun...

I remember him also- I also remember his funeral (tv)

Didn't know what I was doing so I always used too much product that was horrible to remove, lousy 10-inch oscillating buffers that don't accomplish anything. Didn't even know about clay bars back then (12 years ago).

Sound like my baby brother- he got away with murder-Always keeps his cars immaculate now.

About 4-5 years ago when I got into washing my first car. I had my best friend over one day and we were washing our cars. When it was time to dry. I would grab the biggest bath towel I could find, me on one side, her on the other and we each have two corners of the towel and we would start at the front and basically drag it flat against the paint it from the hood to the windshield, roof to back window and trunk lid all in one go.

We thought it was the best idea ever! It worked pretty good to.

:laughing::laughing: The dynamic duo.