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ShineMate EB212 3-inch Polisher Overview & Review At the end of 2020, I made the move to battery powered polishers. Previous to this, I had been using a single dual action polisher kit that was purchased from Waxit back in 2010. This was essentially an entry level 12mm dual action polisher...

The Falcon No One Likes To Talk About………………………………………. (NOTE - I wrote this for another platform but thought it might be of interest here as well) Back in the late 2000’s, Ford Australia were desperate to improve the fuel economy of the Falcon, which they believed would halt the sharp sales...

A lot of what is presented in this video I have thought for years. The way GM sacrificed divisions of the company outside of the USA to prop up their own deficiencies is pathetically bad business management, in fact its shameful. Instead of the US perhaps learning from the success of the...

I listen to a number of podcasts while I'm working, this being one I stumbled across this morning. "Ride shotgun with Ford CEO Jim Farley as he talks to some of his favorite people about what they drive and what drives them to succeed."...

Optimum / Opti-Coat Glass Clean & Protect From experience, the fancier the glass cleaner, the worse it performs. I’ve learnt this the hard way, buying glass cleaners that claim to be the best on the market, but end up leaving behind unsightly haze and streaks. OPT Glass Clean & Protect is the...

Koch Chemie Rapid Rinse-less Wash RRW Over the last 12 – 18months, it seems as if a new rinse-less wash hits the market every week! Where once it was a choice between Optimum No Rinse, McKee’s N-914 or Carpro ECH20, just about every brand is going down this path, even Bowden’s have one now. And...

Bilt Hamber Atom Mac Bilt Hamber have risen to prominence over the last few years with detailing-specific products such as Touch-less, Auto-Foam and Surfex HD. What many may not know, the brand also manufactures a wide range of chemicals for use in multiple industries. From anti-corrosion...

Koch Chemie Magic Wheel Cleaner MWC I'm not a big wheel cleaner user, mainly because I find them unnecessary for well maintained and coated wheels. My go to for wheel cleaning is a slug of soap into my wheel bucket, then whatever shampoo I have chosen on the day and applied with my foam cannon...

The following are two of the many solvent products Koch Chemie make. One is powerful but safe, one is powerful and should be used with care................. Koch Chemie Teerwasche-A TEA Removing tar and adhesive residue would have to be one the most tedious and annoying detailing tasks there...

I'm covering two alkaline-leaning soaps within the Koch Chemie lineup. One is simply stunning, one is somewhat underwhelming. Koch Chemie Auto Shampoo AS I tried Auto Shampoo a few years ago when the brilliant GSF had been out of stock for several months. My thinking was, if GSF was so good...

Koch Chemie All-round Quick Shine, Quick & Shine, Quick Finish and Finish Spray Exterior Koch Chemie offers four different quick detailers in their current lineup, of which it’s hard to know what the difference between them is. From the product descriptions, they all sound identical, but...

Koch Chemie Speed Glass and Glass Cleaner Pro Koch Chemie have a couple of glass cleaners in their lineup. Glas Star GLA is a concentrate alcohol-based product aimed at the professional user and sold in 10-litre drums. For this post, I’m focusing on Speed Glass in the blue bottle range and...

For this post, I'm focusing on two similar soaps offered by Koch Chemie, Ceramic Effect Shampoo (CES) and Nano Magic Shampoo (NMS). I always assumed Nano Magic was a ceramic wash-n-wax, but then they recently introduced CES, so its hard to know what the difference is between the two is. So, this...

Microfiber 101 with DFB One of the biggest advancements in the detailing world over the last 10 to 15 years has been the massive increase in the towels we use to clean our cars. With so many microfiber towels on the market from a variety of different brands, it can be hard to know what to...

##NOTE## - I've written this piece for a couple of other forums. However, I debated if I should put post this here too, mainly because it flaunts the product rules for this forum more than usual. So, I totally understand if this post is deleted. I did put a lot of work into it, so felt like I...

Interior Cleaners & Detailers When I started cleaning cars in my teens and early 20’s, my method of “cleaning” an interior centered around slathering ArmorAll or similar onto the dashboard and door trims. Oh how things changed when I started to learn what those products did and didn’t do. As I...

Drying Aids 2024 – 2025 I’ve covered the drying aid topic a few times, but as always, new products come, and old products go. And while its always exciting when a new product arrives and impresses, its also nice to return to old favorites. In basic terms, a drying aid is providing lubrication...

If you like cars, chances are you like V8's too, well this video is a must watch. Something that I find fascinating is how the current Ford CEO, Jim Farley, fully understands the importance of the V8 and its meaning to Ford customers. He spends his spare time on the racetrack racing various V8...

Bilt Hamber Touch-less v2 While I was late to the Bilt Hamber Touch-less party, I now see it as valuable addition to my cabinet. Touch-less is a sugar-based biodegradable pre-wash soap that contains no phosphates, solvents, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and caustic soda. This makes it's safer to...

Love At First Sight – A Man and His Red Mustang The following is a love note to my gorgeous Race Red Mustang, a car that changed my life and became way more than a car to me. As my ownership of this amazing vehicle comes to end, it’s time to look back and reminisce over a car that I’m fairly...