Curious about APC and Glass cleaner

[soarinsirg]

Curious about how everyone feels about buying APC concentrate from say Megs or CG or be it whatever detailing brand, vs store concentrate. Store bought concentrates that claim to be equally potent seem to be cheaper. Anyone have any bad experiences with APC's that were not a detail brand. Same question with glass cleaner ( I know a lot of common store brands use ammonia which needs to be avoided). Just finished up a detail using alot of CG's ALL CLEAN, and it struck me. Thanks!

 

[cleanmycorolla]

Honestly, I buy my APC is quantity because my girl loves using it around the house. We use Eco Touch or CG all clean +. I have a gallon of CG All Clean+ I'm pretty sure it will last our entire household until death. I got my gallon of all clean plus for stupid cheap too.

 

[A-train]

I've used several non detailing related Apc's. However I always test them out before using them on a customers vehicle. I always proceed with a little more caution when using stronger degreasers, you never really know when something has been tested on vehicles when u get generic brands. They prob have but if its not on the bottle...who knows. For the most part I stick with detailing specific. Meg's D103 at 4:1 exterior and 10:1 on interior is pretty cost effective. The only non detailing specific degreaser/Apc's I use right now is Zep 505 and that's just because its pretty common in detailing and a lot of people have tested successfully bf I tried it.

 

[Dimetera413]

I have about 8 gallons of Optimum Power Clean right now. It's good for auto and home cleaning but I use most of it on auto related things.


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[PiPUK]

Short of testing, you cannot be sure. It is naive to assume that detailing products are somehow superior. In honest truth, the APCs we sell to detailers tend to be less concentrated than those sold to household I&I. The detailing industry has a general concept of how much a product should be diluted, tell someone that an APC needs diluted 250:1 instead of 25:1 and they don't really know what to do about it. In practice, out high strength APC does make it into automotive but it gets heavily diluted before it is sold to the end user.

The message really is as I started, don't assume too much of detailing products. Often the same products will be used in other sectors but without the markup.