Meguiar's professional grit guard

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Seriously starting to doubt this product.

I haven't used it on an uber dirty car yet, but it seems like every time I've used I still find little particulates of junk floating around the water. The device doesn't exactly seem like rocket science, so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong (although maybe I am).

Anybody else have a better experience with them?
 
the logic is somewhat there IMO regarding the grit guard... but it's not a 'membrane' that passes one way... dirt down but can't get back out kind of thing... just trying to do what one can to 'prevent' rather than 'intervene' later. as in maybe it helps vs not having one in keeping the sponge/mitt off or out of a lot of 'dirt'. i like the idea of it anyway and have 2 myself. as to its ability to 'prevent' any/all debris from coming back into the wash water, that's debatable. i will say that i do tend to find more 'dirt' below the grit guard than above.
 
I've gotten away from the traditional two-bucket wash for the most part. I use several wash mitts, and swap them out often, not reusing a dirty one. Yes, I do have to have a lot of them on hand, and this may not be feasible for everyone, especially the mobile guys. As soon as you move that mitt across the paint, even a clean one, you pick up dirt and move it along the panel, so mitigating the damage is really all you can do.
 
I thinki it's better to have one than not. With that said, I have very little faith in the effectiveness of this device. The best example is the wheel bucket, Grit Guard or not, your water with be black with tons of stuff floating around. Especially if you have german car.

There are plenty of off brands that sell them for about 5$ now, that's what I would get. The ones I have seen are hexagonal holes instead of square, feels like it's a better design for a third of the price.
 
Calendyr said:
I thinki it's better to have one than not. With that said, I have very little faith in the effectiveness of this device. The best example is the wheel bucket, Grit Guard or not, your water with be black with tons of stuff floating around. Especially if you have german car.

There are plenty of off brands that sell them for about 5$ now, that's what I would get. The ones I have seen are hexagonal holes instead of square, feels like it's a better design for a third of the price.
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Excellent point about the wheel bucket, Calendyr. :xyxthumbs:
 
Calendyr said:
I thinki it's better to have one than not. With that said, I have very little faith in the effectiveness of this device. The best example is the wheel bucket, Grit Guard or not, your water with be black with tons of stuff floating around. Especially if you have german car.

There are plenty of off brands that sell them for about 5$ now, that's what I would get. The ones I have seen are hexagonal holes instead of square, feels like it's a better design for a third of the price.
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I think this is my main concern. I washed my car yesterday during lunch. Because it is spring and there is a budding tree nearby, there were small bits of tree seeds falling everywhere. My rinse bucket and grit guard worked to remove them from my mitt, but then they would be floating on the top of the water. In those cases, the grit guard wasn't really effective.
 
I don't know how much of it is the ONR and how much is the Chemical Guys Cyclone Dirt Trap, but my so-equipped rinseless bucket keeps all the dirt (that I can see) below the dirt trap. I still have regular grit guards in my 2-bucket wash buckets, I mainly use the one in the 'dirty water' bucket to scrub dirt off the wash mitt before returning it to the clean bucket. For that it's very handy.
 
Since using multiples wash media, i don't see this issue but i still put both my grit guards in the soap bucket.
over kill.... NO!!!
 
What about chemical guys grit guard ??
 
Kazper said:
I think this is my main concern. I washed my car yesterday during lunch. Because it is spring and there is a budding tree nearby, there were small bits of tree seeds falling everywhere. My rinse bucket and grit guard worked to remove them from my mitt, but then they would be floating on the top of the water. In those cases, the grit guard wasn't really effective.
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No offense, but tree debris isn't really "grit". Grit usually falls to the bottom of the bucket, organic matter not so much.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
No offense, but tree debris isn't really "grit". Grit usually falls to the bottom of the bucket, organic matter not so much.
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I was about to say this. I feel that anything heavy enough to sink to the bottom would be grit, therefore it's working perfectly. Any floaters would be minimally damaging to the paint compared to whats on the bottom of the bucket. Also very gently dip into the water and don't move the bucket around so you don't disturb the grit layer on the bottom.
Mike
 
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