Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

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So I have been using exclusively Chemical Guys Products for about a year now and thinking of moving on.
What do you guys recommend instead of the following products.

Soap: CG Mr. Pink

APC: CG Nonsense

Sealant: CG Jet Seal

Wax: CG Butter Wet Wax

Polishes: CG V-line

Pads: CG Hexlogic pads

Clay bar: CG Clay bars(Obviously)

Clay Lube: CG Lubber

Stain Remover: CG Lightning Fast

Degreaser: CG Orange degreaser

I realize that I have more CG products than I thought.

Thanks for your inputs.
 
What are you objectives? Do you only detail your own cars, detail for money on the side, pro detailer?
 
Soap: optimum car wash

APC: Meguiars d101 Apc or optimum power clean

Sealant: blackfire wet diamond or Wolfgang deep gloss paint sealant

Wax: way too many too list

Polishes: Meguiars, I primarily use m100, m101 and m205 menzerna, rupes polishes to go with their system

Pads: rupes pads or lake country thinpro, hydrotech

Claybar: I use nanoskin clay pad, mitt and sponges

Claylube: I use ONR in a claylube dilution, more economical

Stain remover: I use my APC for interior cleaning

Degreaser: also use my APC for degreasing purposes

As for polisher, what type of polisher do you currently have. The rupes system is awesome, but if you have a griots then I suggest the boss system.
 
usmcpab said:
As for polisher, what type of polisher do you currently have. The rupes system is awesome, but if you have a griots then I suggest the boss system.
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I have a PC and will receive a Flex Kompakt next week. Saving for a Rupes 15.
 
Slowly? You need to speed up!! Run! as fast as you can!
But I still use their soap tho.

What I use:

Soap: CG Citrus, Meg Gold class, BF soap

APC: Meg D101

Sealant: klasse sealant glaze, Blackfire wet diamond

Wax: Blackfire Midnight sun, C845

Polishes: Menzerna and Meguiars M105+205, Meguiars D300 for MF pads.

Pads: LC CCS, LC flat pads, LC hydro pads, Buff and shine Green polishing pads, meguiars MDX mf pads.

Clay bar: Griots yellow clay, Blackfire aggressive clay bar, Nano skin fine clay wash mitt.

Clay Lube: Diluted meguiars last touch to 1:1 (or use it as full strength since its so cheap :D )

CG stuffs work, but for the same money, you can find much better and easy to use products.
 
Thank you all! Detailing is so addictive.
Keep the suggestion coming.
 
You are actually in a great position.
- Professional detailer.
- Experienced with a brand name product line.

May I suggest selecting one, and only one, brand name of products as you did previously with Chemical Guys.
This will allow allow you to become directly familiar with a new product line, complete.
Will also allow you to compare directly to the previous product line.

The greatest benefit is:
- As a professional, you will know for yourself in the real world what and which products work best.
- Will also allow you to contribute on this forum comparison info, and general info, on both brand name product lines, which will allow the community to ask questions and get real answers.

Suggestion:
Go all in with Meguiars.
 
i also moved from these same products. i still use the hex pads, they havent really let me down nor blew me away but now i use
Soap : cg citrus and meg gold class
apc : cg non sense and all clean
sealant: menzurna power lock
Wax: cg 5050
polishes: i love the hd speed with the orange pad, menzurna polish is great too
pads: cg hex
clay: just ran out of cg med clay
lube: also ran out of that.
 
Good idea - you'll be happy you moved on from CG's products. Don't limit yourself to one product line, each brand has some very good and some not so good products.

What I use:

Soap
Optimum Car Wash

APC
Megs D101

Sealants
- Menz Powerlock
- Wolfgang DGPS
- BFWD
- CarPro Reload

Wax
- usually don't use with today's high performing sealants and coatings

Polishes
- Menzerna FG400/4000/2500
- CarPro Essence/Reflect

Pads
Foam
- Rupes Green, Yellow, White
- LC Thin Pros, flats
- Buff and Shine
- CarPro Gloss Pads

Microfiber
- Meg's Cutting/Finishing
- Griots

Clay bar
- Nanoskin Medium Wash Mitt
- Nanoskin Fine Towel
- Nanoskin sponges

Clay Lube
- DoDo Juice Born Slippy

Trim/Tires
- Perl
- WETS
 
You know what ?

Chemical guys products acutally aren't bad.

I dont like there polishes.

But if you have there soap, wheel cleaners, all purpose cleaners, clay bars, waxes.

You don't need to buy more of that stuff they will get the job done, untill you run out.

Chemical guys soaps are some of the best.

Just upgrade your polishes, i only like there v36 v32,v34 are a nightmare. And i use for headlight restorations.

All the other stuff you have is fine.

Is there better ? Sure , but the stuff you have if any of us had only those products on a island we would be able to get the kob done.

A clay bar is a clay bar, just because its chemical guys, does not mean you need to buy a wolfgang claybar.

Use what you have untill its done.

Just upgrade your polishes.

I actually like there cleaners, they work well i never had any complaints.

Jet seal is still some of the strongest sealant on the market.

My neighbor has had it on his daily driven fan for over a year now, with just maintenence spray wax applications.

Alot of there stuff is over hyped like Blacklight, but they do have some gems.

Jet seal, there soaps are pretty good
 
Wow this is going to be tough. But for me the Polishing products I use are Menzerna FG400 and SF4500. IMO any of the PBMG groups product brands are SUPERIOR to anything that Chemical Guys make. And if I offend the Chemical Guys Fanboys...so sorry. This is from 1st hand experience for me. You can't go wrong with any of the Meg's products. As for sealant Menzerna or Poorboy's. Wax...ugh I have at least 25 different types!

As for Clay bars....I use the Nanoskins. I use the Blue wash mitt. Save quite a bit of time too. I know that there is the Cobra and Griot's. I haven't used these, however, I woukld assume the quality is just the same. Using this method as opposed to claying save quite a bit of time and is just as effective as regular clay. Additionally, if you drop the wash mitt just remove the dirt and Nanoskin away. Typical clay bars you can't do that.
 
RangerDetails said:
I started my own detailing business. So professionally.
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What I do is get all my polishes and waxes glass cleaner micros and coatings and pads through ag.The rest I get from a outside vendor.d151 for production and sonax products.apc rim cleaners and carpet care and aerosol trim dressing leather cleaner and conditioner outside vendor.
 
I know this is an old thread, but if you are a professional and have a fed tax ID, you can buy your products wholesale in bulk from major distributors, such as Malco, Trans-Mate, P & S, etc.

Trans Mate has the best brake dust remover I have found, Tame Tiger, and it can also be used on paint for rail dust removal on new vehicles.
 
just try different things, no need to limit yourself to one companies product. thats what i would recommend
 
I've been impressed by every single McKee's 37 product I've tried. Might be worth a look.
 
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