What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

[yakky]

Washed my wife’s kid hauler with Meg’s Hyperwash (I still can’t figure out the smell but I like it), and then hit it with Tec 582. Reflection shot shows weird sun and clouds, it’s not a haze or smearing from the product, figured I’d mention that.

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Looks great, Tec582 really adds depth even on paints that aren't the best. It seems to have made that pearl come alive. Sooo slick too, that's the biggest issue, fingerprints from touching it too much, lol.

 

[Optimus Grime]

Finished this up just before the sun went down. For a 10 year old truck that is actually used for truck things this behemoth is actually holding up quite well.




The owner is one of the few customers that said he was going to bring his other vehicle to get detailed and actually lived up to his word so I polished his headlights. I also had a box of Cerakote Trim Restore I had reserved for a customer that cancelled and decided to restore his trim. For something that you can pick up off the shelf at Wal-Mart it worked surprisingly well.

 

[Karl_in_Chicago]

I mean, pretty much every brand has a mixture of brilliant and not-so-brilliant products. I've tried some truly terrible products from the likes of Carpro and Gyeon, balanced by some brilliant class leaders elsewhere in the range. The sad thing about Meguiar's is that they should be an industry leader and innovator, but are stuck in 1999 selling old products to those not willing to try anything different.

Of the Meguiar's products, I'd say Hybrid Ceramic Detailer, Hyper Wash, Hyper Dressing and the Quick Interior Detailer (the retail version only, the Detailer gallon size has an unpleasant white vinegar odor) are their leaders. All have earnt a place in my cabinets.

I have to say I find the current array of Meguiar's products just overwhelming and that is exacerbated by how many of them have such similar names. Just yesterday I went to the Meguiar's website looking for their own product description of a few things I'd seen discussed here and got lost - once everything is "hyper" and/or "ceramic" they cease to be differentiating features.

 

[DFB]

I have to say I find the current array of Meguiar's products just overwhelming and that is exacerbated by how many of them have such similar names. Just yesterday I went to the Meguiar's website looking for their own product description of a few things I'd seen discussed here and got lost - once everything is "hyper" and/or "ceramic" they cease to be differentiating features.

There are just too many legacy products that are still in production, even when new products have launched in the same category. And that's assuming there is a difference in the 15 different detail sprays, or have they just rebranded one formulation in different bottles and different names? Why not just make ONE and focus on making it the BEST ONE? Same with soaps, wheel cleaners, polishing compounds, leather products. It's funny, we all slag off Chemical Guys for doing the same thing, at one point I counted something like 13 or 14 different tire dressings, all labeled as "tire shine". And yet, somehow Megs doesn't get the same treatment.

And their various websites (the product site and the direct sales site) are appallingly bad to navigate with one of the worst search functions I've come across. In that I mean looking for a product that I KNOW they make, but cannot locate via the search bar, I have to manually scroll through multiple pages to find it. Just not good enough in 2025. I suspect the website is there just for appearances, the target buyer is not generally shopping for Meguiars online, rather on the shelves of a local auto store.

All of which is a shame, the poor marketing and product planning is turning people away. In the 2000's before the brand was offloaded to some multi-brand corporation, Meguiars was a leader. As technology in the industry started to evolve, Meguiars sat on their hands and kept doing what they always had. If priced correctly, I guess there is a market for that. But when those legacy products are at price parity to the premium brands, why wouldn't you buy the premium product?

 

[Optimus Grime]

Didn’t plan on washing this morning as I prefer evening when the sun starts to set but after dropping my son off at band camp my car was assaulted by one of those roadside neighborhood sprinklers. I wasn’t going to let that water sit on my car in this 100+ degree weather and end up with water spots so a fun filled morning wash with Descale was in order.

 

[04lss]

Wanted to wash my cars this weekend, but heat index was well over 100, mixed with nasty afternoon evening storms.

I did however do my first test on getting rid of the high spots on my GTI. As ive been around the car a few times, ive figured out where the coating highspots are the worst. For those unaware, I coated my GTI in extreme humidity, some sections have sweat beads that just wouldnt buff off.

anyway, I chose the passenger mirror. It is probably the most obvious spot. cleaned with some rinseless, did some quick synthetic clay and did a VERY light Very quick polish with KCx micro cut. Thankfully this did remove the highspots. As expected it also removed all of the coating . I was hoping that a light enough correction to leave the coating, but no luck. I expected it wouldn't work, but I had some hope. At least I know that I wont need to remove much clear at all to get it ready for the next coating.