what's one product that has impressed you (lately)?

Essence and Reload.... the beading and sheeting I'm getting from these is like nothing else before them.
 
Meguiars Dynacone. If you've got bare aluminum wheels and don't have this tool to maintain them, you're missing out bigtime. Makes it so much faster and easier.

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Eldorado2k said:
Meguiars Dynacone. If you've got bare aluminum wheels and don't have this tool to maintain them, you're missing out bigtime. Makes it so much faster and easier.
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Did you know they made (make?) a pad cleaner just for this pad? Dynacone Foam Pad Cleaner. Back awhile ago, there were some posters on here who thought it was the best pad cleaner available.


Yeah, here it is.

https://www.autogeekonline.net/foru...s-dynacone-cleaner-best-pad-cleanet-ever.html

I think they discontinued it. The only places still selling it have jacked the price up.
 
CarPro Flash Pads & Gray LC Force pads.

These were the only pads that gave full correction on 2008 Mazda MX-5 paint that I buffed out with a friend of mine last Sunday. Clear was very hard, as I came to find out.

Friend & I test-spotted with 6" Buff & Shine URO-cell Cyan pads, 6.5" Buff & Shine Low-pro Green pad, 5.5" LC Flat Yellow, and 5.5" LC Cyan HydroTech pads on a GG6 (speeds between 5-5.5 with firm pressure), all with HD Cut+ or 3D 501 AAT Compound. The best I could achieve was ~50-60% correction with the Green BnS Low-pro pads, alternating between Cut+ and 501 AAT, so we went with that pad/polish on the whole car. It my friend's father's car, so we explained that we didn't have the right tools at the moment for full correction. He didn't need full correction, just some paint-flake pop and shine.

So, I'm finishing my final panel and it occurs to me I had multiple Gray LC Force and CarPro Flash pads sitting unopened in my pad bin. Let's give them a shot, WTH. Slapped on the 5.5" Gray LC Force Pad w/Cut+ at speed 5.5 with medium pressure. 95% correction. Slapped on the 5" Flash pads with Cut+, same speed and pressure-damn near 100% correction. Both finished out LSP-ready, no exaggeration. The Flash pads cut slightly better than the Force, but I think that if I had used a Gray LC Thin Pro pad (i.e. thinner version of Gray Force pad, and designed specifically for DA machines), it would have corrected just as well as the Flash pads. Thin Pros will be my next purchase.

TBH, I suspect with another compound the Buff and Shine pads, LC Flat, and LC HTs would have corrected better, but I find the HD Cut+ and 501 AAT to lack the bite of, say, m100 or m101.
 
ducksfan said:
Did you know they made (make?) a pad cleaner just for this pad? Dynacone Foam Pad Cleaner. Back awhile ago, there were some posters on here who thought it was the best pad cleaner available.


Yeah, here it is.

https://www.autogeekonline.net/foru...s-dynacone-cleaner-best-pad-cleanet-ever.html

I think they discontinued it. The only places still selling it have jacked the price up.
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Yup, I have some. It works Amazing! Leaves it looking like brand new, it's crazy.

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been using this stuff since it first came out and it's one product that has replaced aquawax for me (has aquawax already in it) which easily last (protection) till the next wash. very slick, shiny, and glossy. the directions to use it as a QD is 3oz's to 16oz's of water (about 5.5:1 ratio) but IME it's a little too much and streaky. i use it at a 10:1 ratio (1 & 1/2 product to 14.5 oz's of water) and have found that works really well. excellent product!

Duragloss Rinseless Wash with Aquawax
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McKee's 37 360. I've detailed a few cars with it now, and it's been very impressive!
 
The combination of Collinite #476 as a sealant then Menzerna Endless Shine as a final wipe down after every wash.
 
Griot's new rinseless wash. I'm amazed no one seems to be talking about it.
 
I have a couple that have impressed me recently

CarPro Perl - Thanks Visitor for recommending it.
CarPro Ech20 - The more I use it the more I like it on coated paint.
Gyen CanCoat
Gyeon Cure
Meguiar's D114 - Still awesome to work with.
 
oneheadlite said:
Griot's new rinseless wash. I'm amazed no one seems to be talking about it.
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I love it too but a couple uses on my coated car knocked down the sharpness enough to notice it, now I use it on non-coated cars. The product is more concentrated too, better value, a win win

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Klasse Act said:
I love it too but a couple uses on my coated car knocked down the sharpness enough to notice it, now I use it on non-coated cars. The product is more concentrated too, better value, a win win
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I could see that since it's advertised as having Carnauba. That actually probably explains a lot given so many going to/experimenting with coatings lately. There's been a much greater focus on D114/N914 style or SiO2 washes.

I'll admit unfortunately life + driving conditions have combined to have both cars race past my comfort level for amount of accumulated dirt for a rinseless wash; preventing me from being able to put the Griot's Rinseless to repeat use, so I can't attest to it's long term use yet. Both cars are also lacking a solid foundation LSP, which could make it interesting how repeat applications behave.

I will say, even when I end up getting a coating applied (I've got one on the shelf waiting for enough free time to do it right), I will still use the Griot's rinseless for doing windows after a wash - That stuff has arguably been the best thing I've used on glass so far!
I had been using Opti-Seal, the water behavior of this seems as good, if not slightly better as it doesn't seem to turn single rain drops into multiple tiny drops as much.

Water absolutely races off the windows above 40mph. We were on a road trip in the Mrs' Q5 and got caught in a torrential downpour. At 60+ miles an hour, water was just flying off the windows. Really neat to watch a spot on the front door windows where the air swirled around the mirrors and pushed water forwards, not backwards. :)

I keep meaning to do a proper review of the Rinseless, but really want to get more repeated use first. I'd compare it to other current/past forum favorites (Uber, N-914, ONR, ONR WW), but with so many options on the shelf and a lack of time to really use/experiment with them, I've really only used each one once or twice. Dang this forum and me being a sucker for wanting to try the new stuff everyone's talking about... :laughing:
 
The MOST impressive product I've bought to date is the CR Spotless Deionizer and filtration system.
My husband has washed his car, used the leaf blower on it and then driven it down the road and back and come back with ZERO spots.

Oh, and he has a BLACK car. I witnessed it. I would not have believed it had I not seen it for myself.
 
DetailKitty said:
The MOST impressive product I've bought to date is the CR Spotless Deionizer and filtration system.
My husband has washed his car, used the leaf blower on it and then driven it down the road and back and come back with ZERO spots.

Oh, and he has a BLACK car. I witnessed it. I would not have believed it had I not seen it for myself.
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My next purchase.


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