Grit guard effectiveness?

At $20 (or less) for a pair I’d say Grit Guards are dirt cheap. They’re also rugged as heck so they should last forever, a tremendous value.



GG’s bucket and dolly system ain’t cheap but if you really use it can be well worth the $$. Generic buckets are cheap, free if you get them as empty product containers (paint, kitty litter, restaurant supplies, pool chemicals…).





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the other pc said:
At $20 (or less) for a pair I’d say Grit Guards are dirt cheap. They’re also rugged as heck so they should last forever, a tremendous value.
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agreed. i have two and the $20 i spent on them is money well spent than having to polish more often than i need too...
 
I wouldn't ever wash my car again without them. I have one in my rinse bucket and one in my soap bucket, I dunk my mitt in the rinse bucket and agitate it over the GG then repeat with the soap bucket. Having basically 0% wash induced marring is well worth the $20 I spent on them.
 
I just recently purchased 2 Grit Guards. I've used the 2 bucket method for years before thinking nothing of it and with pretty good results. But now that I have the guards I have to say I will never wash a car that I own without them ever again. I was blown away by how much grit it actually does trap at the bottom of the bucket. Never experienced that much grit at the bottom of a bucket in my prior years.



The only draw back is they don't fit just any 12" dia. 5 gallon bucket (urrrghhhmmmm US Plastics buckets) which means the guard constantly floats to the top. But I took the grit guard around with me to local stores and found they fit snuggly at the bottom of an cheap ACE Miller Hardware bucket. I'm sure there are a lot that they are compatible with, just beware there are some unlucky buckets that are not.
 
Echoing some other comments, I think the first time you pour a bunch of sand/grit from the bottom of the buckt that your mitt could have been lying in, or the first time you get a dirty spot on your wash device that you are able to scrub off on the Grit Guard instead of just going back on the car with it (or to another sponge/mitt/etc), you will think it is worth it. And unless you do something stupid with it, it will last forever, you can't say that about many detailing products that you buy.
 
2 bucket method for me . . . thought it was BS until I tried it. Now here is the grit guard. Thought it was hype . . . then I actually looked closely at my ONR rinse bucket . . . :soscared:



looks like ill be ordering a grit guard . . . ( 2 actually )





you people need to stop making me spend money . . . i cant live on JITB forever. . . ;)
 
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