rzatch
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A few months ago I gave my mom’s car a long overdue exterior freshen up. On different occasions I have reviewed various Mothers products on her car and found them to be quality products producing as advertised results. With the exception of Ultima Elastrofoam, I decided to continue with the Mothers line on the rest of the car and once again I was quite happy with the end results.
Products used:
Mothers Car Wash Soap.
Mothers product claims are that its strong enough to remove dirt and road film, bugs, bird droppings, airborne pollutants and other grime, without removing wax or dulling the paint. That it is pH balanced, super-sudsy and also resists water spotting. I can’t comment on a few of the claims as there was no wax to strip and the paint was already dull but it did clean the paint well and did produce plenty of suds. It also felt as though it was producing good lubrication as I was washing the car. I would have to say this product does meet it’s claims.
Mothers Professional Line Compound
This is good stuff. I’ve had a chance to use it now on a few cars and so far I haven’t had it not perform as expected.
Mothers Professional Line Foam Pad Polish
The Foam Pad Polish added that little bit of extra gloss that I was hoping it would. It wasn’t wasted effort. I comment on that below. This would also be good for a touch up on paint that was already in pretty good shape but has a few imperfections needing a little touch up.
Mothers Scratch Remover.
I used this for the fingernail scratches under door handles. Works great!
Mothers Synthetic Wax.
This wax is very easy to use and produces a nice deep dark shine in the paint. It has a nice scent with a creamy constancy to it. So far the durability seems to be pretty good. She has visited the car wash a few times since I waxed the car and it still looks good.
Mothers Spray Wax
I used this mainly for the door and trunk jams. It produced and nice shine and worked as I expected. It didn’t require much buffing to produce a nice shine and I didn’t notice any streaking. I can’t see this product not performing as expected on the exterior paint.
Mothers Microfiber Applicator Pads
Mothers Tire & Rubber Cleaner, Reflections Tire care and Chrome Wheel Cleaner were also used those reviews can be read here.
http://www.autopiaforums.com/forums/detailing-product-reviews/38920-mothers-tire-rubber-cleaner-reflections-tire-care.html
http://www.autopiaforums.com/forums/detailing-product-reviews/38903-mothers-chrome-wheel-cleaner.html
Her car hadn’t really been cleaned properly since it was new and it’s up for opinion if even then. I do know it had never been clayed prior to now. In the past I had often offered to do it for them but my dad would never let me he always said that I had enough to do without taking care of my mother’s car too and he would get it done. He hated the feeling of bothering people. Anyway now he’s gone and it was time to spruce the old girl up. Over the years it has received a few bumps and bruises and knowing that for its age getting a 90-95% correction out of the paint wasn’t realistic and given the fact that it will see more automatic car washes in its life wasn’t worth the effort. I was shooting for around 80 and came closer to 90% with not as much effort as I thought it was going to take.
To start with it needed a good hand car wash to see just how bad things really were. I hadn’t given it a good wash since last fall. Using TBM I started off with Mother’s car wash soap.
Now that the paint was clean I could see just what the extent of the scratches and marring really were. Considering that other than very few hand washes in its life it has only seen Swirl O Matic car washes it wasn’t too terribly bad.
Bird bomb and some deeper rids and swirls. This may take some effort.
