Hello. I guess this is my first 'real' post after being a lurker for, well, years(?).
Now that it's finally warming up in my part of the world, the QEW has gone into the closet and the car soap has come out.
I used up the last of my P21S car soap last weekend (used Meg's GC prior), so it was time to try a new product I picked up from a local distributer. I used PROwax's C-19 Cherry Suds for the first time. My overall impression of the product is that I like it. It's not quite as sudsy as the P21S but I feel that it has more of lubricant feel to it, which in my opinion is a good thing. It smells a bit like cherry kool-aid, which isn't a bad thing. If there is a negative to it, imo, it's that it's very thick and seemed a little harder to measure out into my bucket. But for roughly $10/gallon, and can be purchased locally, I give it a thumbs up!
After reading about all the trouble finding a good cotton chenille wash mitt, and myself having trouble finding anything decent locally, I found a local 'enthousiast' shop that sells 100% cotton mitts made by S.M.Arnold (http://www.smarnold.com/). Did the 'burn' test and both I and the girlfriend determined it true cotton. Cool. After using it I must say it might be the best mitt I have tried. Size is 6x10, the chenille is very thick, felt very luxurious and absolutely no shedding. Price I paid was $5/per. I used to use the Viking 100% cotton mitt before they disappeared from all the auto parts stores. I recently tried the Turtle Wax 'cotton' chenille mitt which was a down right P.O.S. imho.
Thumbs up!
Lastly, since the car I washed today is going in for some 'open heart surgery' later this week, I wanted to clean up the engine bay. Much winter grease and grime had built up over the months and I was anxious to try my new degreaser. I tried PROwax's C-51 Red Devil. It's a very strong degreaser that is water activated. All I can say is that it worked very well. I used it mainly on the extremely dirty areas such as the lower engine block. With no scrubing all the grease and grime disappeared.
For the last few years I have been using EFHI, which is also a great product with so many uses. But without a doubt the C-51 worked better on the extremely grimey areas. I will continue to use my EFHI on my wheels and various other areas. Like I stated it also a great product!
I have a list of other new products to try things spring and I can't wait! Hopefully you guys won't mind hearing my opinions on them in the coming months.
Thanks for reading and best regards.
Now that it's finally warming up in my part of the world, the QEW has gone into the closet and the car soap has come out.
I used up the last of my P21S car soap last weekend (used Meg's GC prior), so it was time to try a new product I picked up from a local distributer. I used PROwax's C-19 Cherry Suds for the first time. My overall impression of the product is that I like it. It's not quite as sudsy as the P21S but I feel that it has more of lubricant feel to it, which in my opinion is a good thing. It smells a bit like cherry kool-aid, which isn't a bad thing. If there is a negative to it, imo, it's that it's very thick and seemed a little harder to measure out into my bucket. But for roughly $10/gallon, and can be purchased locally, I give it a thumbs up!
After reading about all the trouble finding a good cotton chenille wash mitt, and myself having trouble finding anything decent locally, I found a local 'enthousiast' shop that sells 100% cotton mitts made by S.M.Arnold (http://www.smarnold.com/). Did the 'burn' test and both I and the girlfriend determined it true cotton. Cool. After using it I must say it might be the best mitt I have tried. Size is 6x10, the chenille is very thick, felt very luxurious and absolutely no shedding. Price I paid was $5/per. I used to use the Viking 100% cotton mitt before they disappeared from all the auto parts stores. I recently tried the Turtle Wax 'cotton' chenille mitt which was a down right P.O.S. imho.
Thumbs up!
Lastly, since the car I washed today is going in for some 'open heart surgery' later this week, I wanted to clean up the engine bay. Much winter grease and grime had built up over the months and I was anxious to try my new degreaser. I tried PROwax's C-51 Red Devil. It's a very strong degreaser that is water activated. All I can say is that it worked very well. I used it mainly on the extremely dirty areas such as the lower engine block. With no scrubing all the grease and grime disappeared.
For the last few years I have been using EFHI, which is also a great product with so many uses. But without a doubt the C-51 worked better on the extremely grimey areas. I will continue to use my EFHI on my wheels and various other areas. Like I stated it also a great product!I have a list of other new products to try things spring and I can't wait! Hopefully you guys won't mind hearing my opinions on them in the coming months.
Thanks for reading and best regards.