A8 Parts Forum  

Go Back   A8 Parts Forum > General Motoring > Spotless

Spotless For all your cleaning discussions....

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 3rd March 2009, 11:56 AM
Botang Botang is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 171
Default Products weapons of choice

Can we get together a list of good products to use like Oli's CG review.

So For example at the moment I use

Paint Cleaner - Meguiars stage 1
Polish - Meguiars stage 2
Wax - Pinnacle Sovereign
Wheel Cleaner - Autoglym
Tyre Dressing - Autoglym

This is a fairly basic set and I suspect there are better products out there so what do the detailing guys reckon is a good set of products to have in your locker?


Paint Cleaner -
Polish -
Wax -
Interior Trim -
Leather -
Glass -
Metal/Chrome -
Wheel Cleaner -
Tyre Dressing -
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 3rd March 2009, 03:42 PM
Conan_the_Librarian's Avatar
Conan_the_Librarian Conan_the_Librarian is offline
UberSeniorChiefLibrarian
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: In a library
Posts: 3,876
Default

Ming Blue Pearl paint
Cream and Brown Leather Interior


Pre wash - Valet Pro Ph Neutral Snow Foam
Wash - Meguairs Hyper wash
Dry - ClearKote Quick Shine
Paint Cleaner - Dodojuice Lime prime
Polish - (Compound - Megs 85 & 105, Menzerna Power Gloss, Poorboys SSR 2.5 & 1) AG Super Resin Polish
Wax - Dodojuice Purple Haze
Interior Trim - Poorboys Natural Look
Leather - Megs Gold Class, AG leather Cream
Glass - AG Glass Polish & AG Fast Glass
Metal/Chrome - AG Metal Polish, Autosolve
Wheel Cleaner - Muc Off, AG Alloy Wheel Cleaner
Tyre Dressing - Megs Endurance High Gloss
Exterior Trim - Poorboys Trim Restorer & AG Instant Tyreshine


On a full detail,

Sealant - Poorboys EX-P
Glaze - 50/50 mix of Clearkote Red Moose Machine Glaze & Vanilla Moose Hand Glase applied by hand and machine buffed.
__________________
Conan (the Librarian)

Watch it if you dare

Currently,
2000 S8, Merlin Purple, Leather Pack 1, Winter Pack 1, SPAX adjustable suspension, AP Racing 6 pot front caliper, 385mm fully floating disks, EBC Yellow Stuff Pads, Black Diamond grooved rear disks and predetor pads, D2 Doctors Brake Block.
1997 4.2 A8SQ - the Projekt. 12 years and ongoing!
1997 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. Restoration sat waiting; saved from the Scrapyard
2003 C5 Allroad 4.2Q - Cobolt Blue. Towing car. Laid up awaiting manual conversion.
2005 C5 Allroad 2.5TDi FE - Grey - Workhorse.
2015 Q3QS SLine - Daytona Grey. Lots of extras! Long Haired Admirals cutter.

Previously
2003 C5 A6 1.9TDI FWD - Loaner from D2 Doctor Lifex
1997 S8 - Ming Blue. Loaned out and written off. I loved that car. My first engine swap after cambelt failure.
1996 4.2 A8SQ - Ming Blue. 178k on a cambelt! Trader's 8. Delivered to A8Parts at Lifex.
2003 2.8 A8SQ - powder blueish. Fill in for a while. Sold on.
1998 1.8T A4 Avant FWD. Ming Blue (there's a theme here), PEX for the 97 S8.
And a list of non VAG going back 40 years before I saw the light.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 4th March 2010, 05:53 PM
thebluewhale's Avatar
thebluewhale thebluewhale is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Moved to Annoy Posh People :-)
Posts: 558
Default

As it's been 12 months since this thread has been updated (and it never really got started!).

The weather's starting to turn a bit and it'll soon be time to prep for the club meets.

Anyone got a list of what they are using now?

Any changes/better products than last year?

And finally, I still don't own a rotary polisher! Any recommendations or new stuff out there.

I know there is a lot of info on here but it's all over the place and sometimes a bit hard to track down.

Thanks guys.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 4th March 2010, 10:34 PM
Singh's Avatar
Singh Singh is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Royal Leamington Spa
Posts: 3,943
Default

Pre wash - Megs Hyperwash via a Snow Foam
Wash - Duragloss 901
Dry - Megs last touch with water magnet
Polish - Various, Menz IP, Final finish,
Glaze - Megs show car glaze
Wax - Dodo Supernatural V2/Dodo rainforest rub
Leather - Gliptone cleaner/conditioner
Glass - AG Fast Glass
Metal/Chrome - Megs NXT, Autosolve
Wheel Cleaner - P21S red (non acidic)
Tyre Dressing - Megs Endurance High Gloss
Exterior Trim - A megs one forgot the name
__________________
2009 Audi RS 6 Saloon V10 - 420mm Ceramics, Keyless, Soft Close, Adaptive Cruise, Glass Sunroof, Blinds, Twin Pane & UV, Freeview & DAB, High Beam Assist, MTM bits, Audi Exclusive Bits, MRC, Milltek, GYEF1 ASY2's, Bluetooth streaming music to AMI mod - 753 PS/1021 NM
2016 Audi S3 Saloon, Sepang, S-Tronic - B&O, Tech Pack etc... Company Car
1995 Audi A8 4.2 V8 quattro Sport - Bose, Solar, Blinds
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 01:55 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.0
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.