My perfect combinations …
I know … I know … I love car cleaning products. They’re like good wine - you just have to have a variety.
Pressed hard to define my perfect combinations, I have to start with the two cars that I detail regularly - our own SAAB 900s, one white, one black, both single stage paint.
… for white:
- 3M Paint Rectification System as required
- Serious Performance Paint Cleanser
- Duragloss 601 Bonding Agent
- Duragloss 105 Total Performance Polish
- Finish Kare 1000P ‘Great White’ Paste Sealant
- Finish Kare 1016 Wash & Wax Concentrate
- Serious Performance Show Detailer
This routine would do for many single-stage light colours.
… and for black:
- Meguiars #83/#80 as required
- Meguiars #9 for swirl mark removal
- Dodo Juice Lime Prime Lite
- Dodo Juice Supernatural (Pure Carnauba Wax)
- Dodo Juice Supernatural Shampoo
- Dodo Juice Red Mist
Meguiars #7 can be used over a wax or sandwiched between wax layers during the summer months to give a deep, oily shimmer to the paintwork.
This routine would also do for many older single-stage dark colours. This is the most pure routine I have worked out to compliment our near perfectly kept Classic SAAB 900 convertible but many marques benefit from Swissvax Best of Show, if only for owner gratification.
The following are routines I would call ’standard’ when faced with an unknown car.
… for metallics, including silver and coloured mica metallics:
- 3M Paint Rectification System as required
- Serious Performance Paint Cleanser
- 3M Perfect-It Show Car Paste Wax
- Finish Kare 1016 Wash & Wax Concentrate
- Serious Performance Show Detailer
Some darker metallics, like green, benefit from a pure wax - Dodo Juice Rainforest Rub or Supernatural being prime examples.
… for clearcoated flat colours (light):
- 3M Paint Rectification System as required
- Serious Performance Paint Cleanser
- Serious Performance Super Sealant
- Finish Kare 1000P ‘Great White’ Paste Sealant
- Finish Kare 1016 Wash & Wax Concentrate
- Serious Performance Show Detailer
With higher pigment light colours, like yellow, as warming wax can be used - Dodo Juice Banana Armour being a prime example.
… for clearcoated flat colours (dark):
- 3M Paint Rectification System as required
- Dodo Juice Lime Prime Lite
- Dodo Juice Rainforest Rub
- Dodo Juice Sour Power Shampoo
- Dodo Juice Red Mist
For some darker colours, like blue and even black, a colour-charged wax could be used - Dodo Jucie Blue Velvet and Purple Haze being prime examples. Fine cars would be finished with Dodo Juice Supernatural and top marques with Swissvax Best of Show.