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Originally Posted by Jakerooni
I will toss this out there for food for thought.... But IMHO I think the only place any pro should invest any sort of real money would be their compound/Polish products. Everything else can be done just as good with OTC as they can be done with High dollar name brand stuff.
APC is APC and can and will clean just about anything out there. They all work roughly the same with very little difference between most brands out there.
Glass cleaner is Glass cleaner and it's 99% about the technique behind the how to use it rather than the product itself.
Wax is wax and I don't care what anyone else says about it. Of course there's a line of quality I wouldn't cross. But once you reach that line and get a good quality wax they are all about the same in the end.
Shine is shine... You can basically choose between Water based (Hyper dressing) or Silicone based... (Old school and many OTC's)
The only thing I would really invest cash for product and anything I've personally seen make a difference is the compound/polish... Some fill, some don't (as much) Some work with a pass or two others take many passes and still don't work as well. Some work great on Soft clears others really are made for Hard Clears. And every combo can be different. What worked perfect yesterday might not do jack crap today. So this is where you need to do some research and invest your time and money.
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I pretty much agree with this. Everytime someone brings up the
glass cleaning thing, I am one of the first to always just say windex or cheap blue stuff. I really don't see the point in $50 a gallon glass cleaners.
The only thing I'll say about the APC's is that, I think you should probably have at least 2 different APCs only because, some might be much stronger than you want for a certain material. For example, I use orange blast degreaser for engine/wheel wells etc... but diluted Simple Green for things like interior plastic etc...
And both are really cheap! The orange blast even worked great for cleaning rubber mats after a bad winter
