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Old 12-28-01, 06:57   #1 (permalink)
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I think I have too many products

After washing the car today I started going thru all the products and tools I have in my garage that are specifically for car detailing. I knew I had lots of stuff, many products that I wasn't using regularly, but even I was suprised at the variety and number of different products.

Even after a little purging I still have 49 products made by 16 vendors. Now some of this are multiple products, like the 5 bottles of Eagle One Wipe & Shine. Turns out that of the 49 products I have, 20 are made by Eagle One (Disclosure: Much of what I have from E1 I received as samples at No Charge).

I was suprised that I have only one Meguiar's product - #34 Final Inspection. And that's almost gone.

Product brands on my shelves:
Eagle One
Meguiars
3M
P21S
Liquitech (aka Finish First)
Sprayway
Stoners
NAPA
Blackfire
Griots Garage
Autoglym
Hi Temp
Pinnacle
Sonus
Summit Ind (Black Again & Vinylex)
Unelko (Rain X)

Everything from 2 oz. sample size to one gallon jugs.

Do any of you have a huge number of varying products, or do most of you find a couple brands and stick to them?
 
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Old 12-28-01, 07:05   #2 (permalink)
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Ha! Ditto for me, and I'm afraid to add up the cost of all the stuff I will probably never again use.
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Old 12-28-01, 08:50   #3 (permalink)
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I did a quick count of my little box of stuff that I keep here in my room (so it dont freeze) and I came up with about 30 products, Meguiars, Mothers, Eagle 1, and some others. I have 2 big bags of terry towels, and I still find piles of them laying around my room and other places
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Old 12-28-01, 09:13   #4 (permalink)
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I wasnt going to post this pic, becouse I have been posting a ton of them Lately but, a pic is worth a thousand words!!
As you can see this is in my old garage...... I have cleaned house now... but most was just replace with somthing elseLOL
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Old 12-28-01, 09:47   #5 (permalink)
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haha, why do you have that lousy mopar super clean. Yea I can see it!
 
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Old 12-29-01, 08:24   #6 (permalink)
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haha, why do you have that lousy mopar super clean. Yea I can see it!
I won it as a door prize at a car show last summer

It works good on "Other peoples cars" LOL
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Old 12-29-01, 08:49   #7 (permalink)
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Keep all your stuff, you need "throwdown" products. You see there are a couple kids of neighbors: ones who ask what they should buy to get their car looking great ( I spend time showing them), and ones who want to "borrow" my products. So if they want a feebie, they get Armorall, Turtlewax, and Nucar smell ! All the suff I have sitting around and don't use!
 
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I don't believe that one can have too many car care products. No, perhaps you just need more cars to work on.
 
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Overstock items

Well me too. I will post mine at the ABAY section. First come first serve.
 
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So many products...

If I detailed my cars everyday for the next 20 years I couldn't even use all of the products I have...
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When the wife look and see's all that stuff.....But honey I can use it on the inside of the house too....that holds her for a while...
 
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I don't seem to ever use up products. I think the only thing I actually use up are QD sprays. Maybe because I use them so much. Stupid Birds
 
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