Reviewed: The EDGE ShMITT

The only thing that I am skeptical about is this:



Anyone ever had a piece of debris get caught in a buffing pad? You can rarely if ever wash it out without using tweezers or "plucking" it with your fingers. Obviously this damages the pad--I end up just throwing them out. If this foam is the same, it must lock in debris, no?



I will wait on a few other reviews unless someone can tell me how the grit rinses out completely.



Chris, when you get back from Home Depot can you order one of these to test? Thanks...:D
 
Nothing stuck in the pad.....nothing at all. Not like wool mitts. Rinses right off....falls off. Most of the time there was no dirt in my rinse bucket meaning it ran off the car's panel. Duragloss does work and that was my point. These arent even really on the market so lets just see if everyone else has the same results as me.
 
justin30513 said:
Nothing stuck in the pad.....nothing at all. Not like wool mitts. Rinses right off....falls off. Most of the time there was no dirt in my rinse bucket meaning it ran off the car's panel. Duragloss does work and that was my point. These arent even really on the market so lets just see if everyone else has the same results as me.
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So it dislodges the dirt, then rinses away--never to reach the rinse bucket? Not even tiny debris left in the foam? Interesting....
 
TigerMike said:
What's DG got to do with anything. The products work and work well, at good prices. So, anytime products work well and you tell people about them, it's called hype? I guess this thread is hype then, by your definition.



IMO, hype is overselling products that don't work or live up to their praise. Gee, that's never happened here...lol
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Agreed, that was in poor taste... then again he is doing the same thing (hype?) here with the Edge right? :think2 .
 
Seems like you guys have been looking for me!?:D Well, I wasn't at HD but my other home, Costco! Man I love that place. Worked hard yesterday so that today would be free and I wouldn't have to rush OR take the kids.:D



Well, *I* don't think it's looks too good for keeping particulate matter ;) away from the paint like the grout sponge does. I wash a number of $100k cars with grout sponges but I'm kind of leery of using this on my Integra. I think I might be able to borrow one to test out and I need to do some polishing anyway. I'll see if I can get my hands on it and try it with ONR to see how it works. I'm pretty sure it's going to cost more than $2 and it doesn't look to be as durable. I gave away a GS that has seen probably twice as many cars yet has very little "scarring."



Resident sponge connoisseur, you guys crack me the hell up!:rofl
 
justin30513 said:
Nothing stuck in the pad.....nothing at all. Not like wool mitts. Rinses right off....falls off. Most of the time there was no dirt in my rinse bucket meaning it ran off the car's panel. Duragloss does work and that was my point. These arent even really on the market so lets just see if everyone else has the same results as me.
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:hm I'll have to pass for now.



Out of curiousity, what was the last bad product you used?
 
ebpcivicsi said:
So it dislodges the dirt, then rinses away--never to reach the rinse bucket? Not even tiny debris left in the foam? Interesting....
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Very little. What was left, brushed off with my free hand into the rinse bucket. This is why I'm excited about this pad.
 
ZaneO said:
:hm I'll have to pass for now.



Out of curiousity, what was the last bad product you used?
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I don't use alot of bad products because I listen to what others write here on Autopia and go out and try it.

Two ears and one mouth should tell us all something.

I don't understand how someone can talk down on something till they've tried it themselves.
 
I'm not talking it down. I'm just not too eager to try it when I have great success with my sheepskin mitts.
 
What makes this better than a well-made quality sheepskin mitt?



Also, Justin have you tried using this mitt with a traditional QEW/NR wash ( no rinse before or after)?





Thanks
 
I could see a "mitt" like this wasting a lot of solution as it's kind of big to wring out. It's easy for me to say that it just doesn't seem safe but then I fall into the category of those that say that there's no way that they'd use a GS. I guess I have to try it first.
 
Well formed review!, however, no way.....ever.....I would use that on my soft paint, the dirt has no where to go, I would just be grinding it into the paint.
 
Am I the only one who would feel like they're washing their car with a waffled polishing pad?!



I visited Edge Pad's website to read about it. They completely failed to convince me why I shouldn't use my sheepskin. In fact, their reasoning is false in my experience.



When wet with soap, wool feels silky. I use a 2 bucket method with Grit Guards and dunk every couple passes, so no, I am not trapping dirt and yes, it rinses perfectly clean. No I do not drop my mitt on the ground. Sheepskin mitts can conform to any shape wrapped around my hand in order to reach any crack or crevice. My mitts rinse clean with a hose ready to be used again. As a result, I don't marr my paint with sheepskin like the majoity of us here (even my 10 year old, soft as 'butta Honda paint). And that "hairs caught in the emblem" point? That's dopey and inconsequential. I have that with my DF Towels, so should I stop using them?!



In my OPINION, what will happen is there will be a surge in purchasing, then a leveling off and then a significant drop. There will be a few reviews, a few more discussions and then it will be relegated to the scrap heap.



It's intriguing, but I'll stick with sheepskin and my sea sponges.
 
Spilchy said:
Am I the only one who would feel like they're washing their car with a waffled polishing pad?!
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Nope....



I'm on the fence about this....



BUT



Autogeek has this in stock... but it isn't up on their web site yet. I guess you have to call for them.
 
I'm all for new innovative products, but I'm highly skeptical about the Shmitt being better than a sheepskin mitt.



How is the Shmitt different from a common foam-type sponge? How can dirt from the car migrate away from the mitt's surface without scratching the paint since a foam sponge doesn't have any nap? :nixweiss
 
Bumping up an old thread, sorry guys.



Any updates with the ShMiTT? I was extremely skeptical about it at first. Aaron asked me if I would like to test it out and he said he would send me one. This was during September as well! Never received mine. I was looking forward to testing it but that fell through the roof.



If the dirt is not getting trapped in the pad, then how is it possible that it is being trapped in the grooves? I would imagine that it would drag dirt across the paint.



Also tried the grout sponges. I'm still not sure if it causes marring or not. Will definitely test it again.
 
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