Swiffer dusters for Autos

Bill D

Bill D

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In noticed these in black boxes marketed for use with cars: dusting the interior. I compared them to the typical ones in the orange box that I use for dusting my engine compartment. For all intents and purposes, they are the same things :5 duster heads and one plastic handle. I left both boxes in the Automotive aisle side by side for another observant shopper to notice. ;)



The one for autos is roughly $1 more. I'd just stick to buying the original ones that are found in the household cleaning supplies aisle.



Also, in Target I noticed Evercare has its own version of Swiffers. at a glance, they appear to be made of better material and are a little cheaper too. When my Swiffers are used up, I plan to try these.
 
Thanks for the heads up Bill. I too use Swiffers but I use them to dust my interior. Good to know that the evercare are better quality too. :)
 
Thanks Bill. You are our Autopia new product guru. Swiffers probably have an advantage in that they pick up dust almost as well as MF but can be thrown away after for convenience.
 
Yes Lee. I like MFs for the interior but I'm hard pressed to find something better than the Swiffer duster to fit in all those nooks and crannies of the engine compartment. Another big plus is that as they get dirty, in the case,can be heavier dirt than the MF in an interior picks up, no need to foul up your washing machine unnecessarily.You simply throw them out.



Oh yeah, a tip I picked up: before you install the Swiffer duster on the handle pull on it a bit down on one side and up on the other together in one motion at the same time: this motion fluffs up the fibers.
 
I bought a pack of those swiffer towel things 3 or 4 years ago and then never saw them again. I figured people just started using something else instead. I'm glad to hear that they are making a comeback. :) Do they still look like this, or are you talking about the ones on the sticks with the sort of fingers of swiffer material around? Those are great for vents.



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Yeah the ones you like for vents. They have "fingers" and are desgined to install on a blue duster handle. Because of their shape and design, I find them ideal for fitting around hoses, wires, those sort of things in engine compartments.
 
personally, i think swifters was a product marketed for suckers. (no offense)

we did a project on it in marketing a year ago, and really, what duster or cloth can't do the same job and yet you can keep the cloth whereas the swifter you eventually have to throw out...?

procter&gamble knows how to market very well and swifter proves it, also i don't like them much as a company since they do have brutal labs www.pandgkills.com ...but i digress.

Never plan to spend(waste) my money on the swifter or febreeze the temporary air solution fix.

just my 2¢'s
 
The ones I'm talking about are useful enough in it of themselves for me to buy. I would agree about the cloth shaped Swiffers and would much rather use a MF on the long handled duster. I also find Febreze to be no more than fragrance. If an odor is present it's always present to truly eliminate it rather than make it smell fragrant.



Perhaps if the same design as the hand held Swiffers were offered in the form of sort of "fingers shaped MF" and they were somewhat reusable-- but on an engine I'd probably only reuse them once any way, that would be a very attractive alternative to the totally disposable Swiffers.
 
Perhaps this 'swifter' product is marketed to suckers, but 'swiffer' is a good product with a definite practial use in cars and homes.



Swiffers are much different than cloth. A cloth just ends up pushing the dust around and usually lays down more lint than it picks up. The swiffer towel picks up dust much better. That comes from my personal experience using them in cars as well as my wife's experience using them in homes. And I don't know about throwing them out either. I used the same towel in my car for 2 years. I just kept it in the arm rest cubby and took it occasionaly to dust off the dash and around the gauges and steering wheel. With a black interior you tend to notice it a lot more. I notice a big advantage to using this instead of just a towel.



I disagree with the Febreeze comment too. I don't look at that as a tempoary solution at all. I've been using it to effectively kill bad smells for years and I don't think it is falsely advertised or marketed to suckers. Its a product I have tested and used and I believe it works.
 
I agree that neither are "marketed to suckers". I'm not very big on fragrances in general and so my take on Febreeze is admittedly biased. However, I'm "open towards" Oust( smell is "OK enough" that it doesn't bother me) --would like to see them have a Febreeze like product as well.



But to get back on topic,



All great points about Swiffer. I will eventually try the Evercare equivalent. I do see a long term place for them in my arsenal :up
 
Febreeze is sort of an 'anti smell' product. Its a little soapy smelling if you use too much of it, but its more neutral than anything. The Oust product I used smelled too powdery or something. I wouldn't use it in a car.
 
Yeah, the Oust for sure not to use in a car. At the least, too much overspray. I'm not a fan of using either in a car. I would pursue a specialized product but that's purely personal preference. I've sprayed Febreeze in the house and just objected to the scent while the original scent Oust seemed OK :nixweiss. It's just me. I don't like scented laundry detergent either. I'm probably allergic.



Jngr, if you haven't done so already, give the Swiffers on the handle a try for maintaining a freshly detailed engine compartment :up
 
That sounds like a good idea. There are always areas that I can't seem to get to on my engine. I would imagine those would only come in handy if the engine is already detailed and clean. I can't imagine one being used on a greasy grimy engine. Mine does tend to get a bit dusty. Its probably because of the hood scoop. I'll have to try it out. :bigups
 
Yeah, I'm sure you will like it. It definitely delays the need to re degrease especially if you dust down your engine as often as I do :o ;) :D :up
 
JNGR...we febreezed a buddies neon 'cause of his lack of car decorum lol...between his coffee cups, the husky hairs and smoking in the car...so his best friend literally emptied a WHOLE bottle of febreeze spraying it down and it was fine the first 2 days and that's it.

we eventually had to steam clean the car and worked out much better. getting to the source for obvious reasons is a lot better.

as for the swiffer, i prefer a soft cloth dampened and giving things a once over, then using a special brush like this one http://www.meguiars.com/store_meguiars/product_detailpage.cfm?sku=G-310&store=meg

or EVEN an artists brush without the metal necks on the brush itself.

im glad you guys didn't go flaming me for my opinion, which wasn't intended to be insulting and easily could have been misconstrued that way. i'm glad none of you took it that way, class acts

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kuba said:
im glad you guys didn't go flaming me for my opinion, which wasn't intended to be insulting and easily could have been construed that way. i'm glad none of you took it that way, class acts

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Sure, no problem.
 
Bill and I have been around too long for flame fests. We'll leave those for people still out there trying to make a name for themselves as badass detailers. :lol
 
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