Mothers and Meguiers
 

Thoughts on the quality of these products? Seems to be the best stuff I can buy locally.

What brands do you guys recommend?

personally mothers. megs is good but i prefer mothers. if you want awesome stuff get pinnacle from autogeek.net.

For the price I prefer the Mothers. I've been using it for some 20+ years now. Pinnacle is my favorite but costs 4 times as much.

Should say that Meguiars products are also very good for the price. I use several of their products as well.

Autogeek has a bunch of info on the various methods and products. Check it out. You'll also get a million opinions here, find a method and products you like and enjoy giving your car its TLC.

I'm a meguiars guy myself.

You could never go wrong with Mothers. I have used and still do use a long line of products. From the cleaning soap, wax to the interior detailing products they always have something that works amazing.
Mothers is well established and maybe people swear by it.
I one for mothers.

Mothers makes good stuff for the consumer market. Megs makes everything from okay stuff for the consumer market to great stuff for professionals and everything inbetween. All in all they're really not on the same playing field.

Of the stuff you can buy at Pepboys, Mothers, Megs, and Surf City Garage are probably the best bets. Particularly the "ultimate" line of stuff from Megs.

Nathan

I have a bunch of Meguiar's Ultimate stuff, including the polish and compound that I use with my Griot's Garage ROP. Can't complain about it one bit.

This stuff is great on the Whiteout.

http://www.meguiars.com/en/automotiv...ech-waxreg-20/

what are you trying to do? Polish, compound, wash, clean glass.......

I personally really like Meguiars, but not all there stuff. 3D also makes some really nice products.

Many of the companies mentioned are just rebottlers of a cheaper verison sold at a higher price with cute labels so you will pay more.

Cheers,
GREG

I saw them using Meguiars are the Blackhawk Museum on 10 million dollar collector cars, so I assume it's pretty good.

Going to keep an eye on Maguiers and Mothers products and try them out as they go on sale at Canadian Tire.

ditto. White is pretty easy to please.

I went to buy cleaning products the other day and I went with Meguires. I've been using them for 6 years. I was thinking about getting Mothers this time around, but I passed. Maybe next time...

I've used a few Mother's products over the years and don't have anything bad to say about the company, but most of my car cleaning supplies come from Meguiars (and a few from Griots). I started out with the maroon bottle stuff, which is pretty much their entry level consumer line, but have moved on from that. I use a lot of their Pro line (tan bottle) products, as well as some of their Ultimate and Gold Class and NXT lines.

I use both. Meguiars paint sealant, then after each wash Mothers spray wax.

Been using this stuff for years. I prefer the paste, but the liquid is easy to apply with a machine. It wont turn black plastic white and leaves a nice finish. The Hi-tech swirl remover and glaze are great for black cars.

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doing this full time, I use nothing from mothers other than a wheel brush

I use A LOT of meguiars stuff. For interior work and paint correction. MF pads, various compounds / polishes, APC, APC+, QID

With that said, I don't use any megs wax (aside from the spray wax). For LSP I go with stuff from Blackfire, wolfgang, collinite, p21s, etc

Sorry for resurrecting an old-ish thread. Just adding my 2 cents. The NXT 2.0 is great for what it is. I love it. I put it on about 6 weeks ago and washed my whiteout. I then put a layer of Griot's Best of Show Wax on last night. Very pleased with the results.

FR-S with Griot's and NXT 2.0


Not the FR-S, but another illustration of my current love affair with NXT 2.0...I recently washed, clayed, polished (Meg's Ult Polish), and waxed (2 layers of NXT 2.0) our Forester. Very solid results.

Forester with Meg's products

Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share my good experience with Meguiar's (and to a lesser extent Griot's). Prior to the NXT, I was a Zaino AIO guy. While I think the Zaino AIO is still a superior product(but not by much), the price, results, and availability of the NXT has won me over.

Note: Don't mind the weird angles of the pics. I live on a huge hill and was doing my best to keep the car level in the pictures. It did not work well.